the threat of an imminent western attack on syria seems to be receding as president obama's pressure to get congress approval while britain and france agree to wait for u.n. inspectors to report on the use of chemical weapons. while washington accuses onset of using chemical weapons r t looks at america's own murky past from deadly agent orange in viet nam to depleted uranium in iraq. and after dozens of convicted sex predators in britain get themselves taken off of police watch list r.t. talks to one child abuse victim who fears for the public's safety.

this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital a marina joshie welcome to the program. the u.s. and british drive to launch a military operation against syria has come up against new hurdles both abroad and at home a growing number of american lawmakers are urging barack obama to get congressional approval and to explain the objectives of planned attack the u.s. leader who squarely blames last week's chemical assault on the regime forces says a strike will send a strong warning to president asad well it's likely to mean assaults on key syrian military assets while this map shows you the airfields used by syrian jets and there is speculation that they will bear the brunt of any attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes and runways as for who will be who will do the firing rather u.s. air bases are located to the north and south while american destroyers and attack submarines are to the west along with a british air base president obama says there is still no decision on whether the

plans will get the go ahead but officials are making it clear that military action can be launched without u.n. security council approval suppose the reports from the region on the latest developments. 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 and naval forces have started docking alongside commercial ships in tears that are usually be 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 of 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 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 military action we're hearing this from the u.n. peace envoy brahimi at the same time russia saying the. 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 u.n. investigating team before any conclusions can be drawn and then austria has indicated that it will not allow fighter 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 while the u.k. and france seem to be backing away from an imminent attack both countries say they favor waiting for the u.n. teams report on the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria britain's prime minister david cameron is also running into trouble getting parliamentary approval for strike arches loris miss 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 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 and he 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 also 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 also 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 . to pay m.p.'s we can buy 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 he lesions 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 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 we also saw a protest by the stop the walker. election 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. 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 a high ranking former military officials in britain are also warning the government

began striking syria saying such an attack would have unintended consequences are spoke to former first the lord and security minister lord west who told us that intervention might play until congress hands. 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 the danger with saying we're going to use a limited surgical strike is all my experience of wars 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 of unintended consequences you think you're just going to do one little thing but actually things then happen and expand 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 attack would actually help the condition of the people within within syria 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 turkey 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 careful how we actually act that's certainly true while the british parliament stands divided over whether to strike in syria washington claims there is a moral reason to attack but as are very important i reports the use of chemical weapons was no concern in the words that the us waged in the past the advise 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 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 the 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 fallujah 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 were caused by iranian weapons depleted uranium weapons and also you know undefeated u.n. 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 marine upper nile r.t. . well i'll be back with more news shortly after a short break. choose

your language. make it with zero and if you're going to kill some of. the consents to. choose the opinions that you the great. choose the stories that if you. choose to accept the truth. welcome back you're watching r t britain tries to keep tabs on its sixty thousand sex offenders by keeping a register of who and where they are the dozens including rapists and child abusers have managed to get off that list by successfully claiming it's their rights were

being breached boyko explains why. 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 kerman does kill people i lived in constant terror of my own mind flashbacks are times throughout my life with the age of 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. 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 the people that i i taught counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that their news perpetrator has been let off that list you are reading and 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 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 our brain in the ass 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 a favorite there 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 former sex criminals deserve the chance to provide it 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. is there boxes to be truthful bullish 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 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 it's emotional from such a young age. london. now take a look at some of the stories from around the world and a courtroom battle between washington and tehran with iran preparing to sue the united states for masterminding the nine hundred fifty three coup that toppled the country's democratically elected leadership plus. multi-billion dollar deals are signed on a record number of visitors awaited as we know russian and foreign airspace companies present and their economy and aircraft at the annual max air show in the

moscow region. teenager has died from you want to play again southern kyrgyzstan putting the country on high in medical lurd more than one hundred people who were in contact with a victim are now in isolation a hospital fears over the black death spreading has led officials to tighten border controls our friends has the details. 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 contract 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. at some other stories from around the world and argentina hundreds have rallied in the countries western province new hand to protest against government plans for shale gas exploration people pointed to the harm drilling could do to the environment and to wiring teams president cristina fernandez announced a one point five billion deal between a state owned oil company and the u.s. energy giant chevron to exploit shell gas reserves in the country. and you have got to stand fifteen policemen have been killed and ten wounded in an

ambush carried out by taliban fighters according to officials the officers were attacked while patrolling one of the main highways in the western province. the attacks follow a spate of taliban assaults and civilians and a base operated by coalition troops violence is on the rise in afghanistan since nato handed over security to afghan troops in june. a bus crash in kenya has killed at least forty one people and left dozens injured the bus plunged into a value when the driver reportedly lost control the vehicle rolled over several times before landing on its roof khania has recently launched a road safety campaign to tackle the large number of traffic accidents that have claimed more than two thousand lives this year germany's shift to renewable energy is not only costing tens of billions of euros it's also cluttering

its countryside and there is a public storm brewing over the wind turbines springing up all over the country to meet the power shortfall peed all over explains. 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 well it's a nice touch that 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 turbines that overshadow their homes 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 thought when i can fall asleep wakes me up in the night have asthma sometimes it feels like you can very easily have a common most awesome playing it's not just that they're tall and noisy these massive new neighbors are also having a huge effect on house prices rocco is trying to move away from the turbines his house has been up for sale for the last five years without success some of the time i've 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 the residential areas but that's a muzzle. he can be like this forever and i don't want to leave but these noises make me sick but it has to have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cried those cries on the hood in the corydoras of power though all the major parties in the upcoming election all stressing their commitment continuing germany's race towards renewables which means more windmills peter all of a artsy. oxana boy to look sad global campaigns for workers' rights in just a moment here in r.t. .

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news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. long welcome to worlds apart hundred million people around the globe war. is set to increase in the coming here and while politicians and policy. do something the fruits of their labor have failed to materialize just yet how much

more stability before it gets better all to discover that i'm now joined by the director general of the international paper thank you very much for your time. now your organization forecasts that global unemployment is set to increase to around two hundred million by two thousand and fifteen and as far as i understand this figure is based on forecast which 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 in the future depends on what policymakers do the bad news as you've indicated is the most recent four 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 they do all

depends on the actions of politicians and back in two thousand and eight 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 they were talking about a new set of rules in trade and financial markets but it doesn't look like those. bold statements have been put into practice a long time ago doesn't the world leaders were saying that they had to be fundamental changes in globalization that the world economy had to be more sustainable and you're right the g twenty in two thousand and nine the leaders said we have to pull the creation of quality job at the center of recovery from the. 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.