the u.s. war machine awaits syria orders to strike syria but barack obama says he would like the backing of lawmakers first after key world powers and many americans speak out against intervention. that's as vladimir putin dismissed allegations that the syrian government used w m d's as utter nonsense appealing to the us president as a nobel peace prize winner to think of the bloodshed he might cause. and the greek national debt increases alongside financial aid from the e.u. as athens struggles to appease international lenders amid reports that made need a third bailout.

the latest news and the week's top stories here on r t m lindsay france. against the distant cries of anti-war protesters broke obama has pulled back from ordering a strike against syria at least for now the u.s. president had to say has decided to ask congress which doesn't convene for another week to back to give its backing for a war which he says needs to be launched obama wants to punish damascus for its alleged use of chemical weapons but still has not publicly presented proof to back up his accusations and international opposition towards an attack is mounting as graham point reports. obama said although he does believe that he has the authority to carry out a military attack without approval from congress he feels that the country would be strengthened by a public debate on the matter now the u.s.

leader says that he feels absolutely comfortable carrying out a military attack against syria without the approval of the u.n. security council according to international law and he and a military strike taken needs approval from the security council and a resolution to be adopted but u.s. officials believe that any security draft resolution allowing for the use of force against syria would be vetoed by russia and or china now obama says washington's planned military strike against the mask is not time sensitive meaning it could happen one week from now or one month from now but ultimately the u.s. president says that the syrian government of bashar al assad will pay consequences for allegedly using chemical weapons after careful deliberation i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets and should not be an open ended intervention we would not put boots on the ground.

instead it would be designed to be limited duration and scope the white house released assessment of the use of chemical weapons on august twenty first and a countless amount of experts were not convinced by the intelligence that's been presented nowhere in the report to the us confirmed that assad the assad government used chemical weapons instead the four page report used were being such as we assess with high confidence or multiple streams of intelligence indicate that this week also saw america's major ally britain opting out of military intervention in syria and nato also said it would not be participating in a potential military strike in the meantime the u.n. investigation team that recently returned from damascus has announced that atta lising samples from the site of the alleged syria come syrian chemical attack will take up to three weeks and many countries as well as the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon have asked that no military action be taken before

u.n. experts present their conclusion. u.s. officials say the president made a last minute decision to seek the approval of lawmakers obama really intended to decide on military action against syria without congressional consent the president's under public pressure on the home front as most americans don't appear to share his confidence that a military attack is necessary over half of the americans who took part in a reuters poll said they don't want any kind of u.s. involvement in syria only twenty percent are in favor asked whether assad should be attacked if he's implicated in the use of chemical weapons less than thirty percent said yes obama maintains he wants a limited military strike with no u.s. boots on the ground but political analyst phyllis bennis says things could change quickly as the situation in the war zone escalates. he was prepared to go without

a united nations resolution which of course would make any military strike illegal but he was counting on certainly the brits he was counting on the u.k. to come on board i think he was quite blindsided by that decision by the british parliament and then to find out that nato said no and that the arab league said no france isn't quite enough as an international allies i think all of that plus the fact that almost two hundred members of congress have signed letters in recent days demanding that there be some consultation with congress the whole question of what happens the day after is not on the agenda we can say all we want our intention is a narrow targeted strike just a day or two this is not a major a major military campaign well it's not a major kill military campaign until it is what is of course syria tries to retaliate against one of the u.s. warships that are off the syrian coast what if it tries to shoot down a u.s.

plane what if it retaliates against israel what if it attacks a u.s. base in one of the neighboring countries all of these things would be then met by greater u.s. retaliation to that act we can't assume that the u.s. would take the position we didn't intend this to be more than a couple days we're not going to respond they would certainly respond and that threatens the whole possibility of the united states being pulled directly into this very complicated civil war inside syria so whatever happens it's going to be the people of syria who pay the final price. in anticipation of an order to strike american naval forces have been massing in the mediterranean off the syrian coast. five destroyers are ready to take part in the assault and fifty assault ship with hundreds of marines on board has also joined them officials stress the troops are merely there as a precaution but no plans to deploy them in syria the destroyers packs some serious firepower each of them carries up to ninety tomahawk cruise missiles that can

strike syria from a safe distance while dealing massive damage to the assad regime and in response to the u.s. deployment damascus says it's on full combat alert artie's marina. in the syrian capital with more reaction to washington's plans if at the beginning of his speech i saw that people. nervous obviously frightened and war aids relief came to replace all these emotions all these feelings following a bomb a speech many here say that congress is unlikely to approve military action against syria but even those who think that it could happen that congress does approve this strike against that country say at least it is not going to happen tonight but if we're talking about the general mood here in syria the public opinion is divided there are those who are afraid and frightened and they leave the country they packed their bags they send their families women and kids outside syria and they're

following them themselves and there is another part of the syrian society they say we don't care we've been living under this pressure on these dangerous highly unsafe and stable situation for more than two years and we didn't leave last year and two years ago why should we leave now so. president putin has questioned the existence of us evidence that assad's forces used chemical weapons kind of claims utter nonsense he also warned barack obama against military action urging him to think of the countless possible victims artie's sean thomas has more. president vladimir putin spoke to reporters and bloody vostok here in russia and had some strong clear words about the situation in syria first of all he said all of this talk of strikes and military intervention from the west is he is certain because the syrian regime is making advances against the rebels and it's a tactic or

a technique to try and turn the tide of the civil war in syria to the rebels side he also said that the idea of the government the assad regime using chemical weapons is absurd cityscape. syrian government forces are advancing in some areas they have surrounded the rebels to think that in such a time they would give a trump card for those calling for intervention. now the president went on to say that of course russia is against the idea of weapons of mass destruction specifically chemical weapons and in this case and particularly that the global community needs to wait until the u.n. investigation team results are in and he says that at that time the global community can then discuss the situation and act in a lawful manner that any unilateral action would be against international law he also said that he was surprised about the situation last week in the british

parliament where they debated and then voted down military action for the u.k. in syria he says that he was surprised but he was pleased and it shows that there are rational minds at play in the government and that that debate needs to happen he also appealed it to president obama not just as a president but as a nobel laureate winner of the nobel peace prize let's not forget that barack obama is nobel peace prize laureates of the last decade the u.s. has started several conflicts in various parts of the world but did that really solve any problems afghanistan iraq libya. there's no democracy there now which is what the u.s. claimed it tried to bring this new civil peace or balance all of these has to be taken into account before making the decision to stop bombing syria which will lead to civilian casualties so russia continuing to stand in their position that the

world needs to wait for the u.n. investigation to take place the world needs to act globally it looks like now that president obama will be sending it back to congress and so we will wait to see if that spirited debate that happened in the in the u.k. parliament will also happen in the united states the former commander of britain's militaries chemical defense regiment insists the evidence should be gathered more thoroughly and by a more diverse group of experts to be reliable go to piece together all the intelligence available or i'm very much of the favor that the permanent five perhaps should form a team of experts not just chemical but military as well who could look at all the evidence that's on the ground in syria and also the intelligence it's been gathered by those intelligence services and put it together that they know need a chance to come up with a ninety to ninety five guarantee. of who is responsible but at the moment the

level of of confirmation is is probably only in the seventy's. cliff aeration of chemical weapons or biological weapons out of syria into terrorist groups is must be the if the worst case scenario here there have been reports on corroborated that some terrorist groups have gained some of these stocks out of the syrian stockpile yet to be confirmed but that of course is is a possibility in future. coming up rising anti muslim sentiment in the u.k. . and in just a few minutes we report on why british muslims are facing a wave of discrimination and more anti islamic attacks than ever before.

but if you're going to be. the face i think you're. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. what i mean here is of course the bailout in the united states with eighty five percent of the population being strongly against it and i don't think even you know the democratic institutions and the will of the people would prevent the government from actually implementing you know we have created a system that is against the will of the people that is too big to fail we've jailed no bankers that committed these heinous acts which destroyed trillions of dollars of wealth and so it does bring into question the very strength of democracy

right now i would argue that it's quite weak. greece faces a battle with international lenders over control of the country's assets following suggestions it could need another ten billion euro rescue package. to fulfill its financial obligations to the e.u. the two thousand and eight crisis led to a request for a one hundred ten billion euro loan from the e.u. in return greece introduced austerity measures and another one hundred thirty billion followed shortly the beginning of the turmoil saw public debt rocket to one hundred twenty nine percent of g.d.p. and the extra eight boosted that by a more than than a quarter author and journalist are wrist chested funnel believes athens has become

addicted to being rescued and must default to begin its recovery what happened during the last two or three years during the so-called salvation period it was that greece became john keogh for foreign intervention and foreign help it's simply impossible anymore to twenty billions and it was impossible even in two thousand and nine everybody knew that but they wanted to bring greece into the strap that help only foreign banks especially in germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't you should now it's to deform having the greek people in control of the procedure eurozone creates deficits and debts to the european very very well at the same time create their pieces to the european core so we were saying from two thousand and nine two thousand and ten that we should leave the eurozone again in our terrace and not in terms imposed by berlin brussels or any other place in

europe destroyed again the infrastructure of the greek economy not only of the greek economy the same thing happened in spain portugal and ireland all of the countries that took the strait jacket off. of the monetary union. party's kevin owen discussed the mounting greek debt with a number of experts this week. quite a lot of people are being affected these layoffs clearly 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 my 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 meant to nationalize it is. illegal there you seen it first hand 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 you're in athens what's your view well it is obvious by now the. whole scenario adopted for

greece has been a catastrophic one this by those huge huge bailout loans greek debt is the very high we have reached 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 bad the bailouts were carolan a set of european studies in brussels. 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 is 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 campaigning 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 how to buy and the industry. i think missed the greek colleague is only rook looking at this one side of the coin and not seeing and not realizing the long term effects. for other stories you won't find on air head to r.t. dot com right now you can learn about the breakthrough discovery of the so-called trojan asteroid it's over it is near the planet your anus two billion kilometers further from the sun the typical asteroids go online to check out why it's been given and named ancient greeks. plus more inspections more leaks the fukushima

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show's own records over a thousand companies for forty four countries took part and more than three hundred thousand spectators attended among the headliners as russia's most advanced fifth generation fighter jet the t fifty and the team of pilots who work wonders with their squadron of helicopters. police in london are looking into a series of islamophobia d.v.d.'s sent to several mosques and muslim organizations in the british capital. they contain pornographic and abusive images insulting the prophet muhammad as well as news footage about extremism the incident is part of a wave of offensive acts towards british muslims by those wanting to keep the u.k. islam free tests are silly of reports. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind on freedom foundation we still. that is we help local

neighborhoods resist planning applications for mosques and we went that's now sixteen wins out of eighteen cases a controversial them somewhere further to the mosque buster objections raised by locals pertaining to boston clude traffic congestion on the general noise and disturbance which does concern people on the first one was the loss of a retail facility all of which are legal objections but he says his motivation is deeper than that islamic doctrine there's a wrong doctrine you know exactly is contrary to ring for sure if a company was passing death sentences if a synagogue was to commit acts of war all you would immediately say that has to be stopped when you have a man who we soon ideologically opposed knows little about these numbers face even if what he is suggesting that it doesn't give credence to some of those views really but the gruesome murder of a british soldier by self-confessed islamic fanatics fueled anti muslim sentiment

on the muslim myself and and and speaking to muslims across print and across london people are feeling vulnerable because they do feel as if the muslim community is being picked on we have had instances where a local mosque had just thrown into it last year after a decade of dispute the new and council rejected an application for a so-called mega mosque the site of which is just down the road over here it would have accommodated up to ten thousand worshippers the group that had campaigned against it called themselves mega mosque no thanks and some muslim groups have also opposed to project but beyond just the construction of mosques the polarized opinions but the spotlight once again on why. this is happening in the first place the polarization of opinion that we see i think is poor to tea with a failure within multiculturalism most simply become the symbol i think for this

great things on the table with a recent you gov poll compared answers given by respondents in event by two thousand and twelve and may two thousand and thirteen and showed an increase in the number of people who agree that there will be a clash of civilizations between british muslims and native white britons in recent times a growing number of voices have stated that multiculturalism has failed as a concept which is a controversial way to put it but what's certain ignoring this issue both make a clash of cultures and less likely to us or so you are to me monday. more international news updates on the way in a few minutes before that a recap of the week's highlights from the world of business. her. her. thank you letter that was given to have it with me thank you to and this week we

preview keep her out thank you to that point you know what's on top of the agenda that want to get on doing the work of keep your eye tally to the battery bank or at least a week more details on that one o'clock but the way it's tricky and we need to kill him but think how much money he's got that he's appointed and talbot you back up and say i have a western military action against the syrian government this week resulted in turmoil in the financial world with oil spiking to a six month high and investors pulling out of global axes with concerns that an attack on syria will bring about serious consequences and threaten global supply meanwhile safe havens gold and u.s. treasuries as investors proceed with caution so it's more a market's reaction to the preschool rhetoric over syria and joined by mike ingram

from b.b.c. partners it has been a tumultuous week for the market says been a lot going on can you just start off by telling me the general for the anxiety what is it general feeling in the financial world at the moment in response to what's happening. well i mean i think you know the prospect of the west getting in in what is at this stage of the syrian civil war just added to troubles that the market's been having over the last few weeks and it's coming into the background of very thin some of volume so the reaction is it's probably more dramatic than might otherwise be but if you look at the you know the list of concerns that the market has at the moment you've got a situation where we don't know what kind of form the fed tapering is going to take this year we've got possible succession issues for them but one keypress by larry summers it seems at this point that the fed and we've got you know actually ongoing

trouble elsewhere it emerging emerging markets so jen has come out and said that we could say if we do indeed see the situation in syria escalating we could see an oil price of one hundred fifty dollars per barrel can you explain to me one crashes if that was going to happen what prices that would put on the global economy would have a massively detrimental effect on growth pretty much everywhere there are very few beneficiaries as you can imagine when officials are going to be the oil producing states in the gulf probably nigeria with africa for pretty much everywhere else eight years even for russia it's broadly neutral and generally speaking the countries which are going to get hit the hardest are those with large relatively inefficient manufacturing bases top of that list india and china india is already struggling china has got a relatively competitive currency at this point or two at it's this point in time the last thing it needs is an oil price shock and of course that's

a knock on effect into a broader sense of consumption if you a disposable income is already being squeezed and that's like you have knock on effects on the broader economy rito trade is likely to be dire and. taxation really is going to add on the back of the budget deficit. so yeah there's a second rat effect third round effect i mean that the this decision pretty much a list yet so so yeah it's not good enough to say that you know as it's said before that the most impacted things like steel production are many of production is is incredibly energy intensive these are just the sort of things which are going to drive the costs of these these companies engage in these activities sky high i let's talk about gold because it's been an interesting week once again for gold we've seen it so is it still in these times of uncertainty the investors flock felt tools gold is it still the ultimate safe haven to think that's been proven this

week. i don't think gold has been totally rehabilitated i mean gold is now technically back in the bull market it's about fifty percent up from the lows that we saw at the end of two but it's still down fifty percent from where it started here is still down twenty five percent from where it peaked last year my view of the recent activity on gold is that it just got to the point it was so cheap that people thought well we're going to be having to visit that i have to say that's twelve hundred twelve fifty dollars an ounce level you know huge chunk of the fifty percent of global production just gets taken out so there's this good fundamental support there you know that maybe some upside from current levels but you know it doesn't look like it's going to challenge nine hundred dollars an hour any time soon so the situation in syria again just adding to all of the just behavior on the markets they might enter in from b.d.c. parness thank you so much for your time. the great leader.