from around the globe. up to. fifty. nato reaffirms it is not going to take part in a military campaign against syria this as a u.s. nuclear aircraft carrier boosts america's navy presence in the region meanwhile. revelations that a british company wanted a life or pencil now with area but not the government here they think tough questions over how that was allowed to happen. a thousand days in confinement helps arrest time spent in a london prison and now limbo in the ecuadorian embassy it's the price we can leaks founder julian assange has paid in his battle for transparency. and radiation at japan's fukushima nuclear plant has spiked to lethal levels thought to be enough to kill him just four hours of exposure.

live from our studio center here in moscow was just ten nine pm this is r.t. nato has again said it is not going to take part in possible military action against the syrian government adding that if allies individually opt for intervention they will need to win wide public support first meanwhile america's navy is continuing to step up its presence in the region ahead of the congressional vote on the issue five u.s. destroyers loaded with missiles along with an amphibious assault ship have been joined by a nuclear powered aircraft carrier it's now in the red sea to support the attack on syria if ordered the super carrier the u.s.s. nimitz is one of the largest warships in the world more than three hundred meters long it's powered by nuclear reactors and has ninety planes and helicopters on

board and is accompanied by five smaller warships armed with tomahawk cruise missiles well in the letter to the u.n. syria has asked the world body to prevent american aggression what is more if a notion has been finding out how the threat of intervention in the country is affecting syrians. tomorrow next week next month series wondering if or when america's missiles will strike and what the 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 snow is going on the you money oh yes we've been at war for two years with bombs falling in our hands just a few kilometers from here cruise missiles arrivals will is the difference. every day every hour every minute we endure bombardment we have bombs and terror

attacks shelling it's not very hard to face america after dealing with the job cuts for so long michel walid 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 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 for. of. the strike we've got just at the last stop they are throwing these things against a sea of civilians and that's very bad and you have had a looser is considered to be one of the most successful and aggressive opposition forces promote in 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 by saying 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 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 preparation for now no one i spoke to lute like they would follow the advice 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. reported from damascus in syria. for more updates follow. on twitter she's been attempting to find out how other countries in the region would respond to a u.s. strike on syria.

it's been revealed that british firms approved the sale of chemicals to syria which can be used to make the sarin nerve agent and that was a substance allegedly used during last month's attack near damascus which is central to washington's case for military action licenses to sell the chemicals were granted to a u.k. company although they were never actually delivered and here's what the department of business skills and innovation told us about this claim the company which ordered these chemicals proved to them they were only going to be used to make window frames and aluminum shell it's not clear who exactly was to receive these shipments nor the name of the company which was set to provide the compounds are these are first has the details. business secretary vince cable certainly going to be facing some tough questions over these revelations that the british government has granted export licenses as yet as yet unnamed british company now this was

for substances to be sent to syria and it was due to so-called chilled use substances and that was potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride and both these agents can be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas and of those export licenses granted by the department the business innovation and skills it's reported in january the seventeenth and eighteenth and that license valid for six months in two thousand and twelve when the civil war in syria was already raging but he's concerned anyway again about these suspected chemical weapons stockpiles a map of some of the suspected sites there of course huge concern about what the syrian government could potentially be doing with those chemical weapons but of course also that some of those sites could fall into the wrong hands if the situation gets ever more complex but it's thought here today there are going to be

questions tabled in parliament really runs through and scrutinize exactly how these licenses for chemical agents that could be used in the types of weapons that the syrian government a big accused of using on their own people who granted. she has made its way through the british parliament and angus robertson he's a scottish national party m.p. who was among those who took an interest in examining the case he told us what questions he would like to see oncet. i would comment on the fact that the u.k. rescinded the export licenses when the european union told the u.k. to do it thank goodness for the european union intervening frankly the problem is that the u.k. was prepared to grant an export license in the first place and of course the u.k. has form in this sort of thing being prepared to sell military hardware and other. things that can be used for the production of weapons and in this case

chemicals which could in circumstances be used to produce chemical weapons and we do have to ask ourselves don't we why with the situation having already deteriorated so badly that the u.k. was even prepared to grant an export license where these chemicals do have the potential jewel use yes for manufacturing purposes but also for the production of chemical weapons moscow is hit hard at the u.s. for its inappropriate game the secrecy over the alleged chemical attack near damascus as the u.s. has been refusing to reveal the full evidence it claims to possess meanwhile russian lawmakers have suggested launching dialogue with their u.s. counterparts to shore thomas has more on the reaction from the russian leadership. it seems that russia is proactively trying to get involved in coming up with a global solution on the problem of syria in fact putin agrees to send the lawmakers to the united states to meet with congress to discuss the situation on

the ground in syria and saying that only through open dialogue and communication between these two countries where there has been pretty much a stalemate at the u.n. security council they can come up with a solution that is agreeable to both the united states and to russia and of course to syria as well now this comes after sergey lavrov addressed students at moscow state university of foreign relations today being the first day of class and he started off with some broad general statements about the western position on the middle east saying that the policies are inconsistent and that there are double standards that exist but specifically speaking to the idea of the united states having evidence saying that it was the assad regime that used chemical weapons inside syria he said that it just does not pan out in fact he said there's no concrete evidence no locations were given no names were given no specifics of any kind and listen to his own words about what he had to say as we believe we've seen

these papers there is no evidence that was just accusations if you have read any super secret data well you need to remove the secrecy because we're talking about war and peace now the big news also is that lavrov talked about the situation in march back in aleppo where the russia believed that it was the syrian rebels that used chemical weapons that point into evidence that russian. experts had looked at saying that the ordinance that were used were not manufactured by any professional company in the gas that was used was also not done on a professional grade suggesting that it was the rebels that used chemical weapons at that point in time then russia wanted a u.n. investigation but it seemed it when what he says his western part. the u.n. security council didn't seem interested in investigating back then in march but now . reiterated russia's position and strongly is against intervention and putin now

saying that perhaps as congress goes through a debate in the next coming weeks and the vote goes to congress russian lawmakers will be a part of that conversation as well. everything you need to know about what's going on in and around syria is on our website you can get. updates on the chemical weapons crisis. coming up later in the program here naughty only full within our was all the explosion the latest inspections show radiation levels of the devastated nuclear plant in japan and eighteen times higher than just over a week ago still to come to. you up are you. hitting holes in the budgets with a smiling face later in the program we report on how the city of love has started to teach isn't a tourist rude word because the rules of tourist etiquette amid fears of losing a juicy slice of income we had to paris after the break.

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a pleasure to have you with us here today. he's continues here in our tea house arrest a short spell in a london jail and trapped in the u.k. the ecuadorian embassy that's where we can expand it julian assange has spent the past one thousand days he's hoping to avoid extradition to sweden where he's wanted on sex crime allegations and if he leaves the embassy and steps foot on british soil he'll most likely be arrested immediately and also fears that assigns could face espionage charges in the u.s. because his site revealed so much damning information about how the country operates we can expect when kristinn hrafnsson told us that the outcome of a recent high profile whistleblower trial has them worried about sanjay's fate

it is quite obvious if you read through the transcript of the trial against chelsea manning and see what kind of arguments were raised there and how often we can lose was not mentioned in the trial that there is a very strong possibility that the next target is the real science and it might also already be. to 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 guilty on the basis of. journalists will come next could possibly be wiki leaks and all the media organizations it's a real possibility and we nor bob do on investigation in the us who we could lose

which has been now 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 egypt's ousted president mohammed morsy will stand trial for inciting violence in the murder of protesters back in december along with other members of the muslim brotherhood meanwhile the country's army backed government has set up a panel to revise egypt's constitution with the brotherhood refusing to participate hundreds have died in violence across the country in recent months with clashes occurring between supporters and opponents of the former is mr president well for more i'm now joined live by shahira amin she is an independent journalist and political analyst. now what do you make of the charges against morsi in the muslim brotherhood they were indeed calling for protestors which i should say

for protests which did lead to violence and death and i'm sorry arwa i was misinformed i'm talking to you are not mohammed i'm very sorry about that because i i gave the wrong name out so it is you and i talking so what do you make of these charges and against morsi and the muslim brotherhood. well it's very clear that these charges are politically motivated targets that twelve days after the freedom of the dictator hosni mubarak we have the president morsi the first ever freely elected president of egypt. charged with these crimes it's very obvious that what we're seeing is a very politically motivated charge by the corrupt judiciary the judiciary that was actually appointed by president mubarak himself so it's very we could clearly understand the link here that what we're seeing now is the return of the mobarak regime the return of everything that the egyptians went out of the twenty eleven

revolution to get rid of to get rid of corruption to sheree to get rid of the general prosecutor that we've all wanted out because we know who appointed him who appointed them all was mubarak. very understandable it's very clear freely elected president but during his tenure was overshadowed by poor economic management and of course in islamic. influence during his tenure the masses clearly wanted him out that's what the military. to respond and help what the masses in egypt wanted for him to go. what we know is that he was elected freely by everyone in egypt at the end of the day this is how democracy works people go to the ballot box they choose somebody and this person stays there for their term his term was four years so he's spent one year for people to remove him they have to go back to the ballot box not through the masses not through people on the ground what

we've seen is a very obvious and this is a text book who what happened is illegitimate coup is always something illegal you cannot actually accept a crew in twenty thirteen anymore what we're seeing now is very obvious and it's very clear what the people on. streets that millions of egyptians now are doing on the streets of egypt they will never go back to the time of work they'll never go back to they will carry on peacefully resisting this military and. democratic gesture from the military after all. a little earlier what about concessions from both sides in the conflict could resolve this political crisis the brotherhood has been invited to take part in the revision of the country's constitution but it has rejected to do so. let me actually say something here we as egyptians went to the ballot box to actually vote in the referendum for a constitution that was actually suspended by the military coup we had one hundred

you know we had a committee of one hundred people elected one hundred people to write the constitution of egypt what we're seeing today is on the same day the charges were made against president morsi we had the military coup government actually announcing the names of the fifty people appointed let's see the stock contrast here we've got fifty people they're not representing the egyptian people they are there to write a constitution something very important like a constitution we are very scared for the for the future of egypt the the future of egypt should be written by the egyptian people not by the military junta and this is very dangerous and what we want now is first of all the military to go back to their barracks they have no place in politics whatsoever we want the egyptian people to write their future through the ballot box not through the tanks and the bullets and the killing and the arbitrary arrest and we want the criminals those who killed the egyptian people in cold blood those who arrested people and

torturing them as we are speaking right now we want them to be tried for their crimes against humanity what we want now is a clear future for egypt a future that we will want in the future that was and the democracy that was robbed from. speaking on behalf of the british egyptians for democracy thank you very much for your time live from london mohammed thanks. now what just remind you if you missed something on air you can always get the full picture on our web site right now here's some of what else is lined up there for you at the moment getting high the morning all over your report says the u.k. has become the addict of europe and sobering statistics of alcohol and drug consumption among the british you get a full picture right now. and how about this and these people are seeing red in the celebration of the color of their hair you can watch as far as display in full on a video agency page ruptly dot tv.

radiation at your plans devastated fukushima nuclear plant it's eighteen times higher than just over a week ago it's believed to be enough to kill anyone exposed in just four hours new equipment on site detected the dangerous radiation levels around tanks which store toxic water the plants operator tepco has come under a wave of criticism for its handling of the cleanup at the facility damaged by a powerful earthquake and tsunami back in march two thousand and eleven last month authorities admitted a massive amount of radioactive water may have leaked into the ocean there also claims that up to three hundred tons of contaminated water is seeping into the pacific from fukushima every day japan's prime minister has promised the government would aid tepco in managing the buildup of huge amounts of radioactive waters used to cool down melted fuel rods from the damage reactors independent nuclear consultant sean burney believes that the situation at the facility is far from being under control. it's he.

has it's. a game with a very complex three react to make time and space suits to be good enough workers on site the workers don't keep getting that not being told about the them selves or are they not. going forward this is a ploy to get worse their way we get into absolute certainty the amount on street. seems to be tines as much caesium it's very dangerous we get to see times as much as was released by the accident he's currently sitting in the trenches in the thames. maybe one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world but the infamous attitude of the french could be during the country's tourism trade so much so that in these da economic times adroit is being launched

to get locals to smile and encourage travelers to spend all. reports. ok i mean you have hired. smiling faces that belie a troubled economy with the number of job seekers rising to three point one eight million in july from the twenty seventh month in a row and a budget deficit the government can barely rein in france has been walking on eggshells since europe's economic crisis hit but there is a small respite visiting the street dangers of more modern paris is the last for any tourist in the city francis clench a title of world's top destination in two thousand and twelve with eighty three million visitors the thirty three million in paris alone but the numbers may not be enough as the reality is not always up to par with a dream. 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 a state of shock. paris is beautiful it's wonderful but the reason they have to change there is because they rely on revenue from to emerge from other people that they're rude but i haven't had any reading counters myself 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 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 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 . drivers and shopkeepers on how to behave towards their guests giving them

country by country advice on what is expected from them. 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. 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 u.s. spend twice as much as those who travel to france and that's despite 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 tourist 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. something they may simply have to accept with a smile if they want to hold on to one of its economic basis amid a slew of losing hands but it's important to remember the good manners costs nothing less france is learning bad manners maybe very pricey indeed. does or sylvia r.t. paris. sport is next. 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 which should be pronounced by the way onto the ground in a fury but if those bartenders would take a closer look at the labels they would see that exported stoli is produced and bowed in latvia by the s.p.i. group not in russia also according to the n.p.t. group beverage alcohol report the most popular vodka in america with a russian sounding name is smirnoff which is british own and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself way to support the american worker people love 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 effectively boycott any country with any laws even hinting 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 sidewalk but that's just my opinion. hello and thank you for joining me for the artes for show time kate fall church and coming up is our weekly roundup of support from russia and the cross the globe and here are the top stories. top transfer whales we got garris by all moves from tottenham through right now madrid for a world record three of almost one hundred thirty three million dollars.

plus walking tall the russian beat ukraine in their last friendly before the european bonds people championships as the new look squad aims to repeat their two thousand and seven trials. and ice time stick we look ahead to the new ice hockey season as to pay a child giants look horns and a child star alexander ovechkin unveils russia's kid with a sore chilean picks. but first let's kick off with mobile and after weeks of negotiating totalling a gas bell has joined realm of dread on a six year deal for a world record free of almost one hundred thirty three million dollars the twenty four year old while star will receive over four hundred sixty six thousand dollars a week in wages the move eclipses the one hundred twenty four million dollars which right outside manchester united were cristiana rinaldo in two thousand and nine bale join spurs as a left back from southampton six years ago and last season scored twenty six goals into.