it's ten 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 but the u.s. and britain primed for action if u.n. inspectors confirm the chemical attack took place. that says damascus insists rebels and foreign mercenaries are behind the alleged chemical attack accusing washington of lying over claims deniable 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 of their cash. and it's take off for the sky high tech has the world's finest aircraft and best pilots to send a region for one of the years. in

this is r.t. our top story than 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.'s air base in cyprus which is less than two hundred kilometers from the syrian coast tester center reports from london. events are developing fast and statements coming from the parties involved are 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 today from some members of parliament over any military intervention in syria so it'll 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 now 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 had 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 us is from n.b.c. which cites sources within the u.s. government that an airstrike is possible as early as thursday. to total knowledge

of leader of ukraine the permits party of the euro m.p. he 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 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 and indeed throughout the large sections of the media in britain here 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 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. france echoes britain's rhetoric with president alarmed 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 now meantime 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 refuting washington's assertion that it was the regime the chemical assault claims of already damaged efforts to find a peaceful solution with the u.s. respond in a meeting with russia to discuss the revival of peace talks in geneva lucy catherine of has that aspect of the story tonight. 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 had 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 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 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. from the. blix who headed the u.n. weapons inspection team to iraq before and during the two thousand and three u.s. led invasion he says there's a campaign of the media to force governments to do fear in syria but the real purpose of intervention would be far from defending civilians. 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 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 recall the police 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 it is still to happen what will they do will just have been a punch on the nose and then telling the ability durance in 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 laboratories 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 that at least it will be able to tell them that yes the chemicals who are used we see that 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 resting much the u.s. is on the side of saudi arabia because they would like to isolate iran certainly saudi arabia is not 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. blix 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 art is going to teach you can take a look next 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 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 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 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 effectively carried out a regime change what was called a 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. a change of tone coming up off the break some high flying footage from just outside moscow where one of the wolves largest as shows is underway right now more of the day's news as well with me kevin a very sad. leg

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a cool fifty million dollars if you go to more planes there than for more than forty countries as well the sea state of the outer space technology and of course astonishing aerial. lindsay france has been at the opening day although it's held here at the 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 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 it then you've never seen aircraft new 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. yeah lizzie from said over half a million visitors are expected in fact at the show to see these cutting edge jets perform breathtaking maneuvers it's not all about the spectacle in the sky though there's also been some hard business done some multibillion dollar deals they're hoping struck by airline and military chiefs. parties there throughout the week for you to keep you posted on the max isn't great pictures and shots to come.

over all the high flying back down to worthless a reality now greece may need another ten billion euros to patch the hole of 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 those huge cash injection so far have achieved two thousand and eight left athens almost broke but international creditors decided not to pull the plug and agreed one hundred ten billion euro alone greece accepted it had to will be x. accepting austerity and another one hundred thirty billion then followed suit and if the beginning of the term also public debt rocket two hundred twenty nine percent of the braid boosted up by more than a quarter journalist iris chat system found who told us there's no way greece now can lifted debt weight. what happened during the last two or three years during the so-called salvation period was that greece became

a junkie or for 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 help only foreign banks especially in germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't dilution 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 services to the european court 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 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

or greece already owes a whopping two hundred forty billion euros in what some of the term slack and now all of which comes at a sensitive time for arguably it made bank in 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 are we why do we continue to pile up millions of pounds of europe's debt just to help southern europe when our own infrastructure is is suffering we need huge investments for the railways for the outpolls for the famed. and people just wondering how all this will pay out in the end we don't want to see greece out of

the news 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 in brief tonight though starting with colombia there fierce clashes erupted between protesters and police farmers are demanding that a group cultural laws be revamped political for better working conditions or riot squads used tear gas and buttons to force disturb throwing demonstrators off the street meantime the country's president agreed to negotiate with the protesters after a week of mass rallies there. alabam fighters in afghanistan have executed twelve people in two provinces for working for the government all the victims were engineers or drivers who operated under a world from the program over improving the local economy rising number of attacks

against civilians a spark concerns over security where most foreign troops pull out in twenty fourteen. the head of a major russian companies been arrested to better was airport after being glued to the country under the pretext of meeting with government officials is a rest maybe due to his decision to break off a partnership with the state firm which didn't go down well with the country's authoritarian leadership it is katie pilbeam picks up the story the head of your account 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 bellerose 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 you're i can accuse the other producer of undermining their selves that's the business part of it so getting

a little bit political at the moment is moscow's not too happy about the action is somewhat fieri 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 chevelle of his saying that it's all inappropriate and not fitting as you have partnerships it's a little bit out of hand a spy thriller going on. i will endeavor to keep you posted. monday's killing of three palestinians in the west 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 threaten the boil over in a violent confrontation or middle east correspondent investigates next what's driving their bitter division. with evidently i 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 silent 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 cast him out angry with his efforts to try and bridge the gap between secular and religious israelis it's left him angry. of a holiday unless there will be a change in the ultra orthodox community the direction it is going in it will lead to further religious extremism segregation and divisions within the community after 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 old the other the one that most of its members are behind 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'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 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 at the western wall between ultra orthodox and reform jews they want to live 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 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 selim the 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 wall between for the police jerusalem. have emotions but with a break he was set very shortly tonight tonight she's looking at what happens when the united states into the latest program here on r.t.

international after the break. 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. if you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i got so many i mean . the towns that i've seen the scenery really messed up. in the original especially. if. worst. five ounces of.