the white house sidelines the u.n. probe into the use of chemical weapons in syria and makes final preparations for an assault against damascus all of this based on its own unconfirmed intelligence. the latest leaks from edward snowden exposed the financial dockside of u.s. spy programs and was blowing himself by non-governmental groups for his revelations also. absolutely. right there in the crowd to the twenty third just outside moscow showcasing some of the world's best pilots flying some of the fastest planes on the.

live from moscow want to saturday this is r t with me rory sushi a very warm welcome to you today you are in a chemical weapons experts are expected to present the results of their investigation into last week's use of deadly toxins in syria though the u.s. has made it clear that the world bodies findings will not influence its intention to and attack the syrian regime which of course it blames for the chemical attack that reportedly killed fourteen hundred civilians with an intervention expected as early as possibly this week and the wider international community remains rather unconvinced by washington's claims as guy nature can now reports while the obama administration is laying the groundwork for a military strike against syria but the president says he has not made the final decision if mr ation has spent the last few days scrambling an intelligence assessment that would make the case for an attack on syria today we finally saw

that report classified four page version out there. secretary kerry presented the report with this take a listen the american intelligence community has high confidence high confidence this is common sense this is evidence these are facts so the primary question is really no longer what do we know. the question is what are we we collective what are we in the world going to do about it but if you read the paper you also come across this line our high confidence assessment is the strongest position that the u.s. intelligence community can take short of confirmation so u.s. intelligence does not confirm the evidence that the white house says is undeniable as far as the evidence is concerned the report shows no evidence as such just conclusions then we have to bear in mind that this was the unclassified version of

the report it mentions satellite images and intercepted communications with the paper's main argument seems to be this the assad government has huge stockpiles of chemical weapons they have the capacity to deliver them and therefore they were likely responsible for last week's attacks near damascus in the last few days several members of u.s. intelligence community spoke out on condition of anonymity saying the actual evidence that the u.s. has is not a slam dunk and there are caveats in the report related to the analysis of the satellite images and the intercepted communications also from secretary kerry's prison presentation it seems the main selling point for the strikes is the horrible horrible images that we've all seen the report refers to several times that refers to the videos in the social media but they do not prove who carried out the attacks not only the american people are against an attack on syria but also the international community although secretary kerry talked about what he sees as a substantial international backing force for action whatever international backing

he was talking about it's not the u.n. or whatever military action the u.s. takes eventually against syria it will be illegal under international law nato secretary general just said nato does not plan to put his faith in the military intervention in syria the u.n. security council is yet to receive the results of the u.n. investigation but even that investigation will not reveal who is to blame for the horrific attacks that took place the inspectors only have a mandate to ascertain the use of chemical weapons but not by whom they were you just so the key question will still remain up in the air even as we receive the results of that investigation nonetheless the u.s. has already made its judgment. having failed to win over most of its international allies on lawmakers on capitol hill the white house is also struggling to drum up popular support for intervention among the general public in the united states if not according to the latest polls are more than half of all americans think the country should stay totally clear of the syrian conflict altogether. saying they

would actually support any type of intervention and even if the assad government is actually implicated in the use of chemical weapons on the twenty nine percent would actually back military action some observers though thinking that foreign intervention is in fact being provoked by desperate syrian rebels who are apparently according to some losing the war the promise that president obama is making to the american people is that all the bleeding will be on the syrian side we will strike them we will bomb them we will drop cruise missiles but don't worry americans just stay shopping because we won't put boots on the ground that's just a euphemism for all the bleeding will be done on the other side unlike cameron who had to take the case to the british parliament obama's doing everything to avoid even a basic good bait to get congressional authorization no debate whatsoever even george w. bush had to get congressional authorization before he launched his war of aggression

this is the failure of democracy in america as obama goes on this reckless and dangerous course who had an interest in the use of chemical weapons assad is winning the war his public backing the rebels cannot win without foreign intervention u.s. intervention in particular they know that if chemical weapons are used that's a trigger to launch the western intervention the only way assad can lose would be if the west intervenes militarily so who use the chemical weapons clearly not the assad government they're not suicidal they were winning the war this is a staged provocation that's what we're witnessing. well the likelihood of military strikes around syria has certainly put its neighbors on high alert as are his poor slayer reports some worry it could be the catalyst for a large scale regional war now the big concern of course is how will iran react we have heard from iran that if damascus comes under fire it will regard this as an attack on its thirty fifth provinces the thinking is that iran could activate both

hizbollah and the rainy and revolutionary guard corps it could get them to use their fighters to attack those countries who are supportive of a u.s. led military strike inside syria at the same time iran could also close the strait of hormuz now this would affect around twenty percent of the world's supply of petroleum the head of the rainy and revolutionary guard has also said that if damascus was to be attacked this would see and this is a direct quote the immediate attack and the immediate destruction of israel this is of course something that the israelis are taking seriously the official word from the israeli leadership is that they are not involved in anything inside syria but that they of course will respond and respond harshly if they come under attack the israeli army is calling up reservists at the same time the israeli army has deployed the iron dome anti-missile defense system and other interceptors over the north of the country the public has been queuing up in the thousands at local post

offices and other outlets to collect gas masks at the same time there have been emergency drills held of various schools and also the there are many who are actually clearing out the bomb shelters now for fear of any kind of strike on israel the jerusalem post is a daily newspaper inside israel and it is running with the headline keep calm but carry on at the moment the mood in the region is anything but keeping calm there is a growing sense that this conflict could result in an all out regional war. with so many players drawn into being. the u.s. and its allies might find themselves on the same side of those they fear story called enemies on us last year. the story a major aspect that's close to impossible to prevent in the syrian crisis should it get even more chaotic and unpredictable with the u.s. and western outside military involvement the likelihood of empowering al qaeda

already a very powerful force in the country experts left and right are warning that the west would be fighting alongside group members in syria who at home are seen as its own main enemy in the war on terror the opposition in syria is far from unified political force al qaeda members form a large chunk of this opposition attempting to get assad to step down concerns were high before that western ammunition would end up in the wrong hands because there's no way to selectively support one part of those against assad's government and not another the fear now is that u.s. and western military escapades would in force not just a vague opposition it sees as the good guy but the al-qaeda members that make it up by the thousands namely the front considered the most violent elements in the opposition which experts label rebranded iraq in syria its numbers on the ground are estimated to be at around six to ten thousand fighters the larger extent of our presence in the country in terms of specific numbers is not known but its presence and influence in the future of the country cannot be diminished if historical

lessons are remembered this is already reminiscent of the old two painful experiences we've seen before prior to western involvement in iraq in libya for instance insurgency it ran rampant but a peek at us presence walk hand in hand with foreign participation bringing along terror suicide bombings and even greater chaos to those regions well if you get a chance to do let us know what you think a military intervention in syria would result in you can log on to want to dot com right now and take part in our latest world wide web paula let's bring up the numbers for you here on the program to see how you're voting for this hour. definitely for the meantime the majority still predicting a catastrophic conflict engulfing the entire region including iran and israel almost a fifth of those who voted for see a libya like scenario with perhaps years to come more violence and islamic insurgency certainly there are a few less are actually saying that they don't believe washington will dare attack syria on its own and are down to the bare minimum only a handful accepting obama's claim of the strikes will be short and sharp and merely

aimed at teaching syria a lesson where we do value your opinion on the top stories here on r.t. as with all of them as well r.t. dot com is where you can get involved right now. in the meantime on the program very well britain has asked the new york times to get rid of copies of documents leaked by whistleblower edward snowden that's as another u.s. newspaper revealed from one of the top secret files just how much america spends on surveillance the so-called black budget has never been shown to the public intil now let's give you some of the facts and figures here on r.t. and the classified data showing the u.s. has splashed out more than fifty two billion bucks on intelligence gathering just this year alone the cia though are getting the lion share of more than fourteen billion that's a lot more than the n.s.a. or any other agency for that matter or the national reconnaissance office and the special and general defense intelligence programs also come in near the top of the

money lead here that's a gather they got nineteen point six billion dollars to operate a satellite so draw maps and assess foreign military plans and resources well i mean while snowden's leaks have won him international recognition he was awarded the twenty thirteen whistleblower prize by a coalition of n.g.o.s and as artie's producer all of our in berlin reports snowden's name is now featuring prominently in germany's upcoming general election . well he's certainly not on the christmas card list of the german government as it stands at the moment these leaked documents that he says he's put forward really are the damning on the german government and just how complicit it seems that the b. and d. the german security services were in terms of spying not only to help the n.s.a. but spying back on their own people here in germany when edward snowden released these documents one of the things i'm sure he didn't think he would be was a major issue in the elections the that's on the twenty second of september the

general election here and it's become one of the main the only real issue that people seem to be attacking unglue merkel over. the leader of the social democrats who said her main challenger in this election it said if he becomes chancellor if he wins this election then he will be asking some serious questions of the united states and also be looking into delaying an important trade deal saying how can we possibly look at doing trade with the americans when we don't know if they have microphones under all of our desks so this has become something that the politicians are looking to attack and glimmer cologne it's probably one of the only things she's really weak on in the public eye because not only it seems to allow the united states to spy on germany but it seems that she also helped the united states to spy on germany so this is one of the reasons why edward snowden has received this award and he is being honored with this by a number of groups for his work in revealing what turns out to be the the wide

ranging spying activities of the n.s.a. and the united states are still to come for you here on the no homes grown for five years after london's mayor came to power promising to help the city's rough sleepers is pledged to provide a roof still remaining on my fantasy i report on that and the rest of the world the top headlines and justice. mum. this was terrible to say the i'm very hard to make our lives again the longer the clock has never had sex with her hair

looks a little color. the i'm. just so let's just say. it's. from moscow it's hard to know for a from our emotions breaking the set but for the mean time corridor for you synchronized moves to make the bolshoi's directors jealous of russia's march twenty

third scene of course the annual the show providing the stage for a study of the art craft and very daring pilots going to france went to water some magnificent men and of course the flying machines. three days of business led up to this but now the fun begins for the public here as you call ski fields and 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 ears as well some of the highlights included the flight of the t fifty brand new it's a feature in the russian military and it really while the crowd with its maneuvers at such a low altitude and of course we have the russian switch that have been performing

here on the grounds he did jet team that does choreographed maneuvers also a very low altitude was breathtaking to watch very difficult maneuvers there and then of course moving on to helicopters you see the the helicopter team there brooke cooties team 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 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 the business going on here a lot of money was made one hundred twenty nine aircraft. here at totaling up to seventy billion dollars. a lot of business has been done here at

thirteen but this is where the weekend kicks off and where the enjoyment really begins for all. of the headline is of performing for you or. also you can head over to the. web site as well because you can feel what it's like to be on the. exercise and see in this clip right here no problem getting right through the water steep hills as well for these machines while also. you want to buy the video. of the u.s. navy has openly admitted to the. whale and dolphin. about what's now called collateral damage. on the web site.

for the meantime on the program one of greece's largest labor unions is calling for a two day strike in mid september lots in protest to rescue loans that could cause over twenty thousand public sector workers to lose their jobs by the end. and according to recent statements by germany's finance minister greece may need a third huge bailout i'm. going to discuss where and what the billions is going into. the greek economy. quite a lot of people are being affected these layoffs really are aimed mainly at the public sector and the public sector traditionally is the foundation of the greek economy and that's why so many people are taking to the streets to protest these mad let's let's go to our friends kind of guilty we've spoken to many times before every time we've talked about the huge amounts the billions being poured into greece from international lenders. eagle there you see the first time that you

know the guys he's talking to at least a pretty depressed they don't see the light at the end of the tunnel your enough is what you'll view well it is obvious by now the. whole scenario adopted for greece has been like as a straw for. this by those huge huge bailout loans greek debt. very high. peak over three hundred and twenty one billion euros did so that means that we're much worse than when the debt crisis started the bailouts were bailouts were a catastrophic carolan new set of european studies in brussels that. was it pouring good money after bad do you think you're a proponent of the bailout but darn it it would have been much worse much worse situation i don't think from greece you have to look very far you simply look to bulgaria for example to see i mean the whole much worse it could have been still today living standards in reason are higher than they are in bulgaria if greece were to have left the euro zone and that's why men favor all further beno i think

it's a disastrous idea once you realized you've made a mistake you should stop doing it it is very simple the bailout is not helping the greek people we've just seen the images of people homeless people living in shelters losing their jobs cannot pay the rent their pension funds are disappearing now the bailout money is not aimed to help the greek people it is a. huge rescue package for bags just because who has benefited who has. most not the banks but i think germany has benefited most from the euro zone that's why i see the us come painting on staying within the euro zone and that's why merkel has forty percent of the approval rate because germany is thriving germany exports all over europe and they are have a disability interest in having a stable currency zone. to london to brussels i can only say that he is looking at the completely wrong end of the stick simple is that the euro was a political project it never had any financial standing. and he is supporting

a political decision not the economy germany is has vowed to cover twenty six percent roughly a quarter of the bailout money that is going to greece now we're looking at two hundred fourteen billion that means german taxpayers in the end will have to pay for sixty billion euros this money is badly needed in germany our infrastructure is suffering the railway system needs. investment so does the famed out of the industry. i think mr the greek colleague is only rooke looking at this one side of the coin and not seeing and not realizing the long term effects. i balled up a time here on our city to egypt we go where at least six people have reportedly been killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy violence erupted near the presidential palace where

demonstrators gathered to demand the next leader's reinstatement so far it's the biggest display of defiance towards the military backed government since hundreds died in a massive crackdown and now more than two weeks ago. to colombia where thousands of soldiers have been deployed on the streets of the capital bogota in support of the police and so after at least two people died in violent protests street riots have been escalating in colombia which is in the grip of a farming sector crisis with the workers there demanding subsidies on cheaper fuel and fertilizers meantime president santos opened talks with protesters on tuesday but has so far failed to ease the tension. before we get to be martin and breaking the set for now. rather grandiose promises to provide a roof for the scores of homeless people strolling the capital streets but statistics suggest that he's done little to follow through with his promises as artie's reports. the charity night watch had out on their nightly run

distributing feed to london so. no one knows exactly how many people are homeless in the capital but one thing that's agreed upon and that is that the numbers are increasing it's gone up from thirty people to fifty sixty seventy. you can see a large number of people have gathered here to use night. now not all of the people who are here. but a number of them are one learns in the. thousand and eight he pledged and rusty playing by thousand and twelve not only does he not hit that target but. every year he's been in london a promise to be granted. yeah. it's very difficult. although it's. a problem

doing anything about paris database change shows a rise from three thousand four hundred seventy two people when the mayor came to power six thousand four hundred thirty said. been sleeping rough last year but the mayor's office insists it's not all bad news and the increase in numbers isn't party to an increase in funding longer hours on the streets reached teams mean more people than ever before a big identify eight and now eight ounce of ten new sleepers lanie spend twenty four hours on the street yet despite the increase in funding many of the people here have been sleeping rough for months. on the street and in your dreams a lot of. it doesn't have. a lot of them are problems of before. you know if enough to leave the council

police and. the police from your own in the middle of the night. twenty two year old silas doesn't want his face he tells us he often sleeps in a car park nearby it's a complex story silas tells us that he has had some contact with out we each great operating in the area but he hasn't yet got on benefits and therefore can't get into council accommodation to get rid of. the local outreach team have told us that they're looking into silas's case his just one of thousands of the homeless in the capital this is the face of london same listen twenty thirteen and it seems it's an increasingly young one so r.t. london well thank you so much for joining us here and. stopping a sign for the martin in our washington d.c. studio breaking the set.

sometimes it seems. in the face of giant corporations people are just sort of helpless i could be pretty pessimistic myself about what a few individuals with no real money or power can really do against the system but you never dull in fact if you remember tour discussion about ammonia doused pink slime being used across america and frozen fast foods well chef jamie oliver has actually managed to shame mcdonald's enough on t.v. to get them to back down and stop using this ultra processed form of quote meat at their establishments also we recently discussed gamer rage at the rather racist portrayal of russians in the game company of heroes two well while the rage actually worked and thanks to the seventeen thousand signatures on the change dot org petition that game has been pulled from russian shelves by the developer the

thing is that massive corporations do a lot of bad things because they have no morals and are obsessed with profit but because they have no morals and are only obsessed with profit the second you even slightly threaten their cash flow they will instantly start cowering at your feet sometimes but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'm glad i don't. i mean. that i. really miss. the old very closely. worst. white house of a. radio guy in minutes or a big pick up what you are about to give yourself a shooting like this until. you

get. what's going on everyone i mean martin and this is. break in the set so we have a packed show for you guys today i'll be speaking to governor howard dean and economist richard wolffe about everything from health care to drones to reg anomic stick around and let's break this that. it looks like. you've never seen anything like. today i had the chance to speak to former governor of vermont howard dean on the very few politicians who actually opposed the iraq war in two thousand and three is opposition became a defining factor for his presidential run the following year and although this may have helped him become the initial front runner he didn't ultimately receive the nomination instead he went on to chair the democratic national committee.