i am. the future of syria's toxic assets and i was due to be decided today up to damascus destroyed all production facilities the question now is where will the weapons god . washington tries to whitewash and multimillion dollar british inquiry into the roots of the iraq invasion in case it reveals a few painful truths between bush and blair. and america's booming private prisons long before tougher sentences and more inmates but an ex-con tells us how profits are being put before rehabilitating criminals into society.

international news and comment live from moscow this is all she with me thanks for joining us syria's chemical desire moment is approaching a crucial phase with the roadmap for the weapons and chill destruction about to bear fruit the toxic arsenal will most likely be sent abroad for that part of the process correspondent reports now on the progress behind this deal and the commitment shown by damascus today is the. for the prohibition of chemical weapons to co-op destruction deadlines for syria's chemical arsenal so far damascus has made all deadlines in its destruction program with the latest being the first of november when it had to destroyed all equipment used for the mixing of production of poison gases and nerve agents to mask the face of remains committed to meeting these deadlines on our part we are ready to do whatever it takes

to commit ourselves to these the lives but experts see we can do it sooner we are ready to do it i was recently in damascus where none of the foreign experts that overseeing the destruction of syria's chemical weapons program would speak on camera other than to say that they were extremely satisfied with the progress that was being made and that damascus was cooperating fully we have made a commitment and syria as well known for respecting its commitments this is not a commitment to the security council this is not a commitment to the p.c. that we do this is a commitment also to our russian friends and one of the debates right now is way to actually destroy syria's chemical weapons which i estimated at around one thousand tons possible sites include albania fonts and belgium became a school weapons or become a heavy burden on syria a specially for the presence of militant groups in its soil that might want to use

such weapons or could even juice a disaster but i'm just rambling them but if the final deadline for syria destroying its entire stockpile of chemical weapons is the middle of next year paula three r.t. television. this is how serious design and has been progressing damascus revealed its chemical sized shortly after russia and u.s. brokered deal was struck although it's worth mentioning inspectors could not visit all the all of them due to heavy fighting serious so mannish timmy's they know them a target for destroying all chemical weapon production facilities but removing the existing arsenal may be quite a challenge take a look at what the inspectors are up against these are the major stockpile sites and someone located in contested areas of those two rebel or so close to rebel strongholds where fighting is almost nonstop so we'll have to see how the elimination of syria's chemical weapons progresses from here. and we'll keep you

updated on developments on air and online plans go to party dot com to see the latest footage from what's happening on the ground in syria to the emotional section of wild web site. a wide reaching british investigation on why the country invaded iraq alongside with the u.s. is being stopped in its tracks thanks to washington it's a message that the white house has brought the inquiry to hold as it could expose secret communications between the prime minister tony blair and president george w. bush but as our taste s.r.c. reports there may be more at stake. or by the independent newspaper it's a senior diplomatic sources and essentially what they say is that washington is playing a key role in trying to block the publication of some classified information which essentially contains the conversation and exchanges between then president george w. bush and u.k. prime minister tony blair no this will be crucial information for that iraq inquiry

that's going on here and i was far as justifications are concerned some of those diplomatic sources say that the us is highly possessive of any information that relates to the president or anyone around them and also that it is not london's call to make that decision on publishing information again which relates to the american president and also david cameron have told that some of the documents need to be handled sensitively and that has been interpreted by the cabinet office as ensuring that the relationship the special relationship between the u.s. and the u.k. is not affected and therefore it puts the government david cameron in an awkward position of the having to perhaps block some of that evidence as per washington's decision and it will be a politically embarrassing move to have to do this critics are saying that it is important for the public to be able to know and see this information not least of which because the goal of this for your inquiry is essentially to look back at how

the government british government have ended up making that decision of sending forty five thousand troops to iraq and to learn from those lessons and not make the same mistakes that was the goal and if you don't publish crucial information about the purpose and another thing is that this inquiry has already cost the taxpayers some eight million pounds so if this becomes a new target a watered down version without such crucial information some are saying it will be a total waste of taxpayers' money. and it's not just classified information that's being kept hush hush in the u.k. we'll tell you how the ruling conservative party especially its website so that no one can tie the promises they failed to make good on. who says crime doesn't pay the constant stream of convicts in the united states are certainly keeping private prison corporations and the money so it's little wonder that they're also comparing comparing for tougher because studio penalties even for

petty crimes are. the couch made by incarceration. corrections corporation of america is the hilton of the private prison industry a multibillion dollar business that's getting rich off punishment we are c.c.a. the more people locked up behind bars and the longer they stay there the more money c.c.a. makes last year the company banked a reported one point seven billion dollars they are fully aware of the reality which is that they need massive our stories in order to stay in business they need excessive sentences for nonviolent crime so yes they push for legislation that will sure more and more people are in their stores with more than to put millions people currently incarcerated the united states chomps china russia and the rest of the world in the number of prisoners doing time about half of those in us jails are in for nonviolent offenses since one nine hundred ninety america's private prison

population has increased sixteen hundred percent the war on drugs mandatory sentencing and a broken immigration policy have forced more people into prison c.c.a. has roughly ninety thousand prison beds in twenty states jesse lava from the watchdog group beyond bars says many of the company's contracts guarantee occupancy lock up quotas basically say you know if you're a private person and you have a contract with say or a local government you have a guaranteed number of people in your facility crime goes down with it doesn't matter taxpayers are still on the hook and the government is still on the hook for filling up your prisons. in the land of the free it is hard to expect the prison population to decrease as long as corporations continue profiting by keeping people locked up reporting from new york marina port ny on our team. and on line who spent

a decade behind bars in both private and public jails and now it is a human rights advocate. alex friedman told us that private prisons are all about cutting costs you know to have been to tasting criminals into society serve six years at a privately operated prison as part of the ten years total that i spent incarcerated and my experience is privately operated prison pretty much is what led me on to a career if you will fighting against private prison industry it is a very drastic experience and people come out of prison generally worse than they went in to get the isolation due to the the lack of resources and rehabilitation programs and what that means of course is that when they get out they are more likely to times to recidivate combat and that benefits no one except for companies like c.c.a. because if you profit from incarceration then the more people you have locked up the more money you can. and also told us about the influence that private prison

funds will go with the government you know being fully legislation to provide them with even more combat the people really benefiting from prison privatization are not the public is not the prisoners it's not the states that contract with these companies necessarily rather corporate executives and the shareholders who own stock when you incarcerate for the purpose of generating corporate profit you have a built in incentive to incarcerate as many people as you can for as long as possible because that's how the the market system works the companies have to face considerable criticism for lobbying governments and immigration and tension officials and other government officials for basically more contracts and to put more people in prison. this would be trapped and in desperate need of a transfer out of cars on the way meet and then fold french players stop from returning home just for demanding his wages. saying isn't quite

believing iran holds the expansion of its nuclear program but where we western powers still don't trust them with the us pushing for a new sanctions or despite ongoing talks that shortly after the break. ninety five years ago this week the first world war in europe came to an end the continent had exhausted itself millions dead economies broken and empires destroyed but before this with a conflict was over western powers had already decided the fate of arab lands a new colonial project which started we live with his old press of history to this day. right to see. first street. and i think the church.

on our reporters twitter. and instagram. would be in the. welcome bond this is all say let's move on. if you had spent two years in the political wilderness how do you make sure that your backlog of promises don't come back to home to if you were in britain's conservative party just pretend they

didn't happen is deleted a decade of speeches from with a website that were made before scrapping back into downing street and twenty ten point zero boyko has the details but you never ever wish you could carry vulcan time and simply take back something you said or promise was made and. i certainly have this is how you taste conserve the federal government's apparently after it was revealed that the virtual tory who went to site had says maizie again raised all of this speech is made from before the conservative party was elected into power back in two thousand and ten its race especially is that in the run up to the next general election that someone simply trying to hit the delete button on their part of any promises remember that time that david cameron pledged not to reorganize the n.h.s. well the speech is no longer on their website and it could be because after being elected the government to went on to preside over one of the largest three

organizations in n.h.s. history there was also that time that david cameron promise not to cut child benefits after which the coalition scrapped the welfare payment for higher earners and froze it for the rest of u.k. families and i won it cleanly and other thing that's now much harder to locate on the net is a quote of david cameron saying that the internet is democratizing the world's information try searching that on the tory party website rather than just removing it from the conservative site they've tried to remove it from the internet archive when he became prime minister one of the first promises he made was this will be the most open government and it's pretty clear that's not the case the irony is that the speech is dilution it's simply fuelling public interest in the line from conservative h.q. . is that they have revamping their website for a new digital era just starting a new chapter. probably avoid artsy london. written spying

activities it's helping hand to the n.s.a. and how it's affecting transatlantic relations come up in today's sophie and co hero nazi. so sorry and how moral is it to assisting united states and spy of europe including its allies the idea that heads of government they could talk freely all the. without any risk of being intercepted whether by agencies of other states or even by by private enterprise is crazy many european countries were in about a breakdown in trust with the us do you think it will also affect britain their trust to britain i do think this is good to be a loss to know what about the mood within the british public. mood of the british public the story doesn't really rub here nearly as much as it does and maybe other cultures do you admire likes of snowden and julian assange for their choices or are they traitors and trouble makers for you traitors in trouble because the basically

the what they're doing is they've still got the property and they'll make use of that standard of property and so i called anyway could do what they've done. iran has slowed down its nuclear program to almost hold according to the latest report by the un atomic watchdog inspectors say there's been no development at the said it is since president rouhani took office in august the findings could help build confidence ahead of next week's nuclear talks but it could all be undermined by the u.s. congress pushing for a new sanctions as our washington correspondent explains. right now negotiations with iran on a nuclear deal or at this very fragile stage with one big component missing trust iranians don't trust the u.s.

they've been duped before washington doesn't trust the iran when they say they're developing nuclear technology for civilian use and are not trying to build a bomb the u.n. nuclear watchdog just released the report saying in the last three months gone has not expanded its nuclear facilities it also said there were one has also not be gone operating a new generation centrifuges that quote no major components had been installed i don't react to being built at. this could be perceived as a confidence building step that you want is taking to move forward with a deal on its nuclear program the talks with six won't powers in geneva last week did not produce an agreement as we know but there is another round of talks coming up next week and this new report by the i.a.e.a. may play a role but will also play a role is what's happening here in washington and the u.s. congress wants to pass a new round of sanctions. it's not to do that he said if the u.s. is serious about using diplomacy to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons

there is no need to add new sanctions on top of sanctions already in place. so congress can potentially undermine any chance there is for a deal as well as entrenched you want in this view that whatever they do washington is not going to lift the sanctions and is not going to recognize their rights to develop nuclear program for civilian use in washington i'm going to check them. and one facts which could swing u.s. lawmakers into most sanctions as israel its prime minister is unimpressed with the i.a.e.a. findings and sustain ten ron has already obtained all the capabilities it needs to create an nuclear weapon and it's a position which seems to have clout in congress. i don't think the president's statement or speech at this point is going to hold off the members of congress who are determined to go ahead with this move i think the house is more likely to be

responsive to israel's urgings on this and most likely to go ahead with with sanctions this is the track record that both the majority of the senate majority of the house have compiled in recent years which is to say that they have been responsive whenever a pack the lobbying organization devoted to israel's interests has put forward legislation no more secrets about secret prisons the european human rights called displaced people deserve to know about what the cia is doing on the soil after polland try to keep it quiet from the public find out who want to find out why. and germany suspends purchases of military drone saying it could just illegal chemicals present days after human rights groups come down on chancellor merkel for helping americans trikes on pakistan.

one of the new cultural phenomena like the. face it's a. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i'm sure. the main professional affordability a union is heading to cops ah but this is no world cup champ cop one of the players is being held captive by the country for daring to squeak out of a not getting paid frenchman as a hade to better need is currently banned from leaving consarn till he drops a lawsuit against his football club he's been fighting for more than

a year to get an exit visa but the country is refusing until he drops the charges but both governing body they for says there's nothing it can do at the moment and andrew are suffering from the football as union says the french way is lizzi home a book to read we understand that he's also had to act in this matter and that includes the fact that he sold off. that he will be a victim from his own in a matter of days and therefore we have offered through our hardship fund here if you've brought the opportunity for him at the very least while we help to try and resolve this situation that he at least somewhere to live to stay in a hotel or whatever the case buy be for him his wife and his two daughters we are also very mindful of the fact that he is a very fragile mental state right now it's a precarious situation we're deeply concerned and so we are asking for the international football community to unite support fifth pro with being at the highest levels of government and within football authorities this is already gone

right to the top side here bellini and today himself has written begging for help this is just one player but it's one of sixty thousand we represent around the world and we want him released that we are released now and spoke to the tribe food bowl explained how the travel snowboard for him and his family. when i went to the tribunals i never imagined that i wouldn't be able to leave the country i didn't think they would block me my wife is depressed she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers told me not to we already have that and hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. in an open letter balinese stated he wasn't the only one snared by qatar's hardline laws he gave the example of construction workers preparing the infrastructure for the twenty twenty two world cup the two are earlier warned local authorities or the intolerable conditions and extreme poverty the builders are subjected to which has already

resulted in hundreds of deaths find out more on this and other reports on the ugly side of beautiful games biggest event in qatar at. let's take a look at some other world news and brave this hour in the philippines battles to recover from one of the strongest ever storms to hit land there were conflicting numbers of casualties the sources say that three thousand six hundred people have been killed while the yuan who is the figure at over four thousand adding up to the devastation by typhoon haiyan so one hundred thousand liters of oil have spilled into the ocean after strong waves grounded a barge the leak has been contained and a cleanup is underway. al-qaeda linked rebels are see were beheaded one of their supporters by mistake it was a sunni islamist rebels captured and killed by insurgents who mistook him for an

arsenal supporter the rebels published a video apologizing for the execution after admitting they killed. the group known as the islamic state in iraq illegal and has become one of the main jihad is groups fighting government forces in syria. a recent attack on a prominent. member of moscow's azerbaijani community has reignited ethnic tensions and disputes over migration russia has a while second largest migrant population but a worryingly high number of them are in the country illegally paul scott tried to get to the heart of the problem of migration in moscow is a sensitive subject right now following last month's murder of russian. allegedly at the hands of an azerbaijan migrant a nationalistic riots that followed the issue is firmly in the spotlight and an r.t. camera crew has found out just how sensitive the topic is we went to

a market on the outskirts of moscow to try and film an interview with mohamed magick the president of the russian federation of migrants despite getting tried permission to film it soon became clear a presence was not welcome. you russian do i have to repeat myself the site with the fence we eventually set up our interview away from the market. i think they may have suspected some illegal activities of course and when you have thousands of migrant some of them may not have work permits or residence permits. the exact number of migrants in moscow is hard to calculate the best estimates put the figure around one quarter of the population and according to official statistics one in five murders one into rapes and one in three robberies a carried out by migrants your thirty's are keen to be seen to be tackling the problem as we found out before our meeting with mohammed. or since the under arrest in the outskirts of moscow police have been tamping down on illegal immigration

every friday they go in range of accommodation places of work looking for illegal immigrants it's friday morning we're going with the police on one of those raids and it didn't take long for the police to get down to business demanding people's paypal want. to. know where do i leave. where do you leave now the raid on the outskirts of moscow in the step i was last there to just about an hour and so far police have rounded up thirty five individuals who don't have the correct title was. around one hundred eighty thousand work permits are granted each year according to mohammed this figure is far too low. to address it you need to conduct a survey as to how many migrant worker a small school needs if it needs a million workers you should issue a million work part of it's not a mere hundred thousand. it's believed around three million migrants are working in moscow twenty four percent of them illegally is creating

a vast black market for cheap labor market this summer looking to keep out of the spotlight let's go to. moscow. and after the break crosstalk on whether that made him a stat nation's borders are about to crumble along religious lines. you know i love these rare moments where i actually have something that really sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trance fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i would like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones in beef and jim o's being produced why does

the span have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to hardcore marijuana smokers they'll tell you we do and we does better for you than beer and that's the eagle man and they kind of have a point i think there is this is one of those rare instances where a balance position isn't really a good idea well the country could go the libertarian route and let it be everything be legal let people make their own choices or do what i think would be much much better actually really ban all the things that are destructive to our health both of these paths have positive and negative effects but they are a lot better than our current plan of ban some harmful things for some reason and allow other harmful things because while they lobby better but that's just my opinion.

they see you. as. a low and welcome to cross talk well all things considered i'm people about ninety five years ago this week the first world war in europe came to an end. the continent exhausted itself millions dead economies broken and empires destroyed but before this horrific conflict was over western powers had already decided the fate of arab lands still under autumn in control a new colonial project was started and we live with this all present history to this day. to cross-talk legacies in the middle east i'm joined by my guest joshua landis a norman he is the director of the center of middle east studies at the university of oklahoma in new york we have andy martin he's an independent.