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live from our studio center here in moscow is just turned eleven pm this is r.t. the u.s. senate foreign relations committee is now debating a possible strike on syria now these are live pictures from washington the committee chairman been calling on senators to support military action voicing his conviction of the syrian regime's responsibility for the recent chemical attack near damascus and this is just been reiterated by the secret state john kerry he's talking now and he says he does believe firmly that the assad regime was behind that attack and they're saying that this was a direct threat to american national security that's despite the fact that the u.n. inspectors have yet to present their findings on their mission in syria well earlier israel carried out an unannounced missile test in the mediterranean sparking an alert in light of a military buildup in the region for

a potential strike on syria the confirmation came after the march of two rockets was detected by russian radars are not brings the details. the two missiles were launched at around five am g.m.t. in the neutral waters off the mediterranean sea and then headed towards its eastern coast this was detected by russia's early warning system and then reported by the defense ministry at first no one else could officially confirm this including israel and the united states but then we've heard from the israeli defense ministry which said that that was a test of a new anti missile defense system which they conducted along with the u.s. washington did confirm that they provided technical assistance tell if said that a military plane fired a rocket which was then intercepted by another missile now this raises a lot of questions around the timing of this drill since the full region.

around syria is now filled with tensions with concerns of a possible military intervention led by the u.s. since most nato members did say that they're not planning to take part in any military action against president assad's regime but france and the u.s. do seem ready to do so and only a president barack obama did say that washington may start a military operation even without the approval of the u. when he does want to see the approval of the congress but we've just heard from the u.s. president who said that he's absolutely confident in the senator's approval and he stressed once again that this would be a short term military operation aimed at reducing president assad's capabilities and also stressed that he wants to see more help and assistance provided to the rebels now this brings us back to the timing of this drill so since many military analysts now are saying that it may have not been only a test of

a new military hardware but they have also been a test to see how the syrian authorities may react to such a situation or even possibly to see how long. it takes four rushers. monitoring systems to detect such rocket launchers in that area so the tensions are clearly still rising in the region around syria and so is international military presence meanwhile president obama seems to have growing support for a strike earlier today leaders of both parties in congress said they were convinced the u.s. should respond to the use of chemical weapons in syria and that's amid a massive u.s. and allied naval deployment in the eastern mediterranean off syria's coastline russia's also sending warships to the troubled region but denies its squaring up to america so let's take a detailed look at that u.s. fleet now five u.s. destroyers loaded with missiles along with an amphibious assault ship are already

in the mediterranean poised for a potential strike in addition an aircraft carrier group moved to the red sea from the indian ocean to support an attack if ordered the super carrier u.s.s. nimitz it's one of the largest warships in the world it's more than three hundred metres long it's powered by nuclear reactors and it has ninety planes and helicopters on board now that is of course a major part of this operation and it's also accompanied by a cruiser and three destroyers now the u.s. military buildup in the region is taking place ahead of a congressional debate next week on whether to support barack obama's decision to strike syria now says the chorus of those against washington's military involvement is growing at home and now apparently it's even been joined by some servicemen that's judging by images uploaded on social media which we're showing you here now people in military uniform are seen brandishing posters saying they did not join up to fight for al qaeda in syria or the pictures can't be verified the pentagon is

reportedly looking into the identities of those involved marine veteran gordon duff explain to us why many within the u.s. military are not eager to support the syrian rebels. if he does seventy percent of americans are clearly opposed to up. against syria and members of the military particularly lost five thousand killed fighting the same groups in iraq that we are advocating that we support in syria so members of the military from either side and there are clear divisions in the military both the left and the right none of them have any reason to want to support syrian rebels president obama has got himself painted into a corner there is no way out of the syrian crisis in the threat of a military strike of forcing an increasing number of people to flee the walls on a number of refugees now in neighboring countries is already exceeding two million with the u.n. calling the exodus the humanitarian calamity of the century r.t.

contributor afshin rattansi i spoke to madeleine he says the war rhetoric is further exacerbating the plight of those refugees. when one looks at the number of american destroyers the number of missiles tomahawk missiles the cost of all of that historians in the future will be saying why when there was a peace deal on the table to be discussed in geneva did obama destroy and torpedo the peace deal and leave the plight of the refugees to get worse and one should add of course that while there are a billion people working for n.g.o.s refugee agencies they act as an arm of the american government it might be incumbent on some of those refugee agency volunteers and more so the people who are paid to work for them to look at where their salaries are coming from from the same people that are creating the refugee crisis but as you say two million when i was last in syria i was writing for counter punch and i was talking about the massive amount of care and concern

president assad government had for the results of the nature invasion of iraq taking in the equivalent proportionately of twenty million refugees it was the united states he won in the syrian capital the prospect of u.s. led strikes is not what scaring people the most efficient reports now from damascus . we were last time in damascus a year ago now we returned and we decided to meet some of the people we've previously interviewed for our report but sadly many of them have either fled the chaos or were killed one of those who died was one hamad rafia yon very successful very famous actor who was also another and activist who chose wards to defend his country and he was killed for that part of our. problem was that. we met muhammad in july two thousand and twelve during the

filming of one of the most popular syrian t.v. dramas where he played one of the leading roles syrian series used to be financially backed by the gulf states but after the conflict erupted here those countries vocal critics of the assad regime was jury investments from an industry that's made syria famous across the arab world they want to fight everything good in syria they don't want to be. the shows our drama to the word to shows our history or the way we live the way we love each other the way we take care of each other's that's why the stuff they stop they are fighting us actually. exactly ten months after muhammad's death we meet his brother noor. thought evening a guy who was supposed to be a friend of my homage asked him for a live somewhere muhammad was helpless by

a lot because he was poor then nine people appeared out of nowhere and grabbed him and the next day we got an anonymous tip that he'd been killed in his body had been cut into pieces we didn't believe that he's only a civilian we thought why would anybody kill him several days later his body was fine. i were. the end of it was killed with three bullets one to his leg one to the stomach and one to his neck. now this is. not such a welcome what their letter during the kidnapping they want to take him alive to torture them to force him to confess that he was working for the government and then szell that al jazeera of course the p.r. lot of money for that sort of thing but he resisted to the death which. is why the chickens but when they too can they also took his car it's common that such cars

are later used in terror attacks about three weeks ago we got news there's been a car bombing and i was muhammad's car. nor your brother died ten months ago exactly ten months ago why do you think he was killed he talked openly about what he thought. paul did the live here in searing damascus change in the last ten months that may not last i shot him after mohamed stance many people who supported the opposition changed their minds they knew that he was very kind and help people all people regardless of their beliefs so when he died they asked themselves what are the people who belong to the opposition doing if they kill innocent civilians some of them are nothing more than criminals. what do you think about possible airstrike that america is now planning which is i smile when they tell me about the american attack we syrians are only afraid of god we're not afraid of us nor showed us another this time empty grave in the cemetery the boy's father who is also well

known actor living in damascus has already reserved for himself. written ocean r.t. from damascus syria. and would like to hear what you think about the threat of a military strike on syria on our website we're asking what the end game will look like if the u.s. does indeed go ahead with military intervention more right now more than half of you think a devastating region wide conflict will break out a fifth of those who voted so far think that libya should be considered as a blueprint for what could happen next fifteen percent believe that washington wouldn't hit out at syria on its own and eight percent minorities so far agree that any strike would be short and precise and be punitive that's what you're thinking at the moment dot com it's on our home page.

mass unemployment tax evasion by the richest of the rich in the eurozone heading down a dead end and it's in germany believe those are just a small part of the vital issues being skirted around the country general election campaign and hopes the one and only t.v. debate would reignite critical dialogue of left he was disappointed has the details . the post is the flesh is being pressed that this german election campaign is not the setting pulses racing maybe that's the whole idea make it as boring as possible so i know everybody kind of goes to sleep and doesn't worry about the real issues what we have being treated to is chancellor angela merkel

talking about potato soup a main challenge him reading fairy tales and the green party suggesting compulsory vegetarian days where does it stop they going to start a couple to refrigerators at home and check to see what you got there as well or are they going to shut down the burger kings and mcdonald's on tuesdays and so you have to serve edgy burgers aside from the greens apparent to fascism have been some peculiar manifesto promises the social democrats want legislation to prevent stress in the workplace and the free democrats hoping to win over commuters by making it illegal for trains to be late all distraction tactics according to those hoping to win their first seats in the bundestag they don't want to touch the real problems with the euro crisis diminishing pension funds survey come up with things like the green party wanting a veggie day one reason being cited is the lack of

a major issue for the parties to really attack each other on when you talk about their support for the government's decision to implement the sam to initiate further payments for greece they also said yes yes yes there is no real opposition in parliament so providing the comic relief in an otherwise dreary campaign. by the party i'm very easy to remember. with policies such as banning tourists from berlin and building a wall around the whole of germany these jokers are quietly confident we want to get into power and then we will decide what we are going to do with it what do you think the chances are. our chances are pretty good we expect to take one hundred percent of the vote and even more in all seriousness though with greece looking likely to need a third bailout package will be no laughing matter for those that come to power

after september the twenty second they're going to have to deal with some real issues as they take their seats in the bomb the stock peter all over r.t. berlin was there with us for more international news after this short break this is r.t. life in moscow. do

we speak your language or not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn it into angles stories. here. the spanish find out more visit actuality bad. news continues here in r.t. the u.s. military's twelve year fight in afghanistan is drawing to a close but there's some unfinished business washington still doesn't know what to do with its jail in baghdad built in the early stages of the war on terror may be dubbed the second guantanamo but its reputation for torture abuse and lethal

interrogation methods may even overshadow the cuban detention center well he's really going to report on what the future holds for graham. some call the prison a second guantanamo although in reality it was established just before the detention center in cuba and at one point housed twice as many inmates at the height of the u.s. war in afghanistan but these are just details the two really could be called sister jails just like guantanamo bay graham is used to detain people apprehended in the u.s. war on terror and has been around for more than a decade the detention centers have both had their fair share of scandals surrounding the conditions in which the prisoners are held and the way they are treated humiliation of inmates by u.s. personnel physical and emotional abuse allegations of torture you can really sign off the checklist as you go for both prisons and of course the biggest common trait inmates in so-called administrative detention that's people who were arrested but never received a court trial they've been behind bars for years and will stay there for no one

knows how long sure american officials insist some of detainees at bagram a hard core al qaeda operatives and will immediately get back to the old business of terrorism the minute they're set free and just look at guantanamo there are prisoners of program who have already been cleared for release and yet remain in jail sixty seven of them for more than a dozen different countries and no one knows what to do with them again sounds very familiar doesn't it however things that bug rome are slightly more complicated than i told him oh by the fact the facility has actually been handed over to the afghan government which was deeply unhappy about having a foreign up for the jail on its soil to begin with as soon as couple to full control of the ground in march it either transferred or released prisoners what to do with the almost seventy foreign nationals that remain in what to do with the u.s. because some allege the americans are still very president fearing that i'm going to fishel israel releasing mates that the u.s. sees as a threat to its security and i'm going to fishel strongly dislike having these

foreign detainees in their custody so far no solution has been provided by any side involved in this day and in fact one top american military general has confessed that there is absolutely no plan on how to deal with the detainees at bagram so the stalemate looks set to drag on. muslim big spent three years being dragged through america's detention program from by graham to guantanamo bay and he says life in background was so terrifying he actually longed for a move to guantanamo amongst the things that i witnessed was prisoners being beaten in two cases actually physically to death one of the techniques they used to use was to hold us into common or cells our hands were tied above our heads to the top of the cage for punishment or for discipline a hood would be closer placed over our heads and we would be left there sometimes

for hours on end and in this way i saw at least one person getting beaten so badly that it was that he was beaten to death and weren't even allowed to get up to walk we weren't even allowed to pray in congregation if we didn't comply with the orders would simply be taken to the front of the cell or to the isolation cells and there would be physically tortured and i was during one interrogation i remember very clearly being interrogated by the cia with my hands tied behind my back to my legs and in the next room there was a sound of a woman screaming that they led me to believe was my wife being tortured and at the same time there were pictures of my children in front of me asking me what do you think has happened to them where do you think they are right now suggesting that they were also in custody and this is the sort of place by graham was it was a terrible place and it was a place where i believe quite categorically that murder took place at the hands of u.s. soldiers for my part it was worse than kuantan in fact by the time i'd finished being a prisoner and background for most eleven months i was actually looking forward to

going to guantanamo. online for you right now at r.t. dot com russian tycoons in the crosshairs ben a russian justice the c.e.o. of one of the world's largest producers of corruption charges turned their attention to the company's principal shareholder. pulls no punches on washington and the urges a legal investigation over what he claims is an unlawful crackdown by the u.s. on the wiki leaks website that says he mocks thousand days in confinement and to r.t. dot com from. bahrain is to host a permanent headquarters for the pan arab human rights court the movie being praised by the really monarchy has been inspired by quote the king's belief in basic human liberties the mood is quite different among the opposition ranks activists claim it's nothing but a public stunt and won't improve the rights of those in bahrain. see the form of the opposition says no member of the arabic league was thinking of human rights

when the decision was made. the question is in what bases and what curry kiriat they choose in bahrain bahrain considered to be the capital of torture and day by day we are having the evidence that the torture is still continuing in the prison and in the so many places i've been in prison force three months and seven days and i've been told should civil really and all different types of the torture even the ladies of torture as everyone knows the pan are of is consisting of the countries of governments and all of them are part of the dictatorship regimes definitely they defend themselves against the freedom seekers within their countries none of them is still proved to be a democratic country i think it is part of the bahraini government money also a humongous pay money to try to try to to to all make

a whitewash and it is so clear that this is a part of sequence movement or bahraini regime to try to move this international pressure to improve the human rights conditions. some other international stories in brief now fifteen minutes and seven forty being killed after egyptian helicopters launched an air strike on two militant strongholds in the sinai peninsula according to military officials three suspects were arrested during a ground operation i mean in warehouses and vehicles were also destroyed egypt's been trying to tackle rising terrorist activity in the region since the arab spring revolution that toppled president mubarak in two thousand and eleven. the death toll from a wave of bombings and shootings in baghdad and across iraq has now risen to forty seven a police station commercial districts and restaurants were among the places targeted no one has yet to claimed responsibility for the attacks incidents are the latest

in a huge surge of violence in recent months with a number of attacks now the highest since two thousand and eight. brings up today for them and i'll be back with the news team with more for you in just off an hour from now but do stay with us for focusing on how getting a cab to put you in the glare of big brother is coming your way i'm sure she'll break. 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 put out 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 in bold 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 smeared off which is british owned and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself we do 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. of. the. welcome to the because the report on max keiser america still celebrates labor day despite the fact that all their wealth creating jobs were

a long ago shipped to china but as it was these wells creating jobs and the rising wages of the middle class of the built america into a wealthy nation we ask is china's rise stoppable a pew research poll earlier this year asked this question and a clear majority of brits germans spanners canadians french poles australians and south koreans believe that china will indeed topple america as the world's leading superpower some actually believe this is already happened forty four percent of americans they china as the most of our full autonomy right now only thirty nine percent of americans thought the us was the number wanted gonna be oh my god stacey this is shocking this tell me more you know on wall street of course and many financial analysts and bloggers will say oh china is a disaster zone there's a financial bubble there that's going to happen a conwy isn't growing at over eight percent as it normally would but i thought those polls were interesting when they're act asking common people normal people

who actually have to work for a living and the huge percentage in america that think china is number one it's wealth creation that creates a great nation a superpower so the fact that the wealth creating jobs are either in germany or in china that suggests that this is a nation on the rise whereas america has exported those wealth creating jobs and all they have is part time jobs serving burgers or at wal-mart selling the stuff the wealth creating jobs in china created so you. you have that but also you have in detroit which was the number one location for wealth creating jobs the number one for g.d.p. per capita only forty fifty years ago before the u.s. decided once they went off.