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

starting coming to you live from the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program skepticism and opposition are thought to be delaying u.s. and british plans to attack syria both countries leaders have been strongly pushing the case for a bombing campaign the aim according to president barack obama is to send a warning to who he blames for carrying out a deadly chemical attack last week and that's likely to mean strikes on syrian military assets well this map. shows you the airfield used by syrian jets which rebels and the west say are playing a decisive role in the war and there is speculation that they will bear the brunt of the attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes and runways as for who will be doing the shooting u.s. air bases are located to the north and south while american destroyers and attack

submarines are to the west along with the british airbase obama has yet to decide whether to give the go what have the bombing campaign but officials have made it clear that military action could go ahead without approval from the u.n. security council are disposed to 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 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 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 a 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 it said with poison close to a 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. and 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 they needs to speed the findings of this u.n. investigating team before any conclusions can be drawn and then austria has indicated that it will not allow five to jets over its airspace you have a stalemate situation at the united nations security council a draft resolution was put 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 so 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 or britain's prime minister david cameron is taking the same hawkish stance as the u.s. although unlike washington the u.k. government has said no we'll wait to see the findings of u.n. investigators before deciding whether to act joining me now live from london is already is laura smith lord of the british parliament will sooner or later decide and take a vote on the u.k.'s military option in syria so tell us how much unity is there among british m.p.'s. well it's a very different picture here on thursday to the one that we store on wednesday when really it was full steam ahead towards a vote in parliament on military action now david cameron has realised that he's probably not going to get the votes for an immediate motion on military strikes on

syria and so he's put the brakes on slightly opposition leader ed miliband said that he was going to make his m.p.'s. any such motion and also it became clear that around seventy of cameron's own m.p.'s looked like they were going to very sick against so now there's going to be a much more softly softly approach there will be a debate on thursday but m.p.'s instead of being off to vote immediately on military action will be able to vary so on a strong humanitarian response to this alleged use of chemical weapons cameron now says and the government say that they will now wait for the results of the un report from syria on this alleged chemical attack the us however still says that it's not really interested in waiting and then off that report has been received then they will have another vote on direct military action and david cameron also says that he will now go back to the un security council to try to secure some kind

of resolution a u.n. mandate for military action which of course was blocked by russia wednesday. a lot more softly softly but that of course in turn has created something of a transatlantic split the u.s. is still very willing to go ahead while david cameron is looking to deal with these political difficulties at home meanwhile the speaker of the syrian parliament has written a letter to u.k. m.p.'s we've had confirmed by the house of commons press office here in london inviting a delegation of m.p.'s from london to come to damascus and see for themselves bring their own let's check the conclusions of this u.n. report themselves they make a threat as well parliament says it. to anyone responsible for foreign attack which they call an aggressive an unprovoked acts of war that they will suit people in the british courts they also say that they have a common enemy in al qaida and that any attack would strengthen al qaida and they

also invoke the specter of two wars the first one they went to the first world war they see how the regional wars can explode into global conflict and also very powerfully the specter of the iraq war they say don't be taken in by another dodgy dossier and that may very well be the sentence that makes them peace stand back and think many m.p.'s here in the u.k. are terrified of being seen to be involved in another iraq type situation so we understand that that letter is to be emailed to all m.p.'s before they take part in any debate on thursday all right well this is how things look at the political and of things but what about general public in the u.k. i mean what's their attitude towards a potential strike. well a lot of the members of parliament emailed and tweeted their constituents yesterday are asking for their opinions on whether military action should take place in syria

and one can only assume that the reason that very many of them were unwilling to vote on that military action is because their constituents were so against it they had an overwhelming response a lot of m.p.'s said there will to be in a couple of polls done one by the daily telegraph which put just nine percent of people in favor of military action in syria seventy four percent against and about a similar number in favor of humanitarian aid to be sent another one hugo of twenty five percent in favor of of military action and fifty percent against we also saw a protest by the stop the war coalition outside downing street on wednesday the stop the war say that around a thousand people with their banners hands off syria cut war not welfare and will coalition also say that they're being contacted by people by phoning in wanting to donate to people that they haven't heard from since two thousand and three ahead of the iraq war who want to become members of stop the war against it that's quite

a significant thing as well or laura thanks very much for gauging the reaction towards a potential strike in syria among politicians and ordinary britons alike lauriston is reporting from london now syria has of course been in the grip of a civil war for over two years now 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 now 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 justify 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 artie's marina portnoy reports may be difficult considering america's own past well you might 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 citizens 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. and depleted uranium weapons of a new type on 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 murderer 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 or in upper nile r.t. all those critics accusing america of hypocrisy have been pointing to the iran iraq

war than the us fed intelligence to saddam hussein knowing full well that he was using chemical weapons to kill thousands of iranians including civilians a fact a former cia officer ray mcgovern believes example of 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 and 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 you know the geneva convention against the use of chemical warfare our top leaders knew it you question is you know had no conscience i think. germans living in the countryside speak out against their halting noisy neighbors. coming up the scandal over a wind turbines ringing up in people's backyards keeping them awake at night that's after the break.

school that. according to recover though in federal custody children the. right to choose the consensus you. choose the opinions the great. choose the stories that impact the. truth you access to. welcome back you're with r.t. now 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 this is putting communities at risk as our boys in our 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 torture continued until he was sixteen so. basically current and. i lived in constant her mind. 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 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 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 thought counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their views are perpetrating this the net of that unless you are reading to my eyes do you are going back to being that

doesn't all that hard work that poor person that she 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 is a prison of. them where the sense from this treatment program is run our brain you are spoken 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 for 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 of the register a my worry and my concern is the. they were our system of children 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 emotionally from such a young age. arty london. well a central asian country of castle stannis toughened border controls at the crossings with its southern neighbor karega stand but it's not about politics or economic sanctions or a military buildup it's the black death was now turn to our team's lizzie france it can bring us more and is over to you and. well

a fifteen year old boy has lost his life in central asia kyrgyzstan and officials are pointing to the bubonic plague also known as the black death now health ministers do say that his body has been cremated and his remains dealt with in a very careful manner the last recorded case of bubonic plague in keurig kyrgyzstan was thirty years ago another virus is carried on fleas which live on rodents and it's actually very common for these rodents to live in the central asian areas however when i can accumulate case presents that's when health officials ratchet up the security measures very very quickly because this is obviously extremely deadly in the middle ages it kills an estimated twenty five million people throughout europe now it's reported through various sources that he either contracted it through the bite of a flea on one of these rodents or through eating barbecued meat of a marmot at a family gathering now these days having been confirmed we're reading media reports

that he may have gotten gotten infected with the virus in one of these ways now kyrgyzstan's health minister says this case is not conducive to an epidemic although it's very important for precautions to be taken so more than one hundred fifty people have been quarantined two teams are out in the field to find catch and exterminate and study these rodents who may be carrying this and possibly infecting more humans borders have been tightened between kyrgyzstan and kazakstan and of course officials are also out giving people and of a audix just to just to make sure that people have as much defense as possible if this indeed for any reason begins to spread now it is. is worth mentioning again that the bubonic plague does exist in these wide open spaces on rodents in central asia even parts of russia even in africa but it's when they present in human form when is when health officials really start to take major safety measures which is being done in this case after the death of this fifteen year old boy will no doubt

everyone is in high alert there lindsey france thank you so much for bringing us this report. to other stories now anti-nuclear hysteria fueled by the twenty eleven fukushima disaster has prompted the german government to phase out atomic power but filling the energy gap is proving to be a difficult task while there is now a public storm brewing over the wind turbines springing up all over the country to meet the power shortfall are just peed all over 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 on to drive 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 to bynes that overshadowed their homes come on in the north of going to have been from march until the end of july we have a constant flickering in our kitchens it's very unpleasant you don't even want to breakfast there attention 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 as sometimes it feels like you can very easily have a common most awesome playing in the team when they're going around it's like this permanent movement in my peripheral vision i work in this field and 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. the way for me to his house is being a facade for the last five years without success. just because i'm i've already calculated them into the all scheme price and have not half the price off but 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 the residential areas but that's

a muzzle. and he can be like this forever i don't want to leave but these noises make me sick but as they have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cried those cries on the hood in the corridors of power though all the major parties in the upcoming election all stressing their commitment continuing chairman's race towards renewables which means more windmills peter all of the r.t. gen y. brings us up to date here in r.t. and next a story of spying and intrigue in miami coming up here on our team well the real terrorist please stand out. is the media leave us so we leave that maybe. i will see motion security for your party there's a bill. for shoes that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers

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