warships and fighter jets reportedly conversion in a serious course line as the u.s. and britain look set to launch air strikes on the water on stage saying it's time to mask a surprise. all mongering comes as the u.n. inspectors program the alleged chemical attack which a western policy of blame on the syrian army we speak to the head of a fact finding mission that a search in vain for iraqi weapons of mass destruction back in two thousand and three. and talk of a third a greek a bailout a greater headache for europe's political elite as chancellor merkel attempts to appease inducted into german taxpayers with an election looming.

it's just composite and nine am here in the russian capital you live with us on r.t. you with me on what's a. foreign intervention in syria looks more likely than ever with countries including the us britain france and turkey considering military action following last week's alleged chemical attack within the next few days eighty classified u.s. reporting is expected to be prepared outlining the legal justifications for a possible strike against syria a u.s. soldier of state john kerry has reiterated that washington has little doubt that the assad regime was a behind the alleged massacre despite the fact that the u.n. inspectors have yet to report back argues that marine aboard may have brings us the latest. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that the u.s. believes simply put that the opposition in syria would not be capable of carrying

out an attack using chemical weapons john kerry says that the obama administration is still considering how to respond to last week's allegedly mass attack but mr kerry didn't make it clear that a response will take place a response on the part of the united states the secretary of state says president obama believes that there must be accountability for those who used chemical weapons in syria and now mr kerry says that the u.s. believes that chemical weapons were in fact used despite the fact that the it has not been verified yet and he says that washington does have additional information about the alleged chemical attack and that that information will be provided in the days ahead. are gathering to do so on the ground our understanding of what is already happened in syria is grounded in fact informed by conscience and guided

by common sense it's hard really to understand how the understanding that washington has is grounded in facts because just about three hours before secretary kerry spoke in address the media we were over at the united nations where a spokesperson for the secretary general of the united nations was addressing the media and at that time a spokesperson for the u.n. said that investigators in syria are still gathering evidence there has not been any conclusion made yet on last week's alleged chemical attacks take a listen to the u.n. inspection team right now is back at its basis evaluating the material it's collected today it was very productive day. and once it's made its evaluations it does intend to continue its work tomorrow we're not giving the sites in advance of where they're visiting but they do intend to continue their work tomorrow some of america's european allies have. voice similar concerns and similar aggressive

statements have been made in addition warplanes and military transporters have reportedly arrived at the u.k.'s akrotiri air base in cyprus which is located less than one hundred miles from the syrian coast according to the guardian newspaper c one thirteen transport planes and small formation fighter jets were seen flying in from europe this leads many of course to interpret it as increasing preparations for for a military strike possibly against the syrian government if all of these fighter jets are seen going to an air base there it would many presume that cyprus may play a significant role if an air strike were to occur again syria this development comes as u.s. and many european leaders have taken a more aggressive tone against mr assad who the west accuse of executing the mass chemical weapons attack last week that killed hundreds of people but of course there have been no verifications as to who ignited and launched this alleged

chemical weapons attack what we have here is the u.s. and its and its western allies coming to its own conclusions and possibly acting on them in the days ahead a popular revolution against a brutal regime all a proxy war stirred up by the foreign powers analysts in a washington studio have been delving into the causes of the conflict that's been raging in syria for over two yes countless lives. first of all everybody wants a political solution everybody wants this crisis and i think the syrian people are incredibly tired but i think that if we do arms are flowing to syria whether we like it or not whether the united states or the west arms or not and they're going to different groups and sometimes not the right people at all and is open the room for for extremists sort of come in into the fray of this conflict so it's imperative that we arm the right people in the right people are the ones that defected from the from the army from the regimes army because they didn't want to shoot innocent children they do want to shoot their own people and you know now

when i did see a lifeless bodies dying in lockers bodies wrapped in areas where the regime did not allow people to go and these are not things that will go on my own and so let's get brian in here brian what we're going to say the united states government has been on a course to overthrow the government in syria because it's an independent nationalist government it was formally syria was formally a colony they did the same thing in libya they bombed libya in two thousand and eleven they invaded iraq in two thousand and three we see war after war after war what's the real reason for the war it's not because one government has a better or worse human rights record it's not about chemical weapons the middle east possesses two thirds of the world's oil the us wants to show that it's going to control this resource rich part of the world the the bush administration and the obama administration are doing the exact same thing using chemical weapons as a pretext to carry out illegal act of aggression against

a sovereign country the people in the united states by the way by by a margin of ninety percent ninety percent oppose any military strikes on syria the prospect of a devastating bombing campaign spearheaded by america with no united nations mandate is starting to look in additive all to syria but what does the history tell us about where this could all lead. takes a look back at nature's previous mitchie ventures. the obama administration is looking for ways to intervene in syria without a mandate from the united nations the president's national security advisers bring up the nato bombings of former yugoslavia as a possible blueprint for an intervention in syria. you may not remember at the time none of the nato states that participated in the bombings of former yugoslavia offered legal justifications for their actions it was labeled a humanitarian intervention and with the help of a very one sided media campaign it was engraved in the public memory especially in

the west as a success story and little has been reported that the humanitarian intervention turned into a humanitarian catastrophe on the ground what some call a success was two months of bombings thousands of people dead as a result both serbs and cos of all being aeons when after seventy eight days of nato bombing serb forces withdrew from cos of all there was an ethnic cleansing of nearly a quarter of a million serbs and other minorities from kossovo allied forces used clos the bombs attacked civilian infrastructure including power plants bridges factories the headquarters of serve radio and television in belgrade even the chinese embassy and yet despite all the destruction and casualties washington saw it as a victory and with the same bravado several years later the us made the case for unilateral intervention in iraq in that case they did not even bother to seek a u.n. approval washington presented false evidence and went on with the mission to remove

saddam hussein from power nearly two hundred thousand iraqis died as a result of that intervention millions lost their homes and two hundred thousand is a modest estimate iraqis continue to die in terror attacks every day and most recently in the nato went beyond its un mandate and affectively carried out a regime change what was called the humanitarian intervention resulted in a nation engulfed in chaos and terror. those are the precedents that washington has to look back to when considering an action in syria in washington i'm going to take them. r.t. talked to hans blix who headed the un's weapon inspection team to iraq before entering the two thousand and three us led invasion he says western media and now planning pressure on the governments to take action in syria i think that the public opinion and the media in the west will be pressuring the their governments

to do something they say that this is some horrible thing that must be a punishment must the action you cannot sit with your hands just folded so the public say that you know you must call the police report for a world police but the question is who is the world police is the united states is it nato it should be the security council and after an intervention which could take place i don't exclude that it's going to happen what will they do will just have been a punch on the nose and then telling the beleaguered city of syria that they go back and continue to fight the war the mandate is to establish whether chemical weapons have been used to or not and the way they go about that is that they go to sites and they may take samples of dust and of water and they will have to analyze that ascended to independent lab orators to lab orders they cannot just accept samples given to them from some rebels or from some

site because that can be manipulated it will not take them tell them who committed the attack but at least it will be able to tell them that yes the chemicals were used. and you can keep up with the events in syria as they unfold over on our web site also while you're there the euphoria that swept libya when gadhafi was toppled is now just a memory as militias drive away hopes of peace she is after the revolution get a full rundown on the libyan struggle for stability on our team dot com. and t.v. stars are joining hundreds of ordinary citizens on the streets of india's largest city mumbai to show their anger and to the gang rape all the young photo journalist you can see the full video of that protest.

a third bailout for greece is now unnecessary and unavoidable not going to eat you and german officials chancellor merkel who's trying to calm while dopy lecture agency is that a lot less money will be needed this time around it's a highly sensitive time for the chancellor with the elections just a month away my girls are also going out of her way to reassure voters that no dad rideout will be needed economists say such promises are. simply unable to pay back what it's borrowed are just brutal reports now on that the dilemma the dilemma that the german government is facing. more and more we're seeing senior figures from the world of european finance coming out and saying that they think that it's almost inevitable that greece will have to have

a third bailout if it's to try again it's a wing economy particularly here in germany that is something that would be looked at germany has been one of the major contributors towards the. towards giving money to the ailing greek economy and of course we already period where there's a general election on the twenty second of september now to talk a little bit more about this and what is to be done with the greek economy i'm joined by dr marcus kerber who is a professor of political economy institute of technology and the founder of the think tank thanks very much for talking to me are we seeing mrs merkel and other leading german politicians dancing around the issue of what's going to be some rather painful decisions they going to have to be made in the near future as a matter of fact it turned out to be unavoidable to admit that greece needs some extra money and instead of trying to. conceal this from the public by

saying no we will not come to the german finance minister in straight consultation with from macro admitted in public that there will be a third package this was to limit the damage that would emerge from a denial of reality they continue appeasement policy and continue bailouts instead of saying now let's. draw a bottom line capitalizes on the believe of european politicians that the greek sped away would be damages. once you call that bluff it will be all over independent of whether the greek want or don't want to care thanks very much for talking to me so greece addicted to bailouts and dictated to debts as well the debt is partly being financed by taxpayers from around the rest of the eurozone most notably from here in germany where the vast amount of money is speech as came out

of the taxpayer coffers in order to help out the neighbors in the south however when germans have been polled about whether they would agree should receive this type of money well. overwhelmingly about sixty two percent of them have said no that they shouldn't be getting any more money from germany it seems that that is definitely the case ahead of what looks like a potentially inevitable bailout. that the should future fear here paul has a have a feel it would put others vickie if it's too much we're subs need some too or we'll be giving everything away we're driving here in broken roads we don't have enough kindergartens this money. if you don't mention it there are a lot of people in germany you also have problems we should also invest the money into germany. we shouldn't just be giving the money away but thinking about throwing people here so the german people the old timidly will be called on to foot the bill no happy about giving money to greece. and over in britain grim

financial realities i given the country's hi liz problem and increasingly young face. teams have failed to help rough sleepers to find shelter leaving them feeling increasingly abandoned by the state power to expose the streets of london into the solemn. and we take a look at the. jews in israel whose way of life is causing a secular backlash in a deeply divided society that's still to come.

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right in other news the palestinian leader leadership has said it will put off the start of a planned peace talks with israel after three palestinians were killed in an i.d.f. raid on a refugee camp in the west bank but israel also faces a conflict within its own society as simmering tensions between secure and often last use of threatened to boil over into violent confrontation or it is part of their expense. we have a three hour war among brothers is one of the worst things in history the jewish people never lost to an enemy they lost when there was war among brothers chaim and saddam is trying to prevent that from happening again but he's

a lone voice the ultra orthodox rabbi was for many years a member of parliament for the country's biggest ultra religious party but they cost him out angry with his efforts to try and bridge the gap between secular and religious israelis it's left him angry in the back of a holiday unless there will be a change in the ultra orthodox community the direction it is going and it will lead to further religious extremism segregation and divisions within the community this will cause real danger to the state of israel. one in ten israelis belongs to the ultra orthodox community they live in defector ghettos of the own making most of the men spend their days studying while the wives work for meager wages they live off to nations and state benefits in israel in two thousand and thirteen there are two different separated and hostile communities one is that although the one that most of its members are behind tall fences we will never meet in the workplace not

in our schools not in the universities not in our colleges and because of this each side has stereotypes about the other though there are negative concepts ok so when two big societies will emerge on one lane in one state history told us that a civil war between the same people is just a matter of time but even on this issue the two sides don't agree. with it that's simply not true there is no war that's nonsense if you see a religious protest against driving on shabbos it's because it's our friends the ultra-orthodox who live in that area or if it's about being drafted into the military it's not because we hate seculars know it's about keeping our way of life not to toros we act according to the word of god but tensions are at an all time high seems like the subject coming more and more frequent tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox men protesting the moves by secular israelis to force them to serve

in the army and every month confrontations of the western wall between ultra orthodox and reform jews they want to leave the regular guy they want to marry later in life i don't think they want to be in such a marginal place in this society i think it's only the very extreme groups that are dragging them to this point in response rabbi i'm saddam has formed his own political party it's called. i'm surely i'm whole nation but for now the nation is not whole and doesn't seem to want to be so far has failed to win a single seat in government whenever politicians here talk about the threats to israel they reference the usual culprits hostile neighbors but the threat from within is no less dangerous a war between brothers policy r.t. jerusalem. now for some international news in brief protesters calling for

agricultural laws to be revamped have clashed with riot police in central colombia riot squads used tear gas and the tires to force sterling to ring demonstrators off the street it's the eighth day of a nationwide strike aimed at forcing government to extend subsidies and cut fuel prices. a massive wildfire in california continues to sweep through your sumeet national park edging closer to a large reservoir that provides most of san francisco's water supply the blaze has also damage to a hydroelectric plants forcing the city to switch to other power sources more than three thousand five hundred firefighters are also battling to control the fire which has been raging for eleven days. the men as well and government has said it for oil the nation attempt on president my dear earlier this month true presumed hit men in the capital caracas officials

say they were working on orders from former venezuelan leader. if it's not the first time been as well has said it's a do wailed an assassination plot against the president the most recent was two months ago reportedly orchestrated from colombia and the united states. the u.k. government has been spending hundreds of millions of pounds to tackle homelessness no matter how much cash is doled out situation doesn't seem to be improving in fact there's an increasing share of young people among those sleeping rough for investigates. the charity nightwatch head out on the nightly run distributing food to london's homeless no one knows exactly how many people are homeless in the capital but one thing that's agreed upon and that is that the numbers are increasing it's gone up from thirty people to fifty sixty seventy.

you can see a large number of people have gathered here to use night watches daily now nor all of the people who are here. but a number of them are when london mayor boris johnson came to office in two thousand and eight he pledged to end rusty playing by thousand and twelve not only does he not hit that target but rust leaping numbers have increased every year he's been in office in london and promised to be eradicate the thing by fencing. yeah. it's very difficult. although it is. a problem. to homeless database change shows a rise from three thousand four hundred seventy two people when the mayor came to power to six thousand four hundred thirty seven sleeping rough last year but the

mayor's office insist it's not all bad news and the increase in numbers isn't party to an increase in funding longer hours on the streets rat reach teams mean more people than ever before are being identified and now a targeted ten. lanie spend twenty four hours on the street yet despite the increase in funding many of the people here have been sleeping rough for months. on the street and then you're going for. it but that doesn't happen. a lot of them are problems of hostels before. enough to leave the council please. it's good and do you think about going to the police from movie on an image of an annoying. twenty year old silas doesn't want to stay shane he tells us he often sleeps in a car park nearby it's a complex story silas tells us that he has had some contact with that week's cleats

operating in the area but he hasn't get good benefits and therefore can't get into counts of the connotation to get real strippers to fit in with the local outreach team has told us that they're looking into the side this is case his just one of thousands of the homeless in the capital this is the face of london's famous in twenty thirteen and it seems it's an increasingly young one sarah see the. next star discovering russia serious explores a village frozen in time that's coming right up.

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 can really do against the system but you never dull it fact if you remember toward discussion about ammonia doused pink slime being used across america in 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 seventy thousand signatures on the changed. 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 well they will instantly start cowering at your feet

sometimes but that's just my opinion. in russia summertime means. russians love their family country houses at the end of the working week millions of people head straight for the peace and quiet of the villages a chance to recharge the batteries take a did an escape the hustle and bustle. bus if like me you're not lucky enough to have your own dacha little countryside or no it isn't too hard to find. around two hundred kilometers from st petersburg there's a holiday village that promises beautiful old houses a warm river and a complete break from city life it's called mundra and it's supposed to be a place to turn.