u.n. asserts only it is able to provide a credible answer on whether toxic gas was used in syria last month as the u.s. wraps up its case for a military strike while continuing to blame the assad regime. meanwhile league members refused to go along with the syria attack including iraq still witnessing the effects of the u.s. led invasion. radiation levels rocketed japan's crippled fukushima nuclear plant is reading to show exposure can cause death and as little as four hours. are the liberals as debt ridden greece may need a third bailout despite the country already struggling to meet the terms of current payments and its jobless figures remaining the highest in the e.u. .

five m. in moscow i met good to have you with us with as we bring you our rundown of the week's news on r.t. after being turned down by key international allies president obama moved to gain domestic support for a strike on syria asking congress to ok an attack aimed at punishing the assad regime for allegedly using chemical weapons last month lawmakers will debate the issue after they return from their summer recess on september ninth artie's marina portnoy has more. 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 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 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 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. in washington's case for intervention and secretary of state kerry claims the u.s. has samples of blood and hair that tested positive for signatures of the nerve agent sarin raise questions about the speed of the analysis after the un's own

inspectors said it will take up to three weeks to reach a definitive conclusion about the alleged attack u.n. spokesman martin a serious q. stressed the united nations is the only body with your authority to establish the facts. this morning as i'm sure you saw and saw secretary kerry said very specifically talked about blood and hair samples seems like your lab is 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 that the the united nations mission is uniquely capable of a stop wishing in an impartial and credible man to the facts of any use of chemical weapons space directly on evidence collected from the ground ok and is the u.s. shared any of this evidence that is described with the u.n. well as we've said repeatedly said member states are encouraged to share information information they may have with regards to alleged incidents u.s. confidence in its intelligence has so far failed to convince the american public

though that the in rather than in that the intervention in syria is needed numbers showing that the vast majority of americans still say they don't think the u.s. should be involved in an attack on the saddam regime while twenty percent are actually in favor of military action more than half participated in a reuters poll were against it even if assad is implicated in using chemical weapons less than thirty percent still think the u.s. should then attack syria richard becker from the antiwar answer coalition says the u.s. doesn't have a legal basis to upon our authority to punish damascus. first of all it doesn't it defies logic that the assad government would have used chemical weapons at exactly the moment that they were winning and the un inspectors were there but secondly even if the that had happened the united states does not have the authority it's not the cop of the world to be able to go in and attack any country and syria has not threatened and cannot threaten the united states if they launch

a war it would not only be reckless it would also be lawless and it would also have unforeseeable consequences as all wars do before they begin with more than a week left before congress meets to decide on intervention in syria washington's nevertheless boosting its military presence in the region defense officials revealed the nuclear powered u.s.s. nimitz aircraft carrier is on its way to the red sea this on top of five destroyers already operating in the mediterranean as well as an amphibious assault ship with hundreds of marines aboard officials stress the troops aren't part of any military planning and are just a precaution destroyers packs some serious firepower each bringing up to ninety tomahawk cruise missiles to bear and they can strike syria from a safe distance while dealing a massive damage to the area they strike meanwhile the possibility of a military strike has been met with strong opposition by some major regional players at an emergency meeting of the influential arab league saudi arabia called for members to back a strike against a masochist as artie's paul asli reports that was rejected by countries including

egypt lebanon and iraq. regional leaders are warning the united states not to attack damascus warning that this could lead to massive violence now as you can well imagine the mood on the ground is extremely tense we hearing from the iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki urging the united states not to carry out any kind of military action this is noteworthy of course because iraq is a country that was invaded under somewhat similar circumstances and that invasion was to establish a so-called democratic government and it's now that government that is urging the united states not to carry out any kind of military action to create the same kind of scenario at the arab league meeting on sunday in cairo the iraqi foreign minister voted against any green light for military action inside syria we've also heard from jordan warning that it will not allow its a space to be used in any kind of military strike on syria with the jordanian government spokesperson saying that jordan too will not participate in any kind of

strike against damascus so as you can see a lot of consensus in the region against any kind of u.s. intervention in syria those against a military attack on syria holding mass rallies and protests in cities across the world in turkey riot police dispersed those rallying in support of damascus security forces also blocked the entrance to istanbul's goes with park to prevent a demonstration there while back in the u.s. people took to the streets to express their opposition to a possible attack protesters gathered in front of the white house after obama's announcement about a strike and crowds turned out in new york as well at a rally in paris marchers held up signs calling president a law and david cameron and president obama terrorists the u.s. administration's anti syria rhetoric has sparked warnings and harsh criticism from moscow also president vladimir putin saying washington's assessment of the assad government has launched a chemical attack against its own people is quote nonsense or to use sean thomas

reports. 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 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 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 criticism 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 we're keeping an eye on the syrian crisis here you can also follow the latest developments on our web site r t dot com bring you the latest updates on the issue

plus expert analysis and. and opinion. still to come this hour video nasties a series of anti muslim d.v.d.'s sent to mosques across london sparking fears of a growing and the muslim backlash after attacks by extremists plus. the spectacular thrills and spills from the last day of the international max twenty thirteen air show in your moscow all that coming your way in a couple of minutes stay with us.

going on the obama administration's continued insistence that the syrian regime must be punished for alleged use of chemical weapons has convinced few of washington's traditional allies the americans have said they will strike syria on their own if they have to what does this say about america's standing in the middle east and the future of international law. radiation a chimpanzee devastated fukushima nuclear plant has reached lethal levels with readings eighteen times higher than previously thought exposure could lead to death within just four hours this after a massive leak of radioactive water a week ago which may have reached the ocean the fukushima plant was damaged by a powerful earthquake and tsunami that struck japan in march two thousand and eleven plant operator tepco when i last friday that it detected new radiation

hotspots in parts of the compound or contaminated water is stored in a pet nuclear consultant sean bernie says tepco has lost control of the crisis which could even be worse than chernobyl. to himself he may have that's why there will be no one as it's the picture so again with a very complex three reactor meltdown and spent fuel in the pools seeing the cool big enough workers on site the workers and to getting things things that were not being told about the themselves are probably not going about and going forward this is a problem is only going to get worse there is already way we get it into absolute certainty the amount on site to keep a sense is there's three times as much caesium it's very dangerous to go back to get into q three times as much as was released by the chernobyl accident he's currently sitting in the trenches and in the tanks it's a sure sign. other stories you won't find on air click on r.t.

dot com right now at the in motion section of our website you can find that come rain or shine it looks like this time arrange military bands from around the world it turned out in their finery for souls to delight the crowds in red square plus. euro still study revealing that britain has the highest levels of addiction on the continent at the details at r.t. dutch. german chancellor angela merkel admitted that debt stricken greece may indeed need a third rescue package earlier the greek finance minister tried to downplay the ongoing speculation saying if the country needs more help in the future of the sum will be less than the two hundred forty billion it's already secured greece got its first bailout of one hundred ten billion euros back in two thousand and ten athens accepted it had to cut its spending and by embracing austerity another hundred thirty billion followed shortly after but public debt has only been growing in those three years at the beginning of the meltdown it rocketed to one hundred twenty nine percent of the country's g.d.p.

the extra aid boosted that by more than a quarter meanwhile the painful austerity measures and job cuts have pushed the employment rate in the country to becoming the highest in europe back in two thousand and ten when the recession was already taking its toll the unemployment rate was at almost fifteen percent but the numbers only been increasing this year reaching a record of twenty seven point six percent young people appear to be worst affected nearly sixty five percent of those between eighteen and twenty four without jobs this summer in the job. this summer the government passed another bill that could see tens of thousands of public workers losing their jobs earlier my colleague kevin owen and is going to have hosted a discussion on whether your financial help is worth the price. quite a lot of people are being affected these layoffs are only or 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 friends 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 national lenders we heard it all there you seen it first hand that you know the guys he's talking to at least a pretty depressed they don't see the light at the end of the tunnel your enough is what's your view well it is obvious by now. the whole scenario adopted for greece has been like a straw for. this by those huge huge bailout loans greek debt is the 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 there were sort 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 and it would have been much worse much worse situation i don't think from greece you have to look very far you simply look to

bulgaria for example to see i mean the whole much worse it could have been the still today living standards in reserve are higher than they are in bulgaria if greece were to have left the euro zone and that's why i'm in favor of further. 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 aimed at. a huge rescue package for banks just because who has benefited who has been injured that 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 missed the greek colleague is only rock looking at this one side of the coin and not seeing and not realizing the long term effects. turning now to some other stories making global headlines this hour beginning in

egypt where the ousted president mohamed morsi will stand trial for fourteen other muslim brotherhood members on charges of inciting murder accusations stemmed from violence here the presidential palace in cairo last december that left seven protesters dead a demonstration triggered by morsi decision to expand his powers the former president still being held at a secret location as the country remains mired in a political crisis. incredible dash cam footage emerging from taiwan where a potentially deadly double near miss as the car in front gets hit by a landslide among a long a coastal road and then watch this. inches away from getting crushed by that massive boulder because passengers managed to escape with only minor injuries the country remains on high alert as torrential downpours from tropical storm kong rate continue to batter the island. despite a police band some two hundred people marched to the paris streets to express their anger at gay marriage their activists from

a catholic group called the night watchman and their demonstration with a vigil in the center of the french capital it was the last event in a twenty day march across the country against may's legalization of same sex marriage there. in pakistan a roadside bomb claimed the lives of at least nine the blast happened when a convoy was passing through the northern province of was nearest and not far from the afghan border at least twenty one soldiers reported wounded the turbulent region has seen a lot of violent attacks by both the al qaeda and taliban while the u.s. drones hunting militants often couch civilians in the crossfire on saturday a drone raid killed three militants there. thousands poured into the streets in cities across romania to vent their anger at the opening of a new mine protests erupted after it was revealed that the company behind what could be one of the biggest mines in europe might use cyanide to extract gold there demonstrators slammed the government for backing the controversial plans saying the

technique could harm the environment. police in london investigating a series of homophobic d.v.d.'s that were sent to several mosques in muslim organizations in the british capital they contain pornographic and abusive images mocking the prominent prophet muhammad as well as news footage about extremism incident part of a growing wave of offensive acts toward british muslims as artie's to us are silly reports from london. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind 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 and clude traffic congestion on the part 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 violent doctrine now exactly is called for retiring the shuttle if a company was passing death sentences if a synagogue was to commit acts of war all you would immediately say that has to be stopped when you have a man who is soon ideologically opposed knows little about these numbers faith maybe even what he's 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 vulnerable because the 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 opinion that we see i think his poor need to to the failure within multiculturalism most simply become the symbol i think for this great anxiety that a recent you gov poll compared answers given by respondents in event by two thousand and twelve and may two thousand and thirteen and showed an increase in the number of people who agree that there will be a clash of civilizations between british muslims and native white britons in recent times a growing number of voices have stated that multiculturalism has failed as

a concept which is a controversial way to put it but what's certain ignoring this issue make a clash of cultures and less likely to us or so you are to london the max twenty to twenty thirteen air and space show made its final approach and to a close the flight program was on the last day curtailed due to heavy rains but the public still saw some breathtaking stunts this year's event has beaten attendance record with more than three hundred thousand visitors in just five days artie's paul scott reports. 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 although 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 air force for the planes came out and thrilled the crowd with that death defying stomach churning stunts we also saw commercial flights as well the airbus a three

eighty was spinning around the heads. there were military on display the highlights of which was the the showing of the t fifty which is the stealth fighter that is going to be parts of russia's force 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 to round overhead it really was an impressive sight right. 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 council however they did participate 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 was 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 various deals and. up next from contemplating suicide to becoming a renowned professor of psychology we follow the path of one extraordinary man that's coming your way after a short break stay with us here on our. this is a media leave though so we lead to the beat. of the sea ocean sea to. play the part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that deserve answers from. politics only on our team.

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