the u.n. says it should be the only one to establish whether there has been a chemical attack in syria that's after the u.s. equities state john kerry claimed his intelligence agencies had their own proof. of . this is the world holds its breath of a possible intervention in syria as president obama calls for military action but looks for approval from congress. meanwhile the russian president appeals to the american leader and nobel peace prize winner warning him over the grave consequences of a campaign against syria. and a worrying rise in radiation at the fukushima nuclear plant the levels are eight times higher than previously thought which could prove a lethal within hours. of

a look back at the top stories from the past seven days and the latest developments this is the weekly here on r.t. 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 the attack and congress will consider it on september the ninth washington wants to punish damascus for an alleged chemical attack but the evidence so far presented has left much of the world unconvinced or in this now from artie's. 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 any military strike taken needs approval from the security council and a resolution to be adopted but u.s. officials believe that any security draft resolution allowing for the use of force against syria would be vetoed by russia and or china now obama says washington's planned military strike against the mask is not time sensitive meaning it could happen one week from now or one month from now but ultimately the u.s. president says that the syrian government of bashar al assad will pay consequences for allegedly using chemical weapons after careful deliberation i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets and should not be an open ended intervention we would not put boots on the ground. instead it would be designed to be limited duration and scope the white house released assessment of 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 nowhere in the report to the us confirmed 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 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. john kerry said the u.s.

has evidence that the sarin nerve agent has been used in syria that's despite the u.n. team not yet completing its own investigation in fact they no plan to return to the site of the alleged attack with the world waiting in anticipation of the results u.n. spokesman martin the stressed the global body is the only one to establish the credible facts. the united nations mission is uniquely capable of establishing in an impartial and credible manner the facts of any use of chemical weapons post directly on evidence collected on the grounds and that relates to chain of custody this morning as i'm sure you saw and saw secretary kerry said very specifically talked about blood in here or samples of your stance of that i understand you said it seems like your lab has moved pretty fast are you saying that their lab work is is is less than credible have they shared this evidence with the u.n. as the secretary general requested all i can do is repeat what i already said but the united nations mission is uniquely capable of establishing in an impartial and

credible manner the facts of any use of chemical weapons based directly on evidence collected from the ground ok and if the u.s. share any of this evidence that is described with the u.n. well as we've repeatedly said member states are encouraged to share information information they may have with regards to alleged incidents. over keeping track of everything that's going on around the world after that u.s. announcement on syria social media reaction expert analysis and fresh updates are waiting for you right now on r.t. dot com. well obama wanted to strike syria without consulting congress at first but changes mind at the last minute 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 u.s. still don't want their country attacking syria while more than twenty percent are

actually in favor of military action overhaul for those who participated in a reuters poll recently are against it and even if assad is implicated in using chemical weapons only thirty percent want the u.s. to then attack syria well france and turkey are the only ones who are backing washington on this the british parliament said no and most of syria's neighbors declined to provide support seamus milne is an associate editor at the guardian who thinks the focus shouldn't be on chemical. the conflict all together 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 or despite the fact it'll be more than a week until the u.s. congress sits to make a decision on intervention in syria america's military in the region is already waiting for the green light to strike its neighbor forces in the mediterranean to be boosted to five destroyers and an assault ship with hundreds of marines on board well officials are stressing that the troops are not part of any military planning and just a precaution but the destroyers pack some serious firepower you can see here each of them carries up to ninety tomahawk missiles and they can strike syria from a safe distance while dealing massive damage to the country syrian president bashar

assad says he's ready to deal with any external aggression. is gauging the mood in damascus. i followed obama's message from the white house i was in 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 if 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 what i saw in people's eyes because the president said that the u.s. should take a minute response to chemical weapons use in syria and 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 that strategy they

say congress is unlikely to approve military action against syria so there's a strike they've been waiting for several days and they this pressure they have been leaving in. the first announced about a possible strike against syria they can now forget about that at least for some time. and you can follow. on twitter she's posting all the latest from damascus and earlier today she was reporting heavy artillery fire around the capital. the u.s. speeding its war drums spalled warnings and criticism in moscow president vladimir putin said washington's assessment the government would launch a chemical attack against his own people is utter nonsense sean 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 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 laws 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 used 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 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. sean thomas there demonstrators 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 the bombers announcement and there were also crowds in new york even before the u.s. confirmed its plans for military action more than a thousand was seen in london chanting hands off syria in paris some held up signs saying president on land is a terrorist and then with david cameron and barack obama that sentiment was echoed in turkey as well and you see some of the latest pictures from there as well as footage from earlier protests britain's former first seen one security minister told us that the intervention could have foreseen 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 one little 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 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 turkey 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 it depends devastated nuclear plant in fukushima have increased by eighteen times and will bring you some reaction on this story after the break.

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interviews intriguing story. visit. this is the weekly. radiation has risen at japan's devastated nuclear plant at fukushima readings show levels in one of the storage tanks of contaminated water have shot up by eighteen times and that's enough to kill an exposed man in just four hours this comes just after a massive leak of radioactive water a week ago which may have reached the fukushima plant was damaged by a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit japan in march two thousand and eleven operator tepco announced on friday that it did new radiation hotspots in parts of the compound where contaminated water is stored professor chris. he's the

scientific secretary from the european committee on radiation risk he fears it's next to impossible to control the situation at fukushima. radiation suddenly cannot increase unless something has suddenly happened and that something cannot be a leakage from the tank because gamma radiation goes straight through a tank the tank has only got very thin metal walls and as we know these metal walls will only attenuate gamma radiation by about five percent if even if it's one centimeter thick so although they may think that this is a leak from the tank and there may well be leaks from the tank is suddenly increased to one point eight sieverts power which is an enormously big dose in fact probably kill somebody and in two hours not four hours i mean nobody can go in to measure where these leaks are or do anything about them because anybody who approached that sort of area would would be dead quite quickly they would be seriously harmed i think it's likely that many people are going to die as a result of this just like that the liquidators died after chernobyl they will die

over the next ten years or so nobody has actually realized how bad it is because the national clearness tradin trying to play this down so much that they've sort of come to the idea that somehow it can be controlled was all along it could never be controlled and in fact i see a photograph in which the water in the pacific ocean is actually appearing to boil well it's not boiling but you can certainly see that it's hot steam is coming off the surface there's a fog condensing over the area of the of the ocean close to the reactors which means that hot water is getting into the pacific that means something is fissioning very close to the pacific and if that graph i see is true they should now be evacuating people outside the hundred kilometers up to the hundred kilometer zone. and you can find more live updates on the emergency on our website as well and here's what else online team has few there it had been for your anus was all alone but now astronomers have spotted a lump of rock an ice they've named trojan orbiting the planet over two billion

further from the sun than typical asteroids you can go online to check out why it's being given the greek name in particular. plus the latest from whistleblower edward snowden shows america conducted hundreds of cyber operations in one year alone with iran russia and china topping the list of hacking rates you can read the full article right now. dot com. download the official. yourself language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch r.t. any time anyway. greece's jobless rate is continuing to rise with the latest e.u. statistics 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 well back in two thousand and ten with the recession already taking its toll the unemployment rate was at almost fifteen percent but the number has only been increasing this year reaching a record of twenty seven point six percent young people appear to be the worst affected nearly sixty five percent of those aged between fifteen to twenty four without a job this is greece's stuck in its sixth year of recession and seems to need another bailout next year while international lenders have already poured billions into rescuing its ailing economy its creditors already paid one hundred ten billion euros back in two thousand and ten now greece has accepted it had to will be x. on its spending and by embracing a sterile and another one hundred thirty billion followed shortly after but public debt has only been growing in those three years the beginning of the meltdown it rocketed to one hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p.

the extra boosted that by more than a quarter author and journalist to follow believes that the e.u. rescue package seems to have been a trap. what happened during the last two or three years during the so-called salvation period was that greece became. foreign intervention and foreign help it's 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 were selling germany france and some other countries the only shouldn't you should now is to be for having the greek people in control of their 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 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 this strait jacket off. of the monetary union. now to some other news from around the world in a world update this hour starting with this incredible dash cam video from taiwan a deadly double nimitz's the car in front gets hit by a landslide along the coastal road and then just narrowly avoided being crushed by a huge boulder because passengers miraculous escaped with only minor injuries the country remains on high alert downpours from tropical storm conway continue to batter the island. now to pakistan where roadside bombs claim lives of at least nine people the blast happened when a convoy was passing through the northern province or was it

a stand not far from the border with afghanistan at least twenty one soldiers were reported wounded determent region has seen a lot of violent attacks by both al qaeda and the taliban while u.s. drones hunting the militants often catch civilians in the crossfire on saturday a drone raid killed three foreign militants there. two hundred protesters defied france's ban on rallies against the new law on gay marriage to march in paris demonstrators calling themselves by the name of nightwatchman close their rally with a vigil in the center of the capital was back in may that france's parliament approved same sex marriage amid mass demonstrations and unrest across the country. red square here in moscow is moving to the beat of military bands from all over the world who have gathered in the heart of the capital for the international music festival known as the tower it's one of the most impressive annual events in russia's cultural calendar and attracts crowds of spectators already has the

details now from the russian capital. fifteen hundred troops from the armies of thirteen countries have gathered on one square but this is no war but the. tower. taking place once again in the heart of the russian capital all to a new team. and the military songs being performed by military music bands from across the world including from france the u.k. the united arab emirates china russia and others but it's not only about music dancing is also part of the entertainment program. of tricks conducted with hardware and different interactive programs for children this year this is the fifth time that this festival is being held under this name expected that everybody up to seven thousand spectators will come to red square to watch the show fifty thousand spectators are expected to watch it all together since this festival is

going to continue throughout the week. and watch the show here for all of these. various parks across the city. the organizers are also planning to use more of the revenues from ticket sales to the festival to help those who suffered in the floods in the russian far east so if you're in moscow throughout the next week this is definitely an event you would want to come visit. because it is going to get the weather for. the next few days now 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 meet the demand for power one of the fun why such a green idea is leaving others seeing red. germany's wind

farms are spinning out of control that's according to a new generation of don quixote's who feel hung onto dry by a lack of regulation on where windmills can be placed. 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 man away from us one of the main problems for people living in this area is the she assignees of the new to bind that overshadow their homes come on. march until the end of july we have a constant flickering in our kitchens it's very unpleasant you don't even want to have a breakfast their attention will finish 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. these low frequency sounds are just constantly in your hair and you feel it throughout your entire body of all when i can fall asleep wakes me up in the night i have asthma sometimes it feels like you can't resist have a common 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 i'm just i'm i've already calculated them into the asking price and if 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 but there have been times that i've sat in front of my house and cry. 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 race towards renewables which means more when mills peter all over r.t.

germany. and i mean that with a new team with morphine just have a half an hour from now in the mean time from suicidal teenage years to renowned psychology professor we follow the path of one extraordinary man that's coming our way here on r.t. after a short break. 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.