damascus agrees to allow u.n. inspectors to investigate this signed on alleged chemical act which the you are sir as it has little damage the assad government carried out. also this week a military whistleblower bradley manning requests a presidential pardon after being sentenced to thirty five years in jail for the biggest leak in america's history also. we were faced effectively with ultimatum from the british government that if we didn't have the material destroyed they would kill long. beard or tell the guardian newspaper reveals how he was pressured to destroy the files he received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden.

this is the weekly or now she was me you know our thanks for joining us damascus has given us inspectors permission to access the site of an alleged mass chemical attack this as the u.s. says it's almost certain the assad government carried out their sword and pledged a serious response alongside its ally the u.k. let's now get more details from our correspondent in the region paula it's clear she is joining us now live paula nice to see you so there's been significant progress in the push for an investigation tell us more please. well there certainly does seem to be significant progress damascus has agreed to allow u.n. investigators access to the area of the alleged chemical attack that was supposed

to have taken place earlier this week the point however meets needs to be made that damascus while saying that is will do its maximum to provide a humanitarian college or save card or for these investigators the area where this attack took place is in rebel held territory so ultimately it is really the rebels who will be able to torpedo the access that these investigators have we are hearing from the u.n. investigators that they will begin their investigation starting monday now this comes as the united states says it has very little doubt that damascus was behind this chemical strike the u.s. intelligence basing these claims on the number of reported deaths we're hearing that upwards of one hundred of one hundred people were in fact killed it also is basing these claims on the type of injuries and on eyewitness reports these kind of discussions are emerging from a meeting that the american president barack obama is currently having with his security advisers we know that he's been prevented with

a review of possible options in terms of american response if indeed there has been the use of chemical weaponry president obama has repeatedly said that if assad uses chemical weapons that would be a green light that would be a red line in terms of which american and foreign intervention would be justified at the same time the white house is also saying that it believes that damascus did lade access to these u.n. investigators because it wanted to give the chemical weapons time to degrade now all of this comes as the you in moves its naval forces in the mediterranean closer to the syrian coast and we are hearing from the united states that it would be prepared to strike if indeed called upon to do so so you also mentioned the you are strongly believes assad was behind those chemical at times but we also heard reports that opposition fighters were also using chemicals.

certainly syrian state television is reporting that syrian soldiers entered a number of tunnels in a damascus suburb that had been used by rebel fighters and they they found evidence of chemical waste and they were empty shells that had mocked on them made in saudi arabia and saudi arabia of course being a very vocal critic of aside there seems to be a lot of reports and evidence that the rebels in fact are responsible for carrying out these chemical attacks but let me make the point that all the footage we are witnessing and all the reports that are circulating online are as of yet unverified we have no indication in terms of who captured this footage who posted it and when in fact all of this was put onto the internet the rebels for themselves are vowing revenge we have heard from and mr leader in an audio recording that's also been posted online saying that in revenge they will fire a thousand rockets at the al assad regime this comes as the united states chief of

staff as well as the chiefs of staffs of britain france and several our arab countries sit down in jordan and there they are discussing ways of beefing up security on the borders of countries that surround syria and this is of concern whether or not there is going to be a future chemical attack or any other kind of violence spilling over from syria into neighboring countries all right and he's middle east correspondent paula it's clear live paula thank you very much indeed. this is the reaction from the u.s. just coming in and anonymous high ranking official has reportedly said the syrian authorities acted too late in letting u.n. inspectors visit the site of the suspected chemical weapons attack in near damascus and despite harsh rhetoric against the syrian government and the u.s. military waiting for a green light to time it appears americans don't want intervention and here's where the latest reuters ipsos poll were viewed so just nine percent of the u.s.

citizens who took part in this survey want their presidents to act there while about sixty percent said america should stay away from the civil war in syria when asked about washington's support for the opposition about one town said obama should do more for the rebels than just send arms to them while almost ninety percent don't want america to help the opposition at all meanwhile doctors without borders say they received more than three thousand patients suffering from intoxication wednesday when the chemical or salt was reported three hundred fifty five of them died but exactly who was behind that time is still hard to verify so far the u.s. and its allies have assumed assad is to blame and if the evidence the chairs the opposite that will cause major confusion for washington according to dowd kind a law professor of international law at georgetown university. is going to be the rebels who are using the. material the u.s.

would be embarrassed because it could be alive or do your own sort of opposition that the u.s. has been supporting claiming that these are people who are seeking democracy and rule of law and fighting corruption or whatever. this is the purpose of that if you choose the u.s. would like to. prove or would like some of its allies that. the regime. who has done both but this does not independently prove i'm very fired and without any dependent very few i think if we would take all what the u.s. president has said does not indicate military action. international tensions are running high as the pentagon moves naval forces closer just a way to slide obama being cautious over any intervention so will do those preparations

for a time he usually mean tell us what you're saying on our website r.t. dot com and so far the majority almost half of those who voted say washington wants to divert americans from domestic problems around thirty percent saying the pentagon's message is it's ready to strike no matter what obama says about being cautious while around fourteen percent of you say the u.s. wants political leverage over chemical arms and the pro and a minority which has ten percent so far thing the pentagon is reading for attack just in case so log on to r.t. dot com to cast your vote my right to see my first trip. and i would think that your. my. orders.

radley mining was sentenced to thirty five years in prison this week he was responsible for the months of leak of classified data that exposed american war crimes in iraq and afghanistan the former army private is now hoping for a pardon from the us president mining addressed a letter to obama insisting he acted out of love for his country seeking to protect the bodies and ideals of the united states the ag soldier also said he would gladly pay the price for living in a free american society but as he's going to take our reports if the debate over manning spasso issues that is now grabbing the headlines bradley manning sentence of thirty five years behind bars has said on the president it punishment threshold for whistleblowers bradley manning should be walking the streets and being treated for who is a whistle blower who exposed war crimes in iraq afghanistan secret war in yemen and

the other corruption of the governments the us supported bradley manning supporters gathered outside the white house to call for the president to pardon the whistleblower the supporters of bradley manning say what's at stake here is not just many teacher 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 manning's defense team has submitted a request for a pardon but there seems to be little chance that it will be granted that the government's ongoing crackdown on whistleblowers under the current administration and unauthorized leak to the media of classified information is viewed as being tantamount to aiding the enemy. the government wide crackdown on whistleblowers and the extension of this crackdown to journalists threatens to stifle the flow of information that is vital to our public but the media in the us has largely failed to stand up for bradley manning government officials and t.v. pundits all but convicted the whistleblower even before any trial took place who

cares whether the army killed some innocent people or not over in iraq you know we don't want to we don't want to be a part of that we it's very uncomfortable so if it's a complex issue and it's uncomfortable americans generally will pull back from it allows the media to fill that gap and portray bradley manning as a traitor manning's own personality has grabbed more headlines than the shoes that he uncovered and the day after sentencing manning's six became the main story who is healthy this week bradley manning announced that he wants to spend the rest of his life as a female and asked to be referred to as chelsea manning one of the defense psychiatry at trial testified that manning has narcissistic tendencies and i wonder if there's anything to that in the sense that she's announcing this in this very big public way no i think this is really trying to let people have the answer that they wanted she never really wanted this to be public to begin with and when the

information came out you need to understand the she gave it to her in a limo in a very private setting in a one on one chat never expecting this to be public now that it is unfortunately you have to deal with it in a public manner chelsea manning's attorney also said his client never wanted personal issues to become the main story and overshadow the debate that the whistleblower wanted to start through the leaks in washington i'm going to. our go ahead is back to square one ex dictator hosni mubarak has been let out of jail with many in egypt now questioning whether anything good has come out of the twenty eleven revolution that toppled him in the first plate. the national security agency has been listening in on the united nations this information comes from the latest bunch of security leaks about u.s. intelligence operations and it's a star were reportedly able to access the yuan's encrypted video conferencing system at its new york headquarters the initial breakthrough was said to have taken

place last summer and the u.s. was able to do the same to nearly five hundred other communication channels within the organization shortly after that so teacher consultant pollo reform is founder of the foundation and he said the sheer extent of global spying is the most worrisome aspect of this and previous revelations. spying is an old practice that has been taking place for ages is very very old since the time of the egyptians fighting which were over but of course with the new technologies this is very intrusive and the extent and reach of it is really worrisome and disturbing the reaction would be that of accusing each other so the spying issues most probably used as a bargaining issue between the major powers involved this is the new dimension of tens international relations in the past spying was physically manned nowadays is done by computers and by robots that are sent into the side the space to get this

information or to disturb the supposed enemy or competitor information. so that negus from the german media but britain's guardian newspaper has published many of edward snowden's previous revelations that led to the government forcing them to destroy it secret files because they feared days i could fall into the wrong hands if the paper services hacked but the documents one day even stored on there and there were other copies. the has more. you've had your fun now it's time to return the documents said the unnamed government official to the newspaper editor it could be the stuff of movies only it isn't we were faced effectively with it all to make time for the british government that if we didn't hand back the material or destroy it they would be to law in recent months the guardian newspaper has come to be known as the paper that's been exposing secret material from

a trove of information passed on to work by former contractor of the national security agency edward snowden but in recent days the editor of the newspapers also publicized what had gone on a behind closed doors here how security officials had ended up in the basement of their offices overseeing the destruction of hard drives and computers which contained the very information the paper's been exposing a bizarre turn of events salary richards says that came all the way up from the prime minister's office once it was obvious that they would be going to law. i would rather destroy the copy than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting and i was happy to destroy it because it was not going to inhibit our reporting we would simply problem erica not from london a twenty first century possibility in a highly digital and connected world the revelation by rusbridger came just a day after the detention of david miranda partner of the guardian journalist and glenn greenwald the journalist who had broken the story of snowden's leaks and the

same materials miranda was detained under the u.k.'s terrorism act and was held in question for nine hours at heathrow airport it caused an outcry among politicians and journalists and even david anderson the independent reviewer of terrorism laws who demanded an explanation prompting the u.k. home office to go on the offensive the government's in the police have a duty to protect the public and our national security those who oppose this sort of action need to think about once they can do if they. want to protect the public to tell the public what it is they're protecting them from a generalized statement about terrorism in general doesn't really do the trick you've got to be able to say well the permission he's got would endangered the public for the following reasons you've got to have reasons for no such reasons have been advanced when rand is an attention as well as the destruction of computers in the basement has one of britain's most respected newspapers in the

spotlight the story teller has become the story this is a very damaging moment actually for britain's reputation for free speech is being laid bare the way that the british state is very prepared to use terrorism legislation to use accusations of terrorism in order to shut down what looks to be journalistic practice healthy investigative journalism with some of pointed to be noticeably lackluster response from the country's other newspapers following his revelations especially considering that the press appears to be at stake the business of reporting securely and having confidential sources is becoming difficult in these documents there is no stated ambition to scoop up everything and store it all to the internet this is a language that's being used internally to search sylvia r.t.e. london. stay with us but because right after the break we head to east where exports expose prison floodwaters will rise for another seven days forcing rescuers

in toronto cloak around the clock i should say five to pile some bags into nine misa high flood walls that's just in a moment. what do you think would be high enough price for americans and the west in general to realize that this loading with violence is actually extremely counterproductive to our own national interests whenever there intervene or they are logged in to beam in any of the middle eastern companies they created all the create a state and winnable that is a failed state this is the best place for actually an article organization to establish bases. dramas the truth be ignored. stories others who refuse

to notice. the faces change the world writes no. picture of today's you know. from around the globe. look to. this is the week here on r.t. welcome by candor let's go to russia now where extreme flooding continues to devastate the far east experts say levels have not yet peaked and may continue to rise until the second or third of september that's another whole week for a region which is already more than seven meters underwater and this is where it all began look here there are more re will burst its banks after weeks of unrelenting downpours covering an area the size of france and germany combined and

it has been a federal emergency for nearly three weeks now with more torrential rain feeding the rising flood waters these three regions have been the worst affected up to eighty five thousand livelihoods are under threat in the region alone three dozen towns about three thousand inhabitants there are already under water and as you can see here the regional capital capital a city of over half a million lives on there are more where it means the river and their rescuers volunteers and soldiers are fighting to fortify a room by a river bank i should say over thirty kilometers long poles gone brings us the latest on the efforts there. but this is marina a resident of bolshoi also risky island an ace is marina's house water waist high the entire ground floor resembling a cesspit rather than a home now it's only when you enter the properties that you see the extent of the

damage that these floodwaters have caused despite marina's best attempts to try and keep many of her treasured possessions out of the water it was simply in vain the entire house is completely submerged and it's clear looking around it's going to take a lot of time money and effort before this place returns to normal. marina is one of hundreds in this region to have been evacuated in recent days by russia's emergency services she can't take everything with her and doesn't know when she'll be able to return for now she'll stay with friends or move here they. have been crying all week we've lost all our property and that's after we've renovated hundred wallpaper a place new carpets although some hardy souls remain predominantly this village is like a ghost town. but despite the chaos there are resilient attempts to carry on as normal the shop remains open although when we visited business was sly. many of those

evacuated from their homes and up in temporary accommodation centers in schools and sports holes or thirty's and volunteers providing supplies such as food drinking water and medicine that some rest bites for those who have lost everything just get the policy that's good that aid is going to come there is good they do have there but he needed to stay there his patel tease greet the treat us like the children all of the situation in the how about osprey general manger critical further west there's hope the worst is over in the region attention is now turning to the cleanup operation just as. the situation is changing and we're going to regroup our forces people now come from the neighboring a more region four planes arrive here every day but now water levels in some parts of this region have already beaten records that have stood for more than one hundred and twenty years lots of six hundred and forty two centimeters and the fear

is that as the rains continue that could push the eight meter barrier causing even more devastation and destruction to people's lives and homes the military and emergency services continue to work around the clock to reinforce how about i ask concern the defenses could be breached by water that at the moment shows no signs of receding i'm with flood levels not expected to eight until mid september the true extent of the damage is yet to reveal itself and it could be some time yet before the full picture emerges postcards. about oscar. and there's always that we'll have more stories for you online and here is what you can find on r.t. dot com right now. race is haven and you know it's a man is trying to turn a small town in the u.s. state of north dakota into a white supremacist stronghold find out how he's going about it on r.t. dot com. and buggering was bitcoin supporters of the merchant

digital currency who brought their cyber wallets to a special event in berlin we're going to r.t. dot com and find out what happened. egypt's ex-president hosni mubarak appeared in court today he's facing every trial for his alleged complicity in the killing of protesters during the uprising which hours of him two years ago the former leader was let out of jail earlier this week and placed under house arrest in the military hospital his release has added to turn trends in the country with many is seeing it as part of a vast sort of gains one during the twenty eleven revolution egypt has been enduring an unprecedented wave of deadly protests as the military ousted islamist president mohammed morsi the muslim brotherhood leaders have been arrested over the same period of their trials have been delayed until october first consultant lawyer andrew believes the army will always play a defining role in the ruling of egypt

a lot even if they bring good civilian the most huge remember mubarak war. before you wall street. military. who are in power and even if a civilian government. i'll do as the military serves all wants and as long as the broad worth to no us government of the be allowed to remain in power as soon as they start speaking out or trying to exert their all i do is they'll be toppled the. rules mostly the military been in power for decades and martial law is really in paul's for decades so the military don't see any change in circumstances and some other stories regular headlines around the world a sour germany stop a euro skeptic politician was a times on stage during a rally in bremen turn assailants armed with knives judgment on bird and look at as he was making a speech to your campaign event some two dozen others then sprayed the audience

with pepper spray and tear gas the a f d which was the you were abolished has been the subject of several attacks in the last two months. violent strikes have entered a six day in colombia farmers again clashed with security forces a recent economic reforms these are the biggest brushes the country has seen in nearly four decades the president has said he will not slow down reza destabilize the state and ordered police to continue their crime down the nation had opened its economy to foreign trade and new low prices are hurting local producers. and we're getting reaction now from the russian foreign ministry on the growing pressure on assad's government in syria it's calling not to commit tragic mistakes and not to force and confirmed assumptions on the u.n. inspectors before the investigation is complete oscar is also urging the international community to put pressure on the rebels this is our sea and up next

it's worlds apart after the break. you know people in moscow say they're like home 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 child free 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 new 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. hello and welcome to worlds apart this here in the united states marks the second

a new birth to be reading the world of asama bin laden so far the main fairly rare victory in america's south declared war on terror but after more than a decade of fighting and trillions of dollars found is the united states and good woman tantaros safer than they used to be to discuss that i'm now joined by abdel bari atwan the editor in chief of the pan arab newspaper. mr avlon thank you very much for your time now just recently u.s. president barack obama gave a speech on america's war on terror and what i think went unnoticed by mainstream media is a bomb as efforts to redefine the nature of that war let's listen what he had to say. must define our effort not as a boundless global war on terror but rather as a series of persistent targeted efforts to dismantle specific that were.