russian diplomatic sources say they've seen evidence suggesting a chemical weapons attack in the syrian capital was. back to. an investigation. into a security barrier near the white house. reportedly. supporters of egypt's deposed president mohamed morsi. to prevent them from occupying tahrir square.

this is. the deadly nerve gas attack in the suburbs of the syrian capital in august was orchestrated by a group backed by saudi arabia and that's according to russian diplomatic sources speaking on condition of anonymity to interfax news agency. has more on this. this is the position that moscow has held all along name me that the rebels are provoking the situation as an attempt to see foreign forces and the international community becoming involved in the conflict inside syria both moscow and damascus believe that there is more than enough evidence that points to the opposition being behind this attack and yet despite the huge body of evidence the united states and her allies continue to put the blame for this attack on the shoulders of the syrian president bashar al assad this is also despite the fact that

a number of former high ranking members of the american intelligence community have been solved said that there is a lot of evidence that points to the fact that in fact it may very well have been the rebels behind this attack now what is also important to point out is that these this intelligence community says it is a growing body of evidence that shows number one that the attack was preplanned and number two that it's a was to see the united states becoming involved in the conflict they also say that it is in israel's interest to see military intervention in syria but not to the point that the opposition would be strengthened enormous me in the long run the united states remains committed to seeing the overthrow of the syrian president bashar al assad and it continues to support a very fractured opposition this despite the fact that even western analysis says that the opposition is becoming increasingly more and more radicalized as you have

groups like al qaida that are becoming more and more powerful. meanwhile experts from the world's chemical weapons watchdog say they are making encouraging progress towards dismantling syria's stockpiles a team from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is in damascus for talks with officials and the u.n. reported earlier concluded that nerve gas had indeed been used on a large scale in august but the consistency of the findings are under question as i was on a board to explain to my colleague ship of enema. 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 they either went to

several sites. or the. horrible videos of children and bodies and. at one location they spread that around to all or another 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 none of the environmental samples that they concluded was going to test it positively for sarin but all the survivors for some reason tested positive like i suggest we listen to one of the sound bites from the interview that i did with. the can be your own high representative for disarmament affairs i think that would read things into perspective they did prove that they are and 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 that. would talk about the almost you know the inspectors if you would expect nothing less from the year in personnel but. you need to understand what actually happened whenever the investigators had a chance to do the job whenever they had the freedom to go around and collect samples none of them test positively and yet whenever they tried to get some tissue samples from people who were pre-selected by the opposition they all test positively and this is pretty sickly 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. the opposition tried to influence the investigation and brought people who were probably exposed to sara

but at some other location and you make your pick up 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 in the un reports would still claim that they have clear and convincing evidence that sarin was used where it's as we just discussed those evidence i'm not there clear north consisting. of the investigation is continuing of course but of course the report suggests all the mass chemical attack near damascus ranges from hundreds to thousands do well actually did the inspections examine the bodies well if it is also a very interesting case because we all remember that you know those pictures of dead children adult 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 a nod 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 me. 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 case history 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 me from a body well. in my humble opinion autopsies are very very rich source of any sort of information and war over the u.n. inspector side a lot of stories. about a lot of interviews about how many people were killed at some point they were poor

they say that. they were like. a family of forty people killed in them and yet for some reason they make absolutely no after it's you go and see those bodies. time is ticking for the u.s. with less than two weeks left until it runs out of money failure to find a solution will lead to devastating effects that's the official warning from the u.s. treasury well the department's predicting an unprecedented default with catastrophic consequences it says a collapse of the american economy would send shock waves across the globe ending with a financial crisis and recession worse than the two thousand and eight. us government shutdown is taking its toll on the president's plans as well with barack obama forced to cancel a trip to asia and miss two summits the federal stoppage has placed hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave and it's costing the american economy at least three hundred billion dollars every day and one of the non essential services

affected is the national space agency which has just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary joined live by george be used to oversee the international space station for nasa. tell us how is this shutdown affecting nasa as operations at the moment. well i think right at the moment those individuals that are supporting the international space station are continuing to work that control center in houston the johnson space center still is online and it is manned by a nasa flight controllers so that work is still going on and the crews that are going to be flying up to this race station it in near future are still training so it's really affecting more of the support people that will have an effect down the line what about the crews in space then would they be affected in any way would any compromise perhaps be made to the safety. no not at the moment because the control

center and mosque the control center in use and the boat they're both manned and so they have the support of those flight controllers and they can call on any engineers to handle any of the problems as they come up on a comment on the nasa watch website suggests the agency didn't need to shut down some of its seven seas and what was trying to make a political statement could that be true well i think there is going to be an effect on the missions down the line and i think relative to the experiments that will that will be flown on space station the workers that are working on those experiments are furloughed so that that work isn't being done so there's going to be an effect down the line. i think. it would have been good if they could have a retained workforce and made sure that those other programs and other activities could stay on schedule i am not sure whether what was done is really

a political statement you say could have an effect further on down the line so in effect this lack of funding every day as each day passes by could actually have quite an impact on the work called the agency. yes it will because there are missions that are coming up in say four or five or six months fairly critical motions or missions that are robotic flights that are going to the planets they have launch windows that have to be maintained and if the workers are furloughed that work and being done and so there is going to be an effect down the line this is the second shutdown of the space agency for exactly the same reason is it any different from the last time what we're seeing today or these last few days. yes yes in the last i was involved in the last one i was a director of the johnson space center and we were flying the space shuttle and of

course flying missions to a mirror to time so we had to maintain a schedule so i managed to keep the workforce. working so we didn't have any schedule impact so presumably lessons have been since that last shutdown when you were in charge that. he had this shutdown will have an effect whereas the last time we were able to get those workers are involved in supporting the shuttle and it's a station we were able to keep them working so we kept the work going on in the johnson space center and the kennedy space center in florida and we didn't really have an impact but this time with about ninety seven percent of the workforce at the johnson space center laid off there will be an impact on the wind now one thing we have noticed that is that nasa is asteroid watch twitter account has been put on hold today does this mean that the agency is simply not tweeting or maybe not

watching and people could be wired that could be asteroids heading towards earth and nobody knows about it. well there there is activity going on looking at going to an asteroid and i would imagine atos people who are involved in that activity were furloughed because the nature of that work is not as critical as what's what when you're flying humans in space so there's going to be an effect on what mass is considering to do relative to asteroids and i think they haven't really defined that mission and how it will be done so there's a good bit of work that has to be done there but no danger is that as a result of this. well i don't think there's any immediate danger relative to asteroids and i think they're trying to really look ahead as to what potential danger there might be and what might be done about it but i think those

missions are yet to be defined and really. a lot of work still has to be done really interesting to talk to you thank you very much indeed george abbey former director of the johnson space center and fellow in space policy at the baker institute of rice university live in houston thank you for your time greats to. watch our government must now shut down until congress funds it again. the live here in moscow and more news in aussie coming away right after this break stay with us. the.

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continues here on r.t. it's still not known what led to a cult chase in washington d.c. which caused a security lockdown of the government and ended with an unarmed woman being shot in front of a baby by police on thursday the sales now from all these some sex. we're learning more about the suspect who led police on a high speed chase through washington d.c. her name is miriam carey thirty four years old from connecticut she was a mother she was recently laid off from her job as a dental hygienist and tragically yesterday she was shot dead in front of her one year old child just outside the u.s. capitol here in washington d.c. now this all started at around two pm yesterday afternoon she tried to gain access to the white house security area of the white house where she was confronted by police she then sped off struck a police officer and then led police on a high speed chase to the u.s. capitol where again she eluded cops says as police tried to fire on the vehicle and

when she led to the third location near senate office building she crashed the car and she was riddled with bullets by the police again with with her child in the back seat it was only then that police say they realized her child was in the car as for why any of this happened and why she was killed we can't know for sure now anyone familiar with this area in d.c. knows that there's a lot of drills going on there's a lot of security checkpoints going on and and really it's hard to drive around so you can imagine someone who might be having some mental illness issues confronting a checkpoint that she wasn't expected to confront and then panicking and driving off and leading to this whole chain of events that happened will be investigations into this i mean we're talking about the two most secure locations probably in the plan of the u.s. capitol the white house which might be why police were quick to jump to lethal force but a lot of people be saying you know why he why didn't police try and shoot out the

tires when they had the vehicle cornered why wasn't another police car brought in to further box in the suspect vehicle and once the suspects car was immobilised the the third time why was she just shot dead of course this comes with a string of incidents of people being unarmed and being. told by police you may remember recently there was the case to dossier of who was being questioned by the f.b.i. during a question he was shot dead he was unarmed even with. the boston bomber he was captured alive but after several shots right now by police in the boat that he was hiding and it was discovered that he was unarmed and really on a week to week basis unfortunately in the united states where we're hearing stories of police shooting unarmed people who they perceive as a threat and weren't so this is just another tragic instance of unfortunately here in the nation's capital where you can see how the chase unfolded throughout central

washington by taking a look at this map right here starting at the white house the suspect advances all the way to the capitol building coming on the police the pursuit ended almost two miles away from the white house there where the driver was killed and the political activist medea benjamin told me earlier that she believes there are troubling questions that do need to be honest i think it's very sad that a thirty four year old woman is dead i don't i'm not a policewoman i don't know how these things work but we always ask ourselves why didn't they shoot the tires when they hadn't surrounded the car was right there it would have seemed like shooting the tires and disabling the car was the right thing to do what i find is that in this atmosphere it's very hard to have a rational discussion about the excessive use of force because there is so much complementing of the police for their reaction and it is positive that more people didn't get killed but i think we should have more of a discussion about wasn't there

a way to do this that would not have led to that has there been any outcry in the media or any public opinion over the way the police handled this in a negative sense of people who perhaps are angry about this. you know nothing that i have heard there was a question asked by a reporter to the chief of the capitol police about the possible use of excessive force and he quickly dismissed that and of course and there are these issues about mental health issues and and how do we treat people who have mental health issues and it is surprising that the police didn't see that there was a child in the car the first time but i don't think that these questions are going to be asked very publicly the egyptian military continues its crackdown on the protest movement troops in cairo who reportedly phoned lloyd rooms and supporters of the deposed president mohamed morsi to prevent him from occupying talking square his bill true with an update on the escalating tensions there. but we've already

saw today was multiple clashes explodes between supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy and security forces in multiple locations across the come across the country as well as the city i was down just a square when the thousands of supporters of noisy essentially attempted to access this main rallying point that had been sealed off by security forces with tanks concrete walls and basically barricades made of barbed wire basically the after that there was old cations between security forces which descended into clashes i heard automatic weapon fire can't confirm whether it was my formulation but it certainly was running through the air as well as. take out really making the entirety of downtime almost impossible to agree we have had reports of possibly a fatality there also running points in giza which is the site of one of the sit ins for mohamed morsy earlier on in august by the discouraged by security forces that also there were clashes in additions to thousands gathering at the site of one

of the main encampments in support of our list of leader mohamed morsy in the rubble of the way in nasr city at the moment we hear that it's still relatively calm there but it has been very tense here we've also heard of clashes in the northern city of alexandria and in the nile delta and this comes to few days before we expect a mass demonstrations on sunday which is the national armed forces day or the anniversary of the nine seventy three war morsi supporters have vowed to come to his cry which they haven't been from accessing and in addition pro-military protests are expected the same day so we really will see this during our prayer as we get to his wife a protest day in just four years time switzerland could become a beacon of social security in that time everyone in the country could be guaranteed a basic income to live on well to be teamed up with property video agency to follow the story of reports from bernie. 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 which every job all not at all would receive a set amount of money now would order to try and illustrate the point that switzerland is such a wealthy country and it has a mountain of money that can be shared out surround all of its citizens what we're seeing right now happening just over to my right is. fifty tons of gold coins poured out onto the parliament square here that's four hundred thousand suites francs worth of money that's around three hundred fifty thousand euro now this new revolutionary plan and as i say it's resulted in they say 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 to find the stream 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 work in order to just pay their bills and they want to change they see that when it comes to financing it well that's where it gets into the real political wrangling and if this goes beyond a referendum that's certainly something that's going to be discussed it has been put forward to perhaps taxes could be raised it's also being put forward that could be a financial transaction tax of course switzerland one of the major banking centers of the world if not the major banking center of the world also a rise in v.a. t. 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 and i

said to change perhaps even the very way that we concept what will his. peter oliver there in exclusive interview with altie spanish channel ecuador's president rafael correa has condemned barack obama's exceptionalism and even compared his tone to that of the nazis is a brief preview of what he had to say. you know i still think president obama is a good smart man but only speeches remind you of the speeches the nazis made in the run up and during the second world war they consider themselves the selected supreme race such speeches and ideas pose an extreme threat. in other news trade unionists showed a symbolic red card to the football governing body outside its headquarters the rally was time to take place at the start of a fee for meeting on the twenty twenty two world cup which is said to be hosted by qatar the gulf state came under fire after newspaper reports showing dozens and poorly workers dying while constructing facilities for the tournament. hundreds

of left wing activists clashed with police in germany as they attempted to forge celebrations marking the country's reunification day demonstrators mostly from communist an anarchist group stage their protests accusing the government of funding or i should say are fueling a crisis war and poverty the country was really really fired in one nine hundred ninety following the fall of the berlin wall. brings up today with a moment i'll be back with a news team with more in just over half an hour from now in the meantime it is abby martin with breaking the set that's coming up in just a few moments after this break. you know i'm old enough to remember on 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 law will allow citizens to protect public order by

becoming volunteer workers deputy policeman and even forming peoples 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 are sure feel like people actually have a lot of power and this could be good for the country but that's just my opinion.

what's up guys i'm a martin the break in the fat so remember government initially justified the afghanistan war well they said it was an act of retaliation for nine eleven you know to find bin ladin take out those training camps and find them terrorists. the war has lasted more than twelve years market the longest in u.s. history and no it isn't over just because most of those troops on the ground of love see there are still tens of thousands of military contractors on the ground and there's been absolutely zero victory in fact the u.s. military ended up attempting to negotiate with the very same enemy it vividly tried to annihilate that entire time but what do you know it seems afghans don't like

having puppet dictators chosen for them by the us government because now an interesting figure with strong ties to the alleged mastermind behind nine eleven is running for president that's right abdul rauf suicide is a former islamist warlord and was named by the nine eleven commission report as the mentor of cold lead were ahmed while twelve years later i guess we can finally say mission accomplished. it was a. very hard to take a. picture. that you ever had sex with her right there.