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studio center here in moscow where it's just eight pm this is. president putin has warned against a military attack on syria without the u.n. security council's approval the russian leader said punitive measures can take place only on the international authorization and if there is solid evidence the syrian regime gassed civilians. brings us the details. president vladimir putin was doing an interview with the associated press and russia's first channel and in that interview he strongly cautioned the west against unilateral action against syria he also said that if united states has strong and conclusive evidence that it was the assad regime is that used chemical weapons then it must be handed over to the u.n. security council so that it can be analyzed and discussed in a global in an environment in terms of the investigation that is happening with the

u.n. and the alleged use of chemical weapons he said that the world community needs to wait until that investigation is finished we know that those inspectors are out of the country and that information is being analyzed right now but he did say that he's not convinced that it wasn't the assad regime that used chemical weapons citing the fact that president assad and his army have made significant gains in advances in the syrian civil war and that he's not a desperate listen to what he had to say about that fact that it's good because it's a social and you know we think it would be totally absurd for the regular government forces to use banned chemical weapons in a situation where they've encircled the so-called rebels in certain areas and basically erbil to finish the move they fully aware of the fact that such a step would mean sanctions including even the use of force this is just absurd it doesn't make any sense now in terms of the famous now famous video that is

circulated around you tube we heard secretary of state from the united states john kerry bring that up as one of the reasons why the u.s. shouldn't get involved. the president did address that as well he said that this video is horrific but it raises some questions we don't know who these children are we don't see parents we don't see doctors in their president did it reiterate here that wants to wait for there to be more solid evidence from the u.n. and they're. team on the ground to to basically justify any action going through international laws now in a separate statement after a meeting with the human rights council a nonprofit organization. talked about the united states congress and the fact that they are in the process of debating that the use of force and have actually drafted a resolution to be voted by the full congress later on this month he basically said

that it was an acceptable to even consider using force outside of u.n. conventions this is what he had to say. it was the question of the authorizing the use of force is being discussed by the congress and the senate it is an absolute commonsense substitution in international law to congress and no country can sanction such and thinks what they trying to authorize is aggression because everything outside the u.n. security council is aggression and a lot of you have put in his often come under fire for what is thought to be a strong alliance with a bashar al assad regime he had this to say he said that we do not defend assad or his regime and stead russia defends international law he also went on to say that it is dangerous when you start entertaining questions about the use of force when it comes to not going through un convention so a lot said today on the subject of syria from russia's president. sean thomas there

well you can find out what else russia's president had to say during his interview in the full version available right now on our website r.t. dot com well meanwhile the u.s. president said relations with that image prudent regarding syria have hit the wall but expressed hope russia would change its stance record bomber was speaking in sweden as he rallies support both at home and abroad for a potential strike earlier top u.s. lawmakers agreed on a resolution giving president obama a ninety day window for military action but bars american boots on the ground let's go to new york and artie's miniport for more on this marina take us through bombers latest statements on syria and those plans to strike. well u.s. president barack obama says that when it comes to the use of chemical weapons in syria it's not his credibility that is on the line he says is the credibility of the international community he was referring to the statements that he made a year ago when he said that if chemical weapons were used in syria it would be it

would be a red line for him now he's saying that those statements reinforce the red line which was imposed by the international community a red line he says that are held by international treaties and international norms and he said it's important for the international community and for the american congress to enforce the treaties that have been put in place while the u.s. leader is stressing the importance of these international agreements he did say on saturday that he feels very comfortable striking syria without the approval of the united nations security council and that's because u.s. officials believe that the council is in a deadlock and that any resolution that with the use of force or intervention in syria would be vetoed by russia and or china now at a press conference in stockholm sweden the u.s. leader also says said that it is difficult for him to make a decision to use military force in syria but as difficult as that decision is he

believes the moral thing to do is not to stand by and do nothing. while we should act internationally well sometimes because of the various alignments it's hard to through a security council resolution. so either we resign ourselves to saying there's nothing we can do about it and we'll just shake our heads and go about our business or we make decisions even when they're difficult and i think this is an example of where we need to make decisions even though they're difficult and i think. it's important for congress to be involved with decision. when asked what he will do if congress rejects the president's request to use military force mr obama did not rule out going ahead with his plan without the approval of congress he also drew

a distinction between iraq and syria insisting that the evidence that this administration and the report that they have concluded upon against the assad regime is much more robust than the intelligence about saddam hussein having weapons of mass destruction which subsequently proved to be wrong now with regards to russia president obama says that while washington and moscow still have their disagreements and moscow has disagreed with obama's stance so far he used the phrase resisted logic with the u.s. he believes that that he will still continue to engage russian president vladimir putin and hold out hope that the russian leader may change his position and align more with the position of the united states when it comes to. chemical weapon use in syria and making the regime of bashar al assad suffer consequences for allegedly

using chemical weapons and those are bombers heading towards russia for this g. twenty what sort of support is he getting back from the people there for these intervention plans. well from the american people or the american politicians there's there's two different elements of support let's start with the politicians the top congressional the congressional leaders are beginning to line up behind president obama's plan to launch an air strike on syria now the republican house leadership has already indicated that they will back a military intervention in syria in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons meanwhile as we've already been reporting the state foreign relations committee is set to vote on a compromise draft resolution for authorizing the use of military force in syria the tx reportedly sets a sixty day deadline for action with one thirty day extension possible but it also according to reports bars any ground forces and final set

a resolution would eventually need sixty votes to overcome a filibuster by opponents now on tuesday secretary of state john kerry secretary of defense chuck hagel and the chairman of the joint chiefs morton dempsey all testified before the senate foreign relations committee advocating a u.s. strike on syria kerry said that the world's eyes are on washington now to see if the government speaks with one voice and rises to the moment the u.s. is top diplomat also said if the u.s. does not take action against a mask is america's allies may suspended their support for the white house's initiatives in the future but in the meantime after you know over a decade of war in iraq and afghanistan the polls show that americans are opposed to any new overseas military intervention and that national sentiment has been reflected by senators and representatives who believe that the obama administration

still has a movie concrete evidence that it was bashar al assad's supporters and his government that used chemical weapons on august twenty first so there is a lot of. skepticism still against this. president obama. his administration is campaigning for that ultimately would lead to a military strike against the syrian government thanks for the. live in new york. makers have gathered to debate whether the country should take part in action against it is going to be no vote on the matter this time as french president francois hollande insists he alone has the power to order an attack despite polls suggesting people want parliament to have its say on the issue. has been looking at the french perspectives. 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 court of humiliation position of having to wait for what the u.s. says before acting i was spokesman from a long office said that the president hasn't yet decided whether or not to ask for a vote 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 the reports 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 where and where are the plans and 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 as far as public opinion goes so one of the recent polls say that a fifty nine percent of the french are against a military intervention in syria out by the government reporting from paris on tests are still you know. all to life here moscow coming up the man who made snowden's leaks possible is off a police protection in brazil that's as the u.k. government's attempt to wife information gathered by the n.s.a. leak has sparked outrage among press freedom watchdogs now that's coming away but

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choose the stories that impact your life choose me access to. continues here in r t a huge new revelation from we can be ex this hour is expose a sweeping surveillance industry which has been developing spyware for governments to track and control their citizens the only russian media outlet which has been working in collaboration with the whistleblowing group over this leak now data interception mass monitoring individual tracking those are just a number of services that were provided by some western companies revelations are being outlined in thousands of pages which featured trade brochures memos and invoices the documents obtained by we can indicate that companies were making money

on selling the technology to tarion governments around the world among the countries were bahrain and more on which were provided with so-called monitoring systems and this kind of spoil where it could be used to snoop on activists and opposition members without their consent as all of these police reports. say goodbye to the days of super sleuths gadgets and surveillance data person's privacy listening to their phone calls and internet activity and emails all you need is spy ware wiki leaks newest leaks by files three reveals that it's british companies that are pioneering the technology this is a promotional video for gamma international about its advanced surveillance software the program boasts that the technology can be installed inside an internet server which in turn allows the government to infect any internet user in the country with spyware nothing you say type of capture is safe and that includes all

your online passwords and usernames. but a government purchase and install in service providers browsing that website and you can flood. it's would inject spyware into the the web site and the user behind me all gamma international's u.k. headquarters from where the company develops and sells the capability to tap into anyone's smart phone or computer reporters without borders have named the company one of the finest corporate and the mes of the internet. the technology is marketed world wide to law enforcement agencies as a way of identifying and catching serious criminals but human rights campaigners say that the software is regularly sold to repressive political regimes where the definition of criminals can be somewhat different as one human rights campaigner in

bahrain found out she says that gammas finn spice of valence was used to get her off to she took part in anti-government protests looked like a genuine email address these term another political activist saying that they were going to begin talks with the king of bahrain about the future of the country so i was in fact very intrigued very curious the manufacturer was government and national just opened my eyes into this other world of surveillance technology monitoring so we know that british intelligence carries out this kind of activities of allowing private apartment sextant to carry out these kind of activities for other foreign governments researches have identified. around the globe. and activists journalists last year. servers were spyware that appears to be used in a number of other countries such as turkmenistan carter we also found a sample of the spyware by spyware appeared to be targeted back to

ethiopia the scary thing from our perspective is that this technology were created around the world without any sort of debris it may be the stuff of spying movies but campaigners say the british government needs to wake up and start regulating whose hands the invasive technology is falling into we need to start acting like the weapons that can be used online are exactly the same as the kind of weapons like bombs and guns that can be used to hurt people. in london. and you can find detailed information leaked documents and the latest updates on this new leak at our website. a key press freedom group has confronted the u.k. government over its attempts to silence those who tried to raise their voice they claim downing street as abused anti terror laws in the scaremongering campaign against whistleblowers has been. 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. one of the issues that we have because 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 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 said an 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. response of 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 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 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 sarah firth oxy london. now to another whistleblower chelsea manning formerly known as bradley uses her legal last resort the private sentence of thirty five years for the biggest leak of data in u.s. history a plea for a presidential pardon from obama as more on the story right now. from around the world for an annual music festival with breathtaking performances right in the heart of the russian capital. section for more stunning images of this

event. i think church. bombings and shootings in iraq have left more than twenty people dead many of them women and children who were executed by government just south of the capital and this brings the death toll to more than one hundred fifty since the beginning of the month jeffrey steinberg of the executive intelligence review magazine believes terrorists are thriving on a neighboring crisis. the spillover is enormous and the whole region is facing a grave crisis iraq is in

a very fragile situation it borders are in syria so you. can you rock forces moving back and forth across their border and of course the back to the saudis funding the sunni insurgency that is driving iraq into a state internal crisis many of the. sunni insurgents who were operating inside iran have now lost over into syria so in a certain way. the violence now tremendously inside iraq is a kind of reverberations back and they are the crisis center in syria. really the time now for some international news in brief in. south africa's largest union the national union of mineworkers states the mass strike calling for high wages some eighty thousand members of. the actual cost the industry thirty million

dollars a day doesn't zuma plans to both union and the money companies to find a peaceful solution outrage was caused last year when police thirty four packing the mine is joining a strike. ariel castro the man who kidnapped three women held captive in his home for more than a decade has died after being found hanging in his prison cell officials are struggling to explain how the incident occurred as the man's been in protective custody with regular checks he was only courts when one of his victims managed to escape in may this year and that he believes he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole plus one felony is. to bring it up today for the moment i'll be back with a news team with morphine just a half an hour from now in the meantime i'll be off and looks at the international reaction to the fukushima nuclear crisis that's breaking the set next you're naughty.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. they were ready to do anything for their country to be to try is to love the country more than yourself if you join the military for any other reason that you're probably not going to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now they live remembering the past which is impossible to get rid of. the war. but it all over good people don't get hurt. but i have heard good people empty silent.

a lot. but would prefer not to be sometimes i feel like. i should have died over there. but. i saw some people who. is cheaper than your. league. martin welcome back to break in the set so a lot has happened in the last two weeks chelsea manning came out as a woman egypt remains in chaos and the u.s. is gearing up to bomb syria a move that could potentially jump start world war three while the international

community is focused on a solution to syria there's another devastating situation unfolding in fukushima japan recently japan's nuclear power agency tepco reported that three hundred tons of radioactive water is being used to cool the reactors has been pouring into the pacific ocean every day since the tsunami but if that isn't bad enough it turns out that the radiation levels reported thus far are grossly underestimated tepco just admitted that radiation levels are actually teen times higher than what was reported previously in fact near the tank the levels are high enough to kill an exposed person in just four hours right now two hundred thirty million sieverts of radiation every hour are being measured from one tank alone but does that mean one person is only allowed an annual exposure of fifty million seabirds when you do the math it doesn't look good but don't worry guys apparently that detrimental news is completely and consequential because the chairman of the nuclear regulation authorities.