the u.s. war machine awaits orders to strike syria but barack obama says he would like the backing of lawmakers for a stop turkey world powers and many americans speak out against intervention that there's a lot of near putin dismissed allegations that the syrian government used w m d's as utter nonsense appealing to the u.s. president as a nobel peace prize winner to think of the bloodshed he might cost. and greek national debt increases alongside financial aid from the e.u. as athens struggles to appease international lenders amid reports it made me its third bailout. the latest news and the week's top stories here on our team in the frats against

the distant cries of anti-war protesters barack obama has pulled back from ordering a strike against syria at least for now the u.s. president has decided to ask congress which doesn't reconvene for over a week 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 marina porton i 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 is 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 no where in the report to the us confirmed that assad the assad government used chemical weapons instead the four page report used wording 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 the 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 wriggly 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 those 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. captives implicated in the use of chemical weapons less than thirty percent said yes political analyst phyllis bennis thinks the white house was forced to turn to congress for support after most of most of its allies refused to weigh in. 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 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 assault ship with hundreds of marines on board has also joined them officials stress that troops are merely there as a precaution with no plans to deploy them in syria the destroyers packs some serious firepower each of them carries up to ninety tomahawk cruise missiles they can strike syria from a safe distance dealing massive damage to the country and in response to u.s. deployment damascus says it's on full combat alert artie's marie if an ocean has the latest from the syrian capital. followed obama's message from the white house. that they've been with the syrians and i had a very good opportunity

a chance to see their vivid reaction to their to read their faces and to see all the developments of emotions and feelings that i have to say that if at the beginning of a bomb a speech people were nervous and would tense and of course were frightened obviously what i saw at the end over the message from america was relief what i saw in people's eyes because the president said that the u.s. should commit to response to chemical weapons use that could happen tomorrow next week or next month but he'll see congress' approval for attack in syria and that manned delay for everybody here and many here are two good legs of strategy they say congress is unlikely to approve military action against syria so there's a strike they've been waiting for. for several days and they this pressure

had they been leavin. first announced about a possible strike against syria they can now forget about that at least for. president putin has questioned the existence of u.s. evidence that assad's forces used chemical weapons calling claims i don't nonsense he also warned barack obama against military action urging him to think of the possible civilian victims artesian thomas has more moscow has been very busy this week urging the west not to intervene in the situation in syria vladimir putin spoke to reporters from a lot of us stuck on saturday on the situation saying that the idea of the assad regime using chemical weapons in country is ridiculous saying the situation on the ground just does not allow for it he also said that the global community should wait until the u n has done their job the investigation is finished but now they

are in the process of assessing that information he said that the g twenty summit this week is a good place for the global leaders to discuss the situation in syria he also called on president obama as a nobel laureate not just as a fellow head of state a winner of the nobel peace prize to consider his actions and what it would mean for military intervention and more loss of life in that country now when it comes to the use of chemical weapons the president said of course russia is against the idea of the use of chemical weapons but in this case that the global community needed to wait for the u.n. to do its job and then present evidence to the u.n. security council and then they would decide how to react in a lawful manner according to international law and that any unilateral decision would be against the law listen to what he had to say about that when it comes to the stance of our american partners friends who are insisting that syrian forces have use w m d's in this case chemical weapons and stating to have proof they

should demonstrate that proof to the u.n. inspectors and the security council because lames at the proof exists that cannot be shown to to secrecy studios stand up to criticism it's disrespectful to america's global partners. if there is proof it has to be shown it is not showing it doesn't exist and the president also said that he was pleasantly surprised at the situation in the u.k. as the british parliament debated and then voted down the idea of military intervention in syria and that vote going against david cameron's wishes but he said that it shows that there are rational minds at play in the government and that a spirited debate can take place right now the global community is waiting to see if the u.s. congress will follow suit and also continue in a spirited debate as obama has sent the idea of military intervention to congress a former commander of britain's military's chemical defense regiment insists the

evidence should be gathered more thoroughly and by a more diverse group of experts to be reliable. got to piece together all the intelligence available very much in 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 and spin gathered by those intelligence services and put it together. that day and i need a chance to come up with a ninety to ninety five guarantee. of who is responsible but at the moment that level of confirmation is is probably only the seventy's cliff aeration of chemical weapons or biological weapons to syria and terrorist groups and sees. the worst case scenario that have been reports on corroborated that some terrorist groups have gained some of these stocks. 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. just a few minutes we report on my british muslims are facing a wave of discrimination and more anti islamic attacks on africa for. cuba is not a savior of the cuban people it's a savior of sidel castro on the. one assassination. by the officials both hostility and suspicion encouraged by the government these operations against cuba are known to the attorney general of the united states the president and. the defendants intelligence on how to infiltrate to resist. the chalet jones

freedom fighters their arrests. who is who. the real terrorist please stand up on our cheek. you know sometimes you see 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 that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hardy was a big. welcome back this is artie grease 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 one hundred ten billion euro loan from the from the european union 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 aid boosted that by more than a quarter author and journalists are raised stephano believes athens has become addicted to being rescued and must default to begin his recovery. what happened during the last two or three years during this so-called salvation period was that greece became john key or for foreign intervention and foreign help it's simply impossible anymore during the three hundred twenty billion saying it was impossible even in two thousand and nine everybody knew that but they wanted to bring greece into the strap that only foreign banks were selling in germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't you should now is to be foreigners having the

greek people in control of the procedure for euro zone creates deficits and debts to the european very very well at the same time create services through the european court so we were saying from two thousand and nine two thousand and ten that we should leave the euro zone a gain in our therapist and not in terms imposed by berlin brussels or any other place in europe it destroyed again the infrastructure of the greek economy not only of the greek economy the same thing happened in spain portugal and ireland all the countries that took the strait jacket off. of the monetary union. my colleague kevin allen discussed the mounting greek debt with r.t.c. or piss going off as well as a number of international experts earlier this week they took a look at where the money is going and who would helps. 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 athens kind of go to. 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 your enough is what's your view well it is obvious by now the. whole scenario adopted for greece has been like a the straw for. this by those huge huge bailout loans greek debt. very high. peak over three hundred and twenty one billion euros of dead so that means that we're much worse than when the debt crisis started the bailouts

were bad the bailouts were carolan who said if european studies in brussels there. was it pouring good money after bad do you think you're a proponent of the bailout on the turn and 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 a sale 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 been. most not the banks but i think germany has benefited most from the euro zone that's

why seaview was campaigning staying within the euro zone and that's why merkel has forty percent of the legal rights because germany is thriving germany exports all over europe and they are how they this is a big interest in having a stable currency zone from still on the to brussels i can only say that he is looking at the completely wrong end of the stick so up the euro was a political project it never had the financial start being. supporting the political decision not the economy. other stories you won't find on air head to our tea dot com right now you can learn about the breakthrough discovery about so-called trojan asteroids its orbit is near the planet you're right now it's over two billion kilometers further from the sun than typical asteroids go off to go online to check out why it was given this ancient greek name in particular. plus more inspections more leaks the fukushima operator admits more than one water tank may have been using heavily contaminated liquid in japan's

crippled nuclear power plant we explain the dangers that are to dot com. 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 graphic they contain pornographic and abusive images insulting the prophet mohammad 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 artie's tests are silly of reports. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind going freedom foundation we start. 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 a summer further to the mosque buster objections raised by locals pertaining to

mosques include 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 it is a wrong doctrine now exactly is contrary to ring the shore if a catholic church was passing death sentences if a synagogue was blessing armies to commit acts of war all you would immediately say that has to be stopped when you have a man who is soon ideologically opposed knows little about these numbers faith even if you want he is suggesting that he 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. speaking to muslims across print and across london people feeling vulnerable because the they do feel as if

the muslim community is being picked on we have had instances where a local mosque is 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 a 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. i think is poor to deal with the 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 the vendor 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 make a clash of cultures and less likely to us or so you r.t. london. for news now from across the globe it takes quite a bit of luck to avoid something like this a dashboard camera captured the moment a car on a coastal road in taiwan was hit by a landslide and just narrowly avoided being crushed by a giant boulder the massive rock stopped just a few meters from the car with the driver suffering only minor injuries taiwan is bracing itself for more downpours caused by tropical storm kong rain. thousands of people marched through the mexican capital in protest of the president's energy reform plans peña nieto wants to allow private companies to explore mexico's vast

oil and gas reserves but those opposing the move say the president is just seeking to sell off the nation's assets the mexican leader has relatively low approval ratings now and will speak to the nation on monday. around two hundred people demonstrated against same sex marriage in the french capital despite a ban on the march protesters calling themselves the night watchman reached a major public square in central paris so a whole hold an evening vigil police encircled the group until their demonstration was finished this was the last in a twenty day protest marathon throughout france in reaction to gay unions being made legal yemen's prime minister has this case an assassination attempt after an identified gunman opened fire on his convoy no one was hurt in the attack in the capital sanaa which happened as the official returned home yemen is home to one of the most aggressive branches of al qaeda and is struggling to deal with the wave of violence from militants. now to some spills and thrills from some of the world's

finest pilots the max two thousand and thirteen air show just outside the russian capital climaxes on sunday it's been providing the stage for state of the art aircraft to perform and billion dollar contracts to be signed the heavy rain has brought it back down to earth so far today this year's event has already broken his own records over a thousand companies from forty four countries are taking part and more than three hundred thousand spectators have among the headliners is russia's most advanced fifth generation fighter jets and t fifty and their team of pilots who work wonders with their squadron of helicopters. stay with us for a true story of cuban spying and intrigue in miami right after the break.

so the historic and for many americans tragic ruling in the bradley manning case just got a lot weirder because he has declared that he wants to live the rest of his life as a woman named chelsea well i'm glad his lawyer got him to keep this revelation to himself until the end of the trial but sadly he really should have pushed for him to keep quiet about this just a bit longer why you ask because if there is one thing i know about the mainstream media is that the second sex is involved everything else instantly becomes a distant second case in point what is the legacy of bill clinton is that the job murderer who are sure to nafta no is it a violent foreign policy throughout the world somewhat similar to bush's and obama's 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 wasn't office the lewinsky scandal just smothered everything else i am pretty sure that if i know the mainstream. they are going to use manning's gender confusion to overshadow and

drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. 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 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. i. believe in tomorrow's bishop told me because drew was going to chile. so i went to miami to recruit assassins. if i do nothing nothing done. community and remember they trained as cameramen in venezuela so they could get press credentials. if you going to go to the last minute when they decided it wasn't worth risking their own lives. is very uncommon with.

maurice bishop then informed vesey i know that castro was planning a visit to quito ecuador on his way home to cuba vesey on a contacted luis posada country lace a former but east a policeman and a well known anti castro militant to assassinate castro. got to know a few astro's told a student it is you who will be you know the solder assured me he could put a bullet in his forehead i am the but i was a guaranteed escape plan the plot failed. on september nineteenth one thousand nine hundred seventy six i had dinner with orlando the tel year at his house the telly there was a former chilean ambassador to washington and i had invited him to work with me at the institute for policy studies after dinner we went outside and i put my elbows on the hood of his car not suspecting there was a bomb planted in it. thirty six hours later let telly or drove to work with

a colleague ronni moffitt. the telly or died in the explosion as did running off and. shortly afterwards the f.b.i. arrested hosts a deal nice use water ice and guillermo novo the very men they had listed in their assassination report on ricardo alarcon. two weeks later international terrorism took on dimensions. this is the c.b.s. evening news with walter cronkite that evening nine days ago a cuban passenger jet on route from barbados to a battle crashed into the sea following an on board explosion seventy three persons fifty seven of them cuban were killed.