russian diplomatic sources say they've seen evidence suggesting a chemical weapons attack in the city were in congress or you'll get it was carried on by an al qaeda linked group a box by saudi arabia. washington please shoot an unarmed female driver in front of her child up to shore rammed into security barriers near the white house following a college hates. and of drugs and a say chief which seemed to suggest he'd like to edward snowden on a kill list provokes criticism online but the retired security boss says it was simply misunderstood that.

this is all see coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. the deadly nerve gas attack in the suburbs of the city were incompetent oldest was orchestrated by an al qaeda linked group by saudi arabia that's according to russian diplomatic sources making on condition of anonymity into fox news agency. our correspondent lisa catherine of hi there lisa what do we know at this point hi there will these allegations are in reference to an attack that took place in east ghouta on aug twenty first this is an opposition controlled area outside of damascus that was struck by rockets containing the chemical nerve agents there and now hundreds of civilians were killed in this attack which the united nations had called a war crime much of the western community suspects that the regime of president bashar al assad was responsible behind this attack but russia has disputed this

notion suggesting that it may have been a provocation in order to trigger a military intervention now unverified reports as you had mentioned from the russian news agency interfax now suggests that this deadly attack may have been carried out by a group linked to saudi arabia now again this is unverified information at the moment but the report does cite russian diplomatic source says the syrian government and military had denied being behind this attack in fact president bashar al assad had a crude accused rebel group supported by turkey and saudi arabia in the past of using chemical weapons to potentially turn the conflict in syria around we should also stress that the syrian military is believed to possess more than one thousand tons of chemical agents and precursor chemicals but the government denies any responsibility for this we also have seen president russian president vladimir putin suggest describe the claims that the syrian government was responsible is quote utter nonsense russian officials do suggest that rebels have sought to

provoke international military intervention so this is the information we have at the moment we're still waiting for more details to come in but these are the details thus. far as reported by interfax ashore. live from moscow lucy thank you very much indeed for bringing us up to speed thank you. meanwhile x. posts from the world's chemical weapons watchdog say they're making encouraging progress towards dismantling syria's stockpiles a team from the organization for the prohibit chemical weapons is in damascus for talks with officials a u.n. report earlier concluded that nerve gas had indeed been gazed on a large scale in august but the consistency of the findings are under question as excited boyko explains to me. the report on the use of chemical weapons the first report was released a couple of weeks ago the next report is expected by the end of the year and this is going to be the full report but the spectre's claim to use very very reliable

scientific methods but if you actually go and look at the war there are so many questions that the main question is of war is the reliability of the whole research because just to explain you quickly what the inspectors did the they went to several sites. area the area of the horrible videos of children and bodies. at the one location they spread that around to all. and other location they spend around five hours and they try to collect samples environmental samples. fabric soil and also interviews survivors and take blood samples from them and the biggest problem there is that none of the environmental samples that they too could it was good to test it positively for sarin but all the survivors for some reason cast it positively i suggest we listen to one of the sound bites from the interview that i did with. the king be you and

how representative for disarmament affairs i think that would read things into perspective they did prove the syrian was evident in the samples they found but on the other hand if they did not find samples in the environmental in the environmental samples if they did not find in the environmental samples it just testifies to the honesty of the reinspection so they're saying this is what we found this is what we took now of course it's interesting. miskin would talk about the almost you know the inspectors i think we would expect nothing less from the year the personnel but. you need to understand what actually happened whenever of the investigators had a chance to do the job whenever they had the freedom to go around and collect samples none of them test positive me and yet whenever they tried to get from tissue samples from people who were pre-selected by the opposition they all test

positive way and this is statistically it's simply impossible i mean there are just two possible explanations either the united nation inspectors didn't know how to do that job or. those environmental samples or the opposition tried to influence the investigation and. brought people who were probably exposed to sarah but at some other location and you make your pick and it's up to you who you trust more the u.n. inspectors or the opposition what i find extremely interesting and inexplicable to me is that the union specters and the u.n. reports would still claim that they have a clear and convincing evidence that sarin was used worse as we just discussed those evidence i'm not there clear north consisting. be investigation is continuing of course but of course the report suggests the mass chemical or talk may damascus ranges from hundreds to thousands do well actually did the inspectors examined the body. well it is also

a very interesting case because we all remember you know those pictures of dead children bodies were the main case for president obama the main reason for president obama to go to war in syria he wanted to punish president assad for killing all those people and what's strange is. the u.n. and specters didn't even request to see not there of those bodies they didn't want to see the autopsies they didn't want to go to the morgue and. this is how this can explain the reasons why. such a request from a. there were so many victims who were still alive that there was really no need to to exuma bodies and basically to tissue from them because there were so many victims who were alive but we had also complete cases to really meaning that the victims were able to tell how they were affected what they felt what the symptoms were which is much more powerful than taking tissue from from the from

a body well. in my humble opinion autopsy is a very very rich source of any sort of information and war over the u.n. in fact your side a lot of stories about a lot of interviews about how many people were killed at some point and they report they say that. they were like. a family of forty people killed and. and yet for some reason they make absolutely no efforts you go and see those bodies still not know it would lead to a trace in washington d.c. which caused a security look down the government and ended with an armed woman being shot in front of her baby by police on thursday she was reportedly a dental hygienist who suffered from postnatal depression to drive our question to security barricades near the white house and then trying to escape from police she sped towards ramming a secret service vehicle on the way security officers fired six shots fatally

wounding the woman in front of her one year old who was in the car but on hard and if you can take a look at this map right here you can see how the trace unfolded throughout central washington and starting at the white house the suspect advances the way to the capitol building coming and police fire the chase ended almost two miles away from the white house where the driver was killed and dr mark mason believes officials had other ways they could have stopped the woman that. given the fact that we have been on armed female the police have important say that she was our unarmed there was an imprint in the car. there was no gun fire of any kind that came from the car at any time a lot of questions need to be asked i think that there is reason to believe that the police in washington d.c. way way overreacted that there are alternatives to respond to situations short of

deadly force no speeding car it's a variety of ways it's stopping them the tires heavier and then they can be punctured by various means they put stress on the vehicles so they can shoot out the tires because they have these rope things that they don't have a lot of time but all this whole situation is that the police had no evidence that she had any gun and she had not used any weapon at all she was using a vehicle that vehicle must receive attention yes of course i want to thank the sergeant at arms. and all those who worked. so the end of the cop chase phone the sure seems out of the suspect received of peoples in the u.s. congress no make this found only officers involved were carrying out. and questions

are now being raised over how police handled the situation that the last time american conscious that he made international news took place in the town massachusetts in april when the entire world was watching the manhunt for the sound naive brother as the main suspects in the boston marathon bombings johansson i was captured alive after an exchange of heavy gunfire with police a month the twenty seven year old. was fatally shot face of a shot by f.b.i. agents in miami following hours. questioning over his possible connection to the brothers to this day details of that is that and remain unclear here appears to have been an armed yet at least six shots were fired at him when he reportedly tried to untie one of the police officers. the panic in washington d.c. came amid high tensions on capitol hill where lawmakers are still unable to agree and new national budget president obama is forced to cancel his trip to asia

because of the political impasse in his country while the u.s. treasury issues are warning of a looming and catastrophic default we've got details shortly for. you lawmakers cia contractor turned whistleblower edward snowden on the final list of nominees for the european human rights prize has received plaudits from people around the world and his former boss however is not among them and says he dreams of a somewhat different fate for us now to our he's worried upward and i reports. speaking at a washington post panel discussion on a cyber security former n.s.a. director general michael hayden joked about putting edward snowden on a list that has very little to do with human rights or honorable recognition america's former spy chief eg knowledge that snowden an n.s.a. whistleblower has been nominated for a human rights award and then reportedly said quote i must admit in my darker

moment over the past several months i had also thought of nominating mr snowden but it was for a different list unquote some journalists including brendan sasso from the hill blog have interpreted mr hayden's words to mean putting snowden on america's kill list now general hayden confirmed to me that the quote is correct but he claims that his words have been misinterpreted and he never proposed for snowden to be put on any assassination list but some would argue that this is probably the worst time for any former or current top u.s. official to even speak sarcastically about putting snowden on a list and that's because journalists jeremy scahill and glenn greenwald are currently working together on a joint investigation on how the u.s. national security agency has been involved in the wider overseas assassination program run by the obama administration now both of these journalists are known for their hard hitting investigations of the u.s. government and their collaboration will reportedly reveal how they say the vast

surveillance network of the n.s.a. operates in conjunction with the clandestine operations run by the u.s. military or the cia now for those who don't know the prize that snowden is nominated for was established by the european parliament in order to acknowledge individuals or organizations who have dedicated their lives to human rights and freedom of thought reporting from new york marina poor nial r.t. . david swanson feels it's high time for the ruling elites in washington to be more careful with. when you joke about killing somebody with an ax your viewed as a sociopath when you joke about killing people with a million dollar missile you are considered a big powerful person who knows lots of secret stuff and so your rage is directed in particular at people who reveal that secret stuff so we've arrived at the point of putting whistleblowers and those who leak information for whatever reason on the

list of enemies as if they are fighting a war because they are revealing the secret information including embarrassing and humiliating information it is of course outrageous criminal and in fact sociopathic and i think the timing is the same timing of the past weeks and months in which this has become a top problem in the u.s. government the audience laughed when president obama joked about using predator drones against his daughter's boyfriends joking about war in u.s. culture is acceptable people talk seriously about new wars and people who claim to oppose it don't speak up with outrage. switzerland looks to revolutionize the whole concept of walking for money with a trunk full of gold hold on to the ground in a few minutes find out the small ways of running.

with the wording of war with syria at the last second and the opening of some kind of dialogue with iran it would appear washington's neo cons an armchair generals are falling on hard times ever since the end of the cold war washington has always been in need of an enemy talking to iran certainly is one of their worst nightmares so is there a plan b. . speak or language. programs or documentaries in arabic it's all here on all t.v. reporting from the world talks about six of the i p interviews intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit arabic. wealthy british style it's time to. go. to.

market find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on. this is the welcome by the international monetary fund is concerned about the moving global economic threats coming from america's failure to result was a debt crisis i met kristin the gaunt said the u.s. budget standoff with significantly deteriorate if congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling like it's done many times before. the ongoing political uncertainty over the budget over the debt ceiling does not help the government shutdown is bad enough but failure to raise the debt ceiling would be far worse. and could very

seriously damage not only the u.s. economy but also the entire global economy. time is ticking for the u.s. with less than two weeks left until it runs out of money sadia to find a solution will lead to the devastating effects that the szell warning from the u.s. treasury the department's predicting an unprecedented default with catastrophic consequences and says a collapse of the american economy would send shock waves across the globe and dealing with a financial crisis and recession was that in the two thousand and eight mile down the u.s. government shutdown is taking its toll on the president's plans as well was brought about a month for us to counsel a trip to asia and missed two summits the federal stop which has placed hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave it's costing the american economy at least three hundred million dollars every day hitting business and consumer confidence

president and co-founder also money and to prizes a political risk says insulting fund says u.s. lawmakers inability to compromise is bordering insanity. the new c.b.s. poll numbers are out today and seventy two percent of the people don't want the tea party to hold the country hostage over obamacare by the way most americans are against obamacare but seventy two percent do not want the full faith and credit of the united states which comes up in fourteen days to be on the line today from this rather they want what mr jefferson wanted we have elections republicans win the presidency in two thousand and sixteen retake the senate in two thousand and fourteen they can repeal obamacare but you don't do it in this way treasury department the bond traders the i.m.f. and the guy in the street know the to risk the american economy over this issue is ridiculous the problem is people can miscalculate because remember seventy two percent of americans are against doing this but fifty seven percent of the people who say they're with the tea party are for what's going on so if you're

a tea party supporter and you look at your local numbers you say keep going which is of course a disaster for the country and indeed the worlds. much more government must now shut down until congress funds it again. and just four years time switzerland could become a big fan of social security and that time ever want in the country could be guaranteed a basic income to live on. with rum play video agency to follow the story beat on to reports now from. what we're seeing here in switzerland is a completely revolutionary outlook towards the social welfare system what's being proposed by a group of swiss citizens is a guaranteed minimum income now what that would mean is that every citizen whether working in whichever job or not at all would receive a set amount of money now in order to try and illustrate their point that

switzerland is such a wealthy country and it has a mountain of money that can be shared out around all of its citizens what we're seeing right now happening just over to my right is. fifteen tons of gold coins poured out onto the parliament square here that's four hundred thousand swiss francs worth of money that's around three hundred fifty thousand euro now this new revolutionary plan and as i say it resulted in this outpouring of gold coins is well it's caused some consternation is it just free money or will it result in people not even bothering to work now those behind the scheme say that it will actually encourage people to work it will encourage people to to follow their dreams they say that this will allow them allow people in the country a right to dignity you know right to choose exactly what they want to do not pressured by the pretty extreme precious of having to finance their everyday lives

they say that the modern world has created a situation whereby people don't work for what they enjoy they worked in order to just pay their bills and they want to change this now when it comes to financing it well that's where it gets into the real political wrangling and if this does get beyond a referendum that's certainly something that's going to be discussed it has been put forward that perhaps taxes could be raised is also being put forward that could be a financial transaction tax of course switzerland one of the the major banking centers of the world if not the major banking center of the world also a rise in big eighty in value added tax could be brought in. but it's a certainly a revolutionary scheme that they're looking forward to putting to parliament here and to change perhaps even the very way that we concept what work is because what this initiative hopes to do is make sure that switzerland's huge mountains of wealth could actually become the face for all of its citizens. and staying with

them and in our world update was done with an antique fifo protest in zurich so his trade unions showed a symbolic red card to the football governing body aside it's quite headquarters there really was time to take place had this start of a fee for a meeting on the twenty twenty three world cup which is said to be hosted by cancer the gulf state came under fire after newspaper reports showing dozens of new police workers have died while constructing facilities for the tournament. hundreds of left wing activists clashed with police in germany as they're tempted to celebrations marking the country's reunification day the demonstrators mostly from communist and his group stage their protests accusing the government of fueling prices and poverty the contrary was reunified in one nine hundred ninety four in the fall of the bilingual. security is being increased around cairo's tahrir square planned quoted as by the supporters of egypt's deposed islam

as president mohamed morsi the army's deploying troops and tanks and setting out barbed wire to prevent crowds from entering early in the week pro morsi protests as managed to take over the square for the first time in months of were soon dispensed this summer so frequent clashes between rival groups across the country which left more than a thousand people dead. plans to build a new mosque in athens are infuriation local greeks the project is said to be funded by the from the budget despite the austerity that is gripping the population groups cannot has the details. even in prayer one of the five daily spiritual rituals for muslims worldwide some prefer to do it at home others visit a mosque. this one looks more or less ordinary from the

inside but there is one detail which makes it stand out from the rest in other parts of the globe this is a literally an underground mosque set up in scientific garage of an apartment building things and every day muslims from nearby neighborhoods come here to pray while in total there are around one hundred twenty of similar unofficial mosques all across the city it's hard to tell the difference between unofficial an illegal but the makeshift facilities are the local muslim communities only choice there's simply no official mosque in athens we're talking about thousands of people that hold the great passport. to this country and they know it's the time of their players greece is among the main points of entry for migrants to the e.u. and it's estimated around three hundred thousand muslims live in athens alone. so for the first time since gaining independence from the ottoman empire in the eighteenth century greek authorities are planning to build a mosque in the capital but as it turns out many of the crisis hit

a traditional orthodox christian nation are not happy with the idea that the mosques price tag is one million euro plans to be paid from the state budget. this money should be given to poor people pensioners who are starving in our collecting trash on the streets so they can eat the government should give the one million euro's to these people and not build mosques for the turks to be again of an if then we have debts and then there are thousands of unemployed sick poor starving people it's like telling me to build a house without even having money to eat can this happen no it can't be clearly it's only a drop in the ocean for many greeks who once again dove into a wave of nationwide strikes against fresh austerity measures. and while the government redirects anyone unhappy with the mosques construction to the courts it seems that stories like this a reminder that the financial crisis isn't only about cash but it's exposing the most sensitive social problems that for many are becoming too expensive to tolerate

you got this going off r t f n's greece. with near conservatives phone and phone favor in washington piece of out discounts a weapon they have a future with his casts and crosstalk just ahead. you know i'm old enough to remember reruns when gomer pyle used to cry citizen's arrest when he saw something wrong in mayberry and a new law in russia could allow our city average to do the same thing by helping to enforce law in the country this low allows citizens to protect public order by becoming volunteer workers deputy policeman and even forming people's militias

which will in theory prevent crime or at least allow the police to be informed more quickly and accurately of course this like any project which sounds nice on paper is all about the implementation so we'll see how these deputies and militias will work overall i think this won't have much of an effect on crime but it could have a huge impact on non-criminal bad public behavior you know i am not the bravest guy on the planet and it's hard to confront a group of five drunk guys who are just as big as you who are acting like idiots on the street but doing so with ten stone sober militiaman buddies could provide a much more convincing argument for the drunkard's this could be a big step forward for democracy when you actually have at least a scrap of power or control over the events in your neighborhood then you're sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to crossfire for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle twilight of the neo cons with the averting of war with syria at the last second and the opening of some kind of dialogue with iran it would appear washington's neo-cons an armchair generals are falling on hard times ever since the end of the cold war washington has always been in need of an enemy talking to iran certainly is one of their worst nightmares so is there a plan b. . to cross talk what's next for the neo con agenda i'm joined by grant smith in washington he is the director of the institute for research of middle eastern policy and in san francisco we cross to bruce fein he is the phone.