the u.s. war machine awaits 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 lattimer 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 greek national debt increases alongside financial aid from the e.u. as athens struggles to appease international lenders amid reports it may need a third bailout. the latest news and the week's top stories here on r t m lindsey 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 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 portnoy 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 a mask this 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 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 adam lies in 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 un 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 originally intended

to decide on military action against syria without congressional consent the president under public pressure on the home front as most americans don't appear to share his confidence that a military attack is necessary in fact 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 asked whether assad should be attacked if he's implicated in the use of chemical weapons less than thirty percent said yes meanwhile france is the only country that's agreed to help the u.s. attack syria but paris says it will wait for washington to make the first move political analyst phyllis bennis thinks the white house was forced to turn to congress for support after 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 b s assault ship with hundreds of marines on board has also joined them officials stress the troops are merely there as a precaution 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 while dealing massive damage to the country and in response to the u.s. deployment damascus says it's on full combat alert artie's maria for know she has

the latest from the syrian capital i followed obama's message from the white house . that they've been with 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 the 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 for obviously what i saw at the end of the message from america was relieved what i saw in people's eyes because the president said that the u.s. should take a minute to response to chemical weapons use that could happen tomorrow next week or next month he'll see congress' approval for attack in syria and that. delay for everybody here and many here are two good legs that strategy they say

congress is unlikely to a group action against syria so this strike they've been waiting for several days and they this pressure had they been leaving in the. first announced a possible strike against syria they can now forget about that at least for. president putin house question the existence of u.s. evidence that assad's forces used chemical weapons calling the claim is utter 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 on the situation saying that the idea of the assad regime using chemical weapons that in country is ridiculous saying the situation on the ground just does not allow for it 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 the country 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 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 the claims that the proof exists that cannot be shown to to secrecy studios stand up to criticisms it's disrespectful towards

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 has voted down the idea of military intervention in syria 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. retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel karen pitofsky says the actions of the obama administration risk putting american forces alongside those they've called an enemy for years. twice now at least barack obama and washington d.c. the congress has done nothing to to prevent us from being allied with the very terroristic enemies that we talk al-qaeda based organizations certainly in libya and in fact in

some of the same al qaeda groups in libya are assisting and fighting the assad regime in damascus so i don't know what it will take to explain to barack obama what he is getting into the congress should be putting a stop to this several days of airstrikes will do very little it will demonstrate in many ways the weakness of the united states political regime and the lack of options that it has in really moving forward towards peace in the region. coming up rising anti muslim sentiment in the u.k. just a few minutes we report on why british muslims are facing a wave of discrimination and more anti islamic attacks than ever before.

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like you to have you with us here on t.v. today i roll researcher. this is r t with me lindsey france greece faces a battle with international lenders over control of the country's assets following suggestions it could need another ten billion euro of 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 loans 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 a boosted that by more than a quarter one greek author and journalist believes athens has become addicted to

being rescued and was default to begin his recovery. what happened during the last two or three years during this so-called salvation period was the grease became. 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 especially in germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't you should now it's 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 eurozone again 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 owen discussed the mounting greek debt with artie's igor piskun off as well as a number of international experts earlier this week they 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 our cities 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 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 a straw for. this by those huge huge bailout loans greek debt. very high we have reached peak over three hundred 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 on the turn of this 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 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 their 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 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 and 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 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. 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 its orbit is near the planet you right now it's over two billion kilometers further from the sun than typical asteroids 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 at japan's crippled nuclear power plant we explain the dangers had r t dot com. it's the final hours of mass two thousand and thirteen the showcase of everything new the airplane industry has to offer hell just outside the russian capital it's hosted daredevil aerial performances and seen billion dollar contracts signed to bad though heavy rain had to threaten to bring it all back down to earth and artie's paul scott is there it's got some news for us out there paul you know mox has has been definitely a great show so far but the gray skies have definitely affected it what do we got when you what are you seeing out there. well it is the final day of my twenty third the weather has caused

a delay to the just the start of the displays but we are finally underway now the crowds have gathered in expectation of seeing display teams from all over the world really from frons from china from latvia and of course russia and we were hoping to see the russian air force teams from the russian air force including the russian knights in the swifts who were meant to be performing together this afternoon they have performed on friday and saturday when the weather in the visibility was slightly better but the hope was that they would perform together this afternoon for the crowds that have gathered but as you can see the the gray clouds above me they're very thick and they're very low and visibility is quite poor but it's not just the acrobatic display teams that are on show there are also commercial planes that are going to be on display we hope if the weather allows and also military aircraft as well in this particular excitement about the fifty which is the fifth generation stealth fighter which is going to be part of the russian have course from twenty six days testing is still ongoing it's nearing completion on the

russian air force is expected to take delivery of the fleet by the end of this year once testing is complete and we are hoping if the the rain holds off in the clouds that we will see on display as well a little bit later on but of course it's not just the displays for the crowds that are attracting people there it's a big date in the calendar for the aviation industry it's big business deals are being struck on the fringes of this event and. is already a record breaking one so far representatives from one thousand companies from forty four different countries have struck deals worth around sixteen billion u.s. dollars making this a record breaking max and the hope is the more deals will be done throughout the course of the final day this sunday afternoon with the thick gray clouds above and more rain on to supposed to be bad news for the punters but good news for the aviation business. all right thank you. paul scott at max two thousand and thirteen for us thanks a lot. more 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 in a coastal road in taiwan was hit by a landslide and just narrowly avoid missed being crushed by a giant boulder the massive rock stop just a few meters from the car with the driver suffering minor injuries taiwan is bracing itself for more downpours caused by tropical storm kong ray 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 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 of the march protesters calling themselves the night watchman reached a major public square in central paris to 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. in china southwest united province soldiers have been evacuating people after an earthquake measuring nearly six on the richter scale hit on saturday five people were killed and more than twenty injured over one hundred tents have been put up and several medical teams dispatched to help survivors there are frequent quakes in the country's mountainous areas just this april one in sichuan killed more than one hundred ninety people. and yemen's prime minister has escaped an assassination attempt after unidentified 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 a wave of violence from militants 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 that contain pornographic and abusive images insulting the prophet muhammad as well as news footage about extremism the incident as part of a wave of offensive acts towards british muslims by those wanting to keep the u.k. islam free artie's tests are cilia 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 somewhere 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 vacuous contrary to english will if a couple of church was passing death sentences if a synagogue was. all you would immediately say that has to be stopped when you have a mind we 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. speaking to muslims across print and across london people are feeling slightly vulnerable because they do feel as if the muslim community is being picked on we have had instances where a local mosque had sausages 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 the pain we see i think is poor only to to the failure within multiculturalism most simply become the symbol of faith for this great things on the table as we said you gov poll compared answers given by respondents an event for 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 won't make a clash of cultures less likely to us or so you are loved it. coming up next from considering suicide to becoming a renowned professor of psychology we follow the path of one extraordinary man that's right after a short 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. 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 media 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.

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