america. fax britain will wait for you in un inspectors -- acting oning syria. they have sentenced the army psychologist to death for killing 13 people during a rampage in texas. 50 years after martin luther historicvered his speech, president obama stands on the same spot for the commemoration. >> no one can match his brilliance, but we are willing to take our first step for justice. i know that flame remains. >> welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. there appears to be a split over when and how to act against syria. the british government says it will wait for a report from inspectors, but the u.s. says action cannot be held up by intransigence. as the world waits to see what the u.s. and its allies will do, syrian neighbors are preparing for repercussions. >> in syria it self the u.n. weapons inspectors have been taking their first look at one of the areas where chemical weapons were supposedly used. senior british officials are .ure americans it is hard to think britain will not be involved, but the british government i

america's secrets. government pressure on britain's guardian newspaper over the publishing of n.s.a. leaks causes the european council to exactly what its resorting to intimidation tactics. and life out of prison egypt's deposed leader hosni mubarak has left jail for health arrest. despite facing retrial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters our top stories this hour.

america's secrets. government pressure on britain's guardian newspaper over the publishing of n.s.a. leaks causes the european council to ask london exactly why it's resorting to intimidation tactics. and life out of prison egypt's deposed leader hosni mubarak has left jail for house arrest despite facing retrial on charges he ordered the killing of protesters our top stories this. international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow which now just turned eight pm this is the whistleblower bradley manning his defense will follow requests to the u.s. president to have the former army private pardoned manning has been sentenced to thirty five years behind bars for disclosing the largest amount of classified data in american history meanwhile bradley manning has revealed that he would now like to be known as chelsea manning and live the rest of his life as a woman what he's going to run as the details. he now wants to be referred to as chelsea manning he requested hormone therapy to which the army said no he's going to live in a male prison there's obviously a lot o

this is particularly true i think more true in britain than it is in america in comparison to britainbritain is a very religious country and still has a center ground and is pretty faithful whereas in britain it's really lost its faith. i believe that these great values that we all price so much such as a believe in the innate dignity and integrity of every human being. i mean, this is the thing that animates our western belief in democracy and freedom and the rest of those of the center and of course that is a biblical precept. we respect each other because we believe that we are all made in the image of god. if you take god out of the equation then we don't have the quality. it's as simple as that. i think it's a big problem. i think that i have a problem myself with some of the more extreme parts of all religions but i do believe that we can't really think our way out of this particular box and get ourselves out of this particular predicament at last we have some kind of reassertion of those fundamental precepts which are biblical precepts. >> host:>> host: melanie phillis cliff on

hannan a member of the european parliament from britain mr han and just before we went to the break we touched upon the special relationship between america and britain and what i find extremely interesting in this concept is that it has not only undergone a very substantial of revision in the last fifty years that it is actually seems to be the exact opposite of what was initially intended and what i mean is that when winston churchill who was the first to use that term introduced it he said quote with that unless britain and the united states are joined in a special relationship another destructive war will come to pass now as we have already established at least two very destructive wars have come to pos as a result of that very special relationship so rather than trying to prevent wars it seems that this bond this unbreakable union seemed to be encouraging that really is an extraordinary question to ask i said before the break that i was not a supporter of invading iraq nor was i as a supporter of extending the mission in afghanistan beyond the removal of the regime but to say that those wars were caused by the special relationship ra

inspectors find it would alter america britain storms. we're going to see the weapons inspection teams going to this site and whatever they do the syrian government will be blamed that us avoided made that quite clear william hague and british made that quite clear they blame the syrian government for this whatever the evidence or lack of evidence and there is no evidence that the syrian government ordered this massacre with chemical weapons yet they're still going to blame because they want war the u.n. team will go there they may find chemical weapons traces or they may not and if they do then of course the u.s. has said quite clearly the syrian government is the only party capable of using chemical weapon surveyed by their mind up if they don't then the syrian government will be accused of moving them so the syrian government be damned if they do and damned if they don't whatever the un inspection teams find the decision has already been taken i think a full interview with investigative journalist no clark available for you any time to

miserable death and this will cause untold billions of not a trillion dollars of economic damage to america britain and around the world is a plague it's an infestation it's digital aids thanks and i say your predictions zero so again there there are other actually think tanks that looked at this information and said actually it's going to be worse than thirty five billion dollars it could be up to one hundred fifty billion dollars but here you have a situation very similar to the credit unions is consumers went to places like lava bit or silent circle because they wanted some privacy they didn't want their ideas from on stolen by the conglomerates in the trust in the monopolist in america so here's this final quote here companies aren't abandoning us cloud service providers on mass yet because there are few other competitive options so there are a few competitive options out there and this is why people haven't left it on mass yet but with this n.s.a. spying they could prevent any competitive. options out there from ever emerging. there's obama. but a little under the weather gets stuff they did a

miserable death and this will cause untold billions of not a trillion dollars of economic damage to america britain and around the world is a plague it's an infestation it's digital age thanks and i say your predictions zero so again there there are other actually think tanks that looked at this information and said actually it's going to be worse than thirty five billion dollars it could be up to one hundred fifty billion dollars but here you have a situation very similar to the credit unions is consumers went to places like lava bit or silent circle because they wanted some privacy they didn't want their ideas from on it stolen by the conglomerates in the trust in the monopolist in america so here's this final quote here companies aren't abandoning us cloud service providers on mass yet because there are few other competitive options so there are a few competitive options out there and this is why people haven't left on mass yet but with this n.s.a. spying they could prevent any competitive. options out there from ever merging. there's a bomb a. buddy a little under the weather get stuff they did

i have no doubt that the al qaeda group will be delighted if america and britain and turkey and france attacked assad. they would need delighted. that does not mean they like us and they want -- they oppose us and would like to do is harm. they need to be very careful how we act, that is certainly true. >> that was lord allen west. guantanamo they is not logistically any closer to shattering but we are seeing some movement in the facility. we are learning that two detainees have him transferred out of the cuban detention facility to algeria. the pentagon announced that both were approved for transfer by the guantanamo review task force leaving 164 detainees still in custody. one was captured in december 20, 2000 one and transferred to u.s. custody 90s later. according to his guantanamo bay dials at were leaked by wikileaks, he was believed to be a member of al qaeda with your ties to the algerian armed islamic group. the other was aimed to medium risk prisoner who was thought to pose some threat to u.s. troops. he was recommended to be transferred out in 2006. according to his guantana

founded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually they oppose us and would like to do islam but in a temporary bases that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act that's that's certainly true that was former first thing lord and security minister lord allen west. fracking offshore and out of scientists that's exactly what big oil companies have been doing off the coast of one californian city hydraulic fracturing or fracking is the process of drilling thousands of feet down into the rock shale formation and then injecting fluids into the ground at high pressure in order to cause that rock to crack or fracture and natural gas will then be released the use of this method has been contentious in communities across the u.s. and drilling for oil has been particularly. controversial in california where a nine hundred sixty nine spill off the santa barbara coast led to repeated drilling bans arctic cor

to drag america, britains and france into the conflict. >> the supreme leader in iran is saying any possibleack on syria will have unpredictable consequences and it will be a disaster for the region. what will iran's response be if this is a missile strike on syria? >> well, it's difficult to say what the response will be at this stage, because we have to see exactly what the americans do. the iranians don't believe that the syrian army had anything to do with this. they say the syrians were winning on the battlefield for the last few months, and it's the militants that have an interest in bringing the americans into the equation, so there's really no incentive. and also recent documents have shown that the united states during the iran/iraq war, may have helped them use weapons against the citizens. and americans were telling their diplomats to -- >> mohammed back to what you were saying about iran saying that it doesn't have evidence -- or rather iran is saying that there is some evidence that the chemical weapons had been given to what it is calling groups -- insurgent groups in syria. ho

founded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and france attacked that's our davey to life advice but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually if they oppose us and would like to do islam but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act that's that's certainly true that was former first say lord and security minister lord allen west. well one ton of obey is not logistically any closer to shattering but we are seeing some movement in the facility we are just learning this week that two detainees have been transferred out of the cuban detention facility to algeria the pentagon announced thursday that no real site had jobs and more t.s.i. d.-ca sajjad were approved for transfer by the guantanamo review task force leaving one hundred sixty four detainees still in custody now we'll cite eight hundred jar of was captured by. afghan military forces on december twentieth two thousand and one and transferred to u.s. custody at nine days later according to his guantanamo b

well, to drag america and britain and france into the war, and also quite importantly, to derail any chance of these geneva 2 peace talks. >> the flooded city of in china has been strengthened its dikes to prevent more damage. city 30s have also been building new pairiers along roads to ensure the safety of its main residential areas. much of tonjef has been under water. 33,000 people have been relocated. he sent us this update. >> i'm standing at the moment on a secondary embankment, some several hundreds meters away from where the usual bank is. you can see emergency crews have had to reenforce this area, and what they are doing now, is that some of the wattser making its way to the other side of this bank, not because it is overtopping it but because it has been leaking underneath, where we are now, we have come here by boat and a lot of sandbags are being brought here, so just dropping them over the side, trying to plug any leaks. one of the roads we were driving along just simply ended. about 100-kilometers further downstream from here, there's a very serious situation where one

while britain and france agree to wait for you when weapons inspectors to record back from damascus. over washington accuses president asad of using callicles on civilians r t looks at america's own murky past from deadly agent orange in viet nam to depleted uranium in iraq. and after dozens of convicted sex offenders in britain get themselves taken off a police watch list r.t. talks to one child abuse victim fears for the public safety. this is already coming to life from the russian capital with me marina joshie the u.s. and british drive to launch a military operation against syria has come up against new hurdles both abroad in the home and westminster where parliament's about to meet prime minister cameron is unlikely to get the main opposition party onside to approve a strike earlier the u.n. security council failed to agree on how to act but britain says even without sanction an attack will be justified on humanitarian grounds laura smith reports from london. david cameron has realised that he's probably not going to get the votes for an immediate motion on military strikes on syria and so he's put the brakes on slightly opposition leader ed miliband said that he was go

people don't understand that but if you try to explain to the sinkhole of stupid population in america or britain that water is a resource that is not just simply created on an alter your universe and pumped in through some magical straw that's gifted to you by some labor party you won't know it's actually a resource in the united states of course you don't know what is pumped into this fracking fluid what goes into your water table due to the how of burton exemption that dick cheney while he was vice president and therefore president of the senate managed to get into pass through the law i think was two thousand and three two thousand and one maybe he so they pump stuff in but due to corporate confidentiality they don't have to tell anybody not even the mayors or any of the locals what's actually in their own water make the point clear is that we know that the fracking fluid contains carcinogens. but that information can't be published because the corporation will convince the lawmakers and the public that that's proprietary information and it violates their intellectual property law to inform t

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america or britain and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very. that's certainly true and laurie allen west former first the lord and security minister thank you so much for your views here on r.t. . now was british lawmakers divided over whether to attack syria the u.s. may soon find itself alone in the leading to war charge and to make matters worse justify an intervention proving to be harder than expected no major international bodies supporting the strikes leaving the u.s. to rely on a moral case for intervention a task that has or is more important now reports may be difficult considering america's own past or you would find some of the images in this report disturbing. wagging its finger of moral authority the u.s. began laying the groundwork for syrian intervention on monday let me be clear the indiscriminate

britain and france agree to wait for u.n. inspectors to report on the use of chemical weapons. while washington accuses onset of using chemical weapons r t looks at america's own murky past from deadly agent orange in viet nam to depleted uranium in iraq. and after dozens of convicted sex predators in britain get themselves taken off of police watch list r.t. talks to one child abuse victim who fears for the public's safety. this is r t coming to you live from the russian capital a marina joshie welcome to the program. the u.s. and british drive to launch a military operation against syria has come up against new hurdles both abroad and at home a growing number of american lawmakers are urging barack obama to get congressional approval and to explain the objectives of planned attack the u.s. leader who squarely blames last week's chemical assault on the regime forces says a strike will send a strong warning to president asad well it's likely to mean assaults on key syrian military assets while this map shows you the airfields used by syrian jets and there is speculation that they will bear the brunt of any attack with cruise missiles targeting warplanes an

britain's prime minister is right now facing opposition to tap plans in parliament president obama's under pressure to get congress' approval. although washington accuses president asad of using chemicals on civilians r.t.u. looks at america's own murky past from deadly agent orange in vietnam to depleted uranium in iraq. after dozens of convicted sex offenders in britain get themselves taken off a police watch list our team talks to one child abuse victim who fears for the public's safety. and.

killed seven suspected al qaeda militants this comes a day after america and britain evacuated their embassies due to warnings of an imminent terrorist attacks washington shut down over twenty of its diplomatic missions in the middle east a massive alert has been described by american officials as the most serious since nine eleven russia's emergencies ministry says the situation after severe flooding in the country's far eastern moore region remains difficult but it's under control now more than a thousand people have been evacuated from the worst affected areas over the past two weeks over three hundred houses were submerged as the more river overflowed sending huge volumes of water into residential areas around sixteen thousand residents are under threat with more floods expected what a local dam is forced to release more water the floods are close to being the region's worst records began with water levels approaching seven either. the hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison which has receded during the holy muslim month of ramadan and is expected to flare back up with full force

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america or britain and turkey and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act the you as a president. again syria despite the withdrawal of support from washington's closest ally barack obama is now struggling to put together an international coalition willing to launch action against a middle eastern state the pentagon is moving its naval forces closer to syria in position for immediate strike if the order is given for destroyers are currently deployed in the mediterranean and if it is reportedly on its way all of them armed with dozens of tomahawk cruise missiles there's also a nato forces in the area consisting of four more ships all of that in addition to the vast military presence of the u.s. and its allies on the territories of nearby countries which is very important i report on the ongo

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america or britain. from so attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act. u.n. inspectors in syria are set to present their findings on the use of chemical weapons over the weekend a former commander of the british military chemical the fancy regiment told r.t. the sketchy evidence on the attack leaves room to suspect that radical rebels were behind it go to piece together all the intelligence available or i'm very much of the favor that the permanent five perhaps should form a team of experts not just chemical but miller true as well who could look at all the evidence that's on the ground in syria and also the intelligence that's being gathered by those intelligence services and put it together that they know need a chance to come up with a ninety to ninety five guarantee. of who is responsible but at

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and turkey and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act a full command of the british military's chemical defense regiment told us the risk of such weapons falling into the hands of terrorists was high. pieced together all the intelligence available or i'm very much of the favor that the permanent five perhaps should form a team of experts not just chemical but military as well who could look at all the evidence that's on the ground in syria and also the intelligence and spin gathered by those intelligence services and put it together that then only the chance to come up with are ninety to ninety five guaranteed. who is responsible i must say it firmly looks like they are they don't like the regime at the moment and there doesn't seem another plausible. explanation but at

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act now the un inspectors working out the chemical attack site are being instructed to present their assessment earlier than planned with american hardware poised for possible air strikes you mentioned bunky moon told the team to leave on saturday the day ahead of schedule one former commander of the britain's chemical defense regiment explain to our t. why much more evidence is needed. got to piece together all the intelligence available or i'm very much of the favor that the permanent five perhaps should form a team of experts not just chemical but miller true as well who could look at all the evidence that's on the ground in syria and also the intelligence that's been gathered by those intelligence services and put it together th

inspectors find it won't alter america's and britain's stance to see these weapons inspection teams going to this site and whatever they do the syrian government will be blamed the u.s. would have made that quite clear william hague britain's made that quite clear they believe the syrian government for this whatever the evidence or lack of evidence and there is no evidence that the syrian government ordered this massacre with chemical weapons yet they're still going to blame because they want war to go. before weapons traces or they may not and if they do that of course the us has said quite clearly the syrian government is the only party capable of using chemical weapons surveyed by the mind of if they don't then the syrian government will be accused of moving them so the syrian government be damned if they do and damned if they don't whatever the un inspection teams find the decision has already been taken i think. well syria's president refutes the claims that his army was behind a chemical massacre calling it an affront to common sense in an interview with a russian newspaper he slamm

inspectors find it won't alter america and britain stands we're going to see the weapons inspection teams going to the site and whatever they do the syrian government will be blamed the u.s. would have made that quite clear william hague has made that quite clear they buy the syrian government whatever the evidence or lack of evidence and there is no evidence that the syrian government ordered this massacre with chemical weapons yet they're still going to blame because they want war will go that they may find chemical weapons traces or they may not and if they do then of course the u.s. is said quite clearly the syrian government is the party capable of using chemical weapons so they buy their mind up if they don't then the syrian government will be accused of moving them so the syrian government be damned if they do and damned if they don't whatever the un inspection teams find the decision has already been taken i think well less than ten percent of americans back the idea of military intervention in syria that's according to a recent survey anti-war activist highbury explains why peopl

america and britain's latest military ratter it is whipping up of frenzy in the financial world gold prices are surging oil has hit six months high and investors are rushing to pull their money from the stock markets also cross to our business present a cable him for more on the cash exodus so katie tell us more about what's happening and the implications are integral sea of red across the board as far as the markets are concerned with the bombs they aren't falling yet on syria global financial damage is already being done gold is what people usually turn to in these uncertain times that russia is very much being felt in earnest hey we got the billion up forty dollars an ounce just over the last two days alone oil prices are surging to their highest level since twenty eleven that's over concerns that are american and british an attack on syria will bring about a serious consequences and threaten global supply is now the middle east as a whole accounts for over a third of all oil production and hold even more reserves leaving bank associate general has said the u.s. that attack on syr

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and turkey and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act meanwhile syria's neighbors and other regional powers are increasingly are willing to support plans for intervention this is what jordan said to say recourses a u.s. air base it says it won't be a launching pad for any military action against syria comment from iraq as well saying it will not provide its airspace for an attack on a neighboring country lebanon has also made comment foreign minister speaking out against military action echoing the others and saying you get its airspace will be available. for comment from egypt there you go issuing a strong wall the again foreign intervention in syria. meantime. claims that even if the resolution on syria was blocked it would affect the decision on whether to strike syri

people don't understand that but if you try to explain to the sinkhole of stupid population in america or britain that water is a resource that is not just simply created on an alter your universe and pumped in through some magical straw that's gifted to you by some labor party you won't know it's actually a resource in the united states of course you don't know what is pumped into this fracking fluid what goes into your water table due to the how of burton exemption that dick cheney while he was vice president and therefore president of the senate managed to get into pass through the law i think was two thousand and three two thousand and one maybe he so they pump stuff in but due to corporate confidentiality they don't have to tell anybody not even the mayors or any of the locals what's actually in their own water make the point clear is that we know that the fracking fluid contains carcinogens. but that information can't be published because the corporation will convince the lawmakers in the public that that's proprietary information and it violates their intellectual property law to inform th

opposition funded by people who haven't thought through what this really means would be delighted if america and britain and france attacked they would be delighted by it but that doesn't mean they like us and they want to actually have they oppose us and would like to do is farm but in a temporary basis that would suit them so we need to be very very careful how we actually act well let's talk to british from david cameron conservative party voted in favor of military intervention in syria and see why he thinks it should go ahead brooks newmark joins us from london right now to give us his take on the situation there brooks thank you for taking the time to be with us can you briefly outline your case why you think military intervention is right for syria then. last week i was on the syrian border in turkey and i met with general idris and president jarba the leader of the syrian opposition council and they made it very clear to me and a message to bring back to london which is that having made and drawn a red line for bashar assad over chemical weapons. that if we do not act on that having made and dra

people don't understand that but if you try to explain to the sinkhole of stupid population in america or britain that water is a resource that is not just simply created on an alter your universe and pumped in through some magical straw that's gifted to you by some labor party you won't know it's actually a resource in the united states of course you don't know what is pumped into this fracking fluid what goes into your water table due to the how of burton exemption that dick cheney while he was vice president and therefore president of the senate managed to get into pass through the law i think was two thousand and three two thousand and one maybe he so they pump stuff in but due to corporate confidentiality they don't have to tell anybody not even the mayors or any of the locals what's actually in their own water make the point clear is that we know that the fracking fluid contains carcinogens but that information can't be published because the corporation will convince the law makers in the public that that's proprietary information and it violates their intellectual property law to inform. f

britain is very sensitive about what america says. when john kerry called the branch america's oldest ally, but did not mention britain, that has smarted. it's really hurting in london. newfield the americans may make you may sayment -- the americans may make a casual comment. >> thanks very much for coming in. inside syria itself, u.n. inspectors spent their last day in the country. they're expected to leave for the hague tomorrow and begin the process of analyzing their samples. residents of damascus are stocking up on emergency supplies in preparation for an expected attack. jeremy bowen is one of the few western reporters in the city. here is his report. were ine in damascus the safest places they knew, following what america is planning for the assad regime on tv. while the cafÉs were still open, i sat with the syrian mp and assad loyalist. he said that britain's decision made syria stronger, and said the syrian army would never use chemical weapons against its own people. shelling echoes around damascus. aimed at the rebel stron