president obama says action against syria would be a warning shot a lot of a large scale attack that says political infighting over into the u.n. u.k. raises the prospect of washington losing support for potential strikes. critics pointed to america's own toxic paused from our agent orange in riyadh mamadou cia supporter for saddam's chemical aggression coming up we'll report on the contras saying faces of u.s. foreign policy. and a victim of child abuse in a linda speaks out as sex offenders are taken off please watch list aimed at safeguarding communities from predators.

live from moscow you're watching artsy with me to by monday it's good to have you with us this morning. the u.s. president has set a potential bombing campaign against syria would be really aimed at sending a shot across the bow to chair the use of chemical weapons barack obama however has yet to decide whether to give the go ahead to the american forces that have conversion around the syrian coastline any military action may be without approval from the u.n. secretary security council with russia and china voicing their firm opposition parties then as you can explains why. the main question is will president obama order an attack on syria despite the u.n. calls to hold fire to wait for the results of the u.n. investigation and as the u.n. secretary general said to give peace

a chance we hear the drums of war loud and clear in washington we know that the u.s. has aligned its warships along the syrian coast preparing for a possible attack and yet president obama when he set down for an interview or said i have not yet made a decision from what he went on to say one should not assume that there will be no strikes take a listen we can take a limited tailored approaches not getting drawn into a long conflict not a repetition of. iraq which i know a lot of people are worried about but if we are saying. in a clear. and decisive but. very limited way we send a shot across the bow saying stop doing this that can have a positive in fact on our national security over the long term and may have a positive impact in the sense that chemical weapons are not used again on innocent

civilians of course it begs the question what's a tailored approach in an environment of a violent civil war where you have sides blaming each other for horrible crimes that have been and are being committed in syria u.n. inspectors are in the country now investigating the attack that happened a week ago the u.s. the u.k. and france have basically brushed off in advance any results that investigation could bring they basically discredited the u.n. fact finding mission and said they know best what happened here's what president obama said about the evidence that they have. looked at all the evidence and we do not believe the opposition possessed nuclear weapons. chemical weapons of that sort we do not believe that given the delivery systems using rockets that the opposition could have carried out these attacks we have concluded that. the syrian government in fact carries out and if that's so then there need to be international

consequences important to note the u.n. investigation will not determine how to use chemical weapons only whether they were used syria says it wants the u.n. to also investigate who carried out the attacks not just whether they were carried out this wednesday the syrian ambassador to the u.n. said syria but also requested a u.n. investigation into quote three more locations where the syrian soldiers inhaled the nerve gas last week on the outskirts of damascus question and china are opposed to any u.n. security council resolution without seeing the results of the u.n. investigation in the u.k. lawmakers have indicated that the u.n. security council must have the opportunity to consider evidence collected at the side of the alleged attack before any decisions can be made so it seems unlikely that the u.k. will get their parliament's backing the russian president said he is opposed to any military intervention in syria that only a diplomatic solution can stop the bloodshed we also heard the russian foreign minister say the fallout from the alleged chemical attack last week is aimed at

undermining peace talks in geneva where the two sides of the syrian conflict were supposed to sit down and map out a deal but now it's all up in the air and the opposition is adamant peace talks are off the table it seems at this point calls to investigate and calls to give diplomacy a chance are falling on deaf ears in the u.s. . media reports suggest president obama is torn between three options in syria the u.s. could opt to strike the unit that they claimed carried out a chemical attack outside damascus last week alternatively chemical weapons with realty that could be targeted and the third option is to do both but military experts warn that destroying us as arsenal would be highly dangerous. there's been no harm to syria's air defense system during this conflict which continues to function quite effectively but if there are nato missile strikes on chemical munitions depots it would cause an explosion in the poisonous substance is

contained in these weapons will spray on to the ground this would have drastic consequences such as contaminating land and would be a major blow to all forms of life on territory extending far from the strikes if there are air strikes on chemical munitions depots this would be a severe blow to the syrian people just as large as officials are in the u.s. and london accuses the syrian regime of the chemical atrocity and says it may go ahead with a military campaign even without u.n. security council approval although unlike washington it's agreed that a u.n. investigators on the ground should present their findings first early on my colleague kevin i when was joined by a panel of experts to discuss this. this seems to be consensus around the world that the assad regime needs to pay for the alleged chemical weapon attack here but

this is at the same time as the u.n. is still investigating are we going to see an attack before that year before the universe to go to actually reported for hard concrete facts back to. no i don't think that will happen i think there's a lot of pressure on president obama and certainly in the u.k. on prime minister cameron to show evidence you know before they take any action today the labor party says they're not going to support any intervention in terms of the u.k. unless the prime minister comes to the house of parliament with evidence can i just say i think the question actually should be asked of people at the moment in britain is it acceptable for america and its allies to be deciding which country is liable to be attacked in the world and which country isn't liable to be attacked in the world i'm quite pessimistic i have to disagree with you first of all i think that the united states could very well go it maybe not alone but certainly without the un security council i mean we've seen that before it's

a surprise to me that anybody would debate that the us because our head and it doesn't hide that it doesn't hold very much value for the decisions that are made in new york at the un international laws being broken so therefore there's no problem we're going after now. without a consensus is not really the way forward though so i need to to rights make a wrong as you see it this idea that the united states and the u.k. are now suddenly intervening in other countries it is a ludicrous i mean it doesn't. stand up to scrutiny because syria is already a battlefield to decide what's going on in terms of the future of the middle going to grow and grow. to yes kevin i think it's very important to make this clear to domestic audiences in the west because they don't hear this from the mainstream media they don't hear this from their politicians the american west stance on syria is not guided by human rights democracy or the rule of law go on said it was

serious issues because syria has shoes an independent foreign policy if there was an intervention if it does happen what would russia do and moreover what if in the next fall. so this proof that has been talked about that america has been declassified that we're hearing is going to make public pressure is definitely not going to war use its nuclear deterrence to change should to change the situation what is important to stress here. is indeed a mess but it isn't to a large degree due to the outside influence from from outside forces in syria so basically when when somebody argues that now. the intervention should have been employed two years ago well it shouldn't and it shouldn't be considered now at the point when the approaching force is actually gaining ground we heard from william hague u.k. foreign secretary saying that they do believe this is a chemical attack by the assad regime u.s.

vice president joe biden there is no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in syria chuck hagel u.s. defense secretary i think that intelligence will i think that intelligence will conclude that the government is syria was responsible are we going to see this evidence in fact there are lots of videos which have been uploaded by syrian doctors which is we publish to you tube and it's all translators. there had obviously little to finish my point is let me say that i took some of the video as we know you only because your voice is showing across the country and it's. ok look we're going to come to seeing pictures of independence. that is what is really going to take. a while britain is reportedly building up military forces within striking distance of syria turns out that almost eighty percent of the country's population intervention.

she has triggered mass protests in london crowds gathered near downing street condemning the government's war talk people waved posters with message the hands of syria meanwhile a large share of employees are threatening to vote against the plan strikes are raising the possibility that the government could back down a former senior british naval officer says that if military forces is a use the situation in syria will slide out of control. i think that the options for intervention probably relate to long range remote missile firing by cruise missiles and aircraft launching missiles 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 are misused in these circumstances politicians tend to lose control of the situation and they then spend the next few years catching up. with british lawmakers divided over whether to attack to syria the u.s. may seem find itself a learned in leading the war charge and to make matters worse justifying the strike is proving to be harder than expected as no major international body is supporting the attack leaving the u.s. to rely on a moral case for intervention a task that as it is more in a broadway reports a may be difficult considering america's own parts you may find some of the images in this report disturbing. wagging its finger of moral authority the u.s. began laying the groundwork for syrian intervention on monday let me be clear the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity the obscenity of chemical weapons is something us secretary of

state john kerry a vietnam veteran is very familiar with five decades ago america used agent orange during the vietnam war reportedly spraying more than twenty million gallons of the chemical weapon and other herbicides over parts of southern vietnam and along the borders of neighboring laos and cambodia it had the side effects of being terribly you know toxic and it caused lots of birth defects and terrible terrible effects of a genetic nature. exposed to it the herbicides were reportedly contaminated with dioxin a deadly compound that remains toxic for decades and causes birth defects cancer and other illnesses the vietnam red cross estimates that agent orange has affected three million people spanning three generations including at least one hundred fifty thousand children born with severe birth defects since the war ended in one nine hundred seventy five the u.s.

often and its foreign policy particularly is quick to blame others for things that it itself and does and this is known around the world as there the double standard of the united states the moral and political hypocrisy of washington in iraq america's chemical weapons legacy will be remembered for generations to come since the two thousand and three invasion experts say the number of iraqi children born with birth defects has skyrocketed some babies born without eyes others without limbs in fallujah researchers can't provide statistics saying there's too many cases to report scientists link the epidemic to citizen's exposure to white phosphorus and depleted uranium toxic. weapons reportedly used by u.s. soldiers who invaded the country all of the genetic damage effects that we see in iraq in my opinion were caused by iranian weapons depleted uranium weapons and also you know undefeated u.n. weapons of a new type and these

a really terrible weapons these are all weapons which of absolutely destroyed the genetic integrity of the population of iraq depleted uranium is a radioactive element that engineers say increases the penetration capacity of shells it's believed to have a shelf life of some four billion years and is otherwise known as the silent murder that never stops killing there is a clear reason that the world has banned entirely the use of chemical weapons there is a reason the international community has set a clear standard and why many countries have taken major steps to eradicate these weapons while washington continues lecturing damascus a team of u.n. investigators is in syria trying to verify if chemical weapons were used if so what kind in the meantime if the u.s. does launch a unilateral military strike against syria without u.n. approval then the country policing the world will be in clear violation of international law reporting from new york marine upper nile r.t.

. there's critics charging america with hypocrisy point to the iran iraq war as their major argument and then the u.s. fed intelligence and targeting data to saddam hussein knowing full well that he was using chemical weapons to kill thousands of iranians including civilians of either former cia officer ray mcgovern believes that exemplifies the two faces of the united states foreign policy. but what we have here is a situation where the united states government. enabled. you rock. almost to conquer iran by providing iraq with satellite photography and turning a blind eye to its use of chemical weapons including sarin gas we had famous picture of donald rumsfeld shaking hands with saddam hussein that happened the day after the first public announcement that iraq should use mustard gas trickles

uranium ok so blind i know you're in spades the rush the problem really is that. we knew it was going on and we're going to leave the convention against the use of chemical warfare or top leaders and would you question is you know have no conscience i don't know shame. i germans living in the countryside speak out against their house the noisy neighbors a coming up the gulf to replace nuclear. power with renewable leads to giant wind turbines springing up in people's backyards keeping them awake at night. so you could register of more than sixty thousand sex offenders is maintained by police in england and wales to protect people especially children from abuse but dozens are being taken off that list and critics are concerned that this is putting communities at risk as r.t.s. put it like a report the failure to protect vulnerable youngsters can have horrific consequences

. a victim of a truly horrific crime as a child paul was sexually abused by a family friend from the age of eight years old his torture continued until he was sixteen so. basically kerman does kill people i lived in constant terror of my own mind flashbacks. sixteen paul managed to turn his life around and now counsels others who like him went through the trauma of sexual abuse many victims say that the knowledge that their former attackers will be under constant police monitoring even when released from prison is a reassurance that they won't be able to strike again but over the past year and number of convicted sex offenders have applied to come off the u.k. sex offenders register claiming they no longer pose a threat to society if a serious sex offender serves more than thirty months for their crime they're

supposed to stay on the register for the rest of their lives police will monitor their whereabouts the inform local schools hospitals and potential employers about their existence within the community bought according to human rights laws it's a breach of criminals rights to keep them on the register indefinitely without the chance of appeal the register is a list that isn't made public detailing for the police all those convicted of a crime under the sexual offenses act in england and wales it includes a range of criminals from convicted rapists and paedophiles to under-age minors who have consensual sex following a change in human rights law last year forty three sex offenders were removed from the register after successful appeals i think it's a very perverse understanding of human rights to put sex offenders before their victims before potential victims i think the implications will eventually mean a lot more offending but one children's charity says that the police need to remove

those who no longer pose a threat. in order to focus on monitoring the political offenders i'm not pretending by the way that victims don't think this is the generally speaking that this would be troubling to them but in terms of my concern of protecting future victims from possible future risk we need the police to concentrate their resources on the guys that have the highest risk if they judge these forty three individuals do not represent a future risk i don't want the police wasting any more time with the former victims are concerned they the list of those taken off the register includes eight rapists and twenty seven child sex attackers people that i i taught her with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their news a perpetrator that's been let off that list you are reading from mars do you are going back to being that doesn't all that hard work that poor person that has actually worked so hard to move forward has now it's all undone because they've got

to go through it again and they've also got to go through the torment they know that individual could potentially hurt some other child experts in the field of psychology say that questions remain over whether sex offenders can ever be rehabilitated there's a prison. where the sense from this treatment program is run by britain who are going to these these these inmates and most of we know what to say we know how to get by we know how we can. what we need to say to prove we are being rehabilitated even if we're not the u.k. home office wasn't in favor of the ruling but the supremes court upheld the human rights of sex offenders looking for a second chance judges referred to article eight of the european convention on human rights to creating that even for my sex criminals deserve the chance of private and family life she looked in two thousand and ten when the first two people who were actually appealed and used the human rights act they were to child sex offenders. it just tells you

a lot that these people want the register and my worry and my concern is the. there are excess to be truthful paul says that his abuse of robbed him of his childhood and for a long time the desire to keep on living as well you know i beg to anybody out there that says that they have a human right just think of your child just think of your grandchild and think how would you feel if that child basically was murdered emotionally from such a young age. arty london. makers and shake yourself from the every nation world of flop to russia as the most cool reading of the mags a feature in the world's top notch jets and some spectacular aerobatic performances head to our web site. nursing old wounds iran prepares to sue the united states for mosques in mind in the ninety's with its recruited top of the country's democratically elected leadership. and

a city under siege a major city in russia's why easer barricades itself against the advancing waters amid the worst of the flooding to hit the region in the century and read more at r.t. dot com. as germany continues its phase out of nuclear power process launched two years ago after the fukushima disaster in japan plugging the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task of us dollar public storm brewing over the wind turbines springing up all over the country to meet power demand i just read all of a find out why this divisive. germany's wind farms are spinning out of control that's according to a new generation of don quixote's who feel hung onto dry by a lack of regulation on where windmills can be placed ruffles it's turned into a nightmare for us we came here fourteen years ago and there were just two small

wind turbines two years later the reform team since then another sixteen have gone up we moved here for tranquility and they have taken man away from us one of the main problems for people living in this area is the she assignees of the new binds that overshadow their homes come out. of going to have been from march until the end of july we have a constant flickering in our kitchens it's very unpleasant you don't even want to have breakfast there. germany has plans to increase the amount of energy drawn from the wind almost three fold over the coming years modern wind turbines are around two hundred meters tall that's roughly double the height of the statue of liberty and they're springing up all across the german countryside this is seen previously nonpolitical people become activists trying to fight against a green energy lobby they feel is out of control and against turbines that they say

are causing real damage to human health. these low frequency sounds are just constantly in your head and you feel it throughout your entire body when i can fall asleep it wakes me up in the night sometimes it feels like you can freeze i have a. playing i'm not going to sleep when they're going around it's like there's permanent movement in my peripheral vision i work in this field and i understand that such movement has a real psychological effect on people it's not just that they're tall and noisy these massive new neighbors are also having a huge effect on house prices rocco is trying. to move away from the turbines his house has been for sale for the last five years without success. because i'm already calculated them into the asking price and if not half the price of i've had around fifty people come and look but no takers there's no concrete law in germany

restricting where wind turbines can be built meaning in some cases they can spring up just two hundred fifty meters from residential areas because i must live. we can be like this forever i don't want to leave but these noises make me sick but there have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cried those cries being heard in the corridors of power though all the major parties in the upcoming election are stressing their commitment continuing germany's race towards renewables which means more windmills peter all over r.t. chairman. of the news in brief from around the world now one of the largest labor unions in greece the civil servants confederation is carrying out before a massive strike in athens protesting against public sector layoffs and is planning to expand its rallies during september earlier the union made an angry statement slamming that what it called the government's cut throat plans and says the

authorities are destroying health and education to meet the demands of e.u. money lenders. l g b t activists have dumped coca-cola on new york times us where in their response to the company's sponsorship of the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi the action was initiated by the same group that has been encouraging gay bars to stop selling russian vodka it's all part of a wave of protests against the law banning homosexual propaganda to under eighteen's passed by russia in june many gay rights groups have deemed the legislation discriminatory and have called for a boycott of the winter olympics. and that in time province of neo can the thousands of protesters clash with the riot police in front of the regional congress police had to barricade the entrance to the building and used to get to disperse the rocks or in crowds protesters were angered by plans to allow shale gas exploration in the region by the u.s.

energy giant chevron pointed to the lack of transparency in the deal the environmental risks involved and the harm it could cause to local indigenous communities. coming up next my sense states it is gus how some governments a bleeder they countries drive in the chase for cheap commodities stay with us all the kaiser report. old. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered from the labor a point of view what kind of impact start to measures have had on the population is

so far we have no improvement in the deficit or the debt situation and in the end you have to grow to get out of debt you know if i'm unemployed i can't pay my people if countries aren't working they come pay that debt so it's a downward spiral in all strategies which i think we need to reconsider. welcome to the kaiser report on max kaiser texas totally fracs texas is so frakt some towns will soon be running out of water and now the united kingdom wants to create its own fracking mass yes the u.k.

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