the u.s. war machine awaits orders to strike syria but barack obama says he would like to be biking a long way because funds have to key world powers and many americans speak out against intervention. as a legitimate reason dismissed allegations that the syrian government has used w m d's as after norton is appealing to the u.s. president as a nobel peace prize winner to think of the bloodshed he might cause. and also the sound of greek national debt increases alongside financial aid from the e.u. as athens struggles to appease international lenders i mean to report it may need a bailout and.

the latest news on the week's top stories you're watching the weekly here on r.c. with me our thanks for joining us again the distant cries of antiwar protesters a bronco bamma house 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 partner 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. would be designed to be limited duration and scope the white house released

assessment of this use of chemical weapons on august twenty first and to countless amount of experts were not convinced by the intelligence that's been presented no where in the report did the u.s. confirm that assad that 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 reaches only intended to decide on military action against syria without congressional consent the presence of public pressure on the home front as most americans don't appear to share his confidence that the military is necessary or the hope of those americans who took part in a reuters poll said they don't want any kind of u.s. involvement in syria and only twenty percent are in favor asked whether science should be at times it has implicated in the use of chemical weapons less than sixty percent of people said yes meanwhile france is the only country that's agreed to help the u.s. attack syria but paris says it will wait washington to make the first move and political analyst phyllis bennis things the white house was forced to turn to congress will support have to most of its allies refuse 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 ally 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. into submission an order to strike american naval forces have been massing in the mediterranean off the sea where encroached five destroyers are ready to take part in their soldier and the previous assault ship with hundreds of marines on board has also drawn them officials tries the troops a nearly there as a precaution with no plans to deploy them in syria the destroyers park some serious fire power each of them carries up to ninety tomahawk cruise missiles and they can strike syria from a safe distance while dealing massive damage to the country and

a response to the u.s. deployment damascus says its own full combat alert. the latest from the syrian capital for i followed obama's message from the white house was that even 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 tans and of course for obviously what i saw at the end of the message from america was relieve what i saw in people's eyes because the president said that the u.s. should take a minute 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 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 this strike they've been waiting for several recent days and they are the pressure they been leavin. first announced a possible strike against syria they can now forget about that at least for some time. president putin has question of the existence of u.s. evidence that assad's forces used chemical weapons calling the claims are nonsense he also warned barack obama against military action urging him to think of the possible civilian victims are his from thomas has more for. 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 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 lanes that the proof exists that cannot

be shown to you to secrecy do not stand up to criticism is 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 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. and retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel current cred sounds the actions of the obama administration risk putting american forces alongside those they've called an enemy for years. we have allied ourselves 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 about al-qaeda based al-qaeda linked organizations certainly in libya in fact in some of the same al qaeda groups in libya that 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. and coming up this hour a plague windmills germany's green revolution annoyance a red dyed bomb those forced to live alongside the constant danger of power turbines springing up all across the country sign that story and much more larry short break testing.

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 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. well the british science.

market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report on are. you watching the weekend here on our c with me you know of allah let's move on now 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 the two thousand and eight to a request for a one hundred ten billion euro loan from the e.u. in which son greece introduced austerity measures and another one hundred thirty billion followed shortly the beginning of the turmoil so public debt rocket to one

hundred and twenty nine percent overtreated p. and the extra eight boosted that by more than a quarter author and journalist chauncey bailey's athens has become addicted to being rescued and default to begin its recovery. what happened during the last two or three years during the so-called salvation period was that greece became. for foreign intervention and foreign help it simply impossible any more 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 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 sarah 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 therapist 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 the countries that took the straight jacket of. of the monetary union. and my colleague kevin owen discuss the mounting gree debt or with our t.v. or piece could all of as well as a number of international experts earlier this week and a look at where the money's going and who 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 my let's let's go to our first 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 you're in athens 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 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 a catastrophic carolan a set of european studies in brussels that. was it pouring good money after bad you think you're a proponent of the bailout of the turn and 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 greece are higher than they are in bulgaria if greece were to have less to eurozone 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 banks just because who has benefited who has. number that 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 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 rook looking at this one side of the coin and not seeing and not realizing the long term effects. until all the stories you won't find on i had to alter you don't call me right now

you can learn about the breakthrough discovery of the so-called trojan asteroid its orbit is near the planet here and has over two billion kilometers farther from the from this sound than typical asteroids so go online to check out why it was given this ancient greek name in particular. plus more inspections more leaks the fukushima operate at mit's more than one was a time may have been using heavily contaminated liquid at japan's crippled nuclear power plant we'll explain the dangers at all to you don't. in the final hours of my twenty fair scene the shark case of everything new the airplane industry has to offer just outside the russian capital it's hosted dead double arrow performances and seen the billion dollar contracts signed heavy rain had threatened to bring it all back down to us but some of the events take off again for one last day. the weather has caused

a delay to the just the start of the displays but we all finally underway now the crowds have gathered in expectation of seeing acrobatic display teams from all over the world really from fronds from china from latvia and of course russia now we were hoping to see the russian afterwards teams from the russian air force including the russian knights of the swifts who are meant to be performing together this afternoon the but as you can see the the gray clouds above me they're very thick and they're very low and unfortunately visibility is quite poor they have performed on friday and saturday when the weather when the visibility was slightly better put 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 t. fifty which is the fifth generation stealth fighter 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 completed we are hoping if the rain holds off

and the clouds disperse that we will see thoughts on display as well which later on this also i hope that we'll see a display by better kuti which is the helicopter wing if you if you like of the russian aff or stay performed earlier on over the course of the weekend it's their first time out max this year when they want of the few performance display teams in the world to perform tricks horizontally and vertically a very very low altitude sort 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 a big business deals are being struck on the fringes of this event and they smacked is already a record breaking one so far representatives from one thousand companies from forty four different countries have struck deals was around sixteen billion u.s. dollars making this a record breaking with the thick gray clouds above and more rain on to suppose that it might be bad news for the punt. but good news for the aviation business. and in

the news now from across the globe it takes quite a bit to of luck to avoid something like this more camera captured the moment a car on a coastal road in taiwan was hit by a landslide and just merrily of water being crushed by a giant boulder the massive rock star just a few meters from the car with the drivers suffering minor injuries taiwan is bracing itself for more downpours caused by tropical storm fay. thousands of people marched through the mexican capital in protest of the president's energy reform plans pena nieto after allow private companies to explore mexico's vast oil and gas revenues reserves i should say the boroughs opposing the move say the president is just seeking to sell off the nation's assets the mexican leader has a relatively low approval ratings now and will speak to the nation on monday. as germany continues its nuclear power phase out in the wake of japan's fukushima

disaster plugging the energy gap is proving a tough task and there's now a public storm brewing over the wind turbines which are popping up across the country to me the demand for power outages petone were found out why such an environmentally friendly idea has caused such division germany's wind farms are spinning out of control that's according to a new generation of don't feel hung on to drive by a lack of regulation on where windmills can be placed. so it's turned into a nightmare for us we came here fourteen years ago and there were just two small wind turbines two years later the reform team since then another sixteen have gone up we moved here for tranquility and they have taken away from us. one of the main problems for people living in this area is the she assignees of the new turbines that ova shanteau their homes. going to be from march until the end of july we have

a constant flickering in our kitchens it's very unpleasant you don't even want to breakfast there. germany has plans to increase the amount of energy drawn from the wind almost three fold over the coming years modern wind turbines are around two hundred meters tall that's roughly double the height of the statue of liberty and they're springing up all across the german countryside this is seen previously nonpolitical people become activists trying to fight against a green energy lobby they feel is out of control and against turbines that they say are causing real damage to human health. as well have most of these low frequency sounds are just constantly in your head and you feel it throughout your entire body when i can fall asleep it wakes me up in the night sometimes it feels like you can

freeze i have a that's playing i'm not going to eat when they're going around it's like there's permanent movement in my peripheral vision i work in this field and i understand that such movement has a real psychological effect on people it's not just that they're tall and noisy these massive new neighbors are also having a huge effect on house prices rocco is trying to move away from the turbines his house has been up for sale for the last five years without success and has become i've already calculated them into the asking price and have not half the price off i've had around fifty people come and look but no takers there's no concrete law in germany restricting where wind turbines can be built meaning in some cases they can spring up just two hundred fifty meters from residential areas but the same as a life. he can be like this forever i don't want to leave but these noises make me sick they have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cried those cries

aren't being heard in the corridors of power though all the major parties in the upcoming election are stressing their commitment continuing germany's. yes towards renewables which means more windmills peter all of the r.t. germany. well the pontiff next. sometimes it seems like 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 shift 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 all 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.

alone while control of the party because of the soviet union it was widely perceived as a story of triumph and validation of capitalism. major crisis less than two decades later and while the number of those who are forced to buy the bullet by the recent crisis is comparable to those left by the crash of tong many of the. critical analysis of loss rates of capitalist system is still fairly rare well to attempt to do just that i'm now joined by jeffrey summers an associate professor of political economy at the university of wisconsin in milwaukee thank you very much for your time mr summers i know that you are a frequent guest here in moscow and you are on today you will be speaking on the waterways the world off to the end of american imperialism each i think is a kind of topic that will certainly resonate with many people in moscow but i assume that for many americans it's not just a provocative topic some may perceive that as simply and patch are already on the

part well you know i thought the patriotism was rather weak in the united states today but i think americans are very weary they're not particularly patriotic right well and they feel under a great deal of stress and so they're not really thinking in terms of patriotism in the way that they once did especially during the cold war now i think that there are a couple of words in the political science vocabulary imperialism being one of them that are sort of dirty i mean the ones who use them you raise. conspiracy theories there may be an american hater but as far as i understand your main message is not so much about the america as a great nation but rather the end of certain policies by the united states government that you view as no longer sustainable yes definitely and in fact i also find the term somewhat problematic because it's very value laden as you suggest but what i.