video for your media project free video down to r t dot com. at ten pm moscow time evidence of a chemical attack in syria is found but no proof the government was behind it says the u.n. envoy to the country is western powers ready for a strike. washington says it has anough evidence against assad and waves away comparisons with iraq we look at how the u.s. paved the way for previous military campaigns. sectarian violence claims dozens more lives in iraq in a series of bomb attacks in baghdad r.t. looks at the ongoing price of the us led liberation from saddam hussein. and multiculturalism fails a stress test in the united kingdom with an anti muslim lobby blocking the expansion of islam calling it violent and incompatible with today's britain.

which has joined us is kevin owen here this hour with our top story then the un arab league envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi says there is evidence suggesting that some kind of chemical substance was used in an attack near damascus a week ago but that there is no proof at this point that the assad government was responsible but such an assault in itself could be enough for the u.s. and its allies to launch a military offensive against the war torn country despite the u.n. and syria saying the inspectors need more time at the site let's go live to washington d.c. our correspondent gun if she comes there. several international meetings and consultations obviously about syria today where does the world stand tonight as we know it. well kevin we heard the syrian

envoy to the u.n. who said the threats to use military force immediately have one purpose and that is to undermine the mission of the u.n. investigation team that is now right now in syria the state department is already saying. that it has no doubts that that it actually doubts the credibility of the u.n. investigation the u.s. and its allies are in a rush to act they they indicated they are ready to start bombing syria we hear the drums of war loud and clear in washington and drowning in this deafening sound of war drums is the voice of. bank you moon and i'm not not only his voice but here's what he said referring to the work of the u.n. investigation team right now in syria he said just days after the attacks they have collected valuable samples and interviewed victims and witnesses the team needs time to do its job let us let us say give peace

a chance give diplomacy a chance stop fighting and start talking that's a quote from banking move it seems giving diplomacy a chance is no longer an option for the u.s. and its allies russia insists that before any decision is made in the u.n. security council they should wait for the results of this u.n. investigation but we see the u.k. the u.s. and others brushoff this this u.n. investigation here's what the u.k. said. the u.n. team are all doing the work of the day we have to be realistic about what they can achieve it's not within the mandate to apportion blame it is. to try to assess scientifically what have happened but i think we're very clear we've been very clear from the outset. where the blame lies on that remains because all of the evidence points in one direction. but it's important to note that the u.n.

investigation will not determine who used chemical weapons only whether they were used and we heard nato chief say that any use of chemical weapons in syria cannot go on answered with the question of who did it is what divides the u.n. security council because i mean the attacks the images that we that we saw shocked absolutely everybody that the u.s. and its allies say the assad government was responsible for the attacks the assad government says they would be the last ones to benefit from such an attack especially with the u.n. investigators on the ground at the time when the attacks have happened. on august the twenty first but. before as the u.s. is gearing up for seemingly gearing up for an intervention we have to remember that before every u.s. intervention in the last fifteen years there was a hype of lies misinformation and discrepancies and 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 and here is my report on on some of some of those previous. presidents. as the u.s. 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 there is 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. stepping 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 very possibly can to ensure that inspectors succeed in 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. 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 text which called on serbia to admit need to troops throughout yugoslavia was a provocation an excuse to start bombing runway is not a don't mean that an angelic 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 us 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 care like in iraq where the intervention was followed by a decade of care for those wondering what awaits american politicians found to have light and no weapons over there. should be under here.

to check on r.t. washington d.c. former ethiopian diplomat an expert on the middle east mohammad hassan says syria will not be broken by washington's war tactics. united a says just invents in order to achieve it is objective it has invented the most destruction weapon we have seen that and the security council that it is the former state department head the general colin powell how he lied to the whole international community and it's a shame on him i go in an african origin president who is leading that country and everybody hoped that it is the change will be but he's becoming even worse than bush and he's using of global tactics in all of the cloud talk and destroy the syrian people and the syrian government this is a pretext for the invasion and they are planning out of frustration because the success of the syrian government have achieved on the ground we have seen this in the new iraq and what they have didn't we are killing the iraqi people and bringing the destruction to that country but here in syria the syrian people are united

under their leadership under the president of our bashar assad and as he saw it he said two days ago the president of syria when he gave an interview to the russian television he searched syria i will never be a colony of anybody's syria i will resist and will be a southern country a former senior british naval officer told me what might happen once the west's war power is used. i think that the options for intervention probably relate to long range and remote missile firing by cruise missiles and aircraft launch missiles they'll go against selected targets probably related to the military and to the way in which the regime is defending itself against the rebels worst case scenario is that military force is used it doesn't have any effect on the situation whatsoever and we have an escalation both within the country and within the region i'm afraid

once the military arm is used in these circumstances politicians tend to lose control of the situation and they then spend the next few years catching up. washington and then there's a push for military interventions taken its toll on the financial world to the threats as per the oil and gold prices one of best is a rush to pull their money from stock markets are to katie pill be looked at at the rhetoric's affected the world economy. bombs they aren't falling yet on syria global financial damage is already being done gold is what people usually turn to in these uncertain times and that russia is very much being felt in earnest hey we got the billion up forty dollars an ounce just over the last two days alone oil prices are surging to their highest level since twenty eleven that's over concerns that are american and british an attack on syria will bring about a serious consequences and threaten global surprise now the middle east as

a whole accounts for over a third of all oil production and holds even more reserves leading bank associate general has said there us that attack on syria could see the price of oil spiked to one hundred and fifty dollars per barrel such a level could have a disastrous impact on the global economy already challenged by storing grow that and own growing recessions as well our sanctions have also severely restricted or like spots from syria already so the economic situation there could get even worse as the violence continues our stock markets are witnessing a sell off to the markets in the middle east leading the cash exodus neighboring turkey has also taken an economic beating us stocks plunge the reefer send even more worryingly this is all happening before the attack has even gone so most likely more bad news if it doesn't go ahead. before business department

some american lawmakers argue that it's up to them to decide whether the u.s. should strike syria ortiz people of both of these guys discuss the political standoff between congress and the white as you watch the full version next hour this is a little of what to expect. u.s. military that's 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 an advocate 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 with what and he doesn't need congress because little dish let's tear up the western media out of all western media and over here or so that people know who to blame when there is a war. and still some other news now tonight focus on

iraq is still suffering from a spiral of violence and terrorist attacks that continue to claim thousands of lives every year and wednesday a series of coordinated bomb attacks in the country's capital killed more than seventy people and left dozens injured restaurants markets and car parks in predominantly shia heroes were targeted by the attackers by elements in the country's been on the rise since the start of the year with the sunni minority protesting against the shia shiite led government is take a look at the tragic figures of sectarian violence on the news or here this is sadly it pans out twenty ten soar over four thousand people killed when the elections came with no clear winner leaving the country with no leadership then a slight increase in twenty eleven with the u.s. troops pulling out of iraq by the end of the year then comes this spike in deaths over the next twelve months with sectarian violence sparking fears of a possibility of a full scale civil war and then still growing up here this year the religiously driven attacks between shia and sunni skyrocket further claiming almost five

thousand lives in just eight months with july being the deadliest month since two thousand and eight thanks for being with us more news ahead including a look at what's behind the growing opposition to islam in the u.k. . wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our choose your language. with. the

consumer. choose the opinions that. choose the stories that him. choose access to. is twenty two sixty moscow time now come to terrorism forces in the u.k. looking into a series of c.d.'s featuring pornographic and abusive images insulting the prophet muhammad that have been sent to several of the mosques the instant adds up to a wave of offensive acts towards british muslims but parts of society desperate to keep the u.k. islam free. finds out next what it takes to strike a balance that. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind freedom foundation

we still. that is we help local neighborhoods resist planning applications for mosques and we went that's now sixteen wins out of eighteen cases a controversial member somewhere further to ask 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 is a wrong doctrine no right it's called for retiring the sure if a company was passing death sentences if a synagogue was blessing armies to commit acts of war he would immediately say that has to be stopped when you have a man who we soon ideologically opposed knows little about these numbers face even if what he is suggesting that it doesn't give credence to some of those views

really 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 across london people are feeling slightly 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 the 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 little to the failure within multiculturalism most simply become a symbol i think for this greater anxiety that a recent you gov poll compared answers given by respondents in november 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 in recent times a growing number of voices have stated that multiculturalism has failed as a concept which is a controversial way to put it but what's certain ignoring this issue both make a clash of cultures and less likely just so so you r.t. london we're going on a line from us tonight artsy dog breathtaking high speed aerobatics unbelievable stunts in the skies new mexico's a movie watching us in the face of the world's best pilots and state the other aircraft are putting their paces. at the russian just near the russian capital one

of the world's largest air show forget the words i promise you it's called marks dot com for all the details and i catch images of the event there that's also to social network users be where i was reporting online it appears some credit agencies may be checking out the loan history of people you're close to on facebook before deciding whether to lend you money. as well for that if you want to check out more. russia's far east is braced for flood levels to pay because authorities warn that water levels will not recede for another month but residents of the regional capital about us could not giving in the using sandbags for improvised dams to prevent the deluge advancing paul scott wades in next. 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 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 by the first thing you notice about the city actually is the amount of hills that there are meaning that it's communities in streets in the ones that are most at risk of being worst affected communities in 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 has been 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 and the pavements become visible so we're still living here those that stay on those that go to 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 people whose properties have been damaged the compensation will range from fifty to one hundred thousand rubles depending on the severity of the damage. you know so such a mess of the waters go down again the mud the sewage will mess the world news in brief in western india at least eleven people have been killed in the collapse of two residential buildings several people were rescued but ten more are still trapped under the debris the search for survivors is in full swing with firefighters in army and national disaster response teams at the scene the buildings that were part of a huge housing complex that's reported to have been in poor condition. japan is no classified that leak of three hundred tons of contaminated water or the fukushima plant is a quote serious incident it is then the grave first warning yet about the crippled site since the twenty eleven earthquake and tsunami that caused the meltdown of

three reactors one choose dead the operator of the nuclear plant said it would invite foreign experts to advise on how best to try to deal with the contaminated water. suicide bomb attack on a coalition convoy in afghanistan's southern helmand province has killed at least four afghan civilians or wounded fifteen more a series of separate attacks across the country saw over a dozen more lose their lives including afghan soldiers they follow choose days killing of twelve civilians by taliban insurgents for cooperating with the government militants increase the results of citizens ahead of the planned pullout of international forces next year. thanks for being with us the next news update just over half an hour of me going to stay with us between now and then a true story of cuban spy and intrigue in miami and it's our next program after the break.

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maurice bishop then informed vesey i know that castro was planning a visit to quito ecuador on his way home to cuba vesey on a contacted luis posada country less a former but tista policeman and a well known anti castro militant to assassinate castro. got them in a few astro's told a student it is you who will be your persona assured me he could put a bullet in his forehead i am the but i was a guaranteed escape plan the plot failed. on september nineteenth one thousand nine hundred seventy six i had dinner with orlando let tell year at his house the telly there was a former chilean ambassador to washington and i had invited him to work with me at the institute for policy studies after dinner we went outside and i put my elbows on the hood of his car not suspecting there was a bomb planted in it. thirty six hours later let telly or drove to work with

a colleague ronni moffitt. the telly or died in the explosion as did running off and. shortly afterwards the f.b.i. arrested hosts a deal nice of suarez and guillermo novo the very men they had listed in their assassination report on ricardo alarcon. two weeks later international terrorism took on dimensions. this is the c.b.s. evening news with walter cronkite that evening nine days ago a cuban passenger jet on route from barbados to a band of crashed into the sea following an on board explosion seventy three persons fifty seven of them cuban were killed.