the pentagon moves naval forces closer to syria and sends another carrier to the region reportedly waiting for a green light to launch an intervention. u.s. president barack obama is mulling military options in syria following allegations of mass chemical attack details from new york straight ahead. syrian troops say they have found toxic weapons in tunnels used by the rebels while the west blames chemical attacks on government. two hundred days and counting guantanamo prisoners pushing on with their hunger protest struggling to change their fate of force feeding and indefinite detention. and also reporting that a virtual currency gets real recognition the german government decides that virtual

money coin is a legal and private means of payment of top stories. international news and comment live from studio center here in moscow where it's just turned nine pm this is. the u.s. is reading for a possible missile strike on syria and reports say preparations are already under way the pentagon is moving its naval forces closer ensuring president obama has a military options available he's considering action following an alleged chemical attack which is being blamed on syria's government all three destroyers currently deployed in the mediterranean and according to reports a fourth is on its way. all of them occurring up to three hundred cruise missiles

which is more than enough to act rapidly if obama wants to order a strike there's also the nato maritime group in the region which is for more ships and if we take a look at the mainland the u.s. and its western allies military presence around syria is also significant. is following america's military maneuvers. well it appears that the u.s. is no longer just using words to address the ongoing syrian crisis plans of possible military action are now being deliberated president barack obama is meeting with his national security advisers saturday to discuss recent allegations of chemical weapons being used by the syrian government forces in internet and a damascus suburb earlier this week you know despite the fact that the unconfirmed reports made by the syrian rebels have not been verified president obama has called it a week of that and a great concern white house official says that the u.s.

has a range of options and not the obama administration is going to out very deliberately in making decisions consistent with u.s. national security interests and how washington can advance its objectives in syria meantime on friday the u.s. navy. ship armed with missiles in the mediterranean u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said obama has already asked the pentagon for options are in syria joint chiefs chairman general martin dempsey is reportedly expected to present options for a strike during saturday during saturday's meeting at the white house according to c.b.s. news potential targets include command bunkers and launchers used to fire chemical weapons now up until this point the u.s. leader has been very cautious over intervening in syria previously saying quote the u.s. should be wary of being drawn into very expensive difficult costly interventions that actually breed more resentment in the region unquote however one year ago

obama also said that chemical weapons used in syria would be a red line for the united states and now he is under pressure growing pressure to act u.s. officials have acknowledged that there is no conclusive evidence linking syrian president bashar al assad to this week's alleged chemical attacks nonetheless a state department spokesperson has also said that long. shinton doesn't believe the rebels are capable of carrying out chemical attacks so logically this would lead one to think that the white house has already found the syrian government guilty of the alleged chemical weapons being used in syria now the media has also played a significant role in recent days with many western media outlets being very sad and shocking video of dead victims in syria while reporting that the assumption is that the syrian government is behind the mass killing. you reports from syria say

the army has discovered chemicals in an area controlled by opposition forces and despite no confirmation of reports that the government carried out a chemical attack international pressure on assad is increasing the french foreign minister says all indications suggest the government was behind the massacre and wants to respond with force if the allegations approved now the u.k. foreign secretary william hague has also said it was a chemical attack by the assad regime and here's a similar voice from sweden is foreign minister claimed that he had a hard time coming to any conclusion other than that the deadly chemicals were used by the regime's forces well turkey joined in calling for the necessary response to what it condemned as the crime against humanity melissa's obama called america an indispensable nation in stabilizing the middle east yet there has been no international reaction so far on the chemical findings of the syrian army when it is middle east correspondent paula has more on those. syrian state television is

reporting that syrian soldiers found traces of chemical agents off the entry in tunnels used by rebel fighters in the damascus suburbs the empty shells that they found had markings on the met said that they had been made in saudi arabia just a reminder that saudi arabia is very mentally opposed to the syrian president bashar assad now these soldiers started suffocating an ambulance and how to be sent to the scene to assist them the syrian television is also reporting that the soldiers found that are used to kill the intoxication this comes after reports of a huge attack earlier this week that saw the involvement of chemical weaponry we have heard reports that anywhere between dozens and one thousand three hundred people were killed in that new attack there has been lots of unverified footage making the rounds online we've seen photos of people phoning at the mouth people suffocating

all of the pointing 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 all of this come as you inspectors are inside syria they arrived last sunday they carrying out investigations on some thirteen thousand reports of chemical we're kind of a new stage today the e.u. in chief of disarmament of wired to the country and the u.n. team has now been tasked with trying to reach the scene of this latest chemical attack and damascus has indicated that they're giving them full support and they will be helping them in whatever way they can but there is heavy fighting on the go in that area. there's still been no confirmation about the number of victims of the alleged mass chemical attack doctors without borders saying they received around three thousand six hundred patients suffering from intoxication following the reported assault three hundred fifty five of them reportedly died. but exactly who

was behind the attack is still hold to verify despite the west suspecting assad and not the rebels who are very versatile journalists we show call and believes that the u.s. is simply looking for a pretext to intervene in syria. i don't think there will be a serious investigation from the western side because actually they don't look for truths to just look for a pretext to overthrow assad and to take control of syria and this is really a strategy cola so they don't want an investigation they don't want the truth to just want a pretext it's also obvious that they see the danger they see that they have no majority in syria and the area and the area there is the us is really very strong so i believe it is more a pressure to negotiate because they know also that not so strong anymore. live here in moscow still to come this hour the far east on edge. armies of rescue

workers soldiers and volunteers struggle to protect russia's about office as historic floods threaten the city on all sides we bring the latest on the efforts there shortly. nearly seven months of refusing to eat being force fed and alleged abuse with no end in sight that's been the daily experience for many inmates since early february the food protest has gone on for two hundred days now but president obama is still stalling on shutting down the facility and see what the situation is like right now in the u.s. run camp there are one hundred sixty six inmates there the military says thirty seven still refusing food to protest against their indefinite detention many of the prisoners haven't even gone to trial and over hoff were cleared for release years ago while u.s. taxpayers are picking up the ever increasing tab for all of this the price tag for

every detainees is two point seven million dollars annually now that's over thirty times higher than similar costs for the most expensive domestic prison in the u.s. well add it all up and you get nearly half a billion dollars per year coming out of citizens pockets where u.s. public defender calls water frequently talks to the guantanamo inmates that he represents and earlier he told me what is going on at the camp and why it does remain 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 the thing to wonder if they would put accounts of the risk to treatment by the prison stuff including educations of sexual abuse is anybody actually investigating these allegations now sexual abuse i think goes

around these 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 can best be getting that the camps that were doing this for security purposes but that fosters when you consider that the client isn't even seeing a lawyer the clients with soldiers talking on the phone entire time in the present obama has he kept his promise to close the prison it cost millions during a time of budget cuts then the states will lose to make some are actually cleared for release so what will it take to finally close down guantanamo guantanamo is a political animal it's run by and seen a phobia here in the united states and it's just going to take a lot of hard work like people not only like people like me but but some people in washington or right now you don't see that the president had the authority to transfer these individuals now 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 still ahead this virtual currency big coin is gaining recognition with germany accepting it as illegal the details in just a few minutes. into the future. instills into texas on this one show we found out why security state may soon be a girl's best friend and i really can you truly machine make scholz work

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more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are the day. used to levels in russia's far east a surging and now seven meters and rising soldiers and civilians are braced for that to get even higher on what are already the worst floods in the region for over two centuries or russia's not the only country suffering at the moment as you can see the m a river runs along the border with china and that has been hit by catastrophic weather since the beginning of the summer already over one hundred are

reported dead and another one hundred fifteen missing three of russia's regions have been worst affected and experts say the floods have yet to peak of a half a million homes and livelihoods are under threat in the far east of about off scale and the next twenty four hours are critical our correspondent paul scott is monitoring the situation there. 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 to that my right that is causing all the problems it's breached its banks and is are beginning to filter through to the city now work is continuing to reinforce the city around fifteen kilometers worth of dams and 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 there could be some setbacks but the main

point is that there are no victims lou and all eyes are 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 to 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. he simply doesn't know what to expect here you know 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 meters 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 so absolutely no sign of receding it could be a while yet before the full extent of the damage is revealed. paul scott reporting

there now to some other international headlines this hour in our world update a bomb has killed twenty six and fifty more people wounded in iraq's capital the suicide bomber struck a cafe in a crowded park in a northern district another separate assault on a vehicle in the city claimed four lives there a deadly attack some almost a daily basis there is internal strife in iraq spirals. these thirty people being killed and sixty injured in a riot in bolivia's largest maximum security prison palmer solar some prisoners were shot others are burnt to death in a fight between rival gangs as in many overcrowded latin american jails inmates largely control the inside of the facility. in our world update this. gavel to demand democratic reforms match

peacefully protest is proof from think how much rain makers were recently criticized by the international community for introducing harsh methods in dealing with the last two weeks ago police broke up a rally in the capital dispersing protesters with tear gas and birdshot. fork rebels have called for temporary timeout on peace negotiations with the colombian government the group requested time to consider a proposal which could prepare the way for a long awaited peace agreement this comes after violent protests by the country's miners students and farmers this week over presidential reforms they say are hurting their incomes. islam are supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi held scattered rallies across egypt the muslim brotherhood called the friday of martyrs and one person 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 current stopping help wouldn't affect the actions of the interim government insisted that at this point washington needs to look at the long term interests of the egyptian people and the u.s. itself defense consultant says the u.s. only wants to ensure a friendly relationship with current. the americans are ensuring that they have a friend in power they will always provide aid and this is why they're not canceling aid at all. makes it clear that he's supporting all the u.s. government 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 more. and his detention that's just. trying to fool the citizens of egypt they'll resume normal relations as soon as the civilians sort of go back home you know or

stop protesting but 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. the german government has become the first in the world to recognize big corn as a legal private currency transactions conducted in the virtual cash will be subject to sales tax in the country and bitcoin may now be exchanged for other currencies within the banking system of the reports from the capital of bitcoin. germany in particular is one of the places in the world that has really embraced bitcoin as perhaps a new major player when it comes to world currency i'm currently stood on the floor of the trading floor of the. exchange this is where the coins come because we cash it's a great growing a community here inside and if they say that guys like this dressed in the to do

traditional of the old london stock exchange they are holding up their thank you very much just how much they're selling their big coins for so this gentleman here selling one pick cotton for eighty five euro that's correct or incorrect ok well what you do is you pay your money you get your pick and that goes into a on line wallet and starts your stand to spend how you will notify know just where it's going here in berlin i'm joined by the organizer of this events are encouraging thanks very much for talking to me yes hello so in the what we've seen is from the german finance ministry that they've actually given their backing to that point haven't they at the moment it's it looks like that and i think that's a great decision because it brings clarity it's clear that it will never be illegal and hopefully they they setting a standard saying we shouldn't have too many rules but we should rather see how it develops just a clearly so this is because bitcoin has been accepted as a a unit of account by the german government that means they haven't said it's legal

tender but that it can be made that it can be taxed actually and why do you think in particular has see as embraced bitcoin in such a way where we get many innovative people from all over the world coming to be the villain has always been a place to try out new things i mean did you know the computer was invented a million so i think it's just natural that bitcoin is very strong here ok i did not know that the computer was invented in berlin there you go so the latest in neat crypto currency the. it's being given in almost a green light by the german government and it's drawing people to exchanges like this in order to try and trade them and get involved in bitcoin and so it can reach out to more and more people around the world. peter oliver there will be coins first appeared in two thousand and eight when an anonymous creator published a paper laying out his ideas on how the peer to peer electronic cash system should be operated since then the digital currency has gained popularity across the world and thousands of small online merchants now recognize because as an alternative to

major currencies the value of individual bitcoins hit a record high this april when it was being traded at two hundred and sixty u.s. dollars growing concerns over the effect could have on the dollar prompted the u.s. government to investigate it earlier this month and washington claims it could be used in criminal activity. well we've got everything you need to know about bitcoin on our website auntie don't call me also online it's a saif i come true. a dutch scientists has found a way to read people's minds head to our website to find out how it all went in invention plus thoughts from your head. and healthy habits hurting businesses russia's ban on night time booze sales means foreign brewers have to find new ways to shift their been all this and much more is just a click away on altie dot com. and build on and i'll be back with you in just over

thirty minutes with more news with the team and coming up very shortly after this break it is technology updates where peter scott delves into the best bit of bling as it happens not only a girl's best friend find out more. they say geopolitics is a lot like a schoolyard and what obama snubbing a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stoughton incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel a date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake the canceled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection

of any form of discussion with another country which really sends a bold and possibly dangerous but a message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk in the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the shrimp cocktail whatever here's a russian accent. one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the stone debacle but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson fit a commandment yeah that is how you could show people that you're really mad even if your anger is irrational because stone pretty much did the right thing but that's just my opinion.

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right here are some of the headstones from the graves it for you this is a fruit that's that's what we don't want to happen to taint your all and we want to get some protection to make sure that we don't go into the chesapeake bay like uppers did in other communities. hello and welcome to technology on today's show we learn how to cook the sollie brown i'd like hot my food water. design classic still has room for improvements.

on how to recycle tires and improve roads in one fell swoop. first we're all familiar with the lengthy security procedures to airports where we recently found out that the technology that keeps us all safe can also be used to put a smile on a girl's face. and check diamonds a price the pulled over for their astounding physical properties and things that six there also it kills best friend also the song goes no months away you're the queen of england with her crown jewels or you prefer something more subtle one thing is true the launch of the diamond the rarity is on the more it's worth thus why bush and diamond producer struck up an online partnership with a company specializing in explosive detectives neutron technologies is located a two hour drive and allegedly fight right outside of moscow in the tranquil town of not the town doesn't look much like a scientific old what's appearances can be deceiving we've come to the joint institute for nuclear research institute currently unites eighteen countries and seven labs carrying out pioneering research in possible physics. and this is where

the much of coppens hidden away behind these radiation proof doors lies a hive of innovation and the home of neutron technologies which was founded in part by the nuclear research institute the explosive and narcotics detectives produced here using airports train stations as well as by the russian secure. the services one of the latest developments is this mo body text for use in the field the device can identify the chemical make up of any objects located in anything from a cardboard box so to thirty centimeters of solid concrete all of which is thanks to the compact neutral emitted inside. this is the heart of our unit the neutron accelerator was it's only thirty centimeters tall and weighs only eight kilograms which is a dramatic reduction compared to last centuries accelerators which were six stories tall yet it generates the same number of neutrons fifty million a second and on top of that it hasn't.