president obama weighs options for military action against damascus with no clue yet if the green light has been given while u.s. naval forces edged closer to syria. this is syrian troops say they found toxic weapons in tunnels used by rebels while the west plains chemical attacks on the assad regime. dog a strike a longtime obey reaches two hundred days with inmates carrying on their protest against force feeding an indefinite detention. i did to the currency gives a real recognition the german government decides a virtual money coin is a legal and private means of payment. five

m. in moscow match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story u.s. president barack obama and his national security team met to consider possible military action against syria washington promised to announce its decision after looking into evidence of an alleged chemical attack in a damascus suburb which is being blamed on government forces meanwhile the u.s. is moving naval forces closer to syria in case the go ahead is given for a military strike three destroyers currently deployed to the mediterranean according to reports a fourth is on a route all of them carrying up to three hundred cruise missiles which is more than enough to act rapidly if the administration orders a strike also a nato maritime group in the region including for more ships if we take a look at the mainland the u.s. and its allies military presence around syria also significant marine important has more. 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 now despite the fact that the unconfirmed reports made by the syrian rebels have not been verified president obama has called recent allegations of chemical weapons being used by the syrian government a big event of grave concern now white house official says that the u.s. has a range of options and that the obama administration is going to act 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 had. ship armed with missiles in the mediterranean u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel said obama has already asked the pentagon for options on syria 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 washington doesn't believe the rebels are capable of carrying out a chemical attack 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 west. media outlets are looping 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. new reports from syria say the army's uncovered chemicals in an area earlier controlled by opposition forces according to iranian officials the syrian government's agreed to allow a team of u.n. investigators to take a look at the area where the alleged recent chemical attack happened despite no confirmation of reports that come in the government has used chemical weapons international pressure on assad is increasing the french foreign minister insisting that all indications suggest the government was behind the massacre and wants to respond with force of allegations are proved u.k. foreign secretary also said a chemical attack by the assad regime and here's a similar voice from sweden its foreign minister claiming that he had a hard time coming to any conclusion other than that deadly chemicals were used by regime forces turkey also joining in calling for necessary responses to what it condemned as a crime against humanity this is president obama called the u.s. an indispensable nation in stabilizing the middle east but there has been no

international reaction so far to the chemical findings by the syrian army artie's middle east correspondent paula sleeper reports. syrian state television is reporting that syrian soldiers found traces of chemical agents off to entering tunnels used by rebel fighters in a damascus suburb the empty shells that they found had markings on the message 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 in ambulances had to be sent to the scene to assist them syrian television is also reporting that these soldiers found and that are used to kill the intoxication this comes off to reports of a new attack earlier this week that saw the involvement of chemical weaponry we have heard reports that anyway between dozens and one thousand three hundred people were killed in that new attack it 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 seven guess 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 comes as u.n. inspectors are inside syria they arrived last sunday they carrying out investigations on some thirteen other reports of chemical weapons usage today you in chief of disarmament arrived in 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 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 still no confirmation about the number of victims from the alleged mass chemical attack doctors without borders saying they received around thirty six

hundred patients suffering from intoxication following the assault three hundred fifty five of them reportedly died but exactly who was behind the attack still unclear despite the west suspecting it was assad or not rebels darwood car you're all a professor of international law at georgetown says that if the u.n. proves that it was syrian opposition who use the chemical weapons the obama administration may be left somewhat embarrassed. i think if it is going to turn out to be the rebels who are using these weapons on this poisonous material the u.s. would be embarrassed because it could be allies of the. opposition that the us supporting and claiming that these are people who are seeking democracy and rule of law and fighting corruption and whatever and in syria and this is the purpose of the regime change the u.s. would like to to prove or would like and some of its allies that it is

the regime who has done this but this has not been independently proven very fired and without any defendant verification i think if we would take all what the u.s. president has said does not indicate that military action is imminent. meanwhile there's been a suicide bombing in the syrian capital six reportedly killed twenty two injured by the blast in the center of damascus according to local media a car bomb went off in a crowded mainly christian area this is heavy fighting between government troops and rebels continues on the city outskirts. strike at guantanamo bay is entered its two hundredth day since early february many inmates have been subject to force feeding and alleged sexual abuse president obama pledged to shut down the facility but has yet to take any action let's see what the situation is like right now at the detention center there are one hundred sixty six inmates there and the military says thirty seven of them still refusing to food to

protest their indefinite detention many of the prisoners haven't even gone on trial yet with more than half of them already cleared for release over the years u.s. taxpayers though picking up an ever increasing tab the operating one time obey costing about twenty two point seven million dollars per detainee annually that's more than three times higher than similar costs at the most expensive domestic prison in the u.s. at all if you get nearly half a billion dollars per year coming out of citizen's pockets public defender carlos warner frequently speaks with his clients behind bars it get mo and told my colleague earlier bill dodd what's going on at the camp. 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 detainees treatment by the prison stuff including allegations 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'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 in the present obama hasn't kept his promise to close the prison that cost millions during a time of budget cuts then the states will lose to make some right she cleared for release so what will it take to finally close down guantanamo guantanamo is a political animal it's run by 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 and 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 still took on russia's far east on it rescue workers soldiers and volunteers try to protect the city of how about all this come out of the roads floods threaten it on all sides all the latest on the rescue and recovery efforts plus. thousands of anti-government protesters gathering in bahrain again ten days after a police crackdown on a similar demonstration this and more still to come. but first germany becoming the first nation to recognize big coin as a legal unit of currency holdings of the cyber cash now subject to tax laws and can

be exchanged for other currencies within the banking system let's take a look at how big coin made its debut it happened 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 would work since then the digital currency has gained popularity thousands of small online merchants recognize it as an alternative to major currencies the worth of individual bit coins hit a record high in april when each was valued at around two hundred sixty dollars growing concerns about the effect it could have on the dollar prompted the u.s. government to investigate it earlier this month washington claims it could be used for money laundering and other criminal activities or he's peter all over reports from berlin. well germany and particularly when it 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 can be whole free cash it's a great growing

a community here is five berlin and if they said guys like this dressed in the bowler hand to depict a 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 break that goes into a online wallet and starts yours then to spend how you will notify know just where because it's going here in berlin i'm joined by the organizer of this events are encouraging thanks very much you told 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 are they setting a standard saying we shouldn't have too many rules but we should rather see how it develops just a clear 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 bill 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 there 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 they go so the latest in the crypto currency the coin and it's being given in almost a green light by the german government and it's drawing people to exchanges like this in all. to try and trade them and get involved in big cooling and so it can reach out to more remote people around the world while pacesetters in germany are using virtual money the euro is causing the netherlands some headaches housing crash rising unemployment and poor economic growth have left holland teetering on the brink of a credit downgrade here is what max kaiser and stacy herbert have to say. so the

dutch of got the economic blues. private debt is got them down the housing bubble is bursting bursting bursting the economy is contract ing stary is buying own. and unemployment is rising but how is this possible when the dutch current account is positive remember the dutch were at the forefront of parading the likes of greece and portugal for their profit spending as an example they imposed austerity just to prove that it can be done you've got an ideology that's informing a public document financial suicide even though the evidence on the ground is clear that these policies are are horrible austerity for example has never been imposed upon bankers their costs get lower and lower and lower and lower and lower and lower depths in ideology yet you just that at low interest rates are all is always

good just like drinking arsenic laced kool-aid is always liberating. but it's not always good. are getting his teeth into extra hands finances at two am g.m.t. . flood levels in russia's far east at seven meters high and are rising as soldiers and civilians work together to desperately clean up some of the worst and stem some of the worst flooding that has happened in the area in two centuries but russia is not only the country suffering as you can see the arm a river running along the border between russia and china which has been hit by catastrophic weather since the beginning of the summer already more than one hundred reported dead another one hundred fifteen missing three of russia's regions severely affected experts say the floods have yet to peak more than half a million homes and a lot of li who is under threat in the far east hub of how to. in the next twenty

four hours could be critical artie's paul scott reports. base is a city under threat a city on the edge of the moment water levels are continuing to rise with the peak 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 is 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. we're going to use racial issues are worked out there 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 floods so far in and around the city in the majority of those people have been housed in temporary accommodation

centers the 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 everything has been washed away because 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 so absolutely no sign of receding it could be a while yet before the full extent of the damage is revealed plenty more stories for you a click away including this religious intolerance flaring up in egypt where the islam is burning coptic christian churches are t. dot com photos of destroyed houses of worship plus. a surprise entrance

vacationers on a crowded beach in a russian city of. shock when a russian military hovercraft shore to our website to watch the video of the unexpected arrival. what do you think would be enough prize for americans and the west in general to realize that noting with milans is actually extremely counterproductive to our own national interests. the created create. this is the. organization.

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a fruit if that's what we don't want happen to change your all and we want to get some protection and make sure that we don't go into the chesapeake bay like uppers did in other communities. fresh wave antigovernment protests truck bahrain as thousands gathered outside the capital for a peaceful march demonstrations in the kingdom started back in two thousand and eleven but human rights activists. says the arab neighbors may be undermining what they're trying to achieve. you know i mean this and behind it i don't have to keep in mind that throughout all fifty one go through we are facing many go about many many years that g.c.c. troops came to my country through there but the economic down they don't want that

you see going through they don't want any of what they're going to see in the g.c.c. so that's why where we as a behavior people want to see when you can be supported by many here was that it can't be so that's why and even then that there needed to cook out of my well what's happening again micah to me or the media how bad programming do i get and said we didn't go there but it's pretty good that i don't we don't know about it. what's happening in my country because many of them are owned by. by the government and the g.c.c. so it's complicated which as we hadn't bought in we have bought them out of spring but the still we cannot get there but you don't think that your people will get it and to egypt and i thought i would agree with you. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour thousands rallied in the capital of tunisia calling for the resignation of the islamist led government there a coalition of opposition parties staged protests demanding new elections be held demonstrators took to the streets saying they're tired with authorities inability

to maintain security and restart the economy going crisis started in july after the assassination of a popular left wing opposition politician. a state of emergency declared in california after raging wildfires swept into yosemite national park the blaze doubled in size overnight and for san francisco to shut down transmission lines with fears there could be further damage to its infrastructure the wildfires have also led to the evacuation of hundreds from a nearby town officials say that only five percent of the blazes so far contained. in colombia anti-government protests turned violent with at least one reported killed in the unrest earlier this week the country's truckers and farmers held rallies against presidential reforms they say are hurting their incomes police used tear gas to disperse the crowd after rioting demonstrators threw rocks and explosives at officers this is colombia's largest guerrilla group the far walked away from peace talks with the government. a mass

rally stage in washington to mark fifty years since martin luther king's i have a dream speech on civil rights thousands marched in the streets many voicing concerns over voting rights a spike in street violence and excessive use of force by some police original march in one thousand nine hundred sixty three kick started the equal rights movement and contributed to passing the civil and voting rights act. it all just a coming your way after the short break stay with us. it was a. very hard to make out. once again there was

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