video for your media project free media oh god our t.v. dot com. the u.s. defense secretary says our forces on standby to unleash a cruise missiles against syria while reports suggest the first strikes could take place as soon as thursday. washington waves away comparisons would be wrong with officials insisting that past mistakes won't be replaced but as we report such promises can be hot. as flood waters and russia's far you show no signs of receiving one of the region's and main cities the pins it's based on a manmade. and a clash of cultures in the u.k. as tensions a record up between vogel muslim groups and those who question the place of islam in britain.

am. a very warm welcome to you if you just joined us here on our to you with me to say and american military offensive against syria could start as soon as thursday and that missiles already pointed at iran fifty sites according to u.s. media reports citing serial specials but not from president obama is all that's needed for the bombing campaign to start on thomas has details. well it certainly has been a busy week in the united states as they've been preparing trying to gather international support and information as to what and how they could respond we're hearing that they could respond with a three day missile strike aimed at the sending a message to bashar al assad not at toppling his regime or crippling his military but specifically just to send a message this was reported to n.b.c. news by top u.s. military officials now we're expecting to hear from u.s.

secretary of state john kerry today to present more information and evidence linking the assad regime that to these alleged chemical attacks that happened last week. in the go to area east of damascus so far the united states says that they have little doubt that it was assad's regime that carried out the attack but they have not been able to present their case or make a convincing public case about exactly how they know this information we're supposed to hear a little bit more on that today now the white house has not commented at all on whether they're going to seek a u.n. mandate they refuse to answer those questions but defense secretary chuck hagel says they are willing and ready to go at president obama's command all he has to do is give the order we also know that the navy united states navy has moved some of their warships into the area to be on standby as well obama and his top aides have made at least eighty eight phone calls to world leaders to discuss the situation in

syria two of those phone calls to one of his arguably closest allies u.k. prime minister david cameron we know that the u.k. has recalled the parliament on thursday so that they can discuss the situation in syria and to take a vote cameron said that the world could not stand idly by after seeing appalling scenes of death and suffering you go also reports that the u.k.'s air base in cyprus just one hundred miles from the coast of syria there is a build up of military there so. witnesses are saying now in france francois hollande says that they are ready to punish those who took the decision to gas the innocent in syria so it seems that france is ready to be on board saudi arabia says that immediate action should be taken against assad and turkey has announced this week that they are willing to join any military coalition against assad regardless of whether there is a un mandate or not but there is a little bit of a drawback the arab league which is

a big player in the region they do blame the syrian government and bashar al assad for using chemical weapons against his people but they will not back a strike at this point against the regime or russia basically they've been maintaining a cautious attitude at this point it should be mentioned that russia has a vacuum waited citizens from the area basically for their own safety as this momentum is gathering towards a military retaliation. and kerry have spoken sergey lavrov the foreign minister of russia has rejected john kerry's position that it was damascus that carried out the attacks he is urged the united states to wait for the results of that u.n. investigation now the u.n. investigative team is supposed to begin country for another six days at least and one thing lavrov is concerned about is the failure of the geneva two dialogue conferences that the united states and russia have been working on jointly and so

right now also the deputy prime minister dmitry rogozin was a little bit more direct a little bit more harsh he said that the west behaves towards the islamic world like a monkey with a grenade so it's safe to say russia not happy with this movement towards a military retaliation at least until the united nations gets their job and they can look at the evidence in a legal and more methodical manner. we spoke to u.k. independence party leader nigel farage about britain's apparent eagerness to get tangled up in syria's civil war he believes the government has unfolded this once through i would just say this you know number one can we please actually find out the that it was a sad that use those weapons it's probable that it was but please can we find out. i was everybody else that moral outrage on its own is not a good enough reason to get involved in a war that could have unforseen consequences but i have to say that ever since tony

blair's time starting off with 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 because to prove that point you know we've now been in afghanistan for longer than the first and second world wars added up together my view is that what we've done in afghanistan and iraq in fact for many decades whatever britain's got involved in the middle east we tend to make things worse not better horrible the way it is ghastly though some of the crimes of the that are being committed there is nothing the british military can do my view to make things better the us is a sin that this time around will be nothing unlike iraq or serbia oh in libya washington is confident that when it comes to syria the evidence is unquestionable just like it was when saddam was accused of hiding weapons of mass destruction his

art is gannett if you can on america's reckitt missteps military. before every u.s. intervention in the last fifteen years there was a hype of lies misinformation and discrepancies but every time washington would present its case for war as the ultimate truth leading people to believe that waging war was the only way to peace as the us is preparing an attack on syria striking similarities can be found in how washington makes its case for intervention material i will present to you comes from a variety of sources some are u.s. sources and some of those of other countries we have additional information about this attack and that information is being compiled and reviewed together with our partners and we will provide that information in the days ahead some of the sources are technical such as intercepted telephone conversations and photos taken by satellites what have we learned about the actual proof the white house claims it

has on syria's use of chemical weapons it will for u.s. official is telling me that this intelligence assessment contains forensic evidence that actual chemical attack took place as well as some intercepted communications among syrian forces that suggest the regime was responsible a separate sources also telling c.n.n.'s john king that the report contains some satellite images of activity at potentially chemical weapons depots back in two thousand and three in the run up to the iraq war the media also diligently repeated what the white house said we know that iraq and al qaeda have had high level contacts that go back a decade we've learned that iraq has trained al qaeda members in bomb making. and poisonous. and deadly gases before the u.s. step came washington's claims that the government which was about to be attacked did not cooperate thus this crediting any u.n.

investigation that was underway saddam hussein and his regime are busy doing. we possibly can to ensure that instructors. finding absolutely nothing. well they found nothing because there was nothing but it was an argument that couldn't be heard through the deafening sound of war drums iraq is not the only example when the u.s. effectively rendered a diplomatic solution obsolete with serbian leaders on the other hand refused even to discuss key elements of the peace agreement before the us started a two month long bombing campaign of the former yugoslavia the us love government had accepted proposals for the near independence of kosovo within the republic of serbia as well as an international peacekeeping force in kosovo but the agreement that nato put forward had a clause that they could not accept in the words of former secretary of state henry kissinger the ram with a text which called in serbia to admit need to troops throughout yugoslavia was

a provocation an excuse to start bombing runway is not a document that an angelic serb could have accepted years later we see diplomacy brushed off again in syria even as the un team is working on the ground at every turn the syrian regime has failed to cooperate with the un investigation washington has bypassed the u.n. both in the case of the former yugoslavia and that of iraq in libya the u.s. and its allies have effectively carried out a regime change although the un mandate was to protect civilians we came we saw he died. because we acted quickly a humanitarian catastrophe has been avoided but for many libyans a humanitarian catastrophe has just started as the nation plunges deeper into chaos and tear like in iraq where the intervention was followed by a decade of terror for those wondering what awaits american politicians found to

have light no weapons over there. should be under here. to check on r.t.e. washington d.c. . u.s. officials us a direct hits on the chemical weapons storage sides would be too dangerous so instead they want to cripple assad's forces capable of delivering the warhead damage to the military would give a huge boost to the rebels have recently been losing ground to afshin rattansi says this is all playing into the hands of terrorist groups the national security council of britain is meeting because david cameron the prime minister. 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 may be less 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 t.v. un weapons inspector a few months ago said were responsible for chemical attacks american lawmakers a say they should have of the last a word when it comes to u.s. strikes in syria not the president but a local stand off bring in washington is being addressed in cross all got the full version of the program that's coming your way. u.s. military that supposed to be deployed for u.s. interests and it's supposed to be approved by congress congress has the constitutional authority to declare war not the president of the white house and if congress had its constitutional authority there we wouldn't be so close to the precipice and that's a huge problem you know just the other day speaker boehner spokesperson said you know the speaker made it clear that he wants congress to be can be in consultation and he doesn't need congress because you don't let your media and western media

it's only so that people know who to blame when there's a war. floodwaters in russia's far east will keep one of the region's main business types of meds for the next month according to local officials residents of. keeping their fingers crossed hoping the manmade dam to protect in the city don't overflow and that the dilute continues to slowly recede out is paul scott tested the waters at the sea. well up until now it had been the remote rural areas that had been worst affected by these flood waters but as you can see now the waters are beginning to encroach on to the city of how about a lost canal just twenty yards behind the camera is a residential area and some residents are being evacuated as we speak in deciding to go to the temporary accommodation centers that have been set up with the first thing you notice about the city actually is the amount of hills that there are

meaning that is communities in streets in the lowlands but are most at risk of being worst affected communities and areas like this one and there's a surprising number of residents although many are going to the accommodation centers in their hundreds there are still those who are resolutely staying with their properties and deciding not to leave now. my family is going to evacuated from my home but i decided to stay today the electric power supply has resumed pumps are working and there's no water in the stairwell any more water evaporates in the pavements become visible so we're still living here those that stay on those that go basically those who have their properties ruined attention is slowly turning to the future and what happens when this water subsides when it receives and the extent of the damage is revealed when the authorities have said that they will give compensation of up to one hundred thousand rubles to people whose properties have been damaged the compensation will range from fifty to one hundred thousand rubles depending on the severity of the damage now russia's emergency

services minister is also heading to this region imminently choose day to assess not only the damage but also the work of the emergency services in terms of evacuations on the down building all that building if that are continuing apace twenty four hours a day around the clock to prevent this situation reaching the parts of the city. reporting there from at the mess of the flood to hit at the region in more. and that does plenty more to come a greeting interview with a man whose goal is to keep mosques being built in the u.k. that's off to the break to stay with us.

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their still watching r t welcome back in the u.k. police have launched a probe into who is responsible for sending a cd with quantum graphic images and pictures off of the prophet mohammad to several mosques in london it's just the latest in a chain of provocative acts that have heightened tensions between muslims and other parts of british society are still you went to find out what it will take to to bridge the religious divide. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind going freedom foundation we start. we help local neighborhoods resist planning applications for mosques and we went that's now sixteen wins out of eighteen cases a controversial them somewhere further to the mosque buster objections raised by locals pertaining to mosques and clued traffic congestion on the general noise and disturbance which does concern people on the first one was the loss of

a retail facility all of which are legal objections but he says his motivation is deeper than that islamic doctrine it is a wrong doctrine now exactly is contrary to english rule if a catholic church was passing death sentences if a synagogue was resting on me to commit acts of war all you would immediately say that has to be stopped when you have a man who is soon ideologically opposed knows little about the islamic faith in what he is suggesting then it doesn't give credence to some of those views really in terms of traffic congestion impacting the local area if people have those objections to really genuinely feel that it's going to create an impact raised but the gruesome murder of a british soldier by self-confessed islamic fanatics fueled anti muslim sentiment on the muslim myself and. speaking to muslims across print and the cross london people are feeling vulnerable because they do feel as if

the muslim community is being picked on we have had instances where a local mosque had sausages thrown into it last year after a decade of dispute the new and council rejected an application for a so-called mega mosque the site of which is just down the road over here it would have accommodated up to ten thousand worshippers the group that had campaigned against it called themselves mega mosque. no thanks and some muslim groups have also opposed a project but beyond just the construction of mosques the polarized opinions but the spotlight once again on why this is happening in the first place the polarization of opinion that we see i think is poor only to do with a failure within multiculturalism people become invested in a very particular notion that britain is characterized by first of all a white christian dominant culture which historically is certainly true but may be

less the case today most simply become the symbol i think for this greater things on a table with a recent you gov poll compared answers given by respondents in event by two thousand and twelve and may twenty thirteen and showed an increase in the number of people who agree that there will be a clash of civilizations between british muslims and native white britons we really need a more frank and open and and detailed discussion about what islam is about what britishness is and about how we manage social change and evolution in recent times a growing number of voices have stated that multiculturalism has failed as a concept in britain which is a controversial way to put it but what's certain ignoring this issue both make a clash of cultures and less likely to us or so you r.t. in london. and on our website our russian business the magnate has been know was into custody in better results and he was invited to the capital by the country's

prime minister you know faces ten years in prison reportedly for breaking his fertilizes company partnership with admiration state graham head to r.t. dot com for the details. and blowing in the wind tropical storm lessens the mexican east coast forcing residents inside their homes and schools to close you can find the video now website. i. leading playmakers gathering just outside moscow for one of the world's top. twenty third team here's one of the highlights of the exhibition the t fifty five to jet its exceptional speed and agility have made it a focus of interest ever since it was unveiled at the last match in twenty seven of

the jet's development was closely watched by enthusiasts all over the world by most of that work being kept under wraps now it's capable of reaching twice the speed of sound and avoiding radar detection and requires only a shop runway for takeover however the team doesn't come cheap at a current price tag of fifty million dollars and here's what also there's more to be had here with the round the firm's from more than forty countries participating and it's not just the latest military technology it's also civilian aircraft builders also showing off their crowning achievements in terms of both speed and passenger comfort there's even a prototype space shift on display if you're interested in that now the organizers hope to the max went eleven record away ten billion dollars worth of contracts was signed and when most of the deals have been struck the air show will open to the general public with some breathtaking performances by aerobatics teams from russia

as well as abroad art is there for you throughout the week to keep you posted on the next azure. my . right let's take a look at some other news around the world two people have reportedly been shot dead in egypt as military forces disperse a promo c. rally south of the capital eight more way injured when soldiers broke up a brawl between supporters of the deposed president mohamed morsi and some local residents in front of a mosque ministry officials and says that no protesters were fired at but medical sources report that all of the dates as well as the injured died of gunshot wounds

egypt has been under a state of emergency for months now after hundreds were killed in fighting following the ousting of president morsi and the protests that followed. in the indian state of a good job at least six people have been killed in the collapse of two residential buildings four people have been rescued and over twenty four warfield to be stuck under the rubble and a search for survivors is in full swing with firefighters the army and national disaster response teams at the site the buildings were part of a huge housing complex about thirty five years old and in a poor condition. under the u.s. state of california where firefighters have contained a twenty percent of the wildfires which continue to streams through the national park according to reports of the blaze has urged the closer to a larger reservoir that provides most of them francisco's water supply the flames have also damaged two hydroelectric plants are forcing the city to switch to other

power sources more than three thousand five hundred firefighters are battling the control of the blaze which has been raging for eleven days now. japan has raised the threat level at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant to serious incident which is a level three out of seven on the international scale the decision was taken after consultation with the u.n. nuclear watchdog the main danger comes from a massive leak of contaminated water three hundred tons some of which may have reach the pacific this is the way of us warning about fukushima since the twenty seven ever quake and tsunami because of the meltdown are three reactors. so with us as we continue a true story of cubans buying any intrigue in miami that's coming up next in our documentary called well the real terrorists.

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