the world holds its wrath over possible intervention in syria as president obama calls for military action but goes looking for approval from congress while the secretary of state planes the you ask as evidence of the use of sarin gas. these sounds the russian president appeals to the american leader as a nobel peace prize laureate warning him over the grave consequences of a campaign against syria. and the radiation would be for a nuclear plant levels are eighteen times higher than previously thought which could prove lethal within four hours.

the latest news on the week's top stories this is that we can all see with me. thanks for joining us the u.s. president wants to launch a military strike on syria but he wants to win a domestic political battle for that to happen barack obama is seeking congressional approval for that time and congress will consider it all september the ninth washington wants to punish the mosque this for an alleged chemical attack but the evidence so far presented has left much of the world unconvinced mond this from more end up working on. 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 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 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. 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 a countless amount of experts were not convinced by the intelligence that's been presented no where in the report to the us confirm that assad that 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 atta lising 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. under way keeping track of everything that's going on around the world up so that the u.s. announcement on syria social media reaction acts but analysis and days are waiting for you on our home. obama wanted to strike see where without consulting congress

at last but changed his mind at the last minute that decision is in line with public opinion one poll showed that eighty percent of americans believe the president should get the stamp of approval before military action but the majority of people in the you are still don't want a country talking syria while more than twenty percent favor of military action over the heart of those who participated in a reuters poll are against it and even if assad is implicated in using chemical weapons only thirty percent of the u.s. to then attack syria france and turkey are the only ones who are backing washington on this they were jewish parliament said no and most of syria's neighbors declined to provide support and seamus milne news an associate editor of the gone who thinks this focus shouldn't be on chemical weapons but on ending the conflict altogether. one of the risks of this action and one of the reasons people oppose it not only

that it won't achieve what it's aiming to do but will actually increase killing and spread the war but that not only the syrian government but its supporters both states and non-state actors in the region may well take retaliatory action but i think what really is missing from this debate at the moment is a serious focus on bringing the entire conflict to an end because the problem for most syrians is not chemical weapons however gruesome that may have been on this or even other occasions the problem is the huge scale of conflict death and destruction that has taken place in syria in what has become an increasing be vicious sectarian war despite the fact that all the more than a week until the u.s. congress seems to make a decision on intervention in syria america's military in the region is already waiting for the green light to strike that it's unable forces in the military and how been boosted to five destroyers and feed this assault ship with hundreds of

marines on board official stresses the troops are not part of any military planning and just a precaution the destroyers pack some serious firepower each of them carries out up to nine hundred tomahawk cruise missiles and that they can strike syria from a saved distance while dealing massive damage to the country so when president bashar assad says he's ready to deal with any external aggression she is maria gauging the mood in damascus for us. i followed obama's message from the white house i was that even 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 the emotions and feelings that i have to say that even at the beginning of a bomb a speech people were nervous and would tans and of course were frightened obviously what i saw at the end of the massive trauma america was relieved when i saw in

people's eyes because the president said that the u.s. should take a military response to chemical weapons use in syria and that could happen tomorrow next week or next month he'll see congress' approval for attacking syria and that manned delay for everybody here and many here are too good as legs that strategy they say congress is unlikely to a group interaction against syria so there's a strike they've been waiting for several recent days and they this pressure had they been leavin after the first announced a possible strike against syria they can now forget about that at least for some time. and you can follow our season or if an ocean of twenty says she is posting on the latest from damascus for us and early education was reporting have a office here if iran the capital. the

in the. the u.s. beating its move drones have sparked warnings and harsh criticism in moscow president vladimir putin said washington's assessment their son government had launched a chemical attack against its own people is nonsense on his phone thomas has more now on russia's reaction. 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 to secrecy so you know stand up to criticisms is disrespectful to lead 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 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 down strangers all over the world have taken to the streets to speak out against an attack on syria protesters gathered in front of the white house after dying as a. now some and they were also crowns in new york even before the jaska found is plans for military action more than one thousand were seen in london chanting hands off syria paris of the same to similar protests somehow up signs saying president are known as a terrorist along with david cameron and barack obama the sentiment was echoed enteric as well britain's former first seen old as security minister told us that the intervention could have unforseen consequences. the danger with saying we're going to use a limited surgical strike is all my experience of wars and i've been in them and in

the lead up to them and i've been running them and things is to find that you have a lot of unintended consequences you think you're just going to do wonderful thing but actually things then happen in expands we need to be very clear what is it we actually want to achieve what is the end state we want we have in place mechanisms militarily to ensure that things don't go beyond a certain degree but i'm not at all convinced that attack would actually help the condition of the people within the within syria we've seen what happened in iraq you know we've seen what's happened in afghanistan i have no doubt that the al qaeda group and there are a very large group i'm afraid in the opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act radiation levels or japan's devastated nuclear plant afic ashima have increased

by eighteen times or bring you the details on this story after their short break. in cuba is not a failure of the cuban people it's a failure of sidel castro in the first. one assassination on sabotage backed by the officials both hostility and suspicion encouraged by the government these operations against cuba were known to the attorney general of the united states the present united states himself the defendants an intelligence arms had to infiltrate to resist. pressure lay jones freedom fighters terrorists. who is who.

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by a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit japan russia twenty level the plant's operate a tepco announced on friday that a detected near rays asian hotspots and boss of the compound well contaminated of all trace stored dr robert jacobs who is a historian at the hiroshima pace says chad believes it's quite likely that more incidents like these it was a path that it's harder and harder for workers to work in these exposed areas so you have to cycle workers in and out each working a very very short bit of time so this is been an ongoing degrading situation in which from the start two and a half years ago the area has become more and more and more contaminated making it harder and harder and harder to simply carry out work as designed there is groundwater moving through this area towards the sea this is not a new leak but for two and a half years groundwater has been moving through these buildings those coming out hundreds of tons of this groundwater per day to store so as you can see if you're

pumping out hundreds of tons of groundwater per day it's a growing problem day after day after day meeting new tanks and more tanks these tanks are being put up in an ad hoc manner and there's no way to stop this wound water the ground water simply moving through the ground this radiation simply entering the ocean they this is just the normal daily activity now at this point the real problem is were there to be another serious earthquake were there to be another serious catastrophic event you have all of these tanks with massive amounts of highly contaminated water that are subject to the same sorts of problems that happened when there were earthquakes earlier. and you can find more live updates on the virgin said fukushima on our website and as well and here's what i was downline team has for you this hour. is humble salty uranus was all alone but now astronomers have spotted a lump of rock and ice they've named orbiting the planet over two billion

kilometers from the from the sun than a typical asteroids going line to check out why it's been given the ancient greek name in particular. the latest leak from whistleblower edward snowden shows america conducted hundreds of cyber operations and one get alone with iran russia and china topping the list of hiking rates read the full story on a. download you. so choose you like stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television or it just doesn't matter about what your mobile device says you can watch your ti anytime anywhere. greece's jaundice rate is continuing to rise with the latest used to sticks released this week pointing to another record nearly one point four million greeks

are out of work today that's almost fifteen percent more than just three years ago back in two thousand to ten with the recession already taking its toll then employment rate was at almost fifteen percent but the number has only been increasing this year reaching the record of twenty seven point six percent young people appear to be the worst affected with nearly sixty five percent of bo's aged between fifteen to twenty four without a job base as greece is stuck in its sixth year over session and seems to need another bailout next chair international lenders have already poured billions into rescuing its ailing economy its creditors already paid one hundred four. ten billion euros back in two thousand and ten greece accepted it will two x. on its spending and by embracing our stars and another one hundred and thirty billion followed shortly after but public debt has only been growing in those three years at the beginning of the mole down it rocketed to one hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p. the extra eight boosted by more than

a quarter author and journalist ariz chinese stefano believes the e.u. rescue package seems to have been a trap. what happened during the last two or three years during this so-called salvation period it was that greece became a junkie or for foreign intervention and foreign help it's simply impossible anymore to repay a debt of three hundred twenty billion saying it was impossible even in two thousand and nine everybody knew that but we wanted to bring greece into the strap that help only foreign banks especially in germany france and some other countries we 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 euro zone again in our therapist and not in terms imposed by berlin brussels or any other place in

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 straight jacket of. of the monetary union. police in london are investigating after a series of islamophobia d.v.d.'s were sent to several mosques and muslim organizations in the british capital they contain pornographic and abuse of images mocking the prophet muhammad as well as news footage about extremism they incident as part of a growing wave of offensive acts towards british muslims see their reports. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind going freedom foundation we still. 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 and cooed traffic congestion on the general noise on 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 broader doctrine now exactly is contrary to reassure if a company church was passing death sentences if a synagogue was blessing on me to commit acts of war would immediately. when you have a man who is soon ideologically opposed knows little about these numbers faith even if what he is suggesting then 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

a sprint and across london people feeling 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 the 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 received i think is poor little to the failure within multiculturalism most simply become the symbol of things for this great things on it with a recent you gov poll compared answers given by respondents to the vendor two

thousand and twelve i'm a twenty thirteen and showed an increase in the number of people who agree that there will be a clash of civilizations between british muslims and they to 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 and less likely to us or so you are to me. and now to some other news from around the world starting with this incredible footage from taiwan capturing a deadly double near miss as the kind from gets hit by a landslide along a coastal road and then just now they avoid being crushed by huge boulder because passengers miraculously escaped with only minor injuries they found her remains on high alert us around szell down polls from probable storm call re continue to battle the island. international energy reforms had mexicans protesting

in the capital on sunday mexico's president sponsored public outcry by proposing private companies exploit the country's oil reserves production there has plummeted over the last decade to the lack of up to date extraction technology protesters say there's no need to prioritize to improve production a move which would require a change to the constitution. two hundred tests as defined france's man on the run as a gay is the new law of gay marriage so much in paris the demonstrators calling themselves by the name of night watchman closed their rally with a vigil is central the campus so it was back in may that france's parliament approved same sex marriage and made my demonstrations unrest across the country remarks twenty said and has made its final approach and drawing to a close one of the wilds top aviation of violence has been held just outside the russian capital showcasing all the latest and space technology heavy rain may have

delayed performances but it didn't keep the planes grounded his poll squad was there for. it's been a good weekend for the crowds unfortunately the weather on the final day has was disrupted the shuttle slightly this big thick gray clouds above us and the rain has predominantly held off it has made visibility quite difficult the highlights on the final day included a display from the russian knights the robotic display wing of the russian half force for the planes came out and thrilled the crowds with that death defying stomach churning stunts we also saw commercial flights as well the airbus a three eighty was spinning around overhead and also there were military on display the highlights of which was the showing of the t fifty which is the stealth fighter that is going to be parts of russia's come two thousand and six day now final testing on those planes is still going ahead it's expected to be completed by the

end of two thousand and thirteen when the russian air force will take delivery on some of those some of those stealth fighters the rule was deafening the crowds as the plane was derived overhead it really was an impressive sight now unfortunately the weather on the final day put paid to a display from better kuti which is the helicopter display team of the russian air force they were meant to impress the crowds on sunday afternoon but unfortunately that was counseled however they did participate earlier on in the weekend over friday and saturday when the weather was slightly better organizes will be looking back on a record breaking year for max in terms of business deals struck almost sixteen billion u.s. dollars worth of contracts were signed it was record breaking as well in terms of number of attendees with representatives from more than one thousand companies worldwide from forty four different countries striking those deals and. on the right out of the break is the true story of cuban spies have paid the price for trying to stop. us terrorism.

so the historic and for many americans tragic ruling in a 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 media they are going to use manning as gender confusion to overshadow and drown out everything else involved in the case but that's just my opinion. in tomorrow's bishop told me just drew was going to chile. so i went to miami to recruit assassins. if it will do nothing nothing done. community and when they trained as cameramen in venezuela so they could get press

credentials. if you don't go into the last minute we decided it wasn't worth risking their own lives. in three and one 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 less a former but tista policeman and a well known anti castro militant to assassinate castro. got to know if you are strong was told and stood and 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 ronny moffet. the telly or died in the explosion as did running off. shortly afterwards the f.b.i. arrested hosts a deal nice use water ice and guillermo novel the very men they had listed in their assassination report on ricardo alarcon. two weeks later international terrorism took on new.