this is why you should care only. on r.t. tonight not pirate split a friend president putin says greenpeace activists broke international law when they tried to climb aboard an offshore platform to protest against drilling for oil in the arctic. the u.n. chemical weapons team resumes its probe in syria after criticism that its previous findings were one sided and inconclusive. and residents of a british colonial outpost in the atlantic say they're being ousted to make room for a u.s. military base the report. from moscow is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight just after nine pm here our top story thirty arrested greenpeace activists

are in temporary custody after being questioned by russian authorities campaigners face charges for trying to storm an oil platform to protest against drilling in the arctic this is one area where some of those being held in russia's north western port city of mud amounts of chemical criminal case some suspicion of piracy has been opened by investigators but no one's been formally charged yet the activists could get up to fifteen years jail if convicted president putin brought up the incident at the international forum is going off reports. environmental security in the arctic is what this forum is all about and it's widely understood that the arctic itself is quite a fragile system and any misuse any accidents there would lead to major consequences and last week's incidents with the group or for greenpeace activists who tried to board the floating platform in the north russian were detained. talked

about here and according to the president clearly the activists are not pirates but they still violate the law and. it would be better if those greenpeace representatives said with us together in the school and told us would be think about the problems we're discussing they could state their complaints demands and concerns no one is trying to brush them aside would gather for meetings like this specifically to discuss such problems it's obvious there aren't pirates but they try to storm the platform our security forces and border troops did not know who exactly was trying to seize the platform under the greenpeace guides it's obvious these people violated international law by coming dangerously close to the platform the third time that russia is organizing this forum and clearly it's taking place in. the only city located exactly on the arctic circle around four hundred experts of gathered here from across the world were heard from the presidents of

russia finland iceland and a representative of the arctic council all talking about environmental issues and environmental security off the arctic in general like i said it's widely understood that any misuse or accidents will lead to severe consequences which the future generations will have to deal with that's why according to president putin only companies with experience working in the arctic and the financial resources to do it properly have to be allowed to develop energy there it's a responsibility i would put in a cascade globally we have to work together. within their own borders and among others in the border all the way down to those of us who live in our own homes i am of the a billion that that we do not have to back up we're going forward there are all kinds of really remarkably new ways of providing energy not only about current energy projects and future energy projects but also about cleaning up the heritage

of the cold war era like abandoned military bases military hardware tens of thousands of barrels with oil which are still there left not only by the soviet union but by the united states and canada and it's also widely understood here that it's not only the responsibility of one country to clean that up but really the responsibility of the international community but as we'll as team up to discuss how to better protect the color g. disputes over its massive oil and gas fields that definitely heating up and it also includes the potential threat of countries increasing their military presence in the region as defense expert someone who has been explained to us earlier. to talk about it's about. their territorial claims to talk about behavior to actually call traits in certain types of search and rescue and those kind of things but it's still that you have areas which explained by like two or more countries where both countries or more than two countries are patrolling sending

ships or aircraft and when they meet each other it's always a little bit tricky what are you going to do how much do you take from the other side and something can actually go wrong the actual risk clearly on an increasing trend on the five countries to increase their presence to military presence in the arctic. u.n. inspectors are back in syria to investigate more cases of alleged chemical weapons use the team concluded that nerve gas had been used on a large scale last month that report did not assign blame but was still used by western powers to build a case against the syrian government russia called the u.n. findings inconclusive and one sided. as the latest. the team was established

by the un secretary general ban ki moon and it is being headed by swedish scientists dr kay sells from the convoy of supplied united nations cars arrived at a central hotel in damascus shortly before midday on the wings day we understand that there are at least some eight u.n. investigators participating in this investigation the team was in syria last month and in a report that was handed to the united nations on the sixteenth of september it concluded that it had clear and convincing evidence that sarin gas had been used in an attack on the twenty first of august in the suburbs of damascus in which hundreds of people were killed not up to cells from has said that their support was an initial finding it is an initial document and that their purpose now is to look into other allegations we do expected to examine some thirteen to fourteen attacks that took place inside syria during this thirteen month conflict the team does say

that it hopes to presume to its final findings addressing all of these accusations possibly by the end of october now there has been criticism as to the fact that the team candle cannot conclude whether or not chemical gas was used but it's not going to be able to say who was behind these chemical attacks and indeed this is not one of the missions of this particular investigation moscow has also pointed out that u.n. inspectors ignored evidence that was handed to them by syria it was handed to them secretly and that this evidence was ignored as a result of russia saying that this initial report was biased and needs reinvestigation. they want to agrees that the u.n. report of last month's chemical weapons attack riddled with inconsistency she scrutinized the details and some perv. in the human sampling for instance there are inconsistent things with with symptoms. by for victims and survivors that are not atypical and not our conventional understanding of what

occurs in a nerve gas exposure some very stark ones in the environmental sampling it appears that in the west. where the human sampling showed almost one hundred percent positive there are no samples taken by the u.n. team that show saharan there are a few samples taken that show degradation of sarin but even these are not consistent in both the labs there could be false positives i started to write about it i asked questions and then i looked for other inconsistency and found them there to be found i don't think any report is perfect so we said what if i jump to conclusions ok what about the culture quinces of those in consistencies and what sort of impact could that have on the perception of the situation in the country. i think i don't know there are going to be huge ramifications because the political level is operating by itself right now they're looking at removing chemical weapons

from from from syria so so a certain part of this process has moved to had the u.n. now as a result of all these holes in its original report needs to address these and ensure for itself that it has the proper access and time to investigate other areas of alleged chemical weapons attack. on the syrian conflict so so key focal point to discussions of the ongoing u.n. general assembly the president of neighboring iran stood up to call for a peaceful solution a son rouhani also took a chance to defend his country's nuclear program a correspondent report the latest from new york. the iranian president did address the world body for the first time on tuesday and his speech was largely absent of any vitriol are anti israel rhetoric instead he offered up a chance to negotiate with the u.s. and its allies over iran's disputed nuclear program standing before

a world leaders he declared president hassan rouhani declared that nuclear weapons have no place in iran he said his country is ready to remove all concerns about the peaceful nature of its nuclear program and that iran does not seek to increase tensions with the united states he says he believes this country is an anchor of stability in the unstable region where iran is located he said the iranian threat that has been perpetrated for many years is imaginary and he believes that it's being used as an excuse for other misdeeds by certain countries president. said that iran poses absolutely no threat to the world or to the region he also said there is no military solution to the conflicts in the in the region and that iran seeks to resolve all issues not create them he once again underscored that iran is ready to willing to be ready and willing to cooperate with the west

and believes the best way to manage differences is on equal footing with mutual respect it what he was essentially saying in his speech is that he's trying to assure in a new chapter with the international community and wants the international community particularly the u.s. and its allies to treat iran with respect and like an equal russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov did have a bilateral meeting with u.s. secretary of state john kerry on tuesday at that meeting both men called constructive with russia and the u.s. agreeing to continue to push towards destroying all. nicol weapons in syria under international supervision foreign minister level of stressed all chemical weapons including material he says needs to be destroyed he says there's a lot of concern that the syrian opposition possesses hazardous material russia's top diplomat also expressed concern about the pushing of this military option for

the security council draft resolution because he says that that is something that once again russia does not support but he did express hope that the u.n. security council would would decide come to a consensus on a resolution and then it would be adopted in the coming days immediately after required decision is announced by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons in the hague. a correspondent in new york city that on the way the syrian rebels opposition to the opposition thousands of flocking to join al-qaeda affiliates who want to islamic state in the country who got the details on to just a few minutes time this is r.t. international. one of. the.

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logan greece is once again been hit by mass protests for this time it's not about the economy parties and unions olding nationwide anti fascist demonstrations meantime greek police are continuing to investigate dozens of alleged fascist attacks by members of the country's farai golden dawn party let's talk about this now with dr nick's cracker's he's an economist an international lawyer it was on the line indeed from athens very good even she said thanks for being with this is that this latest out break of anger was sparked by the murder of a leftwing rapper last week but there are reports of at least three hundred similar attacks in the last couple of years why is it taken so long to last do you think. well given the great political system isn't known for it's very it's been about fourteen months since the last elections where they were shocked by the high level of voting popularity for golden dawn now in terms of attacks that we've seen before

you're absolutely right there's probably at least about three hundred but this one this one sort of scaled up quite a bit i think was an attack against the greek and they murdered him. and people just can't stomach this any longer so there's a lot of pressure on both the political system of the police to act and act decisively with golden dawn for making significant inroads lately well how's it been selling itself. actually given it's been very very intelligent in the way that it markets itself to your average greek particularly the ones living in the inner cities that have a problem with illegal immigrants crime prostitution garden running and so they they are seen as a force for safety you mean an inner suburban neighborhoods for them in that they also have a very intelligent way of looking out for special cases a.g. you know a cancer patient coming to have drugs go in and help out but of course this is just

a mask for a very ugly paramilitary group and a very ugly ideology behind it but the public seem to be buying it. they are buying it but you know what seems the murder of this rapper we've seen addressed the drop in the popularity ratings according to voting polls this let's see how this pans out it could be the turning point for them to a downward spiral also the delegations to them somewhere along the line. members of this party been trained by the army no that's an investigation that's ongoing how is that investigation progressing. progressing slowly but you don't expect things like that to happen overnight there is a lot of information a lot of innuendo that many special forces officers and quite a few junior officers very much sympathizes of golden dawn and so they may have volunteered to actually train some of the power of military groups and the

government is now proposing a ban on golden dawn isn't it but i guess with a lot of things the more you try and stop it the more it makes more inroads how is that progressing has that been reacted to. given it's a bit of a double edged sword you know if you ban them out right where you'll just drive them underground and you might make models of them i think what may end up happening is that the state funding as a party may be cut and that will hurt them and of course. if they actually bolster some of the hate speech legislation that could take the oxygen away from the. cape of. nick clegg's your thoughts talk to next record here economist international lawyer on the line from athens thank you thank you covered by the us drone fleets just spin expanded with a new supersonic edition you want to learn about that you can on our website r c

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they're filling the ranks now of the al qaeda linked camp they've joined the growing chorus of voices calling for an islamic state in syria around one hundred thousand opposition fighters are split right now into three main groups united only . determination to bring down the syrian government but while president assad's forces push back against the militant onslaught those factions are also fighting amongst themselves al-qaeda linked elements the more moderate salafist and the secular free syrian army don't see eye to wire in the country's future reaction about this than from middle east expert sami ramadani is joining us on the line from london hi there there's schooling amongst themselves is not new ok it may be getting worse but why are they not grouping together to attack the assad regime as they say that is there a why aren't they just joining forces and getting on with it. well there are many reasons one of them obviously is political and ideological differences but the

other reason has been the source of that of funding and all. because there are several countries which i don't know. including so if you had a. key west western countries the united states. and so forth. it's a bit similar to the libyan scene in some ways there were so many. different suppliers and funding sources this created all sorts of splintering groups quite often you find in the literature of some of these groups and their supporters accusing each other of being corrupt and so on so you have a multitude of reasons why why they outlawed the heads and it's been like this for a for quite a while now and some of the differences degenerated into two large

scale fighting in near or near i love pole and other areas of syria very significantly as you have a lot of independent observers joy no less will have been in these waters zones if you like have often interviewed people who claim to be with the free syrian army and the national coalition they say well we have to cooperate with the dog again as ations because they are better. they have more funds than us so you could see on the ground those organizations like. the islamic state of iraq and be allowed to show syria they. get eyes ations they are definitely. quite strong on the ground and they were supported at some stage maybe even until today by by turkey

a lot of the other fighters that came from across the walled from us far as chechnya guns and so on and from across the middle east from libya. fighters who came through turkey and there is a cia center which is a publicly recognized by the united states as being there a cia center that was supposed to control who gets the who gets the funding and so on how much does a forces where as you say there are so many elements so much in the boiling pot here versus terribly bitter war continues there is a growing price of opinion from western analysts that the opposition some elements of it are becoming more radical as time goes on i guess you may expect that what do you think it's time to. i think it said scenario which is very similar to what happened in afghanistan if you remember the al qaida forces that are around bin

ladin and so on where initially funded supported by some gulf states some shakes and so on as well as being backed by by the cia and beyond that on the later on. as these forces grew larger and stronger on the ground they they were they went against the united states and maybe a similar process is is happening within within syria because these organizations depend on their own if you like your logical impulse is. they have any consistency and they go for the highest bidder occasionally thanks for your time to talk about there's a lot more out of time for tonight to the middle east expert somebody ramadani from under. now tiny remnants of the british empire in the middle of the atlantic ascension island used to be home to barely a thousand people but even their dwindling numbers are now in jeopardy let's take

a look what is on the map pops up just second this remote there is ascension island sixteen hundred kilometers from africa twenty two hundred kilometers from brazil as it stands historically has been a safe haven for mariners but it's now being dominated by a u.s. military base and some of the residents on that island a crying out for help because of it is laura smith reports. the tiny island in the mid atlantic major volcanic rock and covered in pitch and water no but to eight hundred people. but now the story of ascension island has all the hallmarks of big the diego garcia the british and indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived there for generations islanders accuse the british governments of. operating families who've been there for more than a century ten years ago when all the difference britain was promising democratic

institutions for the islands a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community that but today the population's already decreased by. community is replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people eighteen had to leave and the similarities with diego garcia dates and the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily used during president obama's recent trip to africa there are also satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of the now infamous listening posts run by. the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. reduced to haul in the special relationship.

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