damascus allows u.n. inspectors access to the site of alleged chemical attack the u.s. is blaming the assad government or russia warns against jumping to conclusions. also this week military whistleblower bradley manning asked barack obama for a presidential pardon being sentenced to thirty five years behind bars for the biggest leak of classified data in america's history. we were faced with an ultimatum from the british government that if we didn't hand back the material or destroy it they would be to. get a tour of the u.k.'s guardian newspaper reveals how he was pressured to destroy files he received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden.

watching the weekly news review me carried. out a mask has given you an inspector's permission to access the site of an alleged mass chemical attack the u.s. says it's almost certain that government carried out the assault and pledged a serious response to gether with the u.k. auntie's middle east correspondent there assesses the growing tensions. well damascus has agreed to allow u.n. investigators access to the scene of the alleged chemical attack but the point needs to be made that while the damascus says it will do its maximum to ensure safe passage for the investigators the actual territory is rebel held and and so ultimately it will be the rebel forces who determine whether or not the u.n.

investigators have the access that they require we're just hearing however from the united states who says that this now comes too late we are however hearing from the u.n. that they will regardless begin their investigation come 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 types of injuries and on eyewitness reports these kind of discussions are emerging from a meeting of the american president barack obama 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 there would be

a red line in terms of which american and foreign intervention would be justified now this comes as the united states 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 this comes as 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 there they found evidence of chemical waste there were empty shells that had mocked on them made in saudi arabia and saudi arabia of course being a very vocal critic of the. syrian president bashar assad 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 the rebels for themselves are vowing revenge we have heard from and al nusra

a leader in an audience recording that's also been posted online saying that in revenge they will fire a thousand rockets at the assad regime meanwhile the russian foreign ministry says it's worried about the pressure being put on the assad government despite the u.n. investigation into the alleged use of chemicals not yet begun. thomas has warned moscow's reaction. russia is urging caution to the west saying that assigning blame to soon over the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria would be a tragic mistake in fact in a statement released on sunday the foreign ministry did not mention the u.s. by name but i'm going to read what they said it says we strongly urge those who in trying to impose their opinion on u.n. experts ahead of the results of an investigation announce the possibility of military action against syria to exercise discretion and not make tragic mistakes

now again they did not mention the u.s. but this comes as a broke obama has met with his security advisers as well as his military advisers and even spoken to the prime minister of the u.k. cameron and basically saying that they are prepared to use military action making sure that you know what is on the table there but president obama has not made a decision as of yet now russia has suggested that in these situations it can be tricky to decide who is actually responsible in has said that it might even be the rebels who are responsible for a chemical attack if in fact a chemical attack has actually happened and in a separate less formal statement russian officials said on sunday that we've seen all of this before in fact discussing the situation in iraq back in the bush administration saying the u.s. administration pointed to weapons of mass destruction which were never found in iraq but that led to an occupation and invasion ten years plus of united states involvement in the country so russian officials are urging caution saying that the

world community does not want to see a repeat of this situation in syria and is basically asking the west to hold off until the u. and investigation has taken place and they know more about the situation. but despite the harsh rhetoric against the syrian government on the u.s. military pointing for a green light to attack it appears that most americans don't want an intervention well here's what a recent. poll has revealed well just nine percent and it comes that we get nine percent of u.s. citizens who took part in the survey want the president to act while about sixty percent say no and when as well they should you know about washington support for the opposition about one tenth so the bamma should do more for the rebels than just send arms to them. one thousand nine percent they don't want the u.s. to help the opposition an antiwar activist with the code pink campaign says

americans a weary of war as the country has been involved in for the last twelve years the united states has been fighting. a war of choice in iraq it war of choice in afghanistan that turned out to be longer battle that war than the then the vietnam war which also was a war of choice the american people are war weary we know that what's going on inside syria americans even the average american know it's a proxy war we know we're not going to get the correct information from our government and we know that our government officials are only interested in continuing what would be a fear tactic of a continuation of war after war after war to keep the american public in check in the american public is no longer going to buy into it. international tensions are running high as the pentagon moves naval forces closer to syria despite president obama appearing cautious open intervention where you can tell us what you think on

our website r.t. dot com well so far almost half of those who voted say washington wants to divert americans from domestic problems around a third think the pentagon is ready to strike no matter what the president says about being cautious thirteen percent believe the u.s. is looking for political leverage of a chemical arms and the universe again and just eleven percent think the pentagon is readying for an attack just in case i want to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. right to see. her street. and i think you're. going to. be a. former

u.s. army private bradley manning was sentenced to thirty five years in prison this week for his unprecedented leak of classified documents to wiki leaks exposures through light on america's alleged war crimes committed in iraq and afghanistan or possibly i was now hoping for a pardon from the u.s. president and his letter addressed to barack obama he vows that he acted out of concern for his country striving to protect the values and ideals of the u.s. running also said he would gladly pay the price for living in a free american society as art is going to chicken reports it's manning's personal issues which are now in the spotlight. bradley manning sentence of thirty five years behind bars has said on the president a punishment threshold for whistleblowers bradley manning should be walking the streets and being treated for who is a whistleblower 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 men in the air 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 with the government's ongoing crackdown on whistleblowers under the current administration an 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 we know we don't want to we don't want to be a part of that we're very uncomfortable so if it's a complex issue and it's uncomfortable americans generally will pull back from an allowance 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 that 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. say has gone as far as the bugging the u.n. after the break who reports on new revelations made public by whistleblower edward snowden and the u.s. reaction. some russia's far east experts predict floodwaters will rise for another seven days forcing rescuers into around the mission to pile sandbags into nine meet the high flood walls their stories and more in just a couple minutes.

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. series technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the new and the chrome whistleblower edward snowden has come tonight sharing that the national security agency has been listening in on the united nations report in new york with details on this latest revelation. america's national security agency allegedly cracked the encryption guarding the united nations' internal video conferencing system that's according to german newspaper der spiegel the publication says that the n.s.a. surveillance of the united nations took place last summer and three weeks after happening into the video system america's spy agency had allegedly boosted its

number its number of such decrypted communications from twelve to four hundred and fifty eight now for anyone who doesn't already know this spying on the united nations is illegal under international law der spiegel also reports that the u.s. maintains a monitoring program called the special collection service in over eighty embassies and consulates around the world often without the knowledge of the host country now many may be wondering why is it that the united states would want to spy on the united nations would spy on its allies because as as we've been reporting and as us president barack obama said himself recently the n.s.a. is in place to protect american security and target only potential terrorists what we do with it or some mechanisms where we can track a full member or e-mail address that we know is connected to the terrorist threat

now it's unclear how spying on the united nations and international partners coincides with america's war on terror if anything what many critics are saying is that what may come out of the n.s.a. is world wide surveillance is a loss in confidence and reliability in the united states because you have to think about it if you have a friend that you trust to find out is always spying on you is listening to what you're saying is watching what you're doing is reading what you're typing does that relationship still stay strong and that is a question that is clearly coming to light not only following this report but those questions have been coming to light over past months ever since edward snowden blew the whistle on n.s.a. spying programs. or prata this the same german media outlet revealed how the n.s.a. had bugged the e.u. offices and media under starter a member of the european parliament representing the swedish pirate party says that despite all this e.u. lawmakers are reluctant to introduce new data protection legislation created making

good data protection regulation and we are just those nuclear out of protection of the nation in the european union however the national security debates among the data protection of the nation are now incredibly tough and it seems that european political leaders are not as willing to. teach steps to safeguard the trust and confidence in public networks and internet groups that maybe we as citizens would like for them to undertake but so in general look we see in europe this is a mishmash of outreach statements and political inaction or leak that are a portal very important i talked about earlier came from germany or britain's guardian newspaper has published many of edward snowden's previous revelations that lead to the government forcing them to destroy secret files because they fear that data could fall into the wrong hands of the paper service act or documents and even stored there of a caucus auntie's attacks are severe as more. you've had your fun now with stein to

return to the documents so the unnamed government official to the newspaper editor it could be the stuff of movies all week it isn't we will face the factory with ultimatum from 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 web by former contractor of the national security agency edward snowden but in recent days the editor of the newspapers also publicized what have 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. not from london the 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 around it 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 and the police have a duty to protect the public and our national security those who oppose this sort of action need to think about what 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 information he's got would endangered the public for the following reasons you've got to have reasons for it no such reasons have been advanced and the rand is new tension as well as the destruction of computers in the guardian's basement has one of britain's most respected newspapers in the spotlight the story teller has become this story this is a very damaging moment actually for britain's reputation for free speech 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 but some of pointed to be noticeably lackluster response from the country's other newspapers following his revelations especially considering that press appears to be at stake the business of reporting securely and having confidential sources is becoming difficult in these documents

there is the stated ambition to scoop up everything and store it all to master the internet this is the language that's being used internally this is celia r.t.e. london. where we have more stories for you on law and what you can find. right now on america's founding fathers for an extremist ideology. the defense department which believes so the full story online. class member of activist group anonymous uses the us government of course saying hackers to do their dirty work for him targets at our website for all the details. now to russia stream flooding continues to devastate the far east experts say levels have not yet. heat may continue to rise until the second or third of

september well that's another whole week for a region which has already more than seven meters under water it really is extraordinary let's have a look at the situation as it is now and while this is where it all began i'm a river burst its banks excuse me after weeks of unrelenting downpours in an area the size of france and germany put together what it's been declared a federal emergency for nearly three weeks now we want to ensure rain feeding the rising flood waters and these three regions. have been the worst affected with up to eighty five thousand homes under threat and here we are the region alone three dozen towns of over three thousand inhabitants are already under water. as you can see here the regional capital which is a city of over half a million lives on where it meets the river where rescuers volunteers and soldiers are fighting to fortify river bank over thirty kilometers long haul scott brings us

the latest now on the efforts there. like this is marina a resident of culturally also a risky island and this 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 now despite marina best attempts to try to 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. have

been crying all week we've lost all our property and that's after we've renovated hung new 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 slider. many of those evacuated from their homes and up in temporary accommodation centers in schools and sports halls or thirties and volunteers providing supplies such as food drinking water and medicine that some rest bite 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 here they face patel te's greet the treat us like the children although the situation in the habit asked region remains critical further west there's hope the worst is over in the region attention is now turning to the

cleanup operation just that the situation is changing and we're going to regroup our forces people now come from the neighboring a more region for planes arrive here every day. now water levels in some parts of this region have already beaten records that have stood for more than one hundred and twenty years that's 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 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 ask now for more

international news embry another day of attacks in iraq have claimed the lives of forty eight people in eight separate assaults most deadly was in a northern city of mosul where eleven died in a car bomb explosion blast in five other cities including three in the capital killing civilians and left dozens injured supreme insurgents for the bloodshed but what named any particular. i'm going to start on the gypsum in court has adjourned the trial of former president hosni mubarak who is accused of complicity in the killings of protesters in the twenty seven uprising and was sentenced to life behind bars last year it was granted a retrial after here you'll be really hearing comes amid a new spike of internal strife triggered by the muslim brotherhood's removal from office by the egyptian military. a cargo train known for transporting central american migrants is the road in southern mexico killing at least five and leaving scores wounded the crash occurred in the remote area of

tabasco state on two hundred fifty migrants were traveling on the infamous bestia train when it do you railed an unknown number of people remain trapped inside. germany's top u.s. skeptic politician has been attacked on stage during a rally in. ascendance on do not use jumped on them as he was making a speech and your campaign of it two dozen others then covered the audience with a sprint cast his party which once you abolished the subject of several times for the last two months. becoming up would take a closer look at some of the interrogation methods used by u.s. police who think that they actually own the shortly.

sometimes it seems like in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself about what a few individuals with no real money or power could really do against the system but you never dull in fact if you remember tour discussion about ammonia doused pink slime being used across america and frozen fast foods well shift jamie oliver has actually managed to shame mcdonald's enough on t.v. to get them to back down and stop using this ultra processed form of quote meat at their establishments also we recently discussed gamer rage at the rather racist portrayal of russians in the game company of heroes two well all the rage actually worked and thanks to the seventeen thousand signatures on the change dot org petition that game has been pulled from russian shelves by the developer the thing is that massive corporations do a lot of bad things because they have no morals and are obsessed with profit but because they have no morals and are only obsessed with profit the second you even

slightly threaten their cash flow they will instantly start cowering at your feet sometimes but that's just my opinion.