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

is just going past one pm here in the russian capital you live with us on our t.v. with me. skepticism and opposition after all should be delaying u.s. and british plans to attack syria both countries leaders have been strongly pushing the case for bombing campaign the aim according to president obama is to send a warning to us he blames for carrying out a deadly chemical attack last week that's likely to mean strikes on key syrian military assets now this map. shows you the airfields that are used by syrian jets which rebels and the west say are playing a decisive role in the war speculation that they will bear the brunt of the attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes as well as runways as for who will be

doing the shooting u.s. air bases are located to the north as well as the south american the destroyers and attack submarines are to the west along with the british a base 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 our policy or reports from the region. 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 in 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 naval forces have started docking alongside the 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 showed damascus come under fire from the waist we're receiving reports that as of yet or not confirm that russia is carrying out a rotation of its naval forces in the mediterranean sea at the same time the united nations team is currently inside syria where they are conducting investigations to determine what happened last week when there was an alleged chemical attack the u.n. inspectors say that they'll conclude their mission by him 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 while damascus did send a letter to the u.n. chief bank you moon in which it indicated three other incidents where syrian soldiers came under fire to quote the letter and said with poison close to nerve gas sarin and increasingly we're hearing from all political forces that there needs to be a united nations mandate before there 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 any findings of this you really investigating team before any conclusions can be drawn you have a stalemate situation at the united nations security council a draft resolution was forward but behind the scenes both russia and china have voiced their opposition to it 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 or serby 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. britain's prime minister david cameron is taking the same hold his stance as a u.s. although unlike washington the u.k. government says that 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 gains intervention in the issue has triggered a street protests in london. crowds gathered near the prime minister's a residence condemning of the government's award talk a large share of m.p.'s are threatening to vote against the planned a strike they demanding proof that assad really was behind the chemical attack meanwhile politicians in syria have reportedly invited a u.k.

parliamentary delegation to the country to see at first hand what's happening in their state syria has of course they've been in the grip of a civil war for over two years and according to one british former naval officer a foreign intervention could make the situation much worse. 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 soon find itself alone in 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 is worrying about my reports and may be difficult considering america's ponced 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 were caused by iranian weapons depleted uranium weapons and also you know undefeated uranium 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 for an up or nine party. those critics accusing america of hypocrisy have been pointing to the iran iraq war then the u.s. fed intelligence to saddam hussein 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 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 to go to 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 our top leaders knew would you question is you know have no

conscience i think. right germans living in the countryside speak out against their how can you know its neighbors coming up with the scandal able wind turbines are springing up in the people's backyards keeping them awake at night that's up to the brain. technology innovation all the developments around. the future. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture.

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a party boy to reports 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 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 a 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 mean the implications. 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 counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their news a perpetrator 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 actually worked so hard to move forward has now just it's all undone because they 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 i've been 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 was into 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 want the register a my worry and my concern is the. they work says 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 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 a website makers and shakers from the aviation world flock to russia as the moscow region her use of the mats a show featuring coupling as a craft and some spectacular aerobatic performances all that on our website. nursing old wounds the run prepares to sue the united states for mastermind of the ninety degrees recruit that toppled to run democratically elected leadership.

and a major city in russia's far east barricades itself against the advancing waters amid the with the worst of flooding to hit the region in a century read more about these stories and others 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 but filling the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task there's not a public storm brewing over the wind turbines springing up all over the country to meet the policy shortfall arches that people of all find 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 yes raffles 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 to bind that overshadow their homes. 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. 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 wakes me up in the night sometimes it feels like you can very easily have a common most awesome playing i'm going to teach 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 tall and noisy these massive new neighbors are also having a huge effect on house prices rocco is try. to move away from the to 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 with the same months of life. 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 on 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 mills peter all over r.t. germany. let's take a look at other news in brief around the world now fifteen policemen 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 mountainous area in for rob province the taliban have carried out an increasing number of attacks in recent months taking advantage of the ongoing withdrawal of

foreign troops. a u.s. army psychiatrist who fatally shot thirteen a soldiers at the fort hood military base in two thousand and nine has been sentenced to death a by lethal injection more than thirty personnel were injured in the attack nidal hasan 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 it was more than fifty years ago. reaction time province of. thousands of protesters clashed with riot police in front of the regional congress police had to barricade the entrance to the building and use to get 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 of the local indigenous communities and coming up later in today's program max and stacey discuss how some states have believed themselves dry in the rush for shale gas. tax this is.

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 it for the north sea oil 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 you know there's no escaping this 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 singles of stupid.

i say without a self old son of a look at global campaigns for workers' rights you're watching our team. so the historic and for many americans tragic ruling in the 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 that the job murderer who ushered in 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 wasn't 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 as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion.

a long welcome to worlds apart hundred million people around the globe. coming here and while politicians and policy makers vocal and unanimous to do something the fruits of that labor have failed to materialise just how much more stability before it gets better all to discover that i'm now joined by the director general of the international labor organisation thank you very much for your time. now your organisation forecasts the global unemployment is set to increase to

around two hundred eighty million by two thousand and fifteen and as far as i understand the figure is based on forecast we 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 and if that is the case 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 that it all depends on the actions of politicians and back in two thousand and eight a 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 that we're talking about a new set of rules. trade and financial markets but it doesn't look like those. bold statements have been put into practice seems like a long time ago doesn't it the world leaders were saying that there had to be fundamental changes in globalization that the world economy had to be fairer more sustainable 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 to things want is they want 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 are fair if i make an effort somebody should make an effort and those who have got.