russia says it could back the u.s. the use of force in syria but only if it's proven by the un that bashar al assad ordered an alleged chemical attack last month and the security council votes for action. and while obama's top official drums of war at a senate hearing in washington activists inside war torn syria become human rights shields to guard the possible american targets. also a media watchdog condemns the u.k. government sustained use of strong arm tactics against the press saying security measures are putting harder and freedoms at risk.

you're watching our to live from moscow and lindsey france. president vladimir putin says russia will wait for rock hard evidence before deciding who carried out an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria last month he says all options remain on the table but facts and international authorization should come before intervention joining me live with the details as our team is shannon thomas had our shot of what else did the president have to say well why did we have putin in speaking with the associated press strongly warned the west against unilateral action against syria and also said that if the united states has proof that chemical weapons were used by the bashar al assad regime then it must be presented to the u.n. security council but the president did say that he is not against the idea of action and supports a possible resolution if it goes through proper legal international channels and that would be the united nations after a credible investigation listen what he had to say about that. russia

will be ready to take strong action if we have exact an unbiased information about who committed these crimes and what weapons we used we will take a principled stand as we firmly believe the use of weapons of mass destruction is a crime but we think we should at least wait for the u.n. inspectors to give their report. and speaking about the now famous video showing the children having passed away he says that this is indeed horrific video of children reportedly killed by chemical weapons in syria but he does say that there are questions about that video that it doesn't show who did the killing or how they were killed it also said that there are claims that this video is provided by a group that have links to al qaeda another thing is he said that about these children we don't see any doctors in the video we don't see any parents we don't know who they are and this all needs to be investigated before any rash decisions

are made you also raise questions about what if it's shown by the u.n. evidence that it was in fact the syrian rebels that used chemical weapons he wasn't sure how the united states would react in that situation let's listen to what he had to say. certainly those pictures of dead children are just hideous but they don't prove anyone's guilt even in the us some experts think the evidence presented by the administration is not compelling so it's possible that the opposition staged a provocation in order to give their patrons an excuse for military intervention but there is also another question if there is evidence that it's the militants that have been using w m d what will the u.s. do to them what will the sponsors do will they stop supplying weapons will they start hostilities against militants. now keeping with this theme the president really stated his believe that he doesn't think that assad had any reason

to use illegal weapons or chemical weapons stating that bashar assad is not desperate and that his army the syrian army has been making significant advances in gains in the civil war now speaking on the subject of the s. three hundred missile defense system which russia has contracts with the syrian government he said that some parts for that system worshiped but they did it freeze the majority of those contracts but hinted at the fact that he might reconsider that if the west decides to get involved let's listen to his words. we have supplied some of the components of the s. three hundred but the delivery hasn't been completed we've suspended it for now but if we see the steps are taken that violate existing international norms we'll think about how we should act in the future in particular regarding supplying such sensitive weapons to certain regions of the world so the president speaking

a lot on the topic of syria and a reiterating the fact that they don't want the west to get involved making any hasty judgment. well with syria and syria isn't the only subject poisoning relations between the two countries right now xan i mean is it well know the two countries have had let's say there's been troubles with of the now famous reset one of the topics is edward snowden the president did have some choice words to say about that he said that u.s. intelligence messed up their efforts to try and capture snowden saying that they could have allowed him to travel to a country where his security was not insured or they could have just intercepted him made an error but instead they blocked access and stopped his travel which it was a mistake on their part he did say that snowden was in touch with russian officials as far back as hong kong but the president himself did not know that snowden was in route to russia until two hours before that flight landed he also said that

he is not working with or that snowden is not working with russian security officials inside the country although russia did granted temporary asylum and although since snowden has been inside russia his visit has been shrouded in secrecy so president kind of playing with what is going on in the snowden world as well peter. thomas thank you very much. 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 of state john kerry and defense chief chuck hagel they both maintain the syrian government is behind last month's chemical attack outside damascus despite the u.n. still having not made any conclusions artie's guyana to check on reports. 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 this. it is a guarantee whether it is with us. in syria or nuclear weapons in a room or a 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 for 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 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 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. thrushes out bombing options a new movement is becoming stronger among the syrian people activists are gathering outside key strategic passivity is expected to be targeted by american strikes they're calling on washington to halt its march to war and insists they're ready to die if it doesn't archies maria for 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 eastern country those who have come into this huge mountain just outside damascus called themselves 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 as well as the entire international community don't know so far when or if the missiles will strike but they say bales take a chill it's needed. the . lift up the side of the well that's a. different ages different backgrounds a social status yes i actually have little in common except one see that unites them and that's is their will to demonstrate to show their anger at the plan of the current state strike country i read in the banners we can understand actually what message they want to send. students we're here to show that we belong to syria this country is strong because of its people and its leadership not afraid richard started 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 other than they chose this year in montane because they taste as a symbol of damascus and of syria as well but also because it is a very important place strategically it's time to many security and military buildings and institutions and it is expected to be targeted and people will gather here today and who are going to spend here some time say that even if the missiles start holding they will not move any inch. or if no show from damascus and syria. he's raring for war and president francois along says there will be no vote on the matter despite a recent poll suggesting that three in four french people want to parliament to have a say on attacking syria perhaps wary of the u.k.

like defeat by lawmakers on laws administration insists he alone has the power to order an attack artist has are simply a report from the french perspective. the french president a lot is constitutionally able to work over the top without a parliamentary approval but france 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 court of humiliation position of having to wait for 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 talk without parliament the prime minister or david cameron have asked anyway and have been given a resoundingly no all along 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 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 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 a given an interview with french newspaper the figaro and warned that should there be an attack chaos and extremism would ensue and he also said there's a risk of a regional and reward the ransom 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' downs 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 . must be very cautious and we must wait for. the decision of united nations experts because remember in two thousand and three the rules were forged. and it was a disaster for your heart and for the world economy do you think that the united

states the solution will inevitably be france's decision. this. makes me feel uncomfortable. because we must not be dependent of american decision if. we have the same decision if we don't agree we don't have the same decision the most so no automatically american decision as far as public opinion goes that one of the recent polls say that a fifty nine percent of the french are against a military intervention in syria by your government reporting from paris. one hundred thousand syrians have left the country since the united states and its allies announced plans to attack in all an astounding two million people have fled since the conflict began the u.n. is warning that the situation is now a humanitarian calamity with about half of those displaced being children the chief

destinations are countries near syria including turkey jordan iraq and egypt but they're all under severe stress to deal with this 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 flight and the plight of the refugees. when one looks at the number of american destroyers the number of missing. the cost of all of that historians in the future will be saying why when there was a peace deal table to be discussed in geneva did obama destroy the peace deal and leave the plight of the refugees. one should add of course that while there are a billion people working for refugee agency. of the american government it might be incumbent on some of those refugee agency volunteers and more paid to work for them

to look at where the salaries are coming from from the same people that are creating the refugee crisis but as you say two million. counterpunch and i was talking about the massive amounts of. for the results of the nature invasion of iraq taking in the equivalent proportionately of twenty million refugees it was the united states coming up lebanese terror map vigilante aps bombing about the. spring up in mobile software across. stores across lebanon as innovation and security combined and start to september in iraq and the frenzy that made bombings experts say regional turmoil will make security in baghdad even harder that still ahead after the break.

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the spanish to find out more visit actuality. welcome back you're watching are two live in moscow and the front 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 beyond its role of ensuring security and using laws to unfairly target journalists or to surf earth has more in 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 catch a terrorist 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 united kingdom is saying about. freedom with a very strong record on ensuring that it. can write the new and so so around. here. the press freedom situation in the united kingdom

is this sliding and this is of great concern it is twenty thirteen 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 should chill 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. right. and you have to have to be in line with the appropriate law and use the appropriate. responsibility of regional government said it's 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 that the disclosure of some of that material could put lives at risk well 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 maraniss 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 truth. on our reporters would. be.

and s.o.s. button in your pocket smartphone developers in lebanon 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 artie's palace later reports from beirut. something which is increasingly threatening to spill over its borders into neighboring countries which is why here in cities like pavement there are developers and even the good news on the set of constantly coming up with new and innovative ways of trying to deal with this great this illusion that bonds morning. at. one of them us. if the line on real time information being uploaded by uses. information as to where there's a load where possibly a missile has landed where they were supposed to this is immediately uploaded to a map and shared those extra things to save the page. this is an.

especially when our country is being bombed this is happening at least we know where the bombs and fall in the city or wherever and that's very important i think more people should die mood. other projects in the pipeline include an app that will be able to tell the difference between fireworks which are often used here in celebrations and gunfire not to be outdone liberties on me has also recently announced its own. armed forces shield this provides doug rich communication between the public and maybe soldiers now they will be able to fill in the army whenever there is a. vehicle a suspicious object. some kind of potential gunfire but it becomes the dignity that you kill 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 global syrian crisis or the c r two favorites. more than one hundred fifty people have been killed in just the first three days of september in iraq thirty six on tuesday alone the country is locked in turmoil constantly beating its own monthly death toll records jeff steinberg of executive intelligence review magazine thinks regional instability is helping to terrorists. the spill over is enormous and the whole region is facing a grave crisis you rock is in a very fragile situation in borders are in syria and so there is a porous border between syria and iraq so you've got all kind of an 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 al qaida 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 and brief a power cut has left more than two thirds of venezuela without 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 opposition critics though say quote 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 two parun now where dramatic footage has emerged of the volcano erupting there's been a series of five blasts over the last forty eight hours with a column of ash depositing debris up to ten kilometers away either the ash or the lava present and immediate danger to the public. and coming up it's our debate show cross talk with peter lavelle.

wealthy british soil it's time to write. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on. the fiscal. economic ups and downs in the final months day the london deal sank i and the rest because i think meet a few will be everything on face. hello

and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter all of l. syria and barack obama's convoluted path to war 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.