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freedom of speech. and the freedom to watch. as america debates whether to strike syria washington uses the time to send reinforcements to the middle east including an aircraft carrier peru. russia's foreign minister calls evidence that the syrian government used chemical weapons unconvincing saying we see nothing that actually resembles a fact. and radiation levels of japan's stricken fukushima nuclear plant are now so high they're enough to kill a person exposed for as little as four hours. you're watching r t live from moscow i'm lindsey france the u.s.
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military is sending even more forces to surround syria in anticipation of a first strike order from washington congress will reconvene in a week's time to debate whether to attack damascus but barack obama has made it clear he may order an assault even without the agreement of lawmakers american defense officials have confirmed that an aircraft carrier group is now on its way to the region the nuclear powered u.s.s. nimitz carrying dozens of aircraft is accompanied by five smaller warships armed with tomahawk cruise missiles the strike groups expected to team up with several ships already in position in the mediterranean off the syrian coast the combined fleet could pummel damascus from a safe distance dealing massive damage to the country artie's marouf an ocean has the reaction from the syrian capital. tomorrow next week next month series wondering if only when america's missiles will strike and what the
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aftermath will be but for many people here it doesn't pay to linger on what tomorrow will bring because the resolve ready award today. the how it went on the money we had like we've been at war for two years with bombs falling in our hands just a few kilometers from here cruise missiles are endless war is the difference in the us i could get the shot every day every hour every minute we endure bombardment we have the bombs and terror attacks shelling it's not very hard to face america after dealing with a jihadi house for so long you know where michelle will lead not his real name has a nice apartment in an upmarket area of damascus but a year ago he moved into the hotel his running for safety reasons after a family member was kidnapped by what he says were members of an al qaeda linked group we don't feel safe of course not because of. of. the strike
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we've got just at the last stop they are throwing these things against a sea of civilians and that's very bad and jeff has a looser is considered to be one of the most successful and aggressive opposition forces promoting fundamental islam and proclaiming the end of the assad regime they are believed to hold several districts around damascus where they engage in almost daily battles with government troops both the u.n. and the u.s. and others consider it a terrorist organization a treaty i think that america should side because we are fighting terrorism america doesn't agree i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets but that's just another entry on a long list of daily concerns which already includes terror attacks not pains and killings. those living in residential areas of damascus say several days ago they started receiving letters like this one advising them to clear their basements in
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preparation. for now no one i spoke to that likely would follow the signs syrians may vote with their feet when the bombs start to fall but for now they've got plenty of other things to worry about. greece nationality reported from damascus in syria. the white house says chasing ghosts by building a case for war in syria based on inconclusive evidence that's according to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov who reiterated the kremlin stance against intervention without u.n. backing artesian thomas has more turkey a lot of i was speaking to a group of students on the first day of classes at moscow state university of foreign relations the topic of quickly turned to syria this is the first statement from the russian leadership after obama's speech on saturday and at first he made some broad sweeping statements about western policy in the middle east saying that it's inconsistent and that there are double standards but speaking on the idea of the united states having evidence that it was the assad regime used chemical
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weapons in syria he said that that evidence is not concrete it does not give specifics it does not give locations it does not talk about specific people or places therefore russia is skeptical let's listen to what he had to say about that . because we believe we've seen these papers there is no evidence it's just accusations if you have really any super secret data well you need to remove this secrecy because we're talking about war and peace. now one thing lavrov did talk about was the situation in the aleppo syria back in march where the russian government believes they have evidence that it was the syrian rebels the opposition that actually used chemical weapons that they pointed to the fact that the ordinance used to deliver the sailor in gas were not manufactured by mass and also that the gas itself was not industrially produced therefore pointing to the fact
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that it was the opposition that used chemicals at that time they wanted to have an investigation they were willing to cooperate they were ready to move forward and lavrov said that it was the western partners on the u.n. security council that delayed they didn't seem interested in having an investigation at that time perhaps because it was the rebels that were in question here so today's a lover of reiterating russia's stance and strongly against the idea of western intervention. just mentioned the u.s. is building a case for war on its own claims and intelligence washington has pointed to amateur footage posted online allegedly showing victims of the attack even unconfirmed accounts by reported eyewitnesses are being used to solid evidence by america while the latest claims from the state department revolve around alleged samples from the war zone which they say confirmed the use of chemical weapons but most of america's allies aren't buying the arguments with only france agreeing to weigh in with force
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to support a u.s. attack while the u.n. says it is the only one who can determine whether chemical weapons were actually used. the united nations mission is uniquely capable of establishing in impartial and credible manner the facts of any use of chemical weapons based directly on evidence collected from the ground ok and is the us share 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. well the u.s. has been accused of overlooking some facts that undermine its view of how the region should be dealt with artie's and this takes a look at claims that washington rarely lets inconsistency get in the way the use of chemical weapons on august twenty first killing hundreds of people with an ongoing you one investigation is now the anchor to weigh
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a more direct involvement and the option of a military escapade but this is far from the first time chemical weapons have come up in the conflict although incidents which are. u.s. to pay attention to one example in may this year a top u.n. investigator said a chemical attack with the use of sarin gas had taken place in march with indications that it was done by the opposition forces. are investigated has been in syria and in neighboring countries interview victims doctors and few tosca toes and in the latest reports we got last week i saw that although there is still no incontrovertibly prove there are very strong suspicions judging by the kind of medical the victims received the gas has been used by the opposition rebels and not the country's authority but it's not surprising because militants and people from outside have already infiltrated the opposition from ignoring the reports of un investigators that would rather kept quiet to turning a blind eye to the feet of kurds the largest ethnic minority in syria at the hands
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of the opposition leading to the displacement of tens of thousands of people. people villages for the vicious assault there chased out of their homes they become victims of massacres and ethnic cleansing everything connected to the kurds is being destroyed to episodes of finding sarin gas in the homes of syrian militants reportedly to be used for bombs in may this year when russia and turkey called for an investigation but the west did not questionable and uncomfortable factors have been downplayed by the us time after time of possible end to the syrian crisis is as far away as ever but misinformation and selective reasoning seem to be alive and well and if they are to moscow. the arab league is over the syrian issue saudi arabia and qatar are calling for decisive action which they say would prevent bloodshed continuing in iraq however which has suffered and intervention
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from u.s. forces is strongly against the iraqi prime minister urged washington not to resort to military action again levanon tunisia and algeria also spoke out against foreign intervention in the leaders of britain and france support barack obama although the brits us british parliament voted to stop its forces from being directly more emotion and now attention is on the u.s. congress which is expected to respond to president obama's request for support for your next leaders in the end there is no one hundred was coming up on aren't a thousand days staring at walls that's made of wiki leaks editor doing a song still stranded inside ecuador's embassy in london but little hope of leaving on a lengthy spell of house arrest or analysis on that shortly. the radiation level at japan's fukushima nuclear plant is eighteen times higher than previously reported scans show that in some areas it could kill a person exposed to it in just four hours independent nuclear consultant sean
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burney believes that the situation at the plant crippled by a two thousand and eleven earthquake and tsunami is only going to deteriorate to the themselves. as it's. with a very complex three reactor. and speak she needs to be good enough workers in site and workers and don't. need to divide the. word this is a point you need to get worse. we don't. want. the money and street. scenes to be. very dangerous yet. speak times as much as was released by the chief accident he's currently sitting in the trenches in the tent. while some believe there are hidden
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dangers not even a hazard suit can protect people from courtesy of the global biotech giant later self nontoxic jeffrey smith from the institute of responsible technology about the hazards of genetically modified foods and the key figure in the g.m.o. market. they lied about the toxicity of their former products p c b's age of darren's d.d.t. and they have a precedented control around the world and the regulatory bodies this is exemplified by the food and drug administration where the policy of g.m. goes was overseen by monsanto's former attorney michael taylor and the policy falsely claims that the agency wasn't aware of any information showing the g m o's were significantly different therefore the f.d.a. requires no safety studies and no labeling they leave it up to monsanto to determine if their foods are safe and mud sand it doesn't even have to tell the f.d.a. or consumers if it wants to slip a g.m.o.
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into our food supply. it's been a top destination for tourists from around the world for century but the way guests in paris are being welcomed and treated has suddenly become a cause for concern for the city's authorities we'll tell you why in a few minutes time. so now we have a hole poking toxin in the blood of our fetuses which gets in their brain because there's no blood brain barrier developed at that stage. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought
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you knew you don't i'm trying hard is a big. news today is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. you're watching are two live from moscow and lindsey france some fifteen million germans watched a tepid t.v.
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duel between chancellor angela merkel and her main rival both were keen to appear on top of issues like the euro tax policy and u.s. spy programs but there were no real clashes between two candidates fully aware that they may be forced into a coalition together after this month's general vote artie's peter all of our reports. this one and only televised debates between the main front runners in the german elections could potentially have a huge impact on who wins and who can try and pick up a few votes now currently as it stands at the moment called into the the latest polls that came out on friday angler merkel was quite far in the lead with forty one percent the s.p. deepish party behind them with twenty six percent however personal feeling amongst the german voters could be could be huge in this one of the reasons for that is that the the two parties are quite similar and do agree on a lot of issues has accused merkel in the past of hiding the true cost of bailing
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out greece from the from the german people germany has put in the lion share of the money to try and help the the financially struggling the fiscally struggling mediterranean nation after this election whoever is chancellor whether it's merkel or whether it is going to have to deal with what seems like the almost inevitable third bailout for the mediterranean country now one of the other major issues that in this election in this election is the n.s.a. spying scandal and just what's being done about it and what was done at the time now one of the main questions being pointed at angola merkel is just how much did she know about it and how much did she allowed the n.s.a. the united states to spy on german citizens so greece and the n.s.a. emerging as the the two things that these the two main candidates can go head to head on however what we are going to see though is them slam each other too much
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personally it's very likely that on the twenty after the twenty second when the vote is here in germany these two might have to sit down and talk and i in out in bash out a coalition that could lead germany in the coming years. inches away from iraq and world death the passengers of this car in taiwan the oculus li escaped unharmed when his giant boulder threatened to crush them that are to dot com to see the full version of this amazing footage plus. rain or shine and this time it looks like it will be rain the world's top military bands turned out in their finest for rehearsals and a heavy downpour to delight the crowds on red square could enjoy that video on our website in motion page. monday marks one thousand days of confinement for wiki leaks editor julian a song most of it spent under house arrest since june two thousand and twelve the whistleblower has been holed up in london's ecuadorian embassy attempting to avoid
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extradition to sweden where he's wanted on sex crime allegations a songe fears should he step out of the embassy he will be arrested and ultimately handed over to the u.s. to face life imprisonment wiki leaks spokespeople told r.t. why they're so worried it is quite a abuse if you read through the transcript. and see what kind of arguments were raised there and how often we kill us was not mentioned in the trial that there is a very strong possibility that the next target is julia sands and it might already be an indictment against him and all the others in our organization we see as well the escalating war against to those who commit the act of journalism and this is escalating from month to month the argument is this the bradley manning was the first whistle blower and he was history who has been. prosecuted and found
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guilty on the basis of us journalists will come next it could possibly be we could lose all the media organizations it's a real possibility and we nor ball do on investigation in the us who do we can use which as we know are going on for three years and probably cost. quite a sum of money because it has been started as a one of the biggest criminal investigation in la times in the u.s. so it is a very worrying situation now to our world update and we begin with scenes of violence in mexico clashes erupted between police and protesters demonstrating against proposed education and energy reforms protesters tried to disrupt a parliament session near the congress building in mexico city students threw stones and petrol bombs at security and police responded with tear gas teachers have been out on the streets for two weeks protesting against mandatory evaluations
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of their performance while others accuse the government of trying to sell off the nation's energy assets. protests in romania continued into the night on sunday after thousands rallied over the opening of a new mine in transylvania people were angered by reports that a canadian mining company could use cyanide extract extract gold demonstrators condemned the government for backing the plan saying the technique would harm the environment. egypt's putting up of president mohammed morsi and fourteen other members of the muslim brotherhood on trial for inciting murder and violence the charges referred to the killing of at least seven people in cairo last december the country's army backed government has also ordered the new ruling assembly to review all islamised amendments to the constitution egypt suffered unrest for nearly two months with regular street battles between police and morsi demonstrators. in
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pakistan a roadside bomb has killed at least nine servicemen and looted more than twenty others the blast happened when a convoy was passing through the northern province of was nearest town near the border with afghanistan the turbulent region has seen plenty of violent attacks by both al qaida 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 being the world's top destination for tourists is a gold mine for the paris city budget but the new touristy grumpy service in the french capital could finally be turning people off tests are cilia reports on how visitors are losing affection for the city of love. coming up are you. smiling faces the belie a troubled economy with the number of job seekers rising to three point twenty eight million in july from the twenty seventh month in a row in a budget deficit the government can barely rein in france has been walking on
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eggshells since europe's economic crisis hit the there is a small respite this is the pages of paris is the model for simplicity perhaps a part of the world's top test of a ship but it won't be three million this or thirty three million paris alone cannot force me not not that's a reality it's not over it's up to our weekly with a city of like known as much for its beauty as its unfriendliness at the extreme end of it a few years ago dozens of japanese tourists were reported to have been struck with the so-called paris syndrome they were so madly affected by rude encounters that they had to be repatriated back to japan and the state of shock. very says beautiful it's wonderful but the reason siren and they have to change this because they rely on revenue from to reason. i'm shocked at the behavior of some people who are supposed to be tourism professionals i won't get into details but really i'm
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shocked at the attitude they've given me. with tourism making up more than seven percent of the french gross domestic product tourist officials in the country's capital decided to attempt with the naysayers claim is impossible giving those who work in the service industry to be more pleasant. again being was launched this summer in paris called do you speak truest guide for restaurateurs taxi drivers and shopkeepers on how to behave towards their city's guests giving them country by country advice on what is expected from them from. it is important for everyone involved in pounces economy to treat tourists better regardless of their nationality in order to make them want to come back and to spend more. and that's precisely where france legs behind the competition despite being the number one destination the un world tourism organization found out that visitors to the
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u.s. spend twice as much as those who travel to france and thus the spite fewer people making the journey to the states that the loss of revenue is proving twice as costly as europe continues to struggle with a debt crisis that seriously endangering the french economy this paris taxi driver insists though that while the dream speak truest is a good idea creating a positive experience is not a one way street. first of all for us taxi drivers that are passengers who are very excuse me for saying so annoying it's something they may simply have to accept in this smile if they want to hold on to one of its economic a says. yeah but it's important to remember the good manners cos nothing is found says learning bad manners may be very pricey indeed. tester sylvia paris. up next our t. shirt sophie shevardnadze reignites the g.m.
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debate in the latest edition of her interview shows. many gay bars are starting to refuse to sell russian vodka as a means of protesting the homosexual propaganda laws in russia as i've said before boycotts are a great way to put pressure on people but are they putting pressure on the right people not only is it racist to assume that hurting the vodka flow will deal a massive blow to the russian economy but it is also racist to think that any vodka with a russian sounding name is itself russian and many videos angry gay bartenders were pouring stolichnaya vodka what should be put out by the way onto the ground in
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a fury but if those bartenders would take a closer look at the labels they would see that exported stoli is produced and bold in latvia by the s.p.i. group not in russia also according to the n p d group beverage alcohol report the most popular vodka in america with a russian sounding name is smirnoff which is british owned and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself way to support the american worker. people have to panic over the hip and trendy scandal of the month but everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that homosexuality itself is legal in russia and is punishable in many other countries including a death sentence in some of them and yet russia gets all the attention if people really wanted to affectively boycott any country with any laws even a hint thing against homosexuality they would have to hit them where it hurts and stop getting natural resources imported from countries like russia saudi arabia venezuela and iran and so on and so on that is a vastly more difficult proposition than pouring american made vodka onto the
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sidewalk but that's just my opinion. 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. says many times the goal is the father of all. i'm sure he called me to say if these children. finish this nine times. my fellow pilgrims. my dad is probably the kindest soul in the world.
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welcome to. our topic today is tasty but possibly dangerous genetically modified products. markets. find in a field they look like and some way to solve what supply issues but what if the real cost. is revealed. dilution breaking into nature's design the green revolution and genetic engineering tech was sold as the keys to feed the world's hungry. still strike the world's most vulnerable of being saved in the developed world being and sleight of hand blind consumers to reality for which a compliant corporate media carries but few expose is g.m.o. just misrepresented is it just misunderstood or a devil.
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