you know what's really happening to the global economy because the report on. syria's president rejects western finger pointing over an alleged chemical massacre of damascus saying facts not assumptions or should come first as u.n. weapons inspectors head to the site. planted at embassies in the e.u. offices and now even the united nations headquarters a newly leaked document reveals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out spying effort . plus as libya since the fall of gadhafi we report on how the government is reverting to the colonel's methods to crush to send while the country slides into economic turmoil.

that's just composite may day here in of the russian capital you live with us on r.t. with me to say. syria's president has responded furiously to allegations that his army was behind the chemical massacre outside damascus last week branding them nonsense u.n. inspectors head into the site to prove some point powell's seemed reluctant to wait for their findings now the united states which says it's confident that bashar assad was responsible for the deadly attack is moving its washin screws into the syrian border the u.k.'s royal navy is also making preparations for a possible strike while the nato part that turkey says in will join a mil she coalition and to both claim they don't need un approval but other jumping the gun is maria for national find. united nations experts are in syria to investigate whether chemical weapons were used during the ongoing conflict

finally but even before they start a senior u.s. administration official has said there is very little doubt that chemical weapons were used by the syrian regime against civilians these are the arguments we have told were given to president obama as proof the reported number of victims talkin the number explain how they see during world war two up to eighteen million people were killed what does that tell us about how they died the next argument the american ministrations science leaves them in little doubt the assad attacked his own people with cameco weapons is the reported symptoms of those who were killed or injured symptoms of course speak for themselves but how does that answer exactly who was behind this u.s. intelligence sites witness accounts that is hardly a reliable argument for syria since the beginning of the conflict there almost two

and a half years ago each side has accused the other often acquainted charger while covering events from different cities in syria those undercover manto all rebel control i often matt and talk to witness. as from both sides whose accounts contradicted one another the truth was never easy to find even on the ground well it would if chemical weapons were used in syria why does it automatically point to the syrian regime isn't that still to be investigated it all appears to be based on assumptions we still believe that they don't have the capability to use chemical weapons that has not changed again we're looking into the facts on the ground but there's no reason if there's nothing to high for the regime not to let the investigative team do you know with the u.n. team is uprooting them to the same assumptions that position doesn't. use these principles and yes they are. meanwhile major world media are bombarded audiences

with grow task pictures of dead people including children allegedly killed by chemical agents allegedly used by the syrian regime and all that during the military escalation in the region the pentagon is moving its naval forces closer to syria three days tori's already in the mediterranean ready and for a variety of attacks all of them carrying up to three hundred cruise missiles more scope warns the west against repeating the tragic mistakes all these is remiss and of events of ten years ago in which it was in false information that the iraqis processed weapons of mass destruction the united states launched a reckless enterprise with consequences that everyone is well aware off russia's foreign minister spokesperson said well these small tube colin powell the u.s. secretary of state at that time presented to the u.n. security council as proof led to disastrous consequences will history repeat itself

. r.t. moscow. in a further reaction from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned of a regional catastrophe if the u.s. proceeds with a military intervention sean thomas has more on moscow's concerns. well russia is urging the western powers to use caution not to jump to conclusions and judge too soon to avoid it tragic mistakes when it comes to be alleged use of chemical weapons in syria now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov called his counterpart in the united states and john kerry to draw attention to the implications of what could happen if there was military intervention specifically for the middle east and for all of northern africa in fact lavrov told kerry that calls from the west to use military intervention in syria bypassing un efforts is basically wiping out joint efforts by the united states and russia to meet in

geneva to try and come up with a viable solution to the syrian crisis now while not mentioned specifically by name on sunday the foreign ministry sent out a statement basically asking all parties who might be considering military intervention to use caution because they need any intervention or any action needs to be done with international law in mind using the verifiable facts from the u.n. investigation that if anyone should proceed it would just escalate the situation even further moscow is also calling on the u.s. to back off on damascus and to help the u.n. carry out this approach it in impartial way moscow says that threats from the west could lead to more bloodshed and will lead to more bloodshed in syria because it encourages the rebels to keep on fighting in a conflict where countless syrians have already been killed. russia's foreign

minister sergey lavrov will address the syrian issue at a press conference at around twelve o'clock g.m.t. we'll be bringing you that live transmission from moscow. now lol the prospect of yet another wall is not getting the thumbs up from the american public let's have a look now at reduced a. poll that suggests that nine percent of the u.s. citizens want their president to launch military action while about sixty percent of them said that america should keep out of the situation in syria when asked about washington's support for the opposition just a tenth the said obama should do more for the rebels than just sending arms almost ninety percent gone to one big country to help the syrian opposition and to i took his time barry explains why americans have taken the stance 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 for battle the longer for war than 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 work to keep the american public in check in the american public is no longer going to buy into it. a massive flood in russia's fi isa set as communities says thousands forced to say goodbye to their homes meets those who are determined to stay at this submit childless to the bitter end.

the u.s. national security agency has been spying on the united nations headquarters in new york that's according to newly published information leaked by edward snowden is a read up on a is in new york with the 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 der spiegel the publication says that the n.s.a. surveillance of the united nations took place last summer and three weeks after hacking into the video system america's spy agency had allegedly boosted its number its number of such decrypted communications from twelve to four hundred fifty eight now for anyone who doesn't already know the 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 but spy on its allies because as as we've been reporting and as u.s. 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 phone number 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. right les discuss of the recent surveillance revelations with fabio rained hard a member of the the pirate group in the berlin parliament to mr reinhard spying on the uighurs there violates several international treaties now how do you think the un is going to react to the latest revelations. well thank you to be here. it's hard to see how the u.n. will react first before it's very unclear what they will what they can actually do i mean you have to to make a difference between the members of the u.n. and the united nations organizations so i don't think that banking will tap into

the matter and i'm not sure if the member states will make it a big affair we had already the issue with. the united states surveilling the european union and we had the reaction from from the parliament president martin childes he actually. used the opportunity to silences national critics saying this is actually proving that you know that the european union is important so being surveillance is actually showing that we met or somehow so you wasn't too unhappy about it but there wasn't much that followed we had a deal committee that was actually showing the international surveillance activities it was called the second on committee and nothing followed we had that on several hundred pages to prove that there was international surveillance even against the european union and there was nothing that followed that so i don't see

that there will be a lot of activities right so they'll be all see what you're saying is that don't remember meeting they'll be mixed reaction in terms of who says what in how they approach this but i mean there's been a lot of terms like terrorism being used by the obama administration to actually justify why a lot of these surveillance ventures are still going on i think now going to say that they suspect perhaps that that is happening within the u.n. i mean you have to ask those questions even though perhaps the u.n. one find it a big deal that they were being tapped into. well theoretically yes but i mean the united states they had their reasons why they wanted the u.n. to be on u.s. soil so they can have. the u.n. within their reach they could they could have some kind of control over them and i mean they have been said to surveil pretty much everything in the world in the last

month and so why don't into the u.n. and as well they clearly have lost sight of what they're actually fighting against what they're actually trying to do to get a hold of kind of information. they have so many information they cannot. until the end of the days they can really. go through all the information they have they clearly have lost sight of how much information they want they actually want to have and which kind of information so this is actually following their own kind of logic right mr reid had i'm so sorry but i've lost all track of time i wanted to speak to you a little bit more on this and how this aggressive way of america trying to get information how it's coming out in the world thank you very much for your time here on our team now there was a fog the rain had member of the pirate bay in the. strive and desperation in libya as the nation marks two yes since the fall of gadhafi plus a report on the flooding in russia's fly east that and more we'll have all of that

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reporting from the world talks about six of the r.p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. see arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. that's the same with us here on our t.v. two years on from the fall of colonel gadhafi in libya the euphoria of the revolution has all but gone today on diminishes an islamist rule much of the country fighting over territory smuggling routes and shares of dwindling oil revenue to top that desperate government is quietly reactivating colonel gadhafi is feared surveillance apparent as using it to hunt down dissent is artie's policy a report on the sobering anniversary. anniversaries are often

a time of celebration for two years on libya has pushes little to be applauding. with the us i'm not sure it will be right to assume that there's a government in libya there's no army no police militias are in control is violent chaos the. militia violence stalks the jihadist groups are growing strength wishing to cripple the oil industry and economic stagnation is everywhere with all the bad negative things that they will say about that they those that. control it by force the situation of these device divided countries libya mr duffy is far from the key days of the with the new shinobi euphoria human rights watch says a wave of assassinations has killed dozens of politicians activists judges and members of security agencies all we hear is very. very troublesome because we hear about clandestine detention centers. detention centers that are run by

militias that are not accountable to anybody these armed militias reportedly have more power than the government turning the country into a new kind of ways not make extremism over the past few weeks we kind of can see the need to be open to the south libya is becoming the main base for al qaeda in the maghreb we also know that as a direct result of the libyan intervention that the civilian government and bomb a ko mali was overthrown in the north of the country and certain islamicist took over creating a humanitarian disaster leaving tens of thousands of internally displaced persons not to mention tens of thousands of refugees fleeing into mortagne you're feeling it to burkina faso basically creating a morass and if that's not bad enough. the much promised constitution has failed to materialize politicians are deadlocked over the role of sharia law and regional

rivalries. libyan society consists of arabs berbers and taboo so the constitution should represent all segments and if any group is ignored then this means exclusion. the berbers who make up ten percent of the population are threatening to take up arms against the government there is a real danger that libya may break up you have a severe problem in libya with regard to the darker skinned nationals of the south of the country. except. those who are lighter skinned in the north and the deteriorating economic situation isn't helping commercial banks are closing their doors imposed test against the current armed robberies in a desperate attempt to keep a grip on things the new government is reportedly using methods that were popular during the duffys time libya's transitional government has quietly we anticipated

the surveillance technology it inherited from the depths of the sea it uses it to attack the mobile phones and online communication of gadhafi loyalists the two machines it seems are not that different after all except that oil production is down with libya unable to promise crude deliveries next month as off strikes paralyze its may just see terminals two years on and many are asking was it worth destroying libya to get this broken state when it's not clear who won it definitely doesn't seem to be the libyan people policy r.t. television. libya's oil production has plummeted to fifty percent of what it was before the revolution now for a country heavily dependent on feel exports that represents a catastrophic loss of income artie's katie pilgrim explains. according to the libyan oil and gas minister nearly one point six billion dollars has been lost in

less than a month because of the security guard strikes libya's two main crude oil export terminals remain sharp which means the country's financial recovery after the twenty eleven brest has been derailed become trees reliant on oil exports accounting for ninety five percent of all output produces shipments have been cut to the lowest level since the civil war of twenty eleven more than half of libya's a small capacity with some estimating just three hundred thousand barrels per day and now being shipped out of the country and as a consequence libya's government to have said it will use military force if necessary to stop the striking security guards from selling the countries or independently but the root of the problem remains is the ousting of gadhafi regime the country is still plagued by chaos this time the cause is economic and loss. and as if economic turmoil and infighting weren't enough al qaeda is now reportedly

making saw there in libya its new base of operations a top official described how the terror network is taking advantage of the chaos and establishing itself in the south of the country by a me as if you women editor of the pan african news wire predicts that the instability will only get worse. this counterrevolution has been detrimental to the well being of the libyan people what we've seen over the last two years is a total disruption of libyan society in the area of the economy it has been the most pronounced we've seen the production of all cut in half of the cost of us strikes and rebellions of them going on there's no plan for the national restoration of libya many of the key political players involved in an attempt to run libya right now are divided over tribal regional as well as political levels and until the general national council of government there are reigns in the

militias and tries to bring about some type of national reconciliation process the economic decline and consequently the social instability will intensify that opinion there is not shared by everyone early on my colleague. spoke to a deputy from libya's parliament who told us matches are does bad as they see. i cannot ignore the dream have some some complications some mistakes have been done during the arts or that inclusion during the war but now we have improving dramatically we have a security committee voted in guys we have a suspicion specialized committee in the gene see where it is dealing with a human rights watch but it's been two years since the fall of the previous regime and even though you say that the situation is improving why there's so no safe sense debilitatingly this seems to security and stability was was available since

this same city and if. you can get it in any of. our brabant certainly when when we were after the liberation of the country we have a lack of bar on the ground in certain areas these are crimes of criminals or the be from outside grab some heat of a very unstable country. record flood levels in russia's fi east forcing more people to leave everything they have behind now as the authorities try to find ways of helping the devastated region survive the upcoming winter more rains are for cost of his call scott to talk to those who decided to stand their ground no matter what. is a village under threat on the banks of both the ammo and the red river residents wait nervously. record breaking water levels in the region a still rising forcing more and more people from their homes ruining property and livelihoods this lady is

a full time carer for her disabled father she says leaving is simply not an option here nine years in we have no i don't live here i live in the neighboring house my garden is underwater i'm here because i take care of my dad life was tough for residents in rural eastern russia even before the floods here father and daughter grow their own potatoes and vegetables but now the land they used to rely on is totally under water various again all of that my garden and chicken coop flooded the water is coming nearer and nearer to the house they are the only residents to remain artie's film crew later came across this man he's also decided to stay with his submerged property like many scared to leave through fear of looting because the. every three hours a report to the emergencies minister the situation is under control we are on guard and we are ready to deal with all variance to the situation as it changes up to ten

thousand people can be housed in temporary accommodation centers that have sprung up across the region shelter and supplies are provided along with psychiatric support to help people deal with the fallout from the devastation. that we're skinniest now people are grateful to those who have evacuated them from their homes who have provided everything they need matunga sleep residents worry about the future about the hoons and how they will spend the winter well how about off for mains relatively untouched by the flood waters so far the same parts to the fifteen kilometers worth of dimes that have been built around the city in order to keep the water at bay or thirty's ordering it to reach a height of nine meters at the moment in order to contend with the rising flood waters but that is of little comfort to the people in the remote rural regions you're seeing their lives swept away. how about us. right the sport update is next with kate.

well look at. sunny's technology innovation called the least developed mints from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. choose your language. of holy week you know if they still some of. the consensus here can. choose the opinions that immigrate to.

choose to stories get in high school life choose me access to your office. hello and welcome to the r t sports show i'm kate ball tridge and coming up is twenty six minutes of sporting action from russia and around the globe and these are the week's top stories. turning blue chelsea agree to sign attacking midfielder william from angie in a reported forty seven million dollars deal subject to work permits. last turbo charged while red bull sebastian vettel cruises to victory at the belgian grand prix we meet the young russian who is able to reach the top in formula one. and some like it hot and watch the top of beach volleyball

giros from latvia and brazil defied the cold to triumph at the moscow grand slam. but let's get the ball rolling with football and english premier league side chelsea have agreed a deal with russian club angie to sign attacking midfielder willian subject to a work permit hearing on wednesday the twenty five year old midfielder had undergone a medical it taught them to lose out on all of which then intervened with his fellow on the guard suliman karimov who owns an injury personal terms have since been settled along with the fee understood to be almost forty seven million dollars with chelsea also able to offer champions league football this season thirty two year old striker simulcast so the world's highest earning footballer is also reportedly set to leave angie stamford bridge. in germany a new coach brad wardell that continued his perfect start in charge of travel winners by in munich with a two know when the time to learn berg in the first half.