from a student. group to. the threat of an imminent western attack in syria seems to be receding britain's prime minister is right now facing opposition and parliament today as a tap plans while president obama is under pressure to get congress' approval. although washington accuses president assad of using chemicals and civilians are he looks at america's own murky past from deadly agent orange in viet nam to depleted uranium and iraq. good bye to guantanamo is too little jury and our repatriated from the infamous prison facility we ask what's going to happen to many more who were cleared for release long ago.

and after dozens of convicted sex offenders in britain get themselves taken off a police watch list are talks to one child abuse victim fears for the public's safety. this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program well the un security council failed to agree on how to act early euro but britain says even without a mandate an attack would be justified amended tarion grounds that's as high ranking former military officials in britain also warned against writing syria well here's our laura smith and her report. the prime minister's had to backtrack quite significantly during the course of the last twenty four thirty six hours the motion that was going to be debated the softening was originally on military action but

cameron knew that he wasn't going to get the votes on that he knew that labor m.p.'s that opposition m.p.'s would not back him and he also knew that seventy of his own members of parliament weren't going to back the motion either so now this mission is about a strong humanitarian response it's significantly watered down but it still includes of course a clause on military intervention in principle so that may be what gives a lot of m.p.'s calls for thought even on this new motion opposition m.p.'s the labor party has already indicated that it's not going to back the prime minister cameron also has agreed in the last thirty six hours that he will wait for the results of this un report on the lead to do so chemical weapons and he will also go back to the un security council to see if he can get a mandate for intervening in syria but then again the prime minister's office says that it would be legal under humanitarian doctrine to launch a strike on syria even without the agreement of the un security council and in the

last day we've had military former military chiefs literally queuing up to talk about their reservations to express their concerns about military strikes in syria we heard from the former head of the british army general lord done that he was very instrumental in iraq and afghanistan he says that even the use of chemical weapons doesn't constitute an open invitation to the international community to intervene in a country's internal affairs we've also heard here on our t.v. from lord west who's a former minister and first the lord he says we must put diplomacy before military action just because you go in intending to do one thing doesn't mean that it actually works out like that let's hear what he had to say the danger with saying we're going to use a limited surgical strike is all my experience of wars is to find the. pended consequences you think you're just going to do one little thing but actually things then happen and expounds are we not at all convinced that attack would

actually help the condition of the people within within syria and then we had from former senior naval officers rear admiral chris parry he says instead of real crease missiles we should be sending diplomatic cruise missiles in also there's a problem of legitimacy we need to carry the un including russia and china along with any action that they're going to take and if you're thinking of going to war you have to be absolutely sure of the legitimacy and even so there's no guarantee that it's going to work let's hear that worst case scenario 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 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 and of course the military chiefs aren't the only ones to express reservations there's been a couple of polls done of ordinary people one in the daily telegraph that said that just nine percent of people in the u.k.

want to see any kind of military action in syria and the other one saying that twenty five percent of people would be behind military strikes not not a not a positive picture in terms of military intervention in syria here in the u.k. . well the vice president of russia's academy of geopolitical problems believes u.s. military involvement in the syrian conflict what ignited the entire middle east. is the. syria's air defense system has suffered a little through so it will be able to give a fairly effective resistance besides with the current makeup of nato in this region no serious damage could be done to syrian forces at this stage if there was a strike it would be small scale with the purpose of destroying the chemical weapons depos but firing on the storage facilities would inflict heavy chemical damage to surrounding areas it would be a strike of the population of syria by the united states syria already has international forces fighting on both sides assad is supported by hezbollah and the

kurdish militia well there's almost no syrians left among the rebels most of the anti has said troops are international militants openly confirming their links with al qaida. and to the war on the side of al-qaeda against the syrian president it would just add fuel to the fire on the conflict would quickly spread across the entire middle east. now in the u.s. a growing number of american lawmakers are urging barack obama to get congressional approval and to explain the objectives of any plan to tap the u.s. leader who squarely blames last week's chemical assault on regime forces says a strike will send a strong warning to president assad but syria's neighbors are increasingly unwilling to support such plans for jordan where the u.s. has an air base says it will not be a launching pad for any a military action against syria while iraq also said it would not provide its airspace for an attack on

a neighboring country lebanon's foreign minister also spoke out against military action echoing the others and saying its airspace will not be available and egypt issued a strong warning against foreign intervention in syria artie's fall asleep now reports from the region on the latest developments there. 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 of 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 are not confirmed that russia is carrying out a rotation of its naval forces in the mediterranean sea 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 wasted military action we're hearing this from the u.n. peace envoy brahimi at the same time 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 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 so certainly 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 british parliament stands divided over whether to strike at syria washington claims there is a moral reason to attack iraq but as our now reports the use of chemical weapons was of no concern in the war. be advised 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 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 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 uranium weapons depleted uranium weapons and also you know undefeated 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 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 bring up or not artsy now some of the u.k.'s rapists and child abusers have managed to be taken off the list of sex a fandor we'll tell you why in just

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interviews an intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit or a big. dog called. welcome back this is r t two inmates from guantanamo bay prison have been returned home chilled geria one was cleared for transfer from the infamous facility as far back as two thousand and six and the other in two thousand and ten meanwhile the hunger strike at the prison over indefinite detention is still ongoing with thirty seven inmates still refusing food was get an update from marty's guide and she can now that i think of her joining us so can you tell us why it took so long for their release and what's going to happen to the other inmates. well morry now finally we see some action on the part of the administration action that is long do

you two main where we were transferred to all geria this is the first transfer of detainees in nearly a year and the hunger strike that the detainees had subjected themselves to certainly build up the momentum for action because before the hunger strike the administration had shut down the office of the state department that was working on the transfers there was really no hope for these men even for those who'd been cleared for release by the u.s. government a long time ago like these two all jury and men both of them had been held at guantanamo for at least eleven years both were cleared for release years ago one in two thousand and six and the other in twenty ten both went on hunger strike to protest their own lawful detention one of them was systematically force fed not quite clear at the moment whether the men were released in their homeland upon upon return and algerian press service reports said there were cases would be handled by

competent courts the lawyer for one of. those released said algerians return from the prison camps are typically held for up to twelve days before for questioning their release certainly gives hope to other inmates who were held in guantanamo indefinitely and never charged with the crime the number of hunger strikers went down from more than one hundred people to thirty six as we learned from the updates that we're getting from guantanamo socials out of one hundred sixty four detainees now in guantanamo eighty four people have been cleared for release just like those old jury and men but we don't know how soon they may leave the prison then you have a handful of people all of a little more than a dozen who are considered to be high value detainees but then there are there is a list of forty six at least forty six men that have not. being cleared for release but who the u.s.

government indicates that they will continue to hold those people without charge according to the u.s. government these men are too dangerous to be released them to lawyers so many of them disagree and they're trying to argue against it but they cannot be tried either in military or civilian court because of inadequate or tainted evidence against them made many of these men were tortured which would make evidence against them inadmissible in court with the administration is now trying to do is to lift the ban on transfers to the united states so that maybe they can close the prison but still hold the man behind bars now some argue that even if congress lift the ban on transfers to view was that could mean just a change of address not a not a solution to the problem of different detention are going i think is so much for bringing us this. morning from washington d.c. there. and r.t. dot com we outline a courtroom battle between washington and to rawn 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 a. multi-billion dollar deals are signed and a record number of participants as leading russian and foreign a are space companies present zero graft at the annual max air show in the moscow region. britain tries to keep tabs on its sixty thousand sex offenders by keeping a register of who and where they are but dozens including rapists and child abusers have managed to get off that list by successfully claiming 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. brazenly kernan 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 and number of convicted sex offenders have applied to come off the u.k. sex offenders register claiming they no longer pose a threat to society if a serious sex offender serves more than thirty months for their crime they're supposed to stay on the register for the rest of their lives police will monitor their whereabouts the inform local schools hospitals and potential employers about their existence within the community bought according to human rights laws it's

a breach of criminals rights to keep them on the register indefinitely without the chance of appeal the register is a list that isn't made public detailing for the police all those convicted of a crime under the sexual offenses act in england and wales it includes a range of criminals from convicted rapists and paedophiles to under-age minors who have consensual sex following a change in human rights law last year forty three sex offenders were removed from the register after successful appeals i think it's a very perverse understanding of human rights to put sex offenders before their victims before potential victims i think the implications will mean a lot more offending but one children's charity says that the police need to remove those who are 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 talked to and 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 has actually worked so hard to move forward has now just going to have to it's all undone because they've got to go through it again and they've also got to go through the torment they know that individual could potentially hurt some other child experts in the field of psychology say that questions remain over whether sex offenders can ever be rehabilitated there's a prison. where the sense from this treatment program is run i've been

asked we're going to these these these inmates and they've 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 held the human rights of sex offenders looking for a second charge judges referred to article eight of the european convention on human rights to creating that even former 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 paula says that his abuse developed 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. archie london. well let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world in argentina the brits have rallied in the country's western province in cannes to protest against government plans for shale gas exploration people pointed to the harm drilling could do to the environment and enjoying hunting as president cristina fernandez announced a one point five billion deal between a state owned oil company and the us energy giant chevron to exploit shale gas reserves in the country. in greece one of the country's largest unions the civil servants confederation a staged a nationwide strike against public layoffs the government is planning to axe sow's of state jobs to meet the austerity requirements of its international lenders more

rallies and strikes are expected to take place over the coming days earlier the country's finance minister said greece may need another being allowed to keep its crippled economy afloat germany's shift to renewable energy is not only costing tens of billions of euros it's also coauthoring its countryside and there is a public storm brewing over the wind turbines springing up all over the country to meet the power shortfall you know all over explains. germany's wind farms are spinning out of control that's according to a new generation of. who feel hung onto dry by a lack of regulation on where windmills can be placed. 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 that 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 here 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 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 off 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 but the same as a life. we can be like this forever i don't want to leave but these noises make me sick but there have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cry. those cries aren't 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. we know this peter all of the artsy jim

now a defense contractor guilty of torture at abu ghraib takes legal action against its victims breaking the sat is next in our team. so the historic and for many americans tragic ruling in a 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 of 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.

you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck. i mean the town i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. in the old story so . it's. worse for to live through the white house chief of the. radio guy and put him in a. cloak for a politician because you never seen anything like that 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 who's an active us 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 moment 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 disdain 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.