it's nine pm here in moscow tonight 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 for action if you have inspectors confirm a chemical attack took place. that says damascus insists rebels and foreign mercenaries are behind the alleged chemical attack accusing washington of lying over claims it has undeniable evidence of government involvement. also greece needs another massive money boost from europe just as the people of germany get fed up with explanations about why it's ok to pour in more they can't. take off for the skies high tech is the world's finest aircraft are the best pilots to send here old moscow region one of the years he shows.

in this is r.t. international our top story tonight syria could be subjected to a military strike against the assad government within days that's what western powers of reportedly inform the country's opposition british warships are being deployed to the u.k. base in cyprus which is less than two hundred kilometers indeed from the syrian coast test for a seller report. events are 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 the missile strike now in the meantime be 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 today from 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 lawn. 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 this was sort of

there were earlier we talked to most of the lever you can independence party to your web page you told us the british government made up its mind about interfering in syria long before the alleged chemical attack came about. from the very start it's been the british government particular shape of william hague and 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 british government made their minds up and that's why you've got the build up in cyprus today parliament's being recalled because i think that throughout the conservative party and indeed throughout the large sections of the media in britain you know the questions are being asked please prime minister can you tell us what

are the aims and objectives of this mission how can 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 bosnia we seem to go in for foreign wars 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 in for military action without u.n. 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. or france is echoing britain's rhetoric with president alarm saying his country's ready to punish those who quote gassed innocents in syria paris has also pledged to increase military support for syria's opposition in the wake of the alleged chemical attack meanwhile the blame game surrounding the alleged chemical attack in syria is gathering pace syria's foreign minister insists

that rebels and follow mercenaries fighting with them are behind the alleged atrocity once again refuting washington's assertion that it was the regime that chemical assault claims have already damaged efforts to find a peaceful solution with the u.s. perspective in a meeting with russia to discuss the revival of peace talks in geneva wanted to see caffein off couples that side of the story. 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 of 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 and 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 raised 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 this 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 well it's pretty you know if you could drop your time who knows joining us live from london i should looks like the u.s. ready to looks like turkey will go along with it it's all but. it's going to help

when you figure. well as previous reports we're saying the american networks saying that it could happen within the next forty eight hours these cruise missile strikes the very calibrated western media more or less explaining desperately trying to explain to populations that don't want any such attack that it is necessary and the red line was crossed therefore it must happen because there's been no u.n. mandate to do this yet at the same time the u.k. parliament be recalled for thursday nato is probably going to merge into the meeting tomorrow if the u.n. likely to give that mandate any time soon because the u.n. will never give the mandate the national security council of britain is meeting because david cameron the prime minister here. foreshortened is a holiday it's interesting that national security council was set up in twenty ten to talk about national security of this country britain and most of that was about al qaida that nebulous concept and britain and the united states are now validly

supporting al-qaeda linked groups if anything one would see in a normal scenario that countries should come to the aid of the assad government against. al-qaeda linked brigades that certainly call it up on to the u.n. weapons inspector a few months ago said were responsible for chemical attacks well of course. the water coming as you would expect is still working to establish exactly what happened or didn't happen there they still haven't come forward and actually got there to do it properly yet but haven't come forward with any clear concise information yet is it going to make any difference anyway even if they did. no difference at all they're staying a very nice hotel the four seasons in damascus and i know in the rest of syria the russians are delivered humanitarian aid and have started evacuating people the u.n. weapons inspector we hear from memoirs from people like blix and baradei later

about the pressure they put on that we have calls new now from edward snowden that the u.n. headquarters is bugs of those inspectors presumably have surveillance devices on them and the only thing some might argue is for them all to resign or mass because this is recreating peace and whatever report they come out with will be construed in a way to justify the kinds of u.s. attacks that people are visiting but of course we know it's the americans that use chemical weapons whether in vietnam laos cambodia i think they're celebrating a speech by martin luther king jr someone who was opposed to those american chemical attacks and we know now the cia that they supported saddam's use of them against iran and of course the americans use chemical weapons in fallujah whites was for us so the idea that nato countries can talk about the use of chemical weapons when it's themselves that have been using it those u.n. inspectors and learn ban ki-moon have a lot to answer for i think what intervention does happen in the u.s. seems convinced it would be a short term campaign a very short campaign do you agree. the institute of war studies in the united

states the man i think his name is chris homer who devised the tomahawk strategy supposedly said yes pinpoint accuracy this will work he's now distancing himself from those remarks saying that isn't the way forward israel is started supplying a gas masks response relation saying apparently according to chinese news agencies that israel doesn't have enough gas masks and other people are saying the u.s. is small and uses gravely u.s. as barriers as ramadan for destroyers in the mediterranean the relatives of the thousands of u.s. troops on those ships better stop asking questions because syria has. their missiles that can penetrate the holes of those ships so if syria does react in me. a few ideas that this will be a short conflict seems to be absent a final quick thought we have should syria's foreign minister says the alleged chemical attack was launched by rebels and mercenaries we had americans saying last

night that they didn't believe that they could have got hold of any weapons stockpiles like that the opposition. could have had any access to chemical weapons along the way here all they totally secure i think the important question i think the question here is britain and the united states in front learn saudi arabia and qatar have been supplying the al nasra front whether or about hardly by mistake or whatever the chemical weapons the whole idea about those horrific pictures of chemical weapons being used is of no relevance to what we're now talking about the possibility of a scenario that will kill way more children create way more refugees the u.n. is talking about a million refugees children refugees at the moment the people now in the dark are the nato countries themselves and if anything it's up to world powers on the u.n. security council like russia and china to get together and explain to washington and to london that there will be serious consequences for both of them if they act

outside of any standards of post world war two international times the things you thought were times in london. well while some countries seem to be leaning towards a military strike on syria even without un mandate others including russia or italy say actions like that without security council approval would breach international law or he's going to get you can take a look back at previous military ventures that followed that same route. 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 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 libya 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 precedents that washington has to look back to when considering an action in syria in washington i'm going to check on. not a sigh but a light relief coming up and stay with us so after the break we got some high flying footage from one of the world's largest air shows under way right now in the moscow region it's just a couple of minutes and. live

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. that really. hello again from the world's most job jet fighters to personal use it's time for one of the largest deviation events of the year we're told about the annual much show just moscow and here a date is one of this year's high flyers from the event this russian to fifty five can perform. as you can see here at the hands of a skilled pilot it should be able to run just about everything with some startling aerobatics this fifth generation plane if you count to use design with stealth systems beauty is moot it could also reach speeds of more than two thousand kilometers brothers twice the speed of. it doesn't come cheap this t fifty it costs

a cool fifty million dollars. plenty more planes the two for more than forty countries staveley are there is space technology and of course astonishing acrobatics to see. the fronts to the opening of the. mall though it's held here at two costly airfield outside of moscow more than forty countries came together to make marks 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 macs 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 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. it seems so over half a million visitors expected in fact at the air show to see those cutting edge jets perform breathtaking maneuvers but it's not all about the spectacle in the sky the loss of be some multibillion dollar deals struck by airline and military chiefs as well it's about signing on the dotted line where they're for you throughout the week we've got our cameras rolling to keep you posted on that max air show. that.

greece may need another ten billion euros to patch the hole in its budget to fulfill the e.u. designed debt relief program but after six long years of recession and the economy barely showing any signs of life it's hard to see what the huge cash injections have so far achieved. two thousand and eight left athens almost broke but international criticism started not to pull the plug into a green said a ten billion year alone greece accepted it had to wield the ax accepting a stero t. and another hundred thirty billion followed suit and if the beginning of the term also public debt rocket two hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p. the extra eight boosted up by more than a quarter journalist iris chat system family who told us there's no way greece can lift its debt weight now. what happened during the last two or three years during this so-called salvation period was that greece became a junkie or for foreign intervention and foreign help it's simply impossible anymore during

a debt of 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 help only foreign banks especially in germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't lucian now is to be formed 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 their 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 terrace and not in terms imposed by berlin brussels or any other place in europe it destroyed again the infrastructure of the greek economy not only of the greek economy the same thing happened in spain portugal and ireland all the countries that took the strait jacket off. of the monetary union. greece already owes

a whopping two hundred forty billion euros and want some of the term slack and now all of which comes at a sensitive time for arguably its main banker germany with the federal election just around the corner election candidate hugh bronson from the alternative for germany party told me how it's playing out with the politicians. angela merkel is still the darling for many german voters but she is facing increasing opposition not just from other parties but also from her own party members who keep asking very uncomfortable questions like why did we breach the maastricht treaty why do we why do we continue to pile up millions of pounds of euros in debt just to help southern europe when our own infrastructure is is suffering we need huge investments for the railways for the out calls for the famed out and people just wondering how all this will pay out in the end we don't want to see greece out of the views which is the european union we would like to give them the opportunity to

leave the euro zone only if they reintroduce their own currency now if you don't give the greek economy the chance to be in a position to repay that debt we're looking at a huge massive disaster. world news a brief start in colombia where fierce clashes erupted between protesters and riot police farmers there are demanding the cultural board be revamped from the cold for better working conditions riot squads used tear gas and buttons to force the stone throwing demonstrators from the street meanwhile the country's president agreed to negotiate with the protesters after a week of mass rallies there now. taliban fighters in afghanistan have executed twelve people in two provinces are working for the government all the victims are engineers or drivers who operated under a world bank funded program aimed at improving the local economy rising number of attacks against civilians a spot concerns over security would most foreign troops pull out in twenty forty.

the head of a major russian company has been arrested in better research port after being lured to the country under the pretext of meeting with government officials his arrest may be due to his decision to break off a partnership with the state firm there which didn't go down well with the country's authoritarian leadership katie pilbeam school the story the head of your accounting has been snatched at the airport being being thought to be the first hostage in this so-called hour potash war so they're saying now i just want to give you a bit of a background that he's accused of abusing his power in the partnership that class was in your county and valerie's county together this post has cartel accounted for over a third of the global twenty three billion dollar industry now that partnership fell apart at the end of july when your i callate accuse the other producer of undermining their cells that's the business part of it it's all getting a little bit political at the moment is moscow's not too happy about the action is somewhat theory you know looking at the t.v. while there is riches powerful people in handcuffs you know surrounded by batteries

please i did say that the deputy prime minister hugo chavez of his saying that it's all inappropriate and not fitting as her partnerships it's a little bit out of hand or a spy thriller going on. now we'll keep you posted develops with more from the news team in just over thirty minutes time between now and then our team takes you to explore a russian village that's frozen in time that story coming 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 in fact if you remember tour discussion about ammonia doused pink

slime being used across america and frozen fast foods well shift jamie oliver has actually managed to shame mcdonald's enough on t.v. to get them to back down and stop using this ultra processed form of quote meat at their establishments also we recently discussed gamer rage at the rather racist portrayal of russians in the game company of heroes two well all the rage actually worked and thanks to the seventeen thousand signatures on the change dot org petition that game has been pulled from russian shelves by the developer the thing is that massive corporations do a lot of bad things because they have no morals and are obsessed with profit but because they have no morals and are only obsessed with profit the second you even slightly threaten their cash flow they will instantly start cowering at your feet sometimes but that's just my opinion.

in russia some of the time 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 villa. which is 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 a little countryside are no 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 back time and leave the warnings of the twenty first century behind . it turns out that trying to live the simple life isn't always quite as simple as it seems.