president obama says action against syria would be a warning shot not a large scale attack but as washington sees supporter poised consensual intervention weekend with britain's parliament divided on the issue. critics point to america's own toxic pasta from agent orange in vietnam to ca support for saddam's chemical aggression coming up we examine we shifting sands of me was foreign policy. and the victim of child abuse in england who speaks out as sex offenders are taken off the police watch list aimed at safeguarding communities from predators. i. am.

it's ten am here in the russian capital you're live with us on r t it's good to have your company with us skepticism and opposition for should be delaying u.s. and british plans to attack syria but according to the country's leaders the proposed bombing campaign will still go ahead the aim according to barack obama is to send a warning to asada reportedly by striking his key military assets right now this map shows you the air fields that are used by syrian jets which rebels at. a decisive role in the war there's a speculation that they will bear the brunt of the attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes and runways as far as for who will be doing the shooting u.s. air bases are located to the north as well as the south while american destroyers and attack submarines are to the west along with the british base has yet to decide

whether to give the go ahead for the bombing campaign but it has been said that military action could go ahead without approval from the u.n. security council they russia and china staunchly opposed what they call a rush to go to war artie's gannett chicken 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 said i have not yet made the decision for 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 approach not getting drawn into

a long conflict. we send a shot across the bow saying stop doing this back and 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 even environment of violence 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 this 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 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 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 one said syria but also requested a one investigation into a full three 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 last cell 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 the one 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. media reports suggests president obama is torn between at the scenarios in syria the u.s. could opt to strike of the unity that they claim carried out a chemical attack outside damascus last week alternatively chemical weapons facilities could be targeted and a third option is to do both but military experts warn that to 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 needle missile strikes on chemical munitions depots it would cause an explosion and the poisonous substances contained in these weapons will spray onto 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. britain's prime minister david cameron is taking the same hawk his 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 it's wise british public opinion goes almost eighty percent against intervention.

the issue has triggered mass protests in london the crowds gathered near downing street condemning the government's a war talk people wave purses with the message hands off syria meanwhile launch a sale of m.p.'s are threatening to vote against the planned strike raising the possibility that the government could back down from a senior british naval officer says that 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 foreign by 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 the 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 syria the u.s. may seem find itself alone in need in 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 toss that out is more in a pop my reports 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 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 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. caused by iranian weapons depleted uranium weapons. undefeated uranium weapons of a new type and these a really terrible weapons these are 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. r.t. . those critics that charging america with hypocrisy have been pointing to the iran

iraq war 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 a fact that from a cia officer a mcgovern believes exemplifies the two faces of the united states foreign policy. but what we have here is a situation where the united states government. enabled. iraq. almost to conquer iraq 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 dollar. shaking hands with saddam hussein you know what happened the day after the first public announcement that the iraqis had used mustard gas to go see any and so ok so blind eye well you go in spades the problem really is that.

we know what was going on and you know the geneva convention against the use of chemical warfare our top leaders knew it you question is you know had no conscience and they no shame. germans are living in the countryside to speak out against their hulking noise that may be coming up a scandal of a giant wind turbines springing up in the people's backyards keeping them awake at night just after the break.

your bank. account with. some of. the consents to. the opinions that you think are great. choose the stories get him. to to speak. thank you. for watching r.t. for more international news the secret register of more than sixty thousand sex offenders is a 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 artie's political reports a failure to protect vulnerable youngsters can have tragic 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 kern and. 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 mean a lot more offending but one children's charity says that the police need to remove those who no longer pose a threat. it in order to focus on monitoring the prolific offenders i'm not pretending by the way the 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 counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that there perpetrator that's been let off

that list you are reading from mars do you are going back to mean that was not 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 the torment and 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 you are going to these these these inmates and they said 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 that they would sue child sex offenders. it just tells you a lot that these people want the register a my worry and my concern is the. marx's to be truthful paul says that his abusive 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. arty london. on one side makers and shakers from the every nation the world of love to russia as the moscow region her the max air show featuring cutting edge a craft and some spectacular aerobatic performances you can head to our two dot com for the. nursing old wounds the run prepares to suit the united states

of mind in the one hundred fifty three crew that toppled terrans democratically elected leadership. and may just thirty in russia's far east of barricades and self against the advancing waters amid the worst flooding to hit the region in of the country you can get all these stories and more at r.t. dot com. and to nuclear hysteria fueled by the twenty eleven fukushima disaster has prompted the german government to phase out atomic poem by filling the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task there's now a public storm brewing over the wind turbines are springing up all over the country to meet the past cheerful people all of a found out why they're 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. but 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 that away from us one of the main problems for people living in this area is the she assignees of the new turbines that ova shanteau their homes. 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. is one of the most about these low frequency sounds or 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. but like i'm not going to eat 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 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. other news in brief one more on the world now are gay rights activists dumped coca-cola on a new york's a times square in response to the company's sponsorship of the twenty

fourteen winter olympics in sochi it's all part of a wave of protests against the law banning homosexuals propaganda to under eighteen's passed by russia in june twenty l.c.d. t.v. rights groups that have branded the legislation discriminatory and a call for an olympic boycott. a u.s. army psychiatrist who fatally shot thirteen soldiers at the fort hood military base in two thousand and nine has been sentenced to death by lethal injection more than thirty personnel were injured in the attack nigel has later said he went on the rampage in retaliation against u.s. wars in the muslim world last time the u.s. army executed one of its own as more than fifty years ago. in that entire province of new york can thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in front of the regional congress police had to barricade the entrance to the building and used tear gas to disperse the rock throwing crowds protesters were angered by plans to allow shale gas exploration in the region they pointed to the

harm of drilling could do to the environment and the local indigenous communities and coming up next hour max and stacey discuss how some states believe themselves dry in the rush of the shale gas and other cipro my duties. sexists is so frex 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 it's all into a bottomless pit of stupid they'll vote for sink holes of stupid. right coming up next if they be latino without breaking the sack. is the media leave though so we leave the baby. was bush and see to. play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. mark t. . british.

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morning news today. again flared up the full these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. today. to get. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i mean the town that i'm sitting really messed up. in the all three so actually. the. worst you're going to go right out of a. regular guy in four minutes for a. while for about

a good cause you never seen anything like this i'm selling. lots of guys i mean martin and this is breaking the sets when you hear about big bank c.e.o.'s running away with millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for their bonuses takers wish that you could just arrest these criminals yourselves well that's exactly what one twenty two year old tried to do his name is melvin willis he's an activist from richmond california who drove seven hundred miles to salt lake city for a wells fargo shareholders meeting three attempted to place c o two john stumpf under citizen's arrest melvin said the idea that c.e.o.'s are too big to jail is an outrage in the work for the citizens arrest he cited offenses such as a legally foreclosing on homes and racially discriminating against mortgage our

applicants of course moment make it too far he was quickly discovered on the building by security but it doesn't matter because his message will transcend his action a message that signals americans growing disdain against a two tiered justice system it's only a matter of time before the people in this country realize like melvin willis already has that if our government won't step up and prosecute wall street criminals then it's up to the people to ensure that those fat cat bankers pay the real price so why wait. break the set. a little bit we're allowed to do if you've never seen anything like the trouble. this past presidential election was truly an indicator of a growing minority in this country one that searching for an alternative political ideology from the dominant a reigning two party system.