freedom of speech. and the freedom to watch. twelve people are dead in a shooting at the navy yard in washington d.c. including one gun man three shooters are believed to have carried out the attack with two of them still at large. a u.n. report says there's no doubt that chemical weapons were used in syria adding that warheads for the siren loaded rockets could have been improvised devices this is russia's foreign minister says the syrian opposition should be made to sit down for peace talks with the government. and under fire r.t. continues its series of reports from the heart of the syrian war this time our correspondent joins syrian troops dodging sniper fire in a damascus suburb. a

welcome you're watching r.t. this evening with me and. now twelve people are confirmed dead after a shooting at a navy yard in washington d.c. let's get the latest now from our to. the sea sam we understand the area wristed in lockdown but also two of the gunmen we believe still at large. right well things are quieted down here actually we just saw this stream of people here we suspect is the people who are still inside the buildings told to shelter in place they're now being released but things are quiet and down the next police briefing will be in about an hour and it's not going to be at this location would suggest that they might be trying to open this street up but now as for the latest twelve people are dead as you said police are still looking for two suspects now here's some latest news coming from the d.c. police department one of those suspects somebody identified as

a white male. described as a white male has been identified he's no longer suspects that still leaves another possible suspect still on the loose a black male wearing all of drab a military style uniform people who live around here have been advised to stay in place because this is still an active investigation there still might be a shooter on the loose now we caught up with an eyewitness a commander in the navy who was in a building nearby the shooting and here was his story of what he saw. the train for combat operations away from here you know with a way to go up in front of the wars in other locations we don't do it here. so it seems to me down in front of you here where you work it is more. a relationship of you talking to god are you realizing just how fragile life is and how random it is and how quickly you hear you because you could even meet a guy got hit as opposed to going to next.

but if it was committed tom gyrus and he witnessed someone get shot in the head right in front of him now as for why this happened there's still no motive there are reports the police have identified through fingerprints the gunman there is one gunman killed on the scene here his name is aaron alexis from fort worth texas he's a former military contract the navy yard here is mainly for military contractors this is where buildings are ships are choir and contracts and all that stuff but still still no motive still a lot of questions to be an unanswered and will be here reporting whenever we get it thank you sam that's. life in the same in washington they say. well i spoke to marine who is a defense consultant from birmingham and he says attacks frequently coincide with major announcements through remember there is a u.s. naval ship outside syrian waters currently and it's a great coincidence that a major announcement was supposed to be held by the u.n.

weapons inspectors today and also there's a major attack in washington d.c. one of the most secure cities or supposedly secure cities in the world so every time this was with a major announcement somewhere in the world and a major attack takes place so one wonders if this is a terrorist attack then how can they get into a secure city and attack a naval base no less but also why on the day there's a major announcement supposed to take place let's remember everyone in the government from the president dogwoods everyone says the united states is secure no attacks have taken place for a very long time and all that sort of takes place in the u.s. naval base let's not forget fort hood where major nidal. allegedly all he's now been convicted for that. his or his fellow soldiers so.

the assurances the u.s. government is providing to the american citizens that the nation is safe and that keeping the nation safe is really. not sticking well if you are claiming that you are providing security by attacking they should overseas let's remember if this is a terrorist attack then they are providing arms to the same terrorists who are likely to commit the attack in mainland usa let's get more now on this from james petras professor in hampton university he joins us from new york for further discussion about this thank you very much for coming in to r.t. . still very thin on the ground but how could an attack like this. but that's a good question i think it raises other questions though first of all i think from the initial description it's very clear that the attackers were not

muslims they were not arabs they were not from the middle east at least the person who has been ascribed the assassinations so that we have to deal with individuals that are u.s. born at least us residents that are not affiliated to any international conspiracy and i think the likelihood is that it had to do with some contractual arrangements that misfired at the navy yard and if it's true that this assassin was safe form a contract it's pretty clear that there is some falling out over some contract szell arrangement and that we should look to connect this with anything this is going on in syria or the middle east i think this is a local event now as far as the breakdown of security i think one has to deal with

the fact that most of us security has been connected with the surveillance of a large number of muslims and middle eastern people and there's very virtually no attention paid to. tensional terrorists are gone bred and have their own grievances with state so the whole conception of security in this country is heavily skewed toward one area in the country which by the way. has not been in timidly involved in any of the large shooting instead of taken place and what do you think the u.s. government's reaction will be a security high can they make people feel safe. when we have another mass shooting well i think the the problem is that. there's

too much attention paid to overseas bases overseas operations and there's not enough attention paid to conflict resolution within the united states knight or know the particulars of the grievances that were motivated this particular operation but i think what needs to be done is to explore the ways in which conflicts between employees and employers contract this and sub contract this evolves otherwise we're going to see a repeat of this where there's a symmetrical relations we're the directors of killa operation have all the power and those who feel powerless and alienated resorts rather than mediated disputes through institutions i just think the breakdown of

conflict resolution institutions in new us is one factor that needs to be explored rather than all the swat teams and high powered rifles and helicopters etc the old you only come in after the assassinations have been perpetrated. we do have to leave it there mr petras to thank you very much for your thoughts on the sheet things that have taken place today washington d.c. that's james petras professor at tipping hampton university from new york city thank you ok thank you. a long awaited u.n. report confirms chemical weapons use in syria we'll tell you more about it and get some more expert opinion on that in just a couple of minutes. unexplored

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economy cause a report on our. welcome back now a report on the use of chemical weapons in syria and it says there's no doubt chemical weapons were used in an attack near damascus in august the u.s. says that it confirms that the assad government was behind that attack but the document doesn't assign blame to either side and russia has called on a more thorough look at the report before drawing conclusions with marina paul joins us now for more on this right now we know that the investigation was never assigned to put blame on anyone for the august attack only to establish whether chemical weapons were used but it now seems the u.s. seems to think that the report shows who was responsible. that's right the u.s. is clearly interpreting this report that was just released by u.n.

inspectors based on their own conclusions because as you said the u.n. inspectors were never mandated to to find who was responsible for the chemical attack that took place on august twenty first what they did conclude is that there is clear and convincing evidence that a chemical weapons attack did take place on a large scale but the report does not answer the key question of who launched the attack this report is forty one pages long it would be hard to believe that all members of the security council have had the time to read thoroughly through this entire report but nonetheless the united states the u.k. and france have come forward saying that they believe the u.n. report is consistent with their belief that the syrian government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack that now being concluded that killed hundreds of people now a u.s. russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin did address the media saying that there is

a lot of information to go through and he does not believe that member states especially those of around the security council should jump to conclusions immediately when all the facts haven't even been covered. by saying some colleagues jumped to their conclusions when they were saying that. definitively proves it was the government forces who used the. glued on august twenty first of all well and didn't have a good report. there are also parts of the report that come into question for example the u.n. inspectors describe the rockets used in a certain area to disperse sarin gas as a variant of an m. fourteen artillery rocket with either an original or improvised warhead now the report from the u.n. experts also said that the origin of the rockets were from the north west but gave no specific location and didn't point

a finger at the perpetrator the inspectors also cautioned that the five sites that they investigated had been well traveled by other individuals prior to the arrival of the u.n. mission and the u.n. report also said that while the experts were canvassing the areas in question the individuals arrived to the to the scene of the chemical attack carrying other suspected munitions indicating that potential evidence could have been moved around or possibly manipulated the report also says that the areas in question were under rebel control it did not elaborate on who these individuals were that showed up at the scene now ambassador churkin while addressing the media also said he has some existing questions about the involvement of the opposition in the chemical attack that took place on august twenty first let's take a listen. one question which i sort of wondered about in the course of consultations and there was no answer to the you know you will just sonata over the

use of chemical weapons on august twenty one by the government forces they are fighting with the opposition armed groups and they do for a number of rockets with chemical weapons. drawing to get through those armed opposition groups and there are no casualties in the opposition groups use it even said it equally possible to foil five or six rockets against your opponent and have all of them missed the targets. u.n. secretary general ban ki moon says the unequivocal and objective conclusion of chemical weapon use in syria amounts to a war crime and perpetrators must be held accountable the u.n. chief also says that this is the most significant confirm use of chemical weapons against civilians since saddam hussein used them in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight now the syrian rebels and their western supporters including the u.s. u.k. and france blame as we know president bashar al assad and his supporters for. carrying

out the chemical attack the. government insists that was carried out by rebels now this report comes as russia and the united states just brokered a deal that has syria agreeing to disclose its full chemical arsenal within a week and eliminate the entire arsenal by mid two thousand and fourteen but in the meantime the u.n. security council is expected to draft a resolution for the syrian deal in the coming days france britain and the united states are now seeking what they call a strong u.n. resolution under chapter seven that would allow for military intervention if syria fails to hand over its chemical weapons so what we see now is the idea of a military strike against syria is not completely off the table and we don't know if this report has now maybe inspired the u.s. and its european allies to now be a bit more aggressive when it comes to this military strike that we thought was deviated wooden russian the u.s. brokered a deal ok thank you those are important reporting live from you'll. well

international envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi spoke to r.t. arabic and he said that russia and the u.s. are key plays in finding a political solution to the syrian crisis and. i have repeated from the very beginning that the roles of russia and the us in resolving the syrian conflict are highly important i faced criticism from some who said that i was wasting my time they said that there was no point in traveling to russia or to do this and i believe that today it became clear how constructive and effective the role of these two states can be in resolving the syrian graters syrian general nine he said then and continue to be that there is no military solution for the syrian crisis will not find a political solution. the syrian opposition will meanwhile get more help from western governments as announced by the french foreign minister and his counterparts from the u.s. and the u.k.

and a british defense study has found that nearly half of those fighting against the assad regime either jihad this or hardline islamist well here's how the number of opposition fighters breaks down in that defense report one hundred thousand rebel fighters are split into many different factions and these include al qaeda linked groups with about ten thousand jihad is fighting amongst them the hard line islamists in syria are similar but they are focused solely on the syrian war and not on the global islamic struggle and they're also moderate islamic which means that secular or nationalist fight is are in the minority meanwhile turkey says they shot down a syrian helicopter which entered its airspace the conflict is raging on the ground in syria to izmir if an ocean is report from a damascus suburb where she's witnessed syrian government forces battling the rebels. now in durham just a few kilometers from the central damascus it used to be a nice and beautiful very picturesque town where the population of up to three

hundred thousand people but it's been torn by clashes between the governmental forces and the rebels rebels two years now the result you can see everything is ruined the residents left the only people we can meet here either the army all the militants. fighting against my guys i can't take it all now we're going with the army to one of the operations. darius cells of the capital is sponsored a powerful militant belt around damascus known as eastern ghouta the scene of recent fierce clashes it is also where a chemical attack last month brought international resonance in its wake all weapons smuggled to syria through jordan in the south come through here provided local militants with a secure supply line for. five

. this is what the syrian war looks like today urban battlefield provides dense cover and the network of underground tunnels also shields the militants there is no defined front line and you don't know when your enemies watching. the syrian army soldiers say they could be snipers there and they pulled curtains like this one just to protect to prevent snipers from seeing what's going on here. the simple system helps save many lives every day where it doesn't work soldiers just strong. in a full two minutes with travel from one district to another we follow the army as you can see through. the buildings through the holes in the walls like this one or this one they're everywhere. and. you.

have to thank you from the. family you salute is merely mourning is the least. for life. in this war snipers are from both sides of the frontline. is what they do and most of the time waiting for the enemy. in office assures me the map they update every day this is where we are the militants are in this big building the army liberates the town street by street building by building very slowly and very carefully has always just addressed militants to surrender their arms promise you'll be sick sometimes to leave their work. but sometimes they refuse and we have no other choice but the quote of an american strike seems to be on the back burner at least for now but syrian civil

war goes on and on. damascus suburbs syria and you can follow me on twitter she has the latest updates from the fighting in syria right now she is tweeting about what is going on in the battles around damascus. hard economic times have made an easy bedfellows to france and this eastern investors china has emerged as one of the world's top three investors with a significant share of that cash benefiting french firms artie's test recently gauges whether feelings between paris and beijing are mutual. then years in burgundy and bordeaux including well known. sold iconic french bread and holiday resorts club med sold parisian fashion brands. eighty percent sold to hong kong investors the tip of the iceberg as far as chinese money and french

firms is concerned but if you ask french president francois lauded his army of trade ministers and business x x there's always room for more especially as recent grim industrial output figures cast doubts on paris's claim of economic recovery france accounts for a tiny portion of china's foreign trade just one point three percent of vs germany's five percent france buys more from china than it sells so much so that there's a twenty six billion euro trade deficit with the asian giant the for growth i think it's. probably more. where france's core industries are concerned another one of those with increasing chinese of well what in the billions is the nuclear energy sector france's expertise has a crucial position within the st john's are. leading the pack bot and gaining access to china's massive market and investment dollars france finds itself

straddling a delicate balance of opening up its wealth of knowledge and protecting its relevance which means once the know how it was passed on what's stopping china from going it alone there appears to be a price of doing business with asia's booming economies should we stay outside or do we hurt to invest in china. caruso's carrillo i don't know but it will be very very difficult for a poker party and it's called a proxy is a. technology that although the chiefs of these two nuclear giants moved to reassure the public about what technology the good deals and denial still caused it . fear that national interests were compromised leading the finance ministry to launch an investigation early this year and maybe even oh so many chinese people are very will it be called again for an american investment but you know we can talk very movement over the story of the world but it is by the

possibility of our technologies to make every day every more over your new products renew kred t.v. but we will be completely people gain an uphill battle for a country of internal german described as europe's biggest problem child and image it will have to clean up if it wants the chinese to keep heading its way to us or sylvia r.t. paris now both the white house and the u.s. state department say the u.n. report lays the blame the syrian government although there is a question about the origin of the rockets which were used in the attack we're joined now by someone who should know about washington's approach to syria michael maloof worked in the u.s. defense department for nearly thirty years as a senior security policy analyst there. so he joins us now thank you very much for coming on to the program look france the u.s. and u.k. say the u.n.

report report u.n. report clearly points to assad's involvement but how can i or be so sure because that same report says that the rockets that were used in the attack could have been improvised possibly pointing to rebels involvement. well thanks for having me number one i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with two to classified information and he basically told me that the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators that and clandestine interviews that the sourcing of siren originated out of iraq into turkey before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that that he believes that since that report was disseminated in august of two thousand and thirteen that there has actually been

a more significant amount of crn production both in iraq and in turkey going to the going to the opposition principally al-qaeda and al nasra that that was their specific target to see to what extent al qaeda was actually involved in the production the research and there's some anation he says what was confiscated was was a bench level or small specimens at the time but that the production now they believe is much more robust and that the nonproliferation genie as he says is the result of the. is no longer exclusive and so there's there's a quite a a and increasing concern that that that this is still ongoing that it's a production is occurring among some of the sunni salafist. in iraq and it's and continues to be transported into turkey ok all right well thank

you we do have to leave it i'm afraid we have run after time but at semi-commercial a former pentagon official thank you for your time. well with the diplomatic situation around syria still volatile and he's guessed debates what could be in store that's in cross talk just after this break. we've talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the u.s. and just for guarding in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property and mediately people who write these articles draw comparisons to communist russia where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state allowed it yes the revolutionary period in russia forced agriculture to change rapidly and often

against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that well stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of doctors which are private summer houses where people guard and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter there's half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the us government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you liked.