you know 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 that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged welcome to the big picture. issues. cretaceous three. four chargers free. range three. three stooges free. old free blog video for your media project a free media r.t. dot com. president obama says action against syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons

would be our warning shot not a large scale attack and that's as washington sees support for a potential intervention a weekend with britain's parliament divided on the issue. critics point to america's own toxic past from agent orange in vietnam to cia support for saddam hussein chemical aggression coming out 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 save guarding communities from predators. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program al skepticism and opposition are thought to be delaying u.s.

and british plans to attack syria both countries. happened strongly pushing the case for a bombing campaign they aim according to president barack obama is to santa warning to us and who he blames for carrying out a deadly chemical attack last week while that's likely to mean strikes in key syrian military assets so this map shows you the airfields used by the syrian jets which rebels and the west say are playing a decisive role in the war there is speculation that they will bear the brunt of the attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes and runways as for a hole will be doing the shooting well u.s. bases are located to the north and south while american destroyers and attack submarines are to the west along with a british air base there obama has yet to decide whether to give the go ahead for. have made it clear that military action could go ahead without approval from the u.n. security council. 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 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 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 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 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 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 be the findings of this un investigating team before any conclusions can be drawn and then austria has indicated that it will not allow fide 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 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 now 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 it will wait to see the findings of u.n. investigators before deciding whether to act or not are just laura smith reports from london. david cameron has realized 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 the 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 asked to vote immediately on military action will be asked 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 after 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 un mandate for military action 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 experts check the conclusions of this un report themselves a lot of the members of parliament emailed and tweeted to 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 willing 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 they've also been a couple of polls done one by the daily telegraph which put just nine percent of people in favor of military action in syria we also saw a protest by the stop the war. election outside downing street on wednesday the stop the war say that around a thousand people with that band as hands off syria. war not wealth. will coalition also say that they're being contacted by people. wanting to donate 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 now in west former first sea loren and security minister joins me live now to talk about the military buildup surrounding syria thank you so much sir for joining us here on the program first of all what is your perception of the crisis in syria and specifically should britain take part in the u.s. led military campaign. well i was very concerned

a couple of days ago when i came back into this country to find that we seem to be on a course to go straight down the track of military action and i was not at all happy without having seen the lead up to the iraq war. i think we need to wait for the report from the u.n. inspectors it is seems to me bizarre that we should actually take action before the united nations team that are reporting on our behalf give us the report so we should wait for that i mean it looks as though it will say that chemical weapons were used but we must wait and see i think also we need to see the hard intelligence that the u.s. and the u.k. believe they have to show that the regime did actually carry out this appalling atrocity and if we have got that evidence i think we should show that and display it so people can see it because people don't trust. this sort of information anymore and i think we should then sit down with the russians and say right you think it was the opposition who did it let's sit down and look at all our

intelligence here and when we can prove that it is one or the other then that would be the position if we prove it's the regime we can say right it's the regime then i think we should go to the u.n. security council and say to them right we believe we need a suit security council resolution and i imagine russia and china it's russia of admitted that actually the intelligence and the evidence shows it was a regime would say well we'll abstain and in which case they would be an authority for that's one way of looking at things but there are of course differing views on this one at this point you know unlike iraq or afghanistan the allies say that it's not supposed to be a large scale attack as president obama put it just a warning shot so does this justify the impatience of some the countries to go it had with a military campaign without the u.n. mandate. i mean i think legally there is no difficulty because of the chemical weapons convention of nine hundred ninety two and the first chemical weapons convention tonight in zero four i think legally in the look in the courts

you will be able to go through and say there was justification for action of a coalition of the willing but i'd much rather have a u.n. security council resolution and the danger with saying we're going to use a limited surgical strike is all my experience of walls and i've been in them and in the lead up to them and i've been running them and things is to find that you have a lot more of unintended consequences you think you're just going to do one little thing but actually things then happen and expand so we need to be very clear exactly what it is we intend doing are we just if assuming that it was the regime that did it assuming that it is a chemical weapons are being used are we going to be effectively smacking him hard to say don't ever do that again is he likely to actually respond to that because he like to say no i won't or are we going to do something more because most any action will have an impact on the balance between the two forces fighting in iraq in syria and the forces fighting in syria effectively are fighting out the sunni shia divide

that is wrecking the whole of that middle east region so speaking of the forces as you mentioned within syria i mean the country is divided and at this point and in speaking of the worst case scenario of course here the military strike how will that change things how will it shatter the balance there will that likely to improve things for the people in the country or further complicate the situation. well i think we that's why i think the nations like the u.s. and the u.k. and france and turkey need to be very very careful about what action they take we need to be very clear what is it we actually want to achieve what is the end state we want we need to have in place mechanisms militarily to ensure that things don't go beyond a certain degree. but i'm not at all convinced that an attack would actually help the condition of the people within the within syria unless you could guarantee it stops the regime if the regime are doing it using chemical weapons against their

own people if they are it is a very low something to be doing but otherwise i think it won't necessarily make their condition better well government troops seem to be keeping the armies of an al qaida linked a militia at bay at this point so would these radical elements be happy to see foreign a foreign powers attacking their anime's how would they react to the military campaign from abroad. well i think we all need to be very careful getting ourselves involved in events in that middle eastern region we've seen what happened in iraq you know we've seen what's happened in afghanistan i have no doubt that the al qaeda group and there are a very large group i'm afraid in the opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america or britain and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very. that's certainly

true and laurie allen west former first the lord and security minister thank you so much for your views here on r.t. . now was british lawmakers divided over whether to attack syria the u.s. may soon find itself alone in the leading to war charge and to make matters worse justify an intervention proving to be harder than expected no major international bodies supporting the strikes leaving the u.s. to rely on a moral case for intervention a task that has or is more important now reports may be difficult considering america's own past or you would 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 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 fallujah 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. undefeated u.n. weapons of a new type 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.

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all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about the v.i.p.'s interviews intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit our big. dog called. welcome back this is our t. 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 splitting communities add risk as r.t.s. bully boy can all 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 kernel. i lived in constant terror of my own 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 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 the 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 eventually 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 views are 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 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 is a prison. where the sense from this treatment program is run by brain who 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 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 of the register a my worry and my concern is the. they were our system of children paul says that his abused 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. r.t. london. makers and shakers from the aviation world flocked to russia as the moscow region host a max air show featuring cutting edge aircraft and some spectacular aerobatic performances so had to our website for more. nerds. iran prepares to sue the united states for masterminding the nine hundred fifty three include that toppled tehran's democratically elected leadership. the central asian country of kyrgyzstan is on high alert over the black death boys

died from. a surge of europe in the middle ages here's our lindsey friends. the 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 the last recorded case of bubonic plague in keurig kyrgyzstan was thirty years ago another virus is carried on fleas which live on rodents 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 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 an update audix just to just to make sure that people have as much defense as possible. and coming up here in our defense contract there are guilty of torture at abu ghraib takes legal action against its victims i doubt about that bizarre turn of events and breaking a sad that's next here on 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 are sure to nafta no is it a violent foreign policy throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's in locations like haiti somalia in the balkans etc no his legacy is based on the least important sin he committed as a president cheating on his wife for the years couldn't was in office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream media they are going to use manning's gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion.

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all very sort of sleepy that's. the worst you're going through the white house chief of the. radio guy and for a minute. what we're about to give you never seen anything like this i'm told. lots of guys i mean martin and this is breaking the sets when you hear about big bank c.e.o.'s and 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 the moment didn't make it too far he was quickly discord on the building by security but it doesn't matter because his message will transcend his action a message that signals americans growing distain 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. such. as you've never seen anything like the trouble.