the new round of accusations over syria as a mascot insists rebels and foreign mercenaries are behind the alleged chemical attack accusing washington of lying over claims it has evidence of government involvement. meanwhile western warships and fighter jets move to within striking range of syria as the u.s. and britain seem set on military action if you want inspectors confirm accountable attack to place. so greece needs another massive money boost from europe just as the chancellor merkel has a tough time explaining to germany's election prime voters why it's ok to pour in their cash. than it's taking off for the skies high tax as of worlds' finest aircraft and best pilots to see and of moscow for one of the year's

key air shows. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now the blame game surrounding the alleged chemical attack in syria is gathering pace syria's foreign minister insists the gravels and foreign mercenaries fighting with them are behind the alleged atrocity once again refuting washington's assertion data was a regime accountable assault claims that already damaged adverts to find a peaceful solution with the us postponing a meeting with russia to discuss the revival of talks in geneva are losing often it has more in doubt. russia and the u.s. have been scheduled to meet in the hague on wednesday night this is to discuss setting up an international conference on finding a political solution to the crisis in syria now on monday a u.s.

state department official indicated that the meeting would be postponed because of ongoing consultations over an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria and that russia meanwhile had expressed regret about that decision the deputy foreign minister had said that working out the political parameters for a resolution on syria would be especially useful now with the threat of force hanging over that country the russian foreign minister foreign ministry spokesman had also issued a statement tuesday in which he called on the international community to show quote prudence over the crisis and to observe international law urging against a potential military intervention now the intense international pressure does come on the heels of reports that a chemical weapons strike that may have killed over a thousand people in syria now a team of u.n. experts have actually arrived to damascus three days prior to that incident they were supposed to investigate a different incident and then there were reports of a mass poisoning in a suburb legibly killing hundreds of people the team did go on to investigate that

attack but came under fire on monday as they were heading to the area they were able to reach the site to collect samples and to interview some witnesses but they weren't able to stay there very long just in half an hour and of course we have to keep in mind that their missions mandate is really to determine whether chemical weapons were used in the incident and not to assign blame on who was responsible for using those weapons now in some of the most aggressive language used yet by the washington administration the secretary of state john kerry had accuse the syrian government of indiscriminate slaughter of civilians that efforts to cover up its responsibility for what he called a cowardly crime he. also said that the use of weapons chemical weapons against civilians and see. it was undeniable that the obama administration would hold the syrian government accountable for what he called a moral obscenity now russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has warned very strongly

against pre-judgment about the use of chemical weapons he also said that intervention or any potential intervention by the u.s. or its allies in the syrian conflict without a u.n. resolution would be what he called a very grave violation of international law and risk repeating past mistakes so he also sort of raise some questions about the timing of the incident and why there was such strong international pressure on action now as opposed to earlier when the reports of the alleged chemical separate chemical attack incident had arisen and the syrian foreign minister spoke in damascus and he lashed out at the international community saying that syria would defend itself with what he called available means of a tapped unclear exactly what that be he accused the british foreign minister of giving the wrong information to the public about syria's use of chemical weapons he also claims about the u.s. secretary of state john kerry had no evidence that syria sanctioned the use of

weapons so i'm unclear if those remarks are going to make much of a difference in the. international decision making process at the moment but those are some of the things that he said in that press conference while there are also signs of increased threat and as for a military onslaught against the ousted regime in syria british media reports that warplanes and transport jets are being deployed to the u.k.'s air base in cyprus which is less than two hundred kilometers from the syrian coast the british parliament is also being recalled early and will vote on the country's response on thursday but details are from. various reports here have suggested that there is indeed a signs of muscle flexing in the region particularly surrounding syria it's been reported here by the guardian newspaper that warplanes and military transporters have been moved to britain to cyprus citing the two commercial pilots who

regularly fly from larnaca in cyprus have spotted a c. one thirty transport planes from their aircraft as well as detected small from ations of possibly european fighter jets from their radar screens and also of the guardian says residents living in near the airfield have confirmed to them that there's been an increase in activity in the area over the last forty eight hours and it has to be noted that officials from the british airfield there have denied any military build up in the area the u.s. has been ratcheting up its rhetoric as well it's been reported by reuters that the u.s. navy was expanding its mediterranean presence with a fourth ship capable of launching long range subsonic cruise missiles to reach land targets in syria and now we also know from the white house that obama is weighing a military strike of limited scope and duration it's been said it will take no more than two days and involve sea launched cruise missiles well as far as international

law is concerned we know that up until this moment there has been no military operations in syria because there has been no agreement at the u.n. security council however now it seems that turkey britain and france are saying that they can have a villa to offer should even without the u.n. mandate of the french foreign minister along five you said set acting without you was possible and in some circumstances can be bypassed the box international law is defined by the u.n. now how exactly this will be interpreted will become clearer as we continue to follow this developing story around syria. well r.t. spoke to hans blix who had the un's weapon inspection teams in iraq before and during the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion he says there is a campaign in the media to force governments to interfere in syria but the real purpose of intervention will be far from defending civilians there. i think that the public opinion and the media in the west will be pressuring the their

governments to do something and they say that this is such a horrible thing that there must be a punishment there must be action you cannot sit with your hands just folded so the public say that you know you must call the police we will call for a world police but the question is who is the world police is the united states this is 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 had 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 the samples given to them from some rebels or from some site that will not take them tape tell them who committed the attack but at least it will be able to tell them that yes the chemicals were used we see it as in the main as a contest between rebels and the government in syria but of course the intervention is there it is in large measure a resting match between saudi arabia and iran and on that wresting much the u.s. is on the side of saudi arabia because they would like to isolate iran certainly saudi arabia is not in in syria to work for human rights it is there because they want to weaken iran that's the main purpose i think the yes you know i think you're right in saying that iran and the and the usa u.s. and russia or to get together and to try to to sort out and to get

a solution for syria might even make it less difficult to solve the nuclear problem concerning iran. while some countries seem to be leaning towards a military strike on syria even without a u.n. mandate others including russia and italy say such actions without security council approval would breach international law or he's going to can take a look back at previous military ventures the fall of root. 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 that time none of the nato states that participated in the bombing 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 kosovo albanians went after seventy eight days of nato bombing serb forces withdrew from kossovo there was an ethnic cleansing of nearly a quarter of a million serbs and other minorities from cos of all allied forces used cluster bombs attacked civilian infrastructure including power plant 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 with the same bravado several years later the us made the case for a 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 in convention 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 effectively carried out a regime change what was called the humanitarian intervention resulted in a nation engulfed in chaos and terror. those are the precedence that washington has to look back to when considering in action in syria in washington i'm going to take them. well we are getting reports that western powers have informed the syrian opposition that they may strike syria within the next few days and that's according to the reuters news agency well we're turn after a short break don't go away. wealthy british soil. from time to time.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. now from the world's most agile jet fighters to pampering to morris passengers it's time for one of the largest aviation events of the year planes from more than forty countries state of the art airspace technology and of course astonishing aerial acrobatics while all this just outside of moscow at the end of your max air show when de france is there. max has reached its twentieth year here in russia what it's really about is bringing civil groups and militaries from around the world together to share ideas both can push the boundaries into the future also it's about discussing expansion

from both sides if you take for example this aircraft choke it's about meshing the utility side of things it can haul heavy equipment and supplies long distances and it's also about transporting personnel with the comfort of these leather seats it's going to draw interest from the civil side and the military one of the biggest draws every year is the flight program this year eighty two russian aircraft will hit the skies doing aerobatic routines that will be five jet teams twenty aircraft from foreign countries will also have the skies will be three different teams one from france one from china and one from all over europe and it just goes to show that no matter what is in the skies or on the ground after twenty years max is still going strong. well over half a million visitors are expected at the airshow to see cutting edge jets perform some brass taking maneuvers well it's now about the spectacle in the sky and there

will also be so multibillion dollar deals struck by airlines and military chiefs are there for you throughout the week to keep you posted. greece may need another ten billion euros to patch the hole and its budget to fulfill the e.u. designed dance relief program but after six long years of recession and the economy barely showing any life signs it's hard to see what the huge cash injections it's had so far have achieved well the world crisis of two thousand and eight left athens almost broke but international creditors decided not to pull the plug and

agreed to a one hundred and ten billion euro loan greece accepted it had to we'll be x. accepting hysterically and another one hundred and thirty billion followed shortly and if the beginning of the turmoil saw public debt rocket to one hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p. the extra a boost to dab by more than a quarter the alternative for germany party election candidate paul hampel believes greece is having straight into a long term debt. even the last german understood already that we don't pay money to help the greek people or that there is nobody unemployed who would help german funds it is a financial market the bangs and the people who have given loans to greece they want the money back and they got it back from this money it's quite simply the total adept of greece at about three hundred fifty billion euros three hundred fifty billion euros and you just have to put alkio mathematics books from school to

understand greece can pay back and uli maximum two point six billion two point six billion and greece will be in debt for dk to is that solutions that need to have a cut and its need to return to the drachma to the greek currency on greece already owes a whopping two hundred forty billion euros and once some of the terms slackened all of which comes at a sensitive time for arguably its main banker germany where the federal election just around the corner peter oliver a looks at how it's playing out with the politicians. 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 and ease its ailing 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're already a 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 meet greece needs some extra money and instead of trying to. conceal this from the public by saying no it will will not come 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 and sort of say 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 texted to debt as well that debt is. being financed by taxpayers from around the rest of the eurozone most notably from here in germany where will it bust amount of money has to be as come out of the taxpayer coffers in order to help out the neighbors in the south. when germans have been polled about whether they would whether greece should receive this type of money 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 a few years you have over there have a few that. 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 that 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 though we see alternately will be called on to foot the bill not happy about giving money to greece. or here in r.t. we're closely watching the situation in syria while the crisis there intensifies and whichever way the military conflict there develops it will affect not only our side and the opposition but also minorities like the kurds well recently they have

been increasingly targeted by al-qaeda linked groups in syria which reports suggesting hundreds of civilians in kurdish villages were killed to discuss the situation there i'm joined by side muslim mohammad who is the leader of the democratic union party a syrian affiliate of the kurdish workers party mr ahmed thank you so much for joining us here on r t so do tell us what impact has the new u.k. and u.s. pressure on assad had on kurds living in your country. yeah. sort of to say that. really we have. a lot of pressure on syria on the regime and the people's i mean syrian people's because we what we are seeing i mean this scene is showing that there are some scenarios for. maybe a military invasion which is not acceptable by most of the parties and especially by that. because we believe any military invasion into syria will destroy

everything and will destroy the old. and the reserves of. showing the excuse is. the same reason as they have tried to put it with the. same in two thousand to three so why did so many currents and leave the country why did so many kurds all left oh we're hearing about thirty thousand one day last week yes this. because of the fighting it was just because there was an amount of in the provision areas since the amount of i mean there is a sort of there's you know food old meaning so for the life and even for the maid it's. all the board those who blows. maybe from them all from the east and also there were attacks by this is groups into the kurdish areas so

there was an economy of those. people in the west of kurdistan in fear facing a very bad situation now because of that. because of this economy called reasons maybe i might not even with syria ism of the last name calling tree why in your opinion the syrian kurds are being targeted by militias. oh. you know what works and yes i'll repeat one more time will syria is a mole to ask nick country why european are there syrian kurds being singled out and being targeted by militias oh i don't know it's really because those militias were attacking those sentences that don't believe it but who my eyes and. me. know that the devil was before the

people you know it is truly really very mean minorities maybe a little too small. but otoh it's news leading to gather and seem to have to accept their warmth all that is improving most of them and what the trying to do is to establish the. units in the in the reserve which is not that simple but all the compliments of the. group to some people sitting right sally muslim mohammed thank you so much for sharing your views with us here on our team as a leader of the democratic party is here in affiliate of the kurdistan workers party . and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world starting with colombia worth fierce clashes have erupted between protesters and riot police farmers there are demanding that every cultural laws be revamped and have called for barrett working conditions why it squads use tear gas and baton is to force the stone throwing

demonstrators off the streets meanwhile the country's president has agreed to negotiate with the protesters following a week of mass rallies. taliban fighters in afghanistan have executed twelve people in two provinces for working for the government all the victims were engineers and drivers who operated under a world bank funded program aimed at improving the local economy the rising number of attacks against civilians has sparked concerns over security when most foreign troops pull out in two thousand and fourteen. well you're up to date here in r.t. so stay with us for max and stacey holding warren bad bankers to account.

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 go in fact if you remember tour discussion about ammonia doused pink slime being used across america and frozen fast foods will 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 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. guys are this is the kaiser report you know there's been a lot of killings lately it's hard to keep track yes former politicians government officials regulators and heads of state are raking it in making a killing out the revolving office door into the high paying jobs as consultants otherwise those client hires oh my god it's all corrupt stacy ever tell us more about this max once again j.p. morgan is in our headlines this time for client hires in china they're being investigated by the f.c.c. in

a civil lawsuit looking to see whether or not they were bribed basically via jobs offering jobs to the children of important chinese officials in exchange for business s.c.c.s. j.p. morgan probe threatens cozy tradition of client hires the u.s. government's bribery investigation into j.p. morgan's a point of at least two chinese bankers has prompted banks and other corporations across the globe to take a close look at their hiring practices one such practice max is called client hires and this is hiring clients children's nephews cousins for entry level positions or summer internships and you know it's common across the world they say but in particular with banks well the foreign corrupt. bribing bribery law you know the chinese by huge amounts of years government debt as part of the need for america to keep the banks afloat they rely on chinese creditors so the chinese government the people's bank of china just.