it's midnight here in moscow this morning taking on syria's toxic arsenal albania's says no and now the search is on for a country to receive the weapons for their elimination after damascus met its obligation to destroy all its production facilities. washington tries to whitewash a multimillion dollar british inquiry into the roots of the iraqi invasion case it reveals a few painful home truths between bush and blair but also this hour. they can't seem to succeed the result to murdering each other clashes with a militia group in the libyan capital leave more than twenty dead as protesters in tripoli try to force out the our brigade seeking control over gadhafi is all legs. and america's booming private prisons lobby for tougher sentences of more inmates

but an ex-con speaks to our t. and tells us how profits a big put before rehabilitating criminals back into society. very good morning if you just joined us my name is kevin though in this is our to internationalise just after midnight now here in moscow and first syria's chemical disarmament suppression a crucial phase with the roadmap for the weapons actual destruction in the works but further progress is in question now as the next main stage where that toxic arsenal will be sent for elimination is uncertain tonight albania which was the most favored choice till tonight is just rejected america's request middle east correspondent reports. so far damascus has made all deadlines in its destruction

program with the latest being the first of november when it had to destroy all equipment used for the mixing of production of poison gases and nerve agents to mask the face of remain committed to meeting these deadlines on our part we are ready to do whatever it takes to commit ourselves to these the lines but experts see we can do it sooner we are ready to do it i was recently in damascus where enough to foreign experts that overseeing the destruction of the 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 are estimated at around one thousand tons of chemical weapons have become a heavy burden on syria especially for the presence of militant groups in its soil that might want to use such weapons or could even juice a disaster by mishandling them 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 it is progressing we are now in use craigs damascus revealed its chemical site shortly after the russian and u.s. brokered deal was struck loads with 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 on your screens of the major stockpile sites some located in contested areas or close to rebel strongholds with fighting is almost nonstop still. once again the biggest question now is which

country are we 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 europe's poorest countries in the first place for this task was controversial to start with. i 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 which it was 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 instance in britain is the aldermaston chemical weapons facility i would trust that to dismantle those weapons but they

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 in state 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. of course we'll keep you updated on developments on air and online plus we get a minute to go to r.t. dot com you can see the latest for sichuan what's happening on the ground in syria it's in our emotion section of the site there. wide reaching british investigation of why the country invaded iraq alongside with the u.s. is being stopped in its tracks thanks to washington it's a merge the white house has brought the inquiry to a halt as it could expose secret communications between the then prime minister tony blair and president george w. bush but his test for siller found out there may 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 the u.k. prime minister tony blair though 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 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 and germans resolute governments have no right 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 hard for them being to be so worried about about him being released people want to know what did tony blair and george bush agree how are they did they agree the war what were the conditions of it because frankly if this is a great as many people believe in the spring of two thousand it means all the effort to produce the 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 and the two hundred british soldiers died during the iraq war rippin hundreds of thousands of iraqis who 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 and it's not just classified information is being kept hush hush in the u.k. either later we'll tell you how the ruling conservative purged its website now so that no one can tie them to promises they fail to make good on. next militia or in the libyan capital of open fire protesters killing up to twenty two people according to government sources the situation spiraled out of control after the demonstrators approached the groups they stood not invade get out of tripoli but the shootings then further enraged the crowd which set about burning down the units headquarters militias of control various parts of libya since gadhafi fell and they refused to disband i spoke to defense consultant moeen roofie thinks it won't be the armed forces who are under the control of. the only person who could serve our nation united was a revolutionary moammar gadhafi yes the western forces and nato nations. member states saw this coming and they knew there would be chaos in the

country because there are so many different factions and they can't seem to succeed so they the result of murdering each other remember daffy shared the proceeds from all the natural resources all oil in particular then there's gold there's also uranium in the south and there's the water probably the largest reserve to our underground freshwater in the world is in libya so the there are all sorts of militias coming from different towns and trying to take control of tripoli but that's obviously leads to clashes and murder of civilians in tripoli the condition is set absolutely right for nato to intervene with boots on the ground what will these after the break including a look at how america's putting profits from its private prisons ahead of rehabilitating criminals back into society.

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look to. see. again the who says crime doesn't pay the constant stream of convicts in the united states a set of keeping private prison corporations in the money so it's little wonder that they're also campaigning with a tough a custodial penalties even for petty crimes these days when a port not next looks at the cash made by in 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 story said 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 their stories with more than two point zero young 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 are go down with it's as

a 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 puerto nile are to. well we spoke to amount about a decade behind bars in both private and public jails and is now a human rights advocate like freeman told us the private prisons are all about cutting costs not rehabilitating criminals back into society. i served six years at a privately operated prison this 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 the 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 and 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 find those that are sort of a comeback 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 read. my lips also told by the influence of private prison funds we'll lose the government lobing from legislation to provide the believe that 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 in the 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. no more secrets about secret prisons the european he would write schools decides people have to know about what the cia is doing on this soil after poll and try to keep it quiet for the public to want to find out more about that is on our website and it was a tragedy waiting to happen well that specialise in japan they've discovered that the nuclear plant was damaged decades before the awful earthquake and tsunami struck more about that just click away a. pleasure

to have you with us here on t.v. today i'm sure. if you spent years in the political wilderness how would you make sure that your backlog of promises don't come back to haunt you well it seems if you're a british conservative party just pretend they didn't happen it's deleted a decade of speeches from his website that were made before scraping back into downing street in twenty ten. got the story. what you never wish you could say about him time and simply take back something you've said or promised you'd made. i certainly have this is your husband you chase cases of the federal government's apparently after it was revealed that me a personal jury when to cite that says maizie again raised all of this is reaches major best for the conservative cause he was elected into power back in two thousand and ten it's race especially is that in

the run up to the next general elections and 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 three organizations in n.h.s. history there was also that time that david cameron promised 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 wanted 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 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 would be the most

open government and it's pretty clear that's not the case the irony is that the speech is deletion is simply fueling public interest in the efficient line from conservative h.q. is that they've revamping their website for a new digital era just starting a new chapter. polly boy her artsy london. the chairman of a british conservative think tank who told me that the tories don't want people comparing their old promises with the new policies. the real reason behind it is that actually the conservative party is keen for its latest policies to appear right at the top of the google search and that's why they've they've removed the previous speeches the conservative policy has changed vastly we've seen the conservative party shift radically to what many people would describe as well being a conservative party and the traditional definition is a word they want people who are on their website for longer than two or three minutes to be able to get the information they want to put out there and research

is that we're going to go into the detail of comparing past speeches between you know two thousand and four and two thousand and fifteen i think that's that's a different kind of user and that's not really the use of the conservative party is looking to appeal to germany's perspire and the purchase of military drones is its soul search is over the unmanned aircraft legal and ethical implications lawmakers worry condemned drone strikes as illegal killings even though days earlier chancellor merkel was targeted by human rights groups for apparently helping u.s. drone attacks in pakistan but a german m.p. seven drug dalen who believes the country's government's actually no intention to give up on drone warfare. i think it's working in that way that they are want to be committed in more wars and more military interventions and this is a really big scandal because it's going to be more killings more people will die with this combat drones and in fact they are or they want to fight

siding the u.s. with this military operations as we saw it in the last three years for example the social democrats they wanted actually that germany will be involved into the not too warm being against libya but conservatives they were against it now it's a different situation they want to be committed in more wars and more military operations that's what i can see from this agreement. three top world news headlines a brief mass rally in egypt of supporters of the ousted president morsi has descended clashes one person's been left dead the security forces have used tear gas to disperse the crowds in alexandria dozens of people were arrested and muslim brotherhood called for major demonstrations on friday to denounce the ongoing trial against morsi. al-qaeda linked rebels in syria have beheaded one of their own supporters by mistake he was a sunni islamist but was captured and killed by insurgents who mistook him

a party for the assad supporter rebels then published a video apologizing for the execution after admitting they had killed the wrong man the group known as the islamic state in iraq and the levant has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in syria. as the philippines still baffles to recover from one of the strongest of storms to hit land there are conflicting numbers of casualties the authorities are saying that three thousand six hundred people have been killed but the u.n. has put in that figure at over four thousand adding to to the devastation by toefl two hundred thousand liters of all of that spilled into the ocean after strong waves grounded a barge one glimmer of good news there that leak has been contained in a cleanup is underway. the main professional footballers unions heading to qatar but this is no world cup check up indeed one of their players has been held captive by the country for daring to speak out over not getting paid frenchman's heed

balloonists currently banned from leaving catarrh until 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's refusing to be dropped those charges mean time football's governing body pfieffer says there's nothing it can do at the moment under your city from a football is union told us the french players losing hope. we understand that it's also had to act in this matter and that includes the fact that he saw sessions that you will be evicted from his home in a matter of days and therefore we have offered through our hardship from here if you broke the opportunity for. at the very least while we help to try and resolve this situation that he at least has some way to live to study in a hotel or whatever the case by be for him his wife and his two daughters says we are also very mindful of the fact that he is a very fragile mental state right now it's a precarious situation with deeply concerns and so we are asking for the international football community to unite support for you with being at the highest

levels of government and within football authorities this is already gone right to the top side 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 and we are released now. it's midnight twenty four of moscow headed to a quick break now off to valid alternative journalism versus the major media is breaking the set with host of the month in a couple of minutes. president obama despite being king liberal loves to flatter the troops he loves their courage selflessness and teamwork as he said in his state of the union address but he doesn't love are there expensive injuries which the troops are going to have to pay

three times more for according to yahoo news the president's administration wants to force military retirees to get out of tri-care their current plan and added to obamacare the plan calls for them to raise premiums from up to ninety to three hundred forty five percent within five years one example provided by the free beacon estimates that a retired army colonel with a family currently paid four hundred sixty dollars a year for health care would have to pay around two thousand dollars making you pay even more for your war injuries apparently that's what obama is actually planning well he is reading those lovely speeches off of teleprompters people who are against the post nine eleven war against who knows what are often told that they don't support the troops well to the people who say bring the troops home never advocate tripling their health care premiums no they don't all of the chicken hawks who send the troops off to die in questionable wars are the ones who want to make them pay even more for their injuries but that's just my opinion.

the. hello everyone i'm having martin and this is a break in 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 a 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 severely crippling gaza infrastructure even

a journalist how are 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 swiss 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.

it was a. very hard to take a. life that had sex with her hair. 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 quickly 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 over the past six weeks is the damn obamacare website it's not just constant coverage of the same inane topic of three 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 and abysmal 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. but it's really an interesting transition because clearly you know we work to break down this left right paradigm you know you and i talk about this all the time but in media today we have these issues of everything be perceived from my

either from the left or from the right and one of the things that i've come to believe and i actually believe this before i started on my own is that most people don't go to media to actually be for they go there to have the belief system they already hold validated for them as a. the difficult things about you know new media and about trying to really seek the truth is that people come to you assuming you have a point of view and they want you to give them that point of view that they already hold and validate it when you don't it can be difficult at times so that part of it's been kind of interesting but for the most part very excited about what we're working on and just trying to develop this idea that there's so much out there that media just isn't talking about absolutely and you're doing a great job filling that void ban your latest campaign is called just said advocates of jury nullification awareness and participation why should this issue be front and center well because look there's so many people especially after the last presidential election who walked away saying my boot.