i care about you and. this is why you should care only dot com. this is r.t. tonight taking on serious toxic arsenal albania says no so now the search is on for a country to receive the weapons for destruction after damascus met its obligation stroy production facilities. washington tries to whitewash a 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 lobby for tougher sentences and more inmates next cantars is how profits are being put before rehabilitating criminals back into society.

from moscow at nine pm is kevin owen here this hour on r t very good to have you company our top story syria's chemical disarmament suppressing a crucial phase now with the road map for the weapons actual destruction in the works but further progress is in question now as the main next stage is where the toxic arsenals going to be sent for elimination that is very uncertain tonight albania which was the most likely choice is just rejected america's request middle east correspondent has the latest. today is the deadline for the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons to go up destruction deadlines for syria's chemical also know 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 and production of poison gases and nerve agents to mask the face of amazed committed to meeting these declines on our part we are ready to do whatever it takes to commit ourselves to these the blood's but

experts see we can do it sooner we are 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 to be chemical weapons or become a heavy burden on syria at the specialty of 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 but the final deadline for syria destroying its

entire stockpile of chemical weapons is the middle of next year paula three r.t. television. well here's how serious assignments been progressing damascus revealed its chemical site shortly after the russian and u.s. brokered deal was struck and although it's worth mentioning inspectors couldn't visit all of them because of heavy fighting syria still managed to meet the november target for destroying all chemical weapon production facilities but removing the existing arsenal is going to be quite a challenge take a look at what the inspectors are up against here these are the major stockpiles sites on your screen some are located in contested areas or close to rebel strongholds we're fighting almost nonstop so i guess just have to wait to see as elimination of a serious chemical weapons progresses from here on in but you cannot be sure we'll be covering it in depth once again the biggest question now is which country will be willing to take in syria's estimated thousand tons of toxic weapons for destruction political analyst chris bambery explain to us why the choice albania

one of your reporters countries for this task was controversial from the very start though. what i find incredible was that it's a norwegian merchant ship accompanied by a norwegian naval vessel which is going to syria to pick up these weapons with mustard gas and siren and bring them to albania the norwegians say they don't have the expertise and the ability to dismantle the chemical weapons i would ask you if the richest one of the richest countries in europe don't have the expertise and knowledge to do this how do you expect the poorest country in europe to do this kind of smacks of a colonial mentality that somehow we're going to dump of these things in albania we're not going to bring them to britain why don't you choose a country which has the expertise for its instance in britain there is the aldermaston chemical weapons facility i would trust that to dismantle those weapons but the involves high levels of expertise and also albania must be one of the least stable countries in europe this is not to attack the albanian people but they are being instead it has hardly a long history now it's not very stable there's

a problem of organized crime there and i think it's a very strange decision to say we're going to take these deadly weapons and put them in a country which were security must be an issue. well as mentioned will keep you updated on developments on air online plus if you get a chance to go to r.t. dot com you can see the latest footage from what's happening on the ground in syria it's in the emotions section of our website. a wide reaching british investigation of why the country invaded iraq alongside the u.s. is being stopped in its tracks thanks to washington it's emerged that the white house has brought the inquiry to a halt as it could expose secret you make ations between then prime minister tony blair and president george w. bush but as tests are reports next there may well be more at stake to. the report by the independent newspaper cites 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 in exchanges between then president george w. bush and u.k. prime minister tony blair no this will be crucial information for the iraq inquiry that's going on here and i was for 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 of 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. to german spoke to she's resolute government to sweep history under the rug. there's likely to be no outcome any time soon and that really seems to me a coverup both on the part of the people who support tony blair and of george bush it makes you wonder exactly what is in these conversations between bush and blair

the must be quite a lot to hide from going to be so worried about about him being released people want to know what did tony blair and george bush agree how are they to the war what were the conditions of it because frankly if this is a grade as many people believe in the spring of two thousand it means all the effort to produce a dossier all the things all the pressure for a second resolution at the un this was a sure rod because tony blair already knew that he was going to go to war nearly two hundred british soldiers died during the iraq war there have been hundreds of thousands of iraqis who have died there were millions of people demonstrated all of these people have the right to know and it is absolutely shameful that our government and the united states government are trying to prevent them from knowing it's not just classified information is being kept hush hush in the u.k. later we'll tell you how the ruling to send the far east purged its website so that no one can tie them to the promises they've failed to make good on. next who

says crime doesn't pay seems the constant stream of convicts in the united states is certainly keeping private prison corporations in the money so it's little wonder that they're also campaigning for tougher custodial penalties even for petty crimes artie's miniport ny looks next at the cash made by conservation. 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 from in order to stay in business they need excessive sentences for nonviolent crimes so yes they push for legislation that will sure more and more people are in there with more than two point zero

million people currently incarcerated the united states trumps china russia and the rest of the world in the number of prisoners doing time about half of those in u.s. 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 it's passed figures 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 porton i r r t well we spoke to a man who spent a decade behind bars in both private and public jails and he's know human rights of the treatment told us that private prisons are all about cutting costs. read below ten thousand criminals back 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 the isolation due to the a lack of resources and rehabilitative programs and what that means of course is that when they get out they are more likely to times to recidivate and come back

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. also told us about the influence the private prison firms wield over the government lobbying from the just to provide them with even more complex the people really benefiting from prison privatization are not the public it's 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 faced considerable criticism for lobbying governments and immigration intension officials and other government officials for basically more contracts and to put more people in prison. coming up the footballers trapped in a desperate need of

a transfer or other cats on the way that paid for and stopped from returning home just put them out of the u.s. wages. so still is why i believe that iran does hold to the expansion of its nuclear program but western powers still don't trust that with the u.s. pushing for new sanctions despite ongoing talks so after the break. we'll. sleep technology innovation all the leads developments from around russia we've got the future covered. police it was a. very hard to take a. long period of my life that are back with me

there was. one of. the people. if you spend years in the political wilderness make sure that your backlog of promises don't come back to haunt you while the fear of britain's conservative

party apparently just pretend it didn't happen it's deleted a decade of speeches which website that were made before scraping back into downing street back in twenty term bully boy has got the story book you never wish you could say about him time and simply take back something you said or a promise you made and. i certainly have this is how you take his case of the federal government's apparently after it was revealed that me a personal glory when the site had six amazing again raised all of this speech is made for the best for the conservative cause he 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 get this elite 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 free

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 you case families and i want to me another 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 subject 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 deletion it's. simply fueling public interest in that efficiency 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. britain's spying

activities also its helping hand to the n.s.a. and how it's affecting transatlantic relations generally come up in today's suffolk oh by the way on r.t. . sorry and how moral is it your assisting united states in spite of europe including its allies the idea that the government they could talk freely all the this without any risk of being intercepted whether by agencies of other states or even by private enterprise is crazy many european countries were in about a breakdown in trust with the u.s. what do you think it will also affect for in their trust to britain i do think this is good to be lost in food over there not about the mood within the british public i do think there's a degree to the british public the story doesn't really run here nearly as much as it does in many other cultures do you admire likes of snowden and julian are sergeants 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 stood

with property and they'll make use of that standard of property and so i called in any way you could do what they've done. and rather slow down its nuclear program to was to halt according to the latest report by the un atomic watchdog inspectors say there's been no development of that facility since president rouhani took office in august the funnies could help them build confidence out of next week's nuclear talks but it could all be undermined by the u.s. congress pushing for new sanctions as a 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 in gone has not expanded its nuclear facilities it also said there were one has also not big on operating any 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 president obama has urged congress 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 the iranians in this view that whatever they do washington is not going to lift the sanctions and is not going to recognize their right to develop a nuclear program for civilian use in washington i'm going to check out. no more secrets secret prisons to you a preview right school decides people deserve to know what the cia's doing on the shore left the pole and try to keep it quiet from the public from the water rushing a website called. suspends pushes a military drone saying it rejects illegal killings just days after human rights groups should come down on chancellor merkel for helping. stuff.

the main professional footballers union is heading to katter put this is not world cup checkup one of their players has been held captive by the country for daring to speak of not being paid frenchman's a balloonist is currently banned from leaving qatar until he drops a lawsuit against his football club in fighting for the new year in fact to get an exit visa but the country is refusing to drop the charges football's governing body free from says there's nothing it can do at the moment under a setting from the footballers union says the french players losing what we understand that it's also had to act in this matter and that includes the fact that

he sold off. that he will be evicted from his home in a matter of days and therefore we have offered through our hardship fund here if procure opportunity for him at the very least while we help to try and resolve this situation that he at least has some way to live sustain a hotel or whatever the case by be for him his wife and his two daughters we are also very mindful of the fact that he has 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 of far at least this is already gone right to the top here bellamy 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 release now. for world use headlines a brief militiamen of the libyan capital

a vote for justice is left seven dead thousands gathered in tripoli to rally against uncontrolled militias demanding that they leave the city on demonstrators also reportedly wounded by an anti-aircraft gun shell libya's miss militia gangs which are made up of former regime fighters have grown uncontrollable since the fall of moammar gadhafi two years ago. al-qaeda linked rebels in syria have beheaded one of their supporters by mistake it was a sunni islamist but was captured and killed by insurgents who mistook him for an assad supporter the rebels then published a video apologizing for the execution after admitting they killed the wrong man the group known as the islamic state in iraq and the levant has become one of the major had these groups fighting government forces in syria. mass rally in egypt supporters of the ousted president morsi descended in clashes which have left one person dead security forces have used tear gas to disperse the crowds in alexandria dozens of people were arrested the muslim brotherhood called for major demonstrations on friday to denounce the trial against morsi. as the philippines

battles to recover from one of the strongest ever storms to hit land there are conflicting numbers of casualties tonight now the authorities are saying that three thousand six hundred people have been killed but the u.n. is putting a figure hired over four thousand adding up to the devastation to buy a hive typhoon haiyan two hundred thousand liters of oil have spilled into the ocean after strong waves grounded a barge that leak has been contained only cleanups underway so a small bit of good news from the. thanks for your company have next alternative journalism versus the major media we're breaking he said with avid moshood right after the.

you know i love these rare moments where action of something totally 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 and beef and gitmo is 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 a hardcore marijuana smoker they'll tell you to do that 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 a lot other harmful things because well they lobby better but that's just my opinion. hello everyone i'm having martin and this is breaking the set to marks the one year anniversary of operation pillar of defense the siege of the gaza strip by the israeli military the offensive killed the six israelis and left one hundred sixty palestinians dead the majority of which were civilians and like previous israeli military actions against gaza pillar of defense was marred with violations of international law israeli military targeted civilian areas with missiles and

airstrikes killing women and children in the process they also shelled public utility buildings a very early crippling gazan infrastructure even a journalist tower housing offices for several media agencies including this one r t was deliberately bombed fast forward to today and a chance of peace in the region is frozen once again as israeli land grabs and harsh rhetoric by bibi netanyahu continue this week also mark the anniversary of the passing of palestinian leader yasser arafat who died in two thousand and four evidence now suggests that the former statesman was deliberately poisoned that's right experts recently concluded that arafat's exuma remains contain traces of polonium a radioactive substance two hundred fifty thousand times more toxic than cyanide so needless to say this is a somber anniversary indeed and while here in america we only hear one side of this conflict in order to learn from history and change our future we must acknowledge

these dark truths. the. it was a really very hard to take a. look. at that or how to act with that here but there really. believe. me. as more people turn to the internet for their primary source of news independent and citizen journalism has begun to flourish and corporate media is suffering as

a result just last week c.n.n. announced and bear is seeing ratings for a media conglomerate of its size its weekly ratings hit near record lows averaging just three hundred eighty five thousand viewers i mean it's really no surprise considering that all the network has been covering for the past six weeks is the damn obamacare website it's not just constant coverage of the same name topic that's very telling viewers from the corporate airwaves it's also an issue of mis trust in fact in a gallup poll from june only twenty three percent of americans express confidence in corporate news stations so the business failure so with corporate media going the way of the dinosaurs independent journalism is left to fill its void earlier i talked to one of these journalists ben swann who left his job at a local fox station to start his own independent media outlet i started by asking him what the transition from corporate media to total independence has been like for him.