president obama says action against syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons a would be a warning shot not a large scale attack that as washington sees support for a potential intervention weaken with britain's parliament divided on the its. critics point to america's own toxic cause from agent orange in vietnam to cia supporter for saddam's chemical aggression coming up we examine the shifting sands of u.s. foreign policy. and a victim of child abuse in england speaks out as sex offenders are taken off the police watch list aimed at safeguarding communities from predators.

like from moscow you're watching r t with me to bomb would say it's good to have your company with us on this matter. skepticism and opposition are thought to be delaying u.s. and british plans to attack syria but according to both the country's leaders the bombing campaign will still go ahead the aim of calling to president barack obama is to send a warning to us and that's likely to mean strikes on key syrian military assets now this map shows you with the air fields that are being used by syrian jets which rebels and the west as they are playing a decisive role in the war the speculation that they will bear the brunt of the attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes and runways now as well who will be doing the shooting u.s. air bases are located to the north and to the solver. submarines

are to the west along with british air bases now obama has yet to decide whether to give the go ahead for the bombing campaign but officials have made it clear that military action could go ahead without approval from the u.n. security council which is a policy is joining me live from the region paula how is the government in damascus reacting to all of this. what we're hearing from both residents and opposition forces who say that assad's army has evacuated most of its personnel from the military and security headquarters inside the capital city this is of course in preparation for any kind of possible western led military intervention at the same time we are receiving reports that army units near the capital have started confiscating heavy truck trailers and these will be used to transport heavy weaponry from one location to another we are also receiving reports that assad's

and naval forces have started docking alongside commercial ships in tears that are usually used for commercial traffic now here in lebanon itself the situation of course is extremely fluid and we're hearing from a hizbollah leader that the movement will not stand idle should damascus come under fire from the waste now this is the biggest so far the most surest information we're receiving that the organization will get involved if indeed assad is attacked the implications of this of course are that rockets will be fired at israel what we're seeing in israel is a panic among the population so much so that the information lines that people phone to get information as to whether or not they should be collecting gas marks have dropped we've seen hundreds of people turn up at post offices to collect those gas masks at the same time we're also hearing from iran and iran says it will do everything it can to prevent military action one of the u.n.

weapons inspection team is working on the ground probing the alleged chemical attack that happened last week has achieved anything. well damascus did send a letter to the u.n. chief banking moon in which it indicated three other incidents where syrian soldiers came under fire to quote the letter and said with poison close to a nerve gas sarin and it was that same gas that was used in this attack last week the u.n. inspectors say that they'll conclude their mission by in next monday they are talking to eyewitnesses they are gathering samples but the problem is that the only conclusion they'll be able to give is whether or not a chemical attack took place they will not be able to give any kind of indication of who was behind it such attack and increasingly we're hearing from all political forces that there needs to be a united nations mandate before they can be any kind of western military action

we're hearing this from the u.n. peace envoy brahimi at the same time russia saying that it is against any kind of military action inside syria russia saying that the united states is jumping the gun and that there needs to first be a u.n. mandate and the findings of this u.n. investigating team before any conclusions can be drawn as to whether or not a an attack carried out was carried out using chemical weaponry and b. who was behind it oh speaking of that a u.n. mandate i mean how much support does this idea of an un also rise invasion have among nato countries. well countries will certainly split what we're hearing from the french from the british and from the turks is that they will act they can act without any kind of u.n. mandate germany has said that a side needs to be punished but as of yet we haven't heard any indication from germany that they want to get involved in any kind of military action as for norway

and italy they have said that he needs to be a united nations mandate and then austria has indicated that it will not allow fighter jets over its airspace to serve me not a consensus in terms of the international community and that might be part of the reason why the latest word from the american president barack obama is that he hasn't yet made a decision as to whether or not to launch military action inside syria and tensions rising there in syria policy in of the region giving us the latest update on what's happening on syria. britain's prime minister david cameron that is taking the same or hold his stance as of the u.s. although my washington of the u.k. government has said it will wait to see the findings of u.n. investigators before deciding whether to add but as far as british public opinion go eighty percent are against intervention.

the issue has triggered street protests in london the crowds gathered near the prime minister's residence condemning the government's war talk people waved posters with the message hands off syria meanwhile a law she of m.p.'s are threatening to vote against the plan strikes demanding proof that assad really was behind the chemical attack a former senior british naval officer says that if military force is used as a choice that 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 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 syria the u.s. may seem find itself alone amy leading the war charge and to make matters worse justifying an intervention proving to be harder than expected no major international body is supporting the strikes leaving the u.s. to rely on a moral case for intervention a task that as a marine appalled by reports may be difficult considering america's own ponced you also 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 the 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. 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 toy 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.

. those critics accusing america of hypocrisy have been pointing to the iran iraq war then the u.s. led intelligence to saddam hussein and knowing full well that he was using chemical weapons to kill thousands of iranians including civilians a fact that former cia officer ray 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. brock. 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 a 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 to go to the iranians ok so blind eye in spades the rest of the problem really is that

we knew 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 they know shame. coming up germans living in the countryside speak out against their how king noisy neighbors saw the scapula of the wind turbines are springing up in people's backyards is keeping them awake at night what have all that story after the subway.

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a secret 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 it is fully worker 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 to watch a continued until he was sixteen so. basically current 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. 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 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 counsel with are

absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their news perpetrator that's the net of that list you are reading to mars do you are going to mean that doesn't all that hard work that poor person that 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 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 asked we're 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 so that they would see 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 so as 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 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 their child basically was murdered emotion from such a young age. arty london. on a website of makers and shakers from the every nation the world of flocking to russia as the moscow region holds back the air show injuring cutting edge a craft and some spectacular aerobatic performances you can get all of that on

r.t.e. dot com. also nursing old wounds that you run prepares to move the united states for mastermind in the one nine hundred fifty three crew that toppled tehran's a democratically elected leadership. and a major city in russia's far east barricades itself against the advancing waters i mean the worst flooding to hit the region in the century you can find all these stories and more at our dot com. and to nuclear hysteria fueled by the twenty eleven for the sheema disaster has prompted the german government to face out of tommy poem but feeling the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task the public storm brewing over the wind turbines are springing up all over the country to meet the partial for people all of us 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 on to dry by a lack of regulation on where windmills can be placed yes but it will slowly start 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 on in the north 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. these low frequency sounds are just constantly in your hands 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 very easily have a common most awesome playing i'm not going to take when they're going around it's like this 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 told and noisy these massive new neighbors are also having a huge effect on house prices rocco is trying to me. away from the turbines his

house has been for sale for the last five years without success and the time was already calculated them into the asking price and if not half the price of a 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 as 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 we mils peter all over r.t. germany. a second look at other news say in brief from around the world now fifteen

police men have been killed in an ambush carried out by taliban fighters in the west of afghanistan officials say forty officers came under fire while driving through a month to this area in a foreign province the taliban have carried out an increase in the number of attacks in recent months that taking advantage of the ongoing withdrawal of foreign troops. u.s. army psychiatrist who fatally shot a thirteen soldiers at 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 the dollhouse on the latest said he went on to go on a rampage in retaliation against u.s. wars in that the muslim world the last time the u.s. army executed one of its own was more than fifty years ago. and there isn't time province of new 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 drilling could do to the environment and the local indigenous communities and coming up next hour max and stacey will discuss how some states have beat themselves in the rush for shale gas. texas so frets some towns will soon be running out of water and now the united kingdom wants to create its own fracking mess 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 nope 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 this all into a bottomless pit of stupid they'll vote for sink holes of stupid. that's it for me phenolic stay with us as we continue this story of cuban spying and intrigue in miami coming up next to no will the real terrorists piece and. this is the media leave though so we leave the baby. was pushed aside to. play your

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when i was sleeping it was around six am. what i remember hearing on like someone breaking the law. although you know i was surrounded by people with machine guns helmets stuff you see in movies. they examined my mouth seemed to many james bond movies i thought i had signed up there. they told me i was under arrest i asked for walks they said you know. cubans busted

here in the united states spying for fidel are they terrorists or freedom fighters . you know the cubans i was. going to those guys that did play to us in the semifinals of the pan american games in the basketball tournament the five a cuban five with definitive coaching against terrorists they had the cuban five other that's also been american film that i haven't ever heard about the cuban five there that rock band right. i mean you know to cuban five. would you want to find out ok. ok the police are looking for you to deal with the terrorist groups in miami's of exiles with people planning attacks on the cuban people and foreign citizens inside cuba the cuban five every right to defend the cuban

revolution the cuban revolution before my time. the story of the cuban five began more than fifteen years ago. nine hundred fifty seven i was a university student and i discovered that kids my age were fighting a guerrilla war in cuba i read the story in the new york times. the rebels were led by.