a military strike on syria could happen within days as western warships and fighter jets gather on syria's doorstep with the u.s. and britain primed for action if you want inspectors confirm accountable attack took place. downtown damascus insist rebels and foreign mercenaries are behind the alleged chemical attack accusing washington of lying over claims it has undeniable evidence of government involvement. also in the news greece needs another massive money boost from you are just as the people of germany get fed up with explanations on why it's ok to pour in their cash . and it's take off for the sky high tap as the world's finest aircraft and best buy was dissin 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 joshing welcome to the program now syria could be subjected to a military strike against the government within days that's what western powers have reportedly informed the country's opposition british warships are being deployed to the u.k.'s air base in cyprus which is less than two hundred kilometers from the syrian coast artists are still your reports now from london. developing fast and statements coming from the parties involved also moving fast reuters have reported that the syrian national coalition was told by western powers that a strike is to be expected within days now that report does not name which individual from the s.n.c. was told that whoever goes on to report that they had the s.n.c.

had already provided a western governments with a list of potential targets in the event of a missile strike now in the meantime the a british government has confirmed that the british armed forces are indeed drawing up contingency plans for a serious strike the british parliament also has been recalled for a session on thursday david cameron the prime minister had come back early from a holiday and the downing street said that cameron will not be bound by evidence from the u.n. weapons inspectors now we know that as far as the british parliament is concerned there are already have been in the past a lot of reluctance it has to do from some members of parliament over any military intervention in syria sort of be interesting to see what kind of debate or discussion that will have a thursday and on wednesday cameron will share a national security council meeting which will include senior military chiefs and cabinet members to discuss to finalize the options on any missile strike in syria now all of this while the guardian newspaper had reported earlier that there has been increased activity surrounding the. british government in cyprus this is just

about one hundred miles one hundred sixty kilometers from syria the guardian reports cited some residents saying that in the last forty eight hours they have seen increased activity as well as spotting of c one thirty transport planes by some commercial pilots also reuters have reported that the u.s. navy has been expanding its mediterranean presence with a fourth a ship there this is the white house that has confirmed that barack obama the president is weighing a military strike against syria that would be of limited scope and duration they say that no more than two days and it will involve sea launched. cruise missiles in addition to the u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel have told the b.b.c. in an interview that the u.s. is set to act instantly should president obama order a military action against syria another report coming from the u.s. is from n.b.c. which cites sources within the u.s. government that an airstrike is possible as early as thursday and earlier i talked

to nigel farage who is the leader of the u.k. independence party and. he told me the british government made up its mind about interfering in syria long before the alleged chemical attack came about. the british government particular shape of william hague at indeed david cameron himself who throughout the entire international community have been the keenest to get involved in syria you know whether it's arming the rebels or now as we see today a build up of warplanes in cyprus preparations for cruise missile attacks this government the british government has been the keenest of anybody to intervene in syria because government made their minds up and that's why you've got the build up in cyprus today part of it's being recalled because i think that throughout the conservative party i didn't deviate throughout the large sections of the media in europe here the questions being asked please prime minister can you tell us what

are the aims and objectives of this mission how could you guarantee that we were become more deeply embroiled and so i'm hoping that in forty eight hours time when the british parliament meets we get some answers to those questions but i have to say that ever since tony blair's time starting off with we seem to go in for foreign walls with alarming regularity often having no really clear objectives or any idea how we're going to withdraw and i'm sure that if we do go into military action without un security council approval it will be a real that goes on for decades but ultimately international law itself is not going to stop the british and the french and perhaps the americans if they choose to do something you know while the blame game surrounding the alleged chemical attack in syria is gathering pace syria's foreign minister insists that rebels and foreign mercenaries fighting with them are behind the alleged atrocity once again were feuding washington's assertion that it was the regime the caligula sold planes

have already damaged efforts to find a peaceful solution with the us postponing a meeting with russia to discuss the revival of talks in geneva artie's lucic often of has warned that. 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 of 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 accused the syrian government of indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and 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 the syrian foreign minister spoke in damascus he lashed out at the

international community saying that syria would defend itself with what he called available means that the tapped unclear exactly what that be he accused the british foreign minister 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 now are two spoke to hans blix who had the u.n. has a weapon inspection team to 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 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 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 samples given to them from some rebels or from some

site that 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 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 arresting 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 u.s. u.s. and russia or to get together to try to to sort out and to get a solution for syria might even make it less difficult to seoul the nuclear problem

concerning iran well 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 are just going to count takes a look back at previous military venters the fall down route. the obama administration is looking for ways to intervene in syria without a mandate from the united nations the president's national security advisors 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 kosovo albanians went after seventy eight days of nato bombings 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 u.s. made the case for a unilateral intervention in iraq in that case it 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 bia nato went beyond its un mandate and effectively carried out a regime change what was called humanitarian intervention resulted in a nation engulfed in chaos and terror. those are the precedence that washington has to look back to when considering an action in syria in washington i'm going to check out one more news ahead including one of the world's largest air shows that's underway in moscow region. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm like the british no i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter point to say. to carry out

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow from the world's most agile jet fighters to pampering tomorrow's passengers it's time for one of the largest in the nation events of the year planes for more than forty countries state of the art aerospace technology and of course astonishing aero acrobatics while all this is just outside moscow at the annual max air show lindsey friends is their. motto it's held here at to airfield outside of moscow more than forty countries came together to make max what it is a world class international exhibition for air and space it's where aeronautical engineers can put on display their latest developments to ensure they reach the widest audience possible also that means there's plenty of business done here more than one thousand companies are part of max this year each of them wanting a slice of the pie one thing is for certain if you've never seen the air program displayed here at max you then you've never seen aircraft move the way they move

here there are plenty of maneuvers to be seen here five jet teams from russia and three from other parts of the world coming together to show you something you may have never seen before no matter if the planes or helicopters are in the air or in the sky it shows that max is still going strong after twenty years well over half a million visitors are expected at the airshow to see cutting edge jets perform some breast taking maneuvers and it's not all about the spectacle in the sky there will also be some multibillion dollar deals struck by airline and military chiefs r.t. is there a for you throughout the week to keep you posted. to

other stories now greece may need another ten billion euros to patch the hole in its budget to fulfill the e.u. designed dat relief program but after six long years of recession and the economy barely showing any lie signs it's hard to see what the huge cash injections its hand so far have achieved while the world crisis of two thousand and eight left athens almost broke but international creditors decided not to pull the plug and agree to a one hundred and ten billion euro loan greece accepted it had to wield the axe accepting a staring at another one hundred and thirty billion followed shortly and if the beginning of the turmoil saw public debt rocking to one hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p. the extra a boosted down by more than a quarter journalists are is no told us there is no way greece can lift its debt weight. what happened during the last two or three years during the so-called

salvation period was the greece became. foreign intervention and foreign help it's simply impossible anymore during the three hundred twenty billion saying it was impossible even in two thousand and nine everybody knew that but they wanted to bring greece into the strap that helped on the foreign banks especially in germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't you should now is to deform having the greek people in control of the procedure eurozone creates deficits and debts to the european very very well at the same time create several pieces to the european core so we were saying from two thousand and nine two thousand and ten that we should leave the eurozone again in our therapist and not interim seem posed by berlin brussels or any other place in europe destroyed again the infrastructure of the greek economy not only of the greek economy the same thing

happened in spain portugal and ireland all of the countries that took the strait jacket off. of the monetary union of greece already you know was a whopping two hundred forty billion euros and once some of the terms slack and all of which comes at a sensitive time for arguably its main banker germany people all over is in berlin to find out how people feel about how their money's being spent on countries other than their own. 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 a ling economy but particularly here in germany that is something that would be looked at germany has been one of the major contributors amount of money has been come out of the taxpayer coffers in order to to help out their 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. but it's too much we are subs need some too or will be giving everything away we're driving here in broken roads we don't have enough kindergartens. 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 suing people here so the german people though we see will timidly will be called on to foot the bill not happy about giving money to greece. now take a look at some other stories from around the world and that would begin with colombia where fierce clashes have erupted between protesters and riot police

farmers there are demanding that agricultural laws be revamped out of cold for better working conditions riot squads use tear gas and baton 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 from working for the government all the victims were engineers and drivers who operated under a world bank fine a program aimed at improving the local economy a rising number of attacks against civilians has sparked concerns over security when most foreign troops pull out in twenty four to. monday's killing of three palestinians in the west bank by israeli police has dealt a massive blow to the peace talks in washington but israel also faces trouble closer to home with tension between secular and orthodox jews threatening to boil

over into violent confrontation our middle east correspondent investigates what's driving their bitter division. we were 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 solemn 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 because 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 really 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 the author of the drugs 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 college 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 offends the

ultra-orthodox who live in that area or if it's about being drafted into the military it's not because we hate secular jews no it's about keeping our way of life not to torah as 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 with regular life they want to wear a little but i don't think they want to be in such a marginal place in the society i think it's only the very extreme groups that dragging them to this point in response rabbi i'm saddam has formed his own political party it's called. i'm shelley i'm whole nation but for now the nation is not home and doesn't seem to want to be so far he's failed to win

a single seat in government whenever politicians here talk about the threats to israel they've referenced the usual culprits so hostile neighbors but the threat from within is no less dangerous a war between brothers police. jerusalem well you have to date here on our teen abby is back with another breaking the set to show in a couple of moments here in r.t. don't go away. 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 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 that 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.

you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had lunch i got so many i mean family and the towns that i'm seeing really miss. the old story so actually. it's. worse for the little things. like how superman. radio guy and four minutes from the. globe are about to have you never seen anything like this i'm told. it's up guys i mean martin this is breaking this set it's now been thirty three days with bits of war edward snowden in complete legal limbo as he awaits his fate in the transit zone of the moscow airport you see despite being granted asylum by venezuela bolivia and nicaragua snowden cannot leave the u.s.

government's cancellation of his passport so looking for any kind of refuge in the meantime stone has applied for temporary asylum in russia which would allow him to remain in the country for one year is sound request prompted the white house officials to ask russia to extradite snowden the government officials have refused to return the whistleblower but this government wants snowden back so bad that they're willing to make a huge concession see i just found out a few hours ago on a breaking a.p. news alert that attorney general eric holder will not seek the death penalty for snowden wow i guess that means we can all just sit back and relax now after all it was the death penalty that we're also concerned about right has nothing to do with the fact that snowden would be indefinitely detained charged with the espionage act and most likely spend his entire life in jail is see no assurances anough to assurance that the u.s. government won't i'm just try this whistleblower to two tiered sham we.