the ice to the right two hundred seventy two the nose to the left at two hundred eighty five. british parliament rejects intervention in syria after the prime minister fails to convince lawmakers to launch war against president. but the u.s. is boosting its naval forces in the region saying it's ready to strike a low despite losing the support of its closest ally. and more misery for thousands of stricken families in russia's far east feared those floodwaters which have devastated their towns won't know recede before winter.

hello very good evening if you just joined us is kevin owen here with you this hour at r.t. we appreciate your company our top story as washington tries drumming up support still for possible intervention in syria its closest ally the u.k. has ruled out military action the prime minister was dealt a huge blow by parliament which rejected his plan to support the u.s. if it chooses war the motion followed mounting allegations of a mass chemical attack near damascus largely being blamed on assad government the sarah firth that crucial session in london last night. defeated and she merely ate it that's how the prime minister is being portrayed today after that major political play with parliament voting against military action it means that the prime minister's decision essentially to recall parliament to bring this nation against possible military action in syria has backfired spectacularly now i'm not

standing here and saying those some peace or some pieces of intelligence that i've seen all the gypsy in the world won't see that convinces me that i'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is wrong i am saying this is a judgment we have to reach a judgment about what happened and who was responsible to prime minister what has convinced you where is the evidence that an action by the international community would cease the use of chemical weapons within syria in the end there is no one hundred percent certainty about who is responsible you have to make a judgment it's not going to sit comfortably with the prime minister this issue of foreign policy and it was a major issue that he really stands his name upon is one that the prime minister is the country usually leads on and you heard when the results of that vote was announced last night in the house of commons those cries for the prime minister to resign now questions they feel whether his leadership is really going to be under

threat it's thought that's quite unlikely at this point but certainly he stands in a much we can because this in today and as he said that defeat really not putting him in a comfortable position tools very many people feeling that the vote reflected the lack of public appetite for any military action certainly with the evidence that was on the table because all eyes will now be on the us and what course of action they'll take they've lost a major ally in britain voting against military action the indicators coming from the us is that they'll be willing regardless to go. elaine in terms of the timeline you've got the u.n. inspectors coming out the country on saturday and presenting their preliminary findings all eyes will be closely on that and then the actions that followed that as we said certainly at the prime minister today here both internationally and here at home fanning a little less for today i think sort of first reporting. nato now saying it's not

going to take part in an armed intervention in syria so the need to know saying it will not be part of any armed intervention in syria those details just through earlier though from pledge to take what it calls for punitive action against the assad regime presence alone said all options are on the table including military action which could happen within days and he reiterated his support for the syrian opposition but many of washington's other partners are more reluctant when it comes to tough action against assad let's take a look as well as u.k. support not of a question that germany saying it's not considering any military participation italy austria spain saying they won't back washington without a u.n. resolution ever experts still fear that radical groups will take advantage of any western intervention in syria former british sea lord and security minister lord allen west warned over serious repercussions as he put it which military actions may trigger. 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 you need to be very very careful about what actually 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 and 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 careful how we actually act well let's talk to british from david cameron conservative party voted in favor of military intervention in syria and see why he thinks it should go ahead brooks newmark joins us from london right now to give us his take on the situation there brooks thank you for taking the time to be with us can you briefly outline your case why you think military intervention is right for syria then. last week i was on the syrian border in turkey and i met with general idris and president jarba the leader of the syrian opposition council and they made it very clear to me and a message to bring back to london which is that having made and drawn a red line for bashar assad over chemical weapons. that if we do not act on that having made and drawn that line assad will view this as

a green light to continue the slaughter and butchering and chemical weapons attacks on his own people with impunity that's their view and i don't want you know you're that is my that is my view my view is is that if we do nothing and as we saw even while we were debating in the chamber the syrian air force dropped napalm on a nice primary school in northern syria which burned scorched and killed many children this guy has i'm afraid no more reality at all and then unless we do something about it he will continue the slaughter and chemical weapons attacks on his own people even though there is a humanitarian crisis even though i know says i don't even though there's no hundred percent certainty that it was the assad regime that did this still i mean the progress talking at length about judgment but you can sleep easy at night their judgments being used not the actual certainty of facts here. yes i can yes this was

delivered the chemical weapons attacks were delivered on an industrial scale in which is a suburb of damascus you know it is pretty clear there is only one person who could have delivered that which is actually maher bashar assad's brother who is in charge of defending damascus i am absolutely confident that he is responsible and he has a response he alone is responsible and should pay the price any more ever by the way this is probably the just a second this is probably the fourteenth such chemical weapons attack that assad has done on his people in the past year we cannot let him continue doing this david cameron said the intervention would it would not be about regime change but about stopping chemical weapons that means the plan is to make sure that rebels are using them to write yes look if you if you wish to believe the dissin from ation campaign of bashar assad and president putin frankly over the prime

minister of our country and our intelligence services you know i'm afraid i can't help you i know who i would prefer to believe and as far as i'm concerned the evidence which has been taken from from videos from tissue samples and so on the forensic evidence gives fairly clear indication that bashar assad is responsible for their only clear the way the information you're talking about the have you seen any hard in fact prove i'm sorry to ask you this again but it is the question on so many people's lips. you know you could ask that to the callous come home no as far as i'm concerned i am preferred to believe the president the prime minister of the united kingdom over president putin and bashar assad i have no hesitation in that the problem is is that the iraq experience with the dodgy dossier in which intelligence was tampered with by tony blair and alastair campbell i'm afraid has poisoned the well and it's the legacy of that that we're living with today but i

have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that bashar assad is responsible for last week's attack and responsible for yesterday's napalm attack on a bunch of children in northern side northern syria i'm going to say a program what could you say to people that still say they want to see facts before intervention happened how could you convince that my know what you're saying and i can hear that you absolutely believe it but how do you convince the unbelievers if you like you know at the end of the day as with a jury you know any judgment is made and the words beyond reasonable doubt to use sometimes no information is absolutely perfect you know you may not have the electronic intelligence with a voice saying to from martyr or bashar assad to a general please drop these bombs on somebody but i think above and beyond that

there is only one person who could have delivered the mayhem that was caused last week and to tomorrow night a right to do two wrongs make a right here then following that what what what if your west are told what you're too what you're too wrong say well i'll tell you now you're saying the chemical we saw the poor souls suffering from that from these chemical weapons that were dropped upon them by whoever did it. but you know the arming syria to give them a rap across the knuckles again did two wrongs make a right here. it's not two wrongs you know you know i'm not heard here on the court the ministers me a question please you've asked me a question please let me answer the question. it is our intention to strike and degrade and neutralize bashar assad's military infrastructure that is the objective of what we're going to do we're not bombing civilians or anything like that it is to bomb his military complex missile sites airfields and so on and you could be out

of the ordinary no collateral i seriously witness and i certainly hope given that we're not doing it i certainly hope the americans do and you couldn't and again you can rest easy at night that there will be hopefully no collateral damage to innocent people here if it happened in warfare you can never guarantee that one hundred percent but unlike bashar assad who is targeting innocent civilians we or the west at least or perhaps the americans will be targeting military sites that is the difference between our moral compass and the moral and his supporters the russians absolutely take your point so it's been a pleasure having the programmer british conservative m.p. brooks newmark there thank you for your time thank you so the u.s. isn't exactly a wash with military support from its allies on syria washington still got a finger on the trigger though it's been mobilizing naval forces in the region and so it looks for american warships already in the mediterranean sea and a fifth on its way all those vessels are armed with guided missiles which would

allow them to fire at syria while avoiding it and the ship defenses for other ships belonging to a nato task force are also in the same area with more details about that than he is reporting next. i have warned that president obama has not made of final decision but all signs are suggesting that a strike could occur as soon as united nations inspectors who are currently investigating last week's alleged chemical attack in syria leave the country they are scheduled to depart from damascus on saturday and that's when the u.n. experts are expected to brief the u.n. security council on their findings now the white house is expected to present its case for military action against syria to congressional leaders that may have already happened during a conference call thursday evening and ministration officials say that they have

intelligence that shows the forces loyal to president bashar al assad carried out last week's alleged chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of damascus however critics say that the intelligence that the obama administration does have does not directly tie assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack president obama is reportedly basing his case military action in two ways on two points he says first and foremost he believes the u.s. needs to safeguard international standards against the use of chemical weapons we all remember how he made his statement of chemical weapons use being that red line that can't be crossed and he also says that the use of chemical weapons is a threat to america's national interests and now we believe that syria directly is threat to america's national interests now we should keep in mind that if president obama does order a military strike on syria he would be doing so without congressional approval and

lacking approval from the united nations security council resolution which is required according to international law so if the u.s. moves unilaterally without approval from the. the international community from the united nations it would be acting in violation of the u.n. charter but by all reports by all accounts by everything that seems to be coming out it seems as though the u.s. president is going to move ahead with his plan even if he has to move ahead on his own as opposed to how he previously planned to move ahead with some european partners and while president obama is inching closer towards international military action against syria u.s. citizens have taken to the streets in new york washington d.c. and several other cities around the country to protest airstrikes against the syrian people according to recent polls only nine percent of americans support a war in syria protesters that came out into the streets say that just like with

weapons of mass destruction in iraq false information they believe is being told now about syria to justify another war correspondent in new york there is so what exactly will happen if washington doesn't target syria is a big question and some serious answers on the board here are two dot com you can also please do if you haven't done so already it's good to hear from you roy well as you see the majority fifty seven percent more than half of you full custody cuts ostrowski conflict engulfing the entire region if it happened just under twenty percent a libya like situation of his intervention with rampant islamic insurgency the use of violence may become just about seventeen percent nearly the same amount of you think washington wouldn't dare without help from others. think president obama will teach syria a lesson as he put it by carrying out strikes with just a couple of days a short term event joining the debate please say good if we don't call.

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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 everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. len. fugitive american whistleblower edward snowden has made another damning revelation

this time a leak about a so-called black budgets appeared in a washington post article shedding light on the huge scale of u.s. surveillance spending label top secret the documents show america's splashed out over fifty two billion dollars on intelligence gathering in twenty thirteen this year alone snowden's exposure of the n.s.a. spy program is one of international recognition two has just landed in fact the twenty thirteenth whistle blower price from a coalition of n.g.o.s it would certainly set to happen in berlin later this evening but the former intelligence contract is hardly expected to be among the guests of course he's been granted asylum here in russia we spoke to adopt a christian humbled executive director of transparency international which is one of the co-sponsoring organizations of the of what motivations people this is a resort that is for whistleblowers people who speak out about a wrongdoings and we believe that with the documents that he has given to a journalist it has been shown that there has been wrongdoings we have seen that

security laws have been overstepped by american authorities and therefore he earns this price for speaking out about it we see a very strong debate about in germany about how the u.k. and also the u.s. is intercepting email and other forms of communication and this is a very fierce debate and we hope that we will also have a debate how much surveillance do we want in a free country. just quick way online or just take it away click away online artie's website there's a little of what our online teams got lined up here let's take a look kicking the habit japanese authorities plan to create so-called fasting camps to help internet addicted teens unplug from the web interesting read plus two a study shows pollution is a major us cities is the largest cause of premature death in the country with two hundred thousand americans dying annually from the feelings of car exhaust and

industrial smoke stacks a sobering statistic more on that if you want to read up on it may interest you at r.t. don't. got great pictures about this too it marks the max twenty thirty to show continues its doors to the public the last few days one of the world's top air and space events underway the outside moscow visitors get to see unbelievable stunts by russian and foreign display teams as well as the latest aerospace technology lindsey france was there. three days of business led up to this but now the fun begins for the public here as you cross the fields just outside of moscow the flight programs are the big draw for crowds here every year at max and it could because it's not just about the exhibit the latest in aviation technology that's on the ground it's what's flying above us in the sky and it makes quite an impression on the eyes and i can tell you on the years as well some of the highlights today included the flight of the t. fifty the sukhoi successor to the mc twenty nine brand new it's

a feature in the russian military and it really well the crowd with its maneuvers in such a low altitude and of course we have the russian switch that have been performing here on the ground. did jet team that does choreographed maneuvers also at very low altitudes was breathtaking to watch very difficult maneuvers there and then of course moving on to helicopters you see the helicopter team there brooke cooties piloting the me twenty eight and strike helicopters made by the russian helicopters company now this is their first time performing at max it's very rare to see helicopters performing like this anywhere in the world at an aviation show but if they do vertical and horizontal maneuvers again a very low altitudes giving the crowds a look at how they use their technologies to move in such an agile way in the air and then of course with that with the business going on here a lot of money was made one hundred twenty nine aircraft were sold here at mass

totally up to seven billion dollars so a lot of business has been done here at maks two thousand and thirteen but this is where the weekend kicks off and where the enjoyment really begins for all the crowds. her talk about extreme weather in russia is far east where it's going to be at least the end of september until conditions start to improve after intense flooding wrecked entire towns and devastated vital agriculture or thousands of families sheltered emergency accommodation others are staying behind protect what's left of their property or scott reports from the flood ravaged region. this man is one of thousands in russia's far east waiting nervously his garden submerged and soon his ground floor could also be taken over by the amel rivers rising levels the consequences of which are unthinkable well after this flood i'll be made homeless what will i do if the house is entirely submerged this is the village of lenin

square in the jewish autonomous region in russia's far east the other may drive the school bus during term time but for now he's found a scorching rushes emergency services around the devastated area his next move is unknown at this moment after this disaster i'm afraid i'll be sacked who knows what will happen this village is typical of many here rescue crews and local volunteers combining day and night trying to keep the water at bay volunteers like catarina sonya williams i'm the example we do everything ourselves people help us we're not going to drown we're going to live here the situation is really bad but we will not give up. well the severity of the situation is clear to see we are just thirty yards away from a number of residential blocks here in the city of how about ask and all that separates us on those houses is a hastily erected man made in the hope is that it will stand for in the face of

ever increasing water levels the fear now is that the waters recede by winter making homes uninhabitable social housing and compensation will be available but. we have decided to provide additional aid to people in the disaster area financial aid to those who were hit and compensation for the loss of property one of the top priorities was to provide accommodation for families who will unfortunately have to live through the winter without a home it's a challenge for now it's a race to lay thousands of sandbags and dig kilometers of draining trenches to keep the water from claiming more towns and villages as for the fifty thousand plus who've enjoyed weeks of upheaval it's a painful waiting game as to when the alamo river will let them see what's left of their homes postcards r.t. how about ask. larry king's guest go head to head over syria stay with us and for

politicking. 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 ushered in 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 as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. coming up on alt. with larry game c.n.n. crossfire co-host ben jones and the blazers amy holmes face off plus

a great new book on washington naming the town black it's called this town will meet the off the mark leibovit it's all next on politicking with larry king. to this week's politicking we start with democrat and former white house environmental advisor and co-host by the way of cnn's new crossfire show then jones who joins us in washington also joining us is the independent and host of blazes hot list amy holmes she joins us from new york let's get right to it guys syria is let's start with you van should the president wait for the u.n. findings on the use of chemical weapons or should be act immediately well i think he needs to act fast i don't think he should bypass trying to build

a coalition he didn't go in by him self but we i think we already know russia and china have been sticking up for thought they're probably not going to give him that legality to go ahead but there's a difference between legality and legitimacy if he goes in by himself he won't have legality or legitimacy he's got to build a coalition with it you have to go to the u.n. to do it. amy the white house and state department say the evidence is undeniable that they used chemical weapons leasure the president said we've been very clear to the assad regime there's a red line if he crosses it he crosses it that was last year what does he do now rioted we've seen this ever sifting red line and now the president's credibility is on the line in fact chemical weapons have already been suspected to be used by the assad regime and the president seemed to move that red line yet again which turned out to be a green light to bashar al assad to attack that suffer that suburb of.