and. obama's top officials bang the drums of war as they're bombarded with questions on syria in the senate as a leaks draft motion shows how far u.s. forces could go. and our washington lands to fire its missiles syrian activists around possible american targets saying they're ready to die if the obama administration doesn't back down. also a media watchdog condemns the u.k. government sustained use of strong arm tactics against the press saying security measures are putting harder freedoms at risk. you're watching our two live from moscow and lindsey france up to ninety days of

military operation but no boots on the ground those are some of the leaked details of a resolution being put to the u.s. congress to convince members to back war against syria the document is expected to be put to a vote next week it follows intense questioning in the senate of some of the top cheerleaders for military intervention including secretary and defense chief chuck hagel they both maintain the syrian government is behind last month's chemical attack outside damascus just spite the u.n. still having not made any conclusions r.t. guyana teacher can report. the blocks upon which john terry built the administration's case for an attack on syria included fear mongering and it was this part which reminded many of the mushroom cloud fears that the bush administration stoked in the run up to the iraq invasion take a listen if the congress decides not to do. it is a guarantee. whether it is with us. in syria

or nuclear weapons in a room or nuclear weapons in north korea we will have invited a for certain confrontation at some point in time that will require you to make a choice that will be even worse mitigating the consequences of a military action against syria was also part of secretary kerry's presentation to a question on whether u.s. strikes will end up emboldening extremists in syria john kerry answered no they will not according to secretary kerry experiments in syria will not benefit from u.s. strikes although reports on the ground and a great many experts suggest the opposite the other premise that the administration put forward is that there is no other option but to bomb syria here's how secretary kerry explained he was readiness to bypass the u.n. security council break international law and attack syria at the u.n. we saw a condemnation of a chemical attack without blame without citing us without seeing who was

responsible simply a condemnation of a chemical attack and the russians blocked it and this was one of many discrepancies in secretary kerry's remarks in fact russia has blocked only those resolutions that attributed blame to the assad government alone without a credible u.n. investigation what john kerry did not mention is that the u.s. has done everything possible so that the u.n. investigative team would not have the mandate to determine who is to blame for the attacks in syria so now we're left with the intelligence assessment of the u.s. government and that of some of its allies u.s. officials say the public will not see the classified evidence upon which they've built their case many members of congress even those who have not seen the classified evidence have indicated that they are ready to authorize the attack on syria. and as the u.s. crashes out bombing options a new movement is becoming stronger among the syrian people activists are gathering outside key strategic facilities expected to be targeted by american strikes

they're calling on washington to halt its march to war and insist they're ready to die if it doesn't artist or if a national sent this report from damascus. this is the syrian public response to the plans of the united states of america to strike this middle east and we can treat those who come this evening to this huge mountain just outside damascus holding cells a human shield that's often america's president barack obama said that the u.s. should take military response to what's going on in syria these people don't know actually as the rest of the population is about as the entire international community don't know so far when or if the missiles will strike they say they'll stay till it's needed. whipped up to save these people that's a. different ages different backgrounds or social status they have actually have

little in common except one see that unites them and that is their will to demonstrate to show their anger at the plan of the current state strike country and read in their banners we can understand actually the message they want to send. we're here to show that we belong to syria this country is strong because of its people and its leadership we're not afraid. to express our loyalty to our country in the face of american threats we don't want what they did in a rock group or the chemical weapons claims to be done in our country. they chose this year in mountains because it is as a symbol of damascus and of syria as well but also because it is a very. important place starting to kelly it's time to many security and military buildings and institutions and it is expected to be targeted and people gathered

here today and i'll go to his friend here some time say that even if they miss out stop stalling they will not move any. rich nor shall see from damascus and syrian. president vladimir putin says russia will wait for rock hard evidence before coming to a conclusion about who carried out an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria he says all options remain on the table but facts and international authorization should come first joining me live for more is our t. sean thomas thanks for joining us one what else did the president have to say well president vladimir putin was speaking to the associated press and first channel and he warned of the west strongly against unilateral action in syria also said that if the united states had specific evidence that it needs to go to the u.n. security council but he also said that if there is

a credible investigation that has evidence that points to the assad regime he is not against supporting u.n. action but that is only after the u.n. security council takes a look and decides as a global community now he spoke about the video footage showing children having been killed allegedly by chemical weapons he said of course this is horrific and tragic but it doesn't answer who did the killing or how they were killed he also mentioned that there are claims that the people responsible for this video have ties to al qaeda linked groups he also said that there are no parents or no doctors that are visible in this video and no one knows who these people really are and there needs to be a thorough investigation into that as well now he says that he has questions or there will be questions on what will happen. the u.s. learns by the investigation into the u.n. that it was indeed the rebels that use chemical weapons that right now there's this

big strong march to war from the united states against the assad regime and if the evidence supports the rebels what will the u.s. do then you also reus asserted his position that president assad had no real reason to use illegal weapons or chemical weapons against his people because well his army was making serious advances in the civil war and that he is not in a desperate situation now on the subject of the three hundred missile system that is used for defense that russia has provided to syria he said that some parts were indeed shipped but in fact russia froze those shipments he did say that if it is deemed that there are activities beyond international norms that russia would really look at that contract and possibly freeze future shipments as well so lots being said in today's interview with russia's president vladimir putin's. sean thomas thanks a lot one hundred thousand syrians have left the country since the united states

and its allies announce plans to attack in on an astounding two million people have fled since the conflict began the u.n. is warning that the situation is now a humanitarian calamity half of those displaced being children the cheap destinations are countries near syria including turkey jordan iraq and egypt but they're all under severe stress to deal with the influx inside syria four million people have become internally displaced fleeing the fighting any way they can r.t. contributor afshin rattansi says the war rhetoric is further exacerbating the plight of the refugees. when one looks at the number of american destroyers the number of missiles 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 worse one

should add of course that while there are a billion people working for n.g.o.s review g 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's 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's raring for war and president francois hollande says there will be no vote on the matter despite a recent poll suggesting that three out of four french people want parliament to have a say on attacking or syria perhaps wary of a u.k.

like defeat by lawmakers all arms administration insists he alone has the power to order an attack artie's tests are still a report on the french perspective. the french president a lot is constitutionally able to order over the top without a parliamentary approval but first of all along has been under a lot of pressure from opposition to to put this issue to a vote with the opposition and also pointed out that a lot is in a quote of what humiliating position of having to wait for what the u.s. says before acting i was spokesman from along the office said that the president hasn't yet decided whether or not to ask for a vote but what's interesting to note is that in the u.k. the prime minister is also able to order the talks without parliament the prime minister or david cameron had asked anyway and had to give him a resoundingly no alone said though that france will not go it alone and we'll wait for the outcome of the u.s. special vote all of this comes on the back of the report presented to parliament by the prime minister regarding the chemical attack near damascus last march which they say is responsible for two hundred eighty one deaths of the report says though

that quote it could not have been ordered or carried out by anyone other than the syrian government now the president of syria bashar al assad in the meantime had given an interview to the french newspaper in the figaro and the one that should there be an attack carried off and extremism would ensue and he also said there's a risk of a regional group and we want the fans of would become an enemy of the syrian state should they go ahead with this attack and we spoke earlier with a french senator to discuss francis' towns on a military intervention in syria the french intelligence has said that they presented proof and they found that assad is guilty of this chemical attack i think we must be very cautious and we must wait for. the decision of united nations experts because remember in two thousand and three the prudes were forged. and it was a disaster for you and for the world economy do you think that the united states

the solution will inevitably be france's decision well. this. makes me feel uncomfortable. because we must not be dependent of american decision . if. we have the same decision if we don't we don't have the same decision the most but so no automatically american decision as far as public opinion goes so one of the recent polls say that a fifty nine percent of the french already against a military intervention in syria by. reporting from paris. coming up a lebanese terror map vigilante bombing and other crime sites spring up in mobile software stores across lebanon as innovation and security combined. and the sound start to september in iraq amid a frenzy of deadly bombings experts say regional turmoil will make ensuring

security in baghdad even harder still ahead after the break. wealthy british style it's not on. the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. it would. and if the minerals ministers feel some of. this is true it's good to consider.

the opinions of the great. stories but in. truth the access to. welcome back you're watching r t live from moscow and lindsay france a key press freedom group has confronted the u.k. government over its strong arm tactics used against the national media the government is accused of stepping way ahead of its role to ensure security and using laws to unfairly target journalists or to surf earth has more on the fight to report the news. an act of intimidation that could have a chilling effect on press freedom in the u.k. and beyond not quite what you'd normally expect from a letter to the prime minister about press freedom in the but those strong words

coming from the world association of newspapers you organization felt compelled to write after the guardian newspaper was forced by british security services to destroy information received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and then the partner of one of its journalists suspected of carrying information the government deemed sensitive to national security was placed in detention upon arrival at heathrow airport david miranda partner of guardian journalist glenn greenwald was held for nine hours is the maximum time a person can be held using laws designed to capture terrorists you know one of the reasons why we're so concerned and when i look at the work press freedom department does which is which has a global reach one of the issues that we have is united kingdom is saying about. freedom with a very strong record on ensuring that it. can write the new and

so so for us here. the press freedom situation in the united kingdom is the sliding and this is of great concern it is twenty thirty in freedom of speech seen here reporters without borders gives the satisfactory situation rating but for freedom of the press britain slipped from nineteenth in two thousand and ten to its current ranking of twenty ninth many are concerned that churchill servant of the terrorism act the law used to detain miranda is actually being used to stop journalists doing their job of holding people in power to account rather than being used to prevent terrorism she just seven allows for. to stop examine and search passengers that travel terminals there's no need for any suspicion that they are linked to terrorism it's a very difficult problem the security services have a difficult job difficult job. and the state clearly has

a duty to protect its citizens and. those people live living. in the u.k. at the same time i think they must recognize the role of the media. and you have to have to be in line with the appropriate use the appropriate. responsibility the government said it had to a scheme that copies of the information held by mr snowden could now be held by foreign countries to see mr snowden's travel since leaving the u.s. and the disclosure of some of that material could put lives at risk or critics of the government's actions have described these as alarmist planes aimed at justifying the blurring of the lines between terrorism and journalism it's thought a full hearing into the legality of david miranda detention and the seizure of that

data will take place in october but in the meantime expect to see that war of words continue with the u.k. seemingly struggling to strike a balance between national security and press freedom sara. london. whistleblower bradley manning uses his legal last resort the private sentenced to thirty five years for the biggest leak of data in u.s. history files a plea for a presidential pardon from obama there's more on this story online. and deadly dowry in india as the latest study shows every hour a woman dies in a dispute over marriage payments for the details had to r.t. dot com. right to see. her story. and i think the true.

on our reporters were very. instrumental. and s.o.s. button in your pocket smartphone developers in lebannon have launched their own early warning system for mobile devices software that allows users to instantly map terror bombing sites and report crimes or suspicious behavior parties palace lay reports from beirut. to the floor using a piece of meat to spill over its borders into neighboring countries which is why here in cities like a group there are developers and even the good news on the set up constantly coming up with new and innovative ways of trying to deal with the raids this illusion that bonds warning small faces one of them you would have. if in mind we'll find information being uploaded by users now they'll share information as to

where these are local where possibly a missile has landed where they were supposed to this is immediately uploaded to a map and shared by others executing the same page. this is an excellent especially when our country is being bombed as is happening unless we know where the bombs and fall in the city or wherever and that's really important i think more people should then would. other projects in the pipeline include an app that would be able to tell the difference between fireworks which often used here in celebrations and gunfire not to be outdone the liberty's on me has also recently announced it's own at. all this is sealed this provides drug rich communication between the public and maybe the soldiers now they will be able to fill in the army when ever there is that this is. a suspicious object. some kind of potential the

comes to that in situations like when the kidnapping one of this is just examples of countries that have been on top in these standards in an attempt to try and deal with the ever growing syrian crisis for the c.r.t.c. . more than one hundred fifty people have been killed in just the first three days of september in iraq sixty seven on tuesday alone the country is locked in turmoil constantly beating its own monthly death toll records just signed burke of the executive intelligence review magazine thinks regional instability is helping to terrorists. the spillover is enormous and the whole region is facing a grave crisis you rock is in a very fragile situation it borders on syria and so there is a porous border between syria and iraq so you've got all kind in iraq forces moving back and forth across that border and of course the factor of the saudis

funding the sunni insurgency and then driving iraq into a state internal crisis many of the. sunni insurgents who were operating inside iraq have now crossed over into syria so in a certain way. the violence that's now tremendously inside iraq is a kind of reverberation back there of the crisis centered in syria. now for some international news in brief a power cut has left more than two thirds of venezuela out electricity including swathes of the capital caracas the blackout caused traffic chaos and shut down parts of the metro system president nicolas maduro has blamed the outage on sabotage by the political opposition critics though say poor maintenance of the power grid is responsible. fifteen militants have reportedly been killed after

egyptian helicopters launched airstrikes on their strongholds in the sinai peninsula according to military officials three suspects were also detained during a ground operation to destroy ammunition warehouses and vehicles egypt is struggling to maintain stability amid an ongoing political crisis that seen two presidents removed from office since two thousand and eleven and continued mass protests. in the central african republic thousands of people have marched through the capital calling for peace and unity the crowds filed through different areas of the city playing instruments and chanting slogans a coup took place in the central african republic five months ago in a country already plagued by violence. and now to peru where dramatic footage has emerged of the volcano erupting there has been a series of five blasts over the last forty eight hours with a column of ash depositing debris up to ten kilometers away rather the ash or the lava present and immediate danger to the public. and up next

a special report on the often fatal toll that military service takes on young troops freshly back from the battlefield. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

syria in barack obama's compound counts towards the american administration is determined to punish the assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons other than members of mainstream media many are skeptical of the president's claims and the necessity to attack syria so what is obama's plan and does it make any sense. but if the new polls show more of an ally should be made news all the face i think i'm going to go. it was. a pleasure to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure.

this is for headaches this is for sleep this is a tranquilizer too if i have any episodes xanax would cause a blackout substance it's not just. struck me kind of which is pretty nightmare because. you can't get off of it. and vilified it is kind of you to go out there for me because sometimes i have episodes for i won't be able to. i think something will trigger me and which i'll just keep on working and working and working or live. like seventy two hours just so exhausted and. i can take and build. a show out for. some thank you very much. like the fridge that you gave me i could have made a lot more money out of it if i wanted to i just it depends on what we're doing up until. they can't say on the news that their we're rebuilding iraq we're working to

rebuild iraq. i was kind of sick of hearing c.n.n. and fox news like barky each other about once a. know the horrible things they are iraq and i kind of way to see it for myself you know. i join the military when i was a teenager nineteen in basic training. like halfway through my tour i told my unit that i was willing to kill any human beings. i certainly interested. asking this one question are you willing to do your job if i was a say no it would have been like oh this guy's be insubordinate throw in jail you know they be so like i came to conclusion like they're basically in slavery we hear

i have to say yes you know i'm actually walking the town with a rifle but instead of using the camera. this is one of the girls and it's her town. one boy it they don't know it one of the other bullet hit a little girl on the shoulder and she ended up dying from that shoulder injury it was the last leg bit a happiness i had i was who a breaking point i was i was you know near suicidal yeah. and during that period they set me to a chapel where i sat and talked to a chaplain for about two hours and he tried to basically convince me that killing so. if you're in that situation where you're having that struggle you're going on that show alone you.