president obama says action against syria would be a warning shot lot of large scale of time that's as washington sees support for potential intervention weaken with britain's parliament divided on the issue. critics point to america's own toxic pods or from agent orange in vietnam to cia support for the saddam's chemical aggression coming up we'll examine the shifting sands of u.s. foreign policy. and the victim of child abuse in england speaks out as sex offenders are taken off the police watch list aimed at safeguarding communities from predators.

it's just gone past nine am here in the russian capital you're live with us on our t.v. with me. the u.s. president has set a potential bombing campaign against syria would be merely aimed at sending a shot across the bow to deter the use of chemical weapons now barack obama however has yet to decide whether to give the go ahead to the american forces that have converged around the syrian coastline measure reaction would be unlikely to get the approval of the u.n. security council with russia and china strongly against artie's grandchild you can experience 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 the decision from what he went on to say one should not assume that there will be no strikes take a listen we can take limited tailored approaches not getting drawn into a long conflict. 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 to 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 of that investigation

to bring 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 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 who uses 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 sri more locations where the syrian soldiers inhaled the nerve gas last week on the outskirts of damascus and previously damascus also requested an investigation into the march attacks in qana laso where chemical weapons were

used with evidence indicating that they were used by the rebels but the u.s. and its allies have shunned that evidence and generally ignored those attacks russia and china are opposed to any u.n. security council resolution without seeing the results of the u.n. investigation the u.s. the u.k. and france have indicated that they're ready to strike without a u.n. mandate. the russian president said he is opposed to any military intervention in syria that only a diplomatic solution can stop the bloodshed president putin also condemned in the use of chemical weapons by whoever it may be 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 and that meeting was something that russia very much wanted to happen it seems at this point calls to investigate and calls to give diplomacy a chance are falling on deaf ears reports suggest president obama

is torn between three scenarios in syria the u.s. could opt to strike of the unit of that they claim carried out a chemical attack outside damascus last week alternatively chemical weapons facilities could be targeted and the third option is to do both but make sure experts one 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 and 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 were air strikes on chemical munitions depots this would be a severe blow to the syrian people. is taking the

same hawkish stance as the u.s. although unlike washington the u.k. government has said it will wait to see the findings of u.n. investigators before deciding whether to act but as well as british public opinion goes almost eighty percent against intervention. they see it has triggered mass protests in london a crowd gathered near downing street condemning the government's war talk people wave posters with the mass and hands of syria meanwhile a large share of m.p.'s are threatening to vote against the plan strikes raising the possibility that the government could back down a former senior british naval officer says that if military force is used the situation in syria will slide out of control. i think that the options for intervention probably relate to long range. missile firing part cruise missiles and

aircraft launch 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 a syria the u.s. may seem find itself alone in leading the war charge and to make matters worse justifying the strike is proving to be harder than expected no major international body is supporting the attack leaving the u.s. to rely on a moral case for intervention tell us that as our days worrying about now reports

it may be difficult considering america's own past 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 u.s. 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 the 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 us 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 full lucia 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 have 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 marina r.t. . there's critics charging america with hypocrisy have been pointing to the iran iraq war then the u.s. fed intelligence and all getting dated to saddam hussein and knowing full well that it was using chemical weapons to kill files of iranians including civilians a fiber former cia officer ray mcgovern believes exemplifies the two faces all 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 the iraqis had used mustard gas against the iranians ok so blind eye well you know in spades the problem really is that. we knew what was going on and going to geneva convention against the use of chemical warfare or top leaders knew it you question is you know had no conscience and then no shame germans are living in the countryside to speak out against the whole king noisy neighbors coming up scandal john the wind turbines the springing up in people's backyards keeping them awake at night that's often the break.

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breaking news a little turn it into angles stories. here. altie spanish find out more visit actuality. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. a secret register of more than sixty thousand sex offender this 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 this is putting communities at risk as r.t.s. playboy reports a 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 to watch a continued until he was sixteen so. basically current and.

i lived in constant terror of my mind flashbacks. of 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 is more than thirteen 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 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 prolific 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 a concerned day the list of those taken off the register includes eight rapists and twenty seven child sex attackers people that i i taught and counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their views are perpetrated that's been let off that list you are reading to mars do you are going back to being that doesn't all that hard work that poor person has actually worked so hard to move forward has now just going to have to it's all undone because they've got to go through it again and they've also got to go through that 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 our brain is 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 actually appealed and used the human rights act they were to child sex offenders. it just tells you a lot that these people won't have the register a my worry and my concern is the. they work says to be truthful paul says that his abuser 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 emotion from such a young age. r.t. london. makers and shakers from the aviation world of flock to russia as the moscow region. featuring cutting edge a craft and some spectacular aerobatics performances head to our website for more. nursing old wounds a run prepares to sue the united states for masterminding the nine hundred fifty three crew that toppled to run for democratically elected leadership. and a major city in russia's far east barricades itself against the advancing waters amid the words of light indeed the region in a century read more about this. as

germany continues its a phase out of nuclear power process launched after the fukushima disaster in japan plugging the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task there is now public storm brewing over the wind turbines are springing up all over the country to meet the power shortfall i just read all of a found out why this so unpopular. 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. 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

turbines that overshadow their homes come on in the north of going to have been shot 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 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. whatever the without these low frequency sounds are just constantly in your head and you feel it throughout your entire body of all when i can fall asleep it wakes me up in the night sometimes it feels like

you can freeze have a comical sauce but playing in the i'm not going to teach 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 up for sale for the last five years without success some of them have already calculated them into the asking price and have not half the price off 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 but the same as a life. he 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. germany. and the news in brief for right now are gay rights activists have dumped coca-cola in new york times as square a response to the company's a sponsorship of the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi it's all part of a wave of protests against a law banning homosexual propaganda to under eighteen months by russia in june many l g b t rights groups have branded the legislation discriminatory and called for an olympic boycott. in the arjun time province of new can thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in front of the regional congress police police had to barricade and trains to the building and use tear gas

to disperse the rock or throwing crowds of protesters who were angered by plans to allow shale gas exploration in the region they pointed to the harm drilling could do to the environment and to the local indigenous communities and coming up later in today's program max and stacey all discuss some states bleeder themselves dry in the rush for shale gas and other cheap commodities. texas is still fret 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. blew through a trick the north sea oil at all sold it all time lows and now wants to blow through its clean water table just when fresh h two o. is becoming more and more scarce know there's no escaping the sinkholes of stupid opening up around us as governments and the corporations target the dumbest common

denominators around us who always vote for more debt more housing bubbles more wars more genetically modified food more tar sands more fracking more more more everything that will sink is all into a bottomless pit of stupid they'll vote for singles of stupid. stay with us next hour for the late his worlds apart program with x. on a bike. so the historic and for many americans tragic ruling in a bradley manning case just got a lot weirder because he has declared that he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named chelsea well i'm glad his lawyer got him to keep this revelation to himself until the end of the trial but sadly he really should have pushed for him

to keep quiet about this just a bit longer why you ask because if there is one thing i know about the mainstream media is that the second sex is involved everything else instantly becomes a distant second case in point what is the legacy of bill clinton is it the job murderer who are sure to nafta no is it a violent foreign policy throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't was in office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning's gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion.

come on. welcome to worlds apart around two hundred million people around the globe . coming here and while politicians and policymakers. do something the fruits of their labor have failed to materialize just yet how much force will it get before it gets better all to discover that i'm now joined by the director general of the international labor organization thank you very much for

your time. now your organization forecasts that global unemployment is set to increase to around two hundred million by two thousand and fifteen and as far as i understand this figure is based on i.m.f. forecast which have been revised before so it doesn't look like this period of labor doom and gloom any time soon well you're right the situation is bad and it's getting worse there's no doubt about it and of course the future is not inevitable the future depends on what policymakers do the bad news as you've indicated is the most recent for calls for economic growth is that the world economy is going to grow less quickly than we previously thought it would. then i'm afraid the unemployment figures are going to go up even more strongly than the figures that you've mentioned and you just said they do all depends on the actions of politicians and back in two thousand and eight they scale of this crisis became apparent and when people started losing their jobs and bulk many world leaders were

very adamant and speaking in favor of a new paradigm they were talking about a new set of rules in trade and financial markets but it doesn't look like those. bold statements have been put into practice a long time ago just in the world leaders were saying that they had to be fundamental changes in globalisation that the world economy had to be. and you're right the g twenty in two thousand and nine the leaders said we have to put the creation of quality job at the center of recovery from the crisis well four years later sitting in moscow at the g. twenty labor ministers meeting we have to conclude that that commitment hasn't really been carried out i think. many people is that while there hasn't been too much action in terms of trying to how ordinary folks like bailing out ordinary

people and trying to curb the blow for them there was quite a lot of action to how big corporations and bailing out big companies who later laid out workers thousands would you agree with me that demand for this major change has actually been missed and this misery that shocked many people back in two thousand and eight is now essentially treated like a new normal i think people do recognize that the crisis meant that an enormous effort was going to have to be made to get back on our feet again but they want two things one is they want a policy is which work ok we make a sacrifice but we want to see a result the reality is so far people have made the sacrifice but up until now they don't feel the results of that the second thing is it's a natural human reflex people want policies which a fad if i.