great life. it's eight pm here in moscow tonight the threat of an imminent western attack on syria seems to be receding britain's prime minister is right now facing opposition in parliament to his attack while president obama is under pressure to get congress approval. on the washington uses president assad of using chemicals on civilians in the program r.t. looks at america's own murky past from deadly agent orange in vietnam to depleted uranium in iraq. goodbye to guantanamo is to algerians or repatriated from the infamous prison facility we asked what's going to happen to many more who were cleared for release long ago.

after dozens of convicted sex offenders in britain get themselves taken off of police watch list talks to one child abuse victim who fears for the public safety now. if you're just joining us this is r.t. international with me kevin owen the top story the u.s. and british drive to launch a military operation against syria's come up against new both at home and abroad in westminster parliament's been debating for more than two hours now with the prime minister up against skeptical m.p.'s david cameron told them it's highly likely that the assad regime is behind the attack but that is not one hundred percent proof he also refused to make the case that the strike would stop or reduce the bloodshed in syria laura smith reports from london. 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 pause 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 alleged use of 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 illegal under humanitarian doctrine to launch a strike on syria even without the agreement of the un security council 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 the country's internal affairs we've also heard here on our t.v. from lord west who's a former minister and first 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 that you. you have a lot of unintended 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 and also that 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 is the 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 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. . that's the picture from london than 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 planned attack the u.s. leader who squarely blames last week's chemical assault on regime forces says a strike will send strong warning to president assad meanwhile russia urges the u.n. to investigate several more incidents of alleged chemical zeus' which the syrian government claims the rebels are behind in neighboring israel the prospect of an attack on syria also has caused a stir the government's bolstering its defense systems and partially calling up army reservists in case of a spillover is more reaction to that says syria's other neighbors are increasingly

willing to support plans for intervention jordan for its part where the u.s. has an air bases it will not be a launching pad for any military action against syria iraq is also saying it will not provide its airspace for an attack on a neighboring country reaction from lebanon to the foreign minister spoken out against military action echoing the others and saying its airspace will not be available at egypt's issued a strong warning against foreign intervention in syria two more on the region's latest developments now with our middle east correspondent paula sleepier or indeed if we can't get to paula sleeze report of the moment so let's move on let's talk to barry lando shall we there was a journalist and author of books including the watchman's farley's joining us live now from paris side of the barrier going here it's nice to see you tonight i mean recent days we've been hearing that washington like for washington at least it's not a question of who's to blame for the attack but it's how to respond to it why is it

given up on diplomacy when the u.n. inspectors are still there do you think. well i'm not sure that diplomacy was going to lead anywhere it certainly hasn't seemed to be leading anywhere up to this date and one understands why washington and its allies so well so when i say bring the u.n. inspectors on the other not be a bit better say what's the point of setting the un inspectors and it totally undermines that we should at least i guess wait for them to come back with their concrete results no. undermines what if the sending of the u.n. inspectors was part of the script to try to establish that chemical weapons were used apparently the un inspectors are not going to say who used them i think one of the most interesting things though is that these supposed that intelligence intercepts of communications between the syrian officials that the u.s. and apparently israel have. are not do not indicate that it was down in the saying

to me that it was side who gave the order on the contrary according to a foreign policy magazine and intelligence official told them that what it indicated was that the order to use those chemical weapons may have come much lower down a decision made by a lower commander who was then somewhat panicky along with the chief of staff of the syrian forces after they found out how disastrous that attack had been in other words that you could not be tied directly to assad and that is a problem right now that apparently david cameron just mentioned in england according to your news and that washington has been dealing with too they are now saying they may not be able to pin this directly on assad on the other hand they're now claiming that under the theory that. the president the chief of state is

responsible for the actions of his of the commanders of his armed forces even though he himself may not have given the specific command as far as the u.s. that anything could be a very dangerous understood i get your point go ahead as far as the u.s. and europe stands tonight the debate something empowerment in britain now as we know you get the feeling the things how wound back a bit in the last twenty four. absolutely and it's as i thought one of the problems they are now really confronting is how are we going to pin this on assad. what if it really was a dumb decision by a lower commander who let things get out of hand is desired justify sending a fleet of of rockets or missiles against another mideast dictator. of course is another point here i know it's harking back to history but it's worth noting many similarities between the conflicts in syria and iraq many see but what's

different here is that the u.s. reportedly bucked saddam hussein when allegedly used chemical weapons during the war with a round back of the one nine hundred eighty s. why this kind of selective approach we're seeing between now and then well it's a very interesting question i mean back in back in the one nine hundred eighty s. as you say the u.s. and as i wrote about in an earlier book web of deceit the united states had intelligence agents on the ground in iraq helping saddam hussein in the war against iran and even though they knew he was using chemical weapons they gave him targets and even when they used chemical weapons against his own people. the united states temporarily suspended aid to him and then decided they better get they had to go ahead again to support their dictator so that it is a very. sorry sorry prize

a slight delay in the law and sort of be cutting over there slightly back to the present let's bring it up to barack obama saying if anything happens it would be a warning shot how can you be sure of that how do you think it would play out could it turn into something much bigger unintentionally maybe. well i'm not quite sure what he means by a warning shot except to mean that he really was serious when he said don't use chemical weapons on the other hand the syrians have used chemical weapons a few times ever since since obama gave his original warning of a apparently did use chemical weapons in lower lower portions and they did last week but apparently they still use them and it looks like the syrians may have felt they could get away with it ok that she viewed the syrian president said today the country's going to defend itself how is damascus likely to respond do you think that if an attack does happen or intervention of some kind i

really don't know i think the be crazy to try anything that could be tagged to them against the united states or its allies i think the russians will probably be a lot of rhetoric and again maybe we. will be able to make them look like something of a martyr in the eyes of his people there may be a nationalist upsurge backing him after this who knows where he's too many of our throats the problem is that nobody nobody knows what is going to happen ok barry thanks your thoughts nice to see the still to live on the line from paris berlin to the. well while the british parliament stands divided over whether to strike in syria washington claims there's a moral reason to attack results he's miniport reports next the use of chemical weapons was of no concern as we've mentioned there in wars that the u.s. waged in the past 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 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. bins 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 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 bring up or not party. saying goodbye to get motu detainees are finally being transferred from the notorious facility that still hasn't been closed we report on that in just a minute. choose

your language. call it a killer though if. some of. the consents get. to the opinions that invigorating. choose to stories get him the. chance to access to your office. going to emerge from going to prison of return home to world jewry it will be cleared for transfer from the infamous facilities for black is two thousand and six

the twenty ten meanwhile the hunger strike at the prison over a definite detention still ongoing with thirty six admitted still refusing food he's going to eat you can has the latest on the story. where there were transferred to all of 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 that 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 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 demand 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 of 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 all jury and men but we don't know how soon they may leave the prison then you have a handful of people all a little 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 been 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 in the lawyers of many of them disagree and they are trying to argue against it but they cannot be tried either in military or civilian court because of inadequate or tainted evidence against them that 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 lives the ban on transfers to the e.u. was that could mean just a change of address not a not a solution to the problem of indefinite detention. the story continues now to dot com we align a courtroom battle between washington and tehran with iran now preparing to sue the

united states for masterminding the nine hundred fifty three who toppled the country democratically elected leadership it's an interesting read we've got it online plus multi billion dollar deal signed and a record number of participants getting involved as leading russian and forward in a space companies present their cutting edge aircraft about ongoing annual max show in the moscow region. britain tries to keep tabs on its sixty thousand sex offenders by keeping a register of who they are and where they are but dozens including rapists and child abusers of managed to get off that list by successfully claiming very rights were being breached. or 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 current and. 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 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 form of victims are concerned the list of those taken off the register includes eight rapists and twenty seven child sex attackers the people that i i talked to counsel with are absolutely dumbfounded that paranoids is that there are abuse or perpetrator that's been let off that list you are rejecting lives do 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 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 is a prison. where the sense from this treatment program is run by breena who

are going to these these these inmates and they said we know what to say we know how to get by we know how we can. what we need to say to prove we are being rehabilitated even if we're not the u.k. home office 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 former 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 and my worry and my concern is that. they were access to my children paul says that his abuse developed in letters 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. archie london will be using brief police arrested a senior muslim brotherhood official amid a widening crackdown on the movement leadership. both tell you the head of the brotherhood's freedom and justice party is accused of inciting violence and terrorism attack has been on the run for three weeks after security forces vanity dispersed the cairo cities where protesters demanded the reinstatement of ousted president morsi. in argentina hundreds of rallies in the country's western province no can to protest against the government plans for shale gas exploration people pointed to the harm drilling could do to the environment in july argentina's president cristina fernandez announced a one point five billion deal between the state owned oil company and us energy giant chevron to exploit shale gas reserves in the country. in greece one of the

country's largest unions the civil service confederation staged a nationwide strike against public layoffs the government probably groks thousands of state jobs to meet the storage requirements of its international lenders more rallies and strikes are expected to take place over the coming grace earlier the country's finance minister said greece may need another bailout to keep its crippled economy afloat. my sister lucy gaze into the financial crystal ball of the kaiser report in just a couple of minutes. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

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welcome to the kaiser report on max kaiser texas tali frakt. texas is so fret some towns will soon be running out of water and now the united kingdom wants to create its own fracking mess yes the u.k. blew through its front the north sea oil at all sold it all time lows and now wants to blow through its clean water table just when fresh h two o. is becoming more and more scarce nope there's no escaping the sinkholes of stupid opening up around us as governments and the corporations target the dumbest common denominators around us who always vote for more debt more housing bubbles more wars more genetically modified food more tar sands more fracking more more more anything

that will sink this all into a bottomless pit of stupid they'll vote for signals of stupid. if they say well max you know a sinkhole suddenly own pains and everything just you know collapses i love those ideas on you tube you know you are scary because that's my fear going to disappear into a sinkhole apparently in florida in china there's many well you have no option nowadays because propagandists and government and the corporations target the stupid electorate who say ok why not so they'll say ok why not why not get rid of glass steagall so we can have more liquidity in the system and expand the economy and of course until it all collapses as we saw in the two thousand and eight crash you have the same thing everywhere you look whether it's genetically modified food or fukushima that was like some stupid people being sold on this idea that we could have free infinite energy with no cost then i was wrong.