hoffer century a controversial political figure in the cold in the middle east and one who was never far from crisis at home or abroad. in a two part series al-jazeera world tells the story of king hussein of jordan. episode one survivor on al-jazeera. i didn't get to tell someone our meeting is taking place about western military strikes in syria let's listen and. we all of course. remember that following the collapse of the former u.s.s.r. you have the. last few documents useful that. we all recall in mr a book tonight france for koyama it was published here in this

country hunting as it was called the end of history and one hopes the other author and american thinker samuel huntington i then it. took up the conflict of civilizations at least two big books founded animal with a fountain where the funding and the return to the cold war indeed these two were. in the and was the the the gist of these two works with that there was a follows people of the world follow the way the path of the united states about yourselves to the will of the united states if not within and we will attack my way or the highway. my way of the highways says the speaker as you see in the united states that was the return of the cold war philosophy i give it now you lies. are worthless they

don't yes. anyone they only. those who. use because this is a lie just once they're useful one ever lies just lies once when lies keep being repeated. well the person who lies only. underscores the fact that the person lying on the is a liar my colleague the distinguished representative of friends with the. bill. in which to mark the. announce of misrule that the aggression of this country along with the united kingdom and the united states was carried out on behalf of the international community and. that is the case i wonder what which international community is he speaking of governing a real international community that actually exists you know and. is that the international community that you represent. has it

has it authorize this this trilateral or tripartite it is a great thing as my country did your governments are receiving a mandate from the from this organization from this international limited attack my country. my american and french you know british my colleagues and you know you have claimed that they have. an interest for the. if this is really going trees. if they really knew. the actual location or of the role of these production centers that they claim. to have you know if they if they knew about not why didn't they share that information with the o.p.c. doubly why didn't they share any of the keyboard one i know this information with

the fact finding mission president damascus before attacking my country the sister question to you. and furthermore. i want to limit to have you know sure all of that. group of experts investigators have them arrived today and you made a. plea you know and have the third one the team that i know now come and i was not able to go from you to damascus for reasons that we know. just before the attack as though there was an attempt to to prevent this team of investigators from reaching damascus moment and offered in the well look of the aggression and took place but in the delegation we did reach damascus today in a meeting. two hours seven pm damascus time with.

damascus. and my government will of course provide every support to this delegation first to carry out its of the mission successfully about the facilities of the research facility which was targeted by this tripartite aggression. the building actually. that building up a list that was visited. twice last year by experts from the o.p.c. w. welcomed them willing was inspected just me. and you had the inspection was authorized if you had an official document you moved. that stipulated one of them and of that you have. well stated that syria had no i don't that is obligations he says. there were no cable no activities in this building us media phenomenon now if the experts the. americans but as it handed to us in official document

which confirms that this center. was not used any type of chemical activity that is in contravention to. the o.p.c. doubly how do you reconcile that with what we've heard this morning and. how do you reconcile that with all these accusations and then the claims that this aggression targeted a chemical weapons production. center of. the colleague from the united states said the time for discussion is over it was over yesterday well. then what are we doing today as diplomats in the security council our mission here is to speak. to explain what happened let actually shed light. on all the issues. that i mean.

we're not here today in the security council simply to justify an aggression how can we how can we state that the discussion is over no this question is continuing here i mean if the idea if the idea is to put an end to aggressions of the discussion if the idea is to implement the provisions of the charter and international law that is why we're here to have. a common. the british and french colleagues spoke of a plan of action. and have been invited the secretary general to implement that plan of action one. before i counsel of. the syrian government agreed to that plan of action this plan of action or they spoke before the council. authorize a lot of action it's a very strange. plan of action. but i would like to present

a counter plan of actually. we assume that this should have been one of the plans of action that should have been presented today first of all i would read the provisions of the united nations charter to. define. what's in the we will and. as you would call the responsibility of these three states in maintaining international peace and security rather than threatening it i have three versions of the charge to an english one in french perhaps these three states should really read what the charter actually still what's unfolding on the second is going to dominate wattle it's essential for this state three states immediately stop supporting the armed terrorist groups active the in my country the third little bit of. good one what an end to the lies and to the

fabrication of a fact and so to justify the aggression against my country for the law in these three states should realize that after seven years of military. war that was imposed on my country a war carried out by these three countries and their agents in the ija with nina well and their. play on as their bombs will not. weaken determination our determination to defeat and destroy your terrorists this will not prevent the syrian people to decide their own political future without foreign intervention and i will repeat this for a thousand time your efforts with the syrian people will not allow any foreign. intervention to define our future i promise you yesterday that we will not remain in active in the face of any. act of aggression and want we kept our promise

and i will explain how we have kept. me now. to. those states that are attached international law to tell you that the syrian arab republic and its friends and allies and there are many on of you are perfectly capable. dealing with the brutal aggression that my country was faced will we ask new diplomats and. those who are attached international legitimacy to the charter on your phone is to call the united states great britain france to urge them to read the provisions of the united nations charter in particular when does it have to do with respect over sovereignty of states and the nonuse of force in international relations who perhaps the governments of these three countries will realize if only ones have said their role within this council

is to maintain international peace and security rather than to undermine it. and as i just said i have three exam and three. samples of the charter. and i would ask the secretary to distribute them to the three delegations so that they could maybe enlighten themselves and their. results in their ignorance and their tyranny mr president if they can violation of the principles of international law and the try to work on the u.s. u.k. and france at three fifty of three fifty five this morning. this saturday on the fourteenth of april twenty eighth. so the hundred was a flagrant violation me against the syrian arab public. for the exact amount of two hundred ten missiles being launched against syria is damascus and

other then there are one hundred one hundred ten missiles in response to this terrible aggression the syrian arab republic who comes. before exercised its legitimate right to bargain aligning with article fifty one of the charter to defend itself argue with and we defend ourselves to to to. against this abject. terror and syrian air defenses were able to. were able to intercept a number on this i was even though some of them have some of them did. the research center which was hot outside but inside damascus in which includes laboratories in the last rooms luckily the damage was only material some of the in the modern charming smart missile. were intercepted and those that targeted

a military installation had their homes. when you have three civilians were there wounded by the way. these three states of course going to prepare the ground for this invasion or this is attacked by making statements that are saying that they're only i'm a zionist excuse for preventing them some of the syrian army against its opponents was the use of chemical weapons. indeed did these groups these terrorist groups in a race against time. managed to present this masquerade of the use of chemical weapons and do. they perjury they actually showed the side of this claimed attack and this was the the pretext for this aggression and scandals expression they can only be explained by the fact that the original aggressors the u.s. u.k. and france decided to interfere directly. in order to.

avenge the defeat of their. their proxies in ghouta. and in fact those who fabricated the masquerade would have the chemical attack and good they were arrested and they admitted on television that this was a fabricated attack we haven't any video if the presidency wishes to see mr ladies and gentlemen i'd like to draw your attention and. those of you are attached international law into the charter that this aggression is another message by these aggressors to the terrorist groups for these terrorist groups to continue using chemical weapons in the future for them to go continue committing their terrorist crimes not in syria but in other crime another countries there's no doubt about. me use a thought to really said you know we. have. two hundred. one

hundred. six one hundred forty six letters we have. drawn your attention to the use by terrorist groups of chemical reactions and today some of you are reinventing the wheel and i want to meet her. and her trying to determine the gender of angels you all know of a mystery that is in gentlemen that this aggression you know took place just as a fact finding team i knew would be c.w. was supposed to arrive in syria at their request of the syrian government to examine these allegations of a chemical. attack and when you knew doom was so obviously the main message you were going sending these aggressors to the world what are you reading about. and what does that actually they're not interested in transparent and independent investigation they're trying to undermine the work of the. they're trying to put

pressure on that mission to conceal their for their lies and fabrications know what just as what happened six years ago in two thousand. with dr saul struck who. began when he was going to one hundred. in other words in this budget or previously you know. when you're a part of this question this morning to question this attack it did not attack just for syria it was not just a talk on syria as my very dear friend the representative of libya said this is an attack against international law against the security council against the charter. under attack against the one hundred ninety three members of this organization. washington and london and paris is attempts at the moment to make the work of the fact finding mission failed and it is rather systematic even if these three parties . of the. claim to be working alongside with these groups at the same time so we've

been hearing from the syrian representative to the united nations this in a security council meeting called by russia and bolivia to discuss the western military strikes which took place against the syrian government overnight jeffrey very much echoing the sentiments we heard from the russian ambassador vaseline a bender and also early on in the day from president vladimir putin condemning the strikes saying that they are illegal and and also decrying the fact that these strikes were carried out before the o.p.c. double in fact finding mission had a chance to complete its work on establishing the whether chemical weapons were in fact used in the syrian town of duma so let's go to my candidate is live at the united nations for us and so i might just take us through what we've been hearing so far to kill me from russia and the united states in this meeting.

well merriman effect it's a repeat off a series of meetings we've had this week on the issue of syria the fourth emergency session called by the security council this one at the request of russia and its allies of bolivia to protest those strikes against syria by the u.s. france and the united kingdom we heard from the russian ambassador strong condemnation of these strikes continuing to argue as he has done for days now that there is no evidence that any attack took place mentioning as you said two that these strikes came at a time when officials from the international chemical watchdog had arrived in damascus to conduct investigations as to whether a chemical weapons strike in fact happened within syria last weekend we also heard from the united kingdom providing what it said was international law justification

for these strikes support of course from france the third ally involved in these ongoing actions in syria and then from the u.s. ambassador we have a strong warning as it would appear that there will be further action to come if syria again attempts in her words to use chemical weapons i spoke to the president this morning and he said if the syrian regime uses this poisonous gas again the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line our president enforces the red line. and so my we heard their fighting talk from the u.s. ambassador nicky hayes saying that the united states is locked and loaded but there in the halls of the united nations is there also a sense of relief that we didn't see a direct confrontation between the u.s.

and russia. well a d.d.s. these strikes would have appeared to be carefully balanced to effect the minimum of damage that would not lead to any form of retaliation from russia there's obviously a very careful very delicate situation the fact that the strikes do not appear to be ongoing at this stage also a source of relief to members of the security council particularly to these sick atry general who once again reiterated a call for international unity at the beginning of this meeting and also called for restraint to be exercised from all its members so despite the rhetoric that we hearing in the security council meeting at the moment rhetoric that we have heard in days before from the russians denial from the russians justification from the u.s. the u.k. and france and we will also it's expected have a vote on

a resolution that russia has introduced we'll wait and see whether it gets the nine votes necessary for the vote to be passed before getting vetoed by one of the permanent members but certainly there is an error in the security council that this is the end of this particular interlude already talk about what the council can do in days to come to forge some sense of unity given these weeks of massive division certainly there is an element of looking ahead now that these strikes perhaps may have concluded for the time being thanks very much for me either nation's mike hanna or there was a briefing earlier on the pentagon saying that the military strikes successfully hit every target and were aimed to deliver an an ambiguous signal to president bashar as. you know powerful sure elad unity we deployed one hundred five weapons against three targets. that will significantly impact the syrian regime's ability

to develop deploy and use chemical weapons in the future the precision strike was executed with france in the u.k. demonstrating our unquestionable was off i'd like to close by noting that since the strike we have not seen any military response from actors within syria and we remain postured to protect our forces and those of the coalition should anything occur. that speech defense correspondent patty culhane who is at the pentagon so the u.s. seem to be quite pleased after these strikes and certainly president trump is convinced that he has set out what they wanted to accomplish what what is your sense of the prospects of the strikes. well here the pentagon seemed to be maybe not on the same script as president he seemed to indicate these would be continuous secretary of defense to medicine came out and said nope this is one time so basically they're trying to square that my say we're done as long as i

doesn't use chemical weapons again if he does well then we could act again i think a lot of the focus here in the united states is on a tweet from the president u.s. president donald trump he tweeted out ready mission accomplished of course that's a very controversial phrase here in the united states because george bush used that right after the iraq invasion and obviously it turned out to be not be the case and it brings up the question well is that going to stand if another chemical weapons attack does take place of course we should point out that russia and syria say no attack like that did take place here at the pentagon they're trying to sort of dial that back saying well we're not talking about the overall mission of destroying suspected chemical weapons the mission that he's talking about is simply taking out these three sites now as to the o.p.c. w. investigators that have arrived just hours after this these attacks the pentagon officials were asked why not wait if russia and syria are denying this is happening why not just wait for proof and the u.s. said well they have enough proof they're confident that chemical weapons were used

and so people responded the reporters found it ok tell us what the proof is and they didn't. say hey we're expecting a vote at u.n. security council meeting that was called by russia bolivia following weston military strikes in syria overnight. those against. abstentions. it was. the result of the voting is as follows. three votes in favor eight votes against one four abstentions. one of the draft

resolution has not been adopted owing you having failed to create a report. i would like to give the floor going to those members of the council who wish to make statements. after the vote. i give the floor this week to the representative of sweden. if you're much mr president. so we just had a vote here at russia's insistence. demanding a vote on a resolution that would essentially condemn aggression by the u.s. and its western allies in syria this is the vote the russians wanted and as expected this draft resolution was not adopted let's just be to mike hanna because he's been watching all of these developments and so mike we have a rather surreal situation here where security council members have gathered

together to essentially vent and express and reinforce existing positions but the gulf between them is wider than ever. indeed here's one must note the merriam that that vote although it's not expected to pass the russian resolution was actually quite heavily defeated there are only three members of the council voted in favor of that russian resolution condemning the strikes into syria eight voted against and then there were four abstentions so it didn't get the nine votes needed to pass a resolution and require perhaps a veto from one of the five permanent members so certainly that's quite a sweeping defeat for the russian attempts to pass that resolution within the security council but as i mentioned earlier this is the fifth emergency session of the security council in the past few days on a number of occasions the resolutions have attempted to be passed some by the u.s.

and its allies some by russia not a single resolution has gone through the security council in the past five days is mainly because of ongoing russian vetoes but once again you've got a situation as you said a slightly surreal one where members of the security council gather yet again on a sunny spring day in new york and emerge from a council session with no new resolution whatsoever merely positions once again outlined positions that have been repeated day after day and absolutely no sign of any movement towards that international unity that the secretary general has repeatedly been calling for merriam and so we have heard he to fix exchanges at the u.n. security council and at the heart of this. serious disagreements over this is back

to the chemical attack in the syrian town of doom and now obviously western military strikes have been carried out but we are still waiting for the o.p.c. w. to complete its investigation like what happens after that. well i must mention too that russia was particularly vehement in its anger about the fact that these strikes were carried out before the international chemical weapons watchdog actually finished its investigation as you mentioned the team is in damascus it has arrived in damascus it will be traveling to the area in which this chemical weapons attack allegedly took place it will carry out investigation to ascertain whether or not such a attack took place at all now the timeline on that well that's a little bit like a piece of string the chemical weapons experts expected will take at least two weeks after collecting samples to be able to establish what kind of gases or

poisons were used in the alleged attack if indeed they were used so it will be a period of time before any results of that investigation by the international chemical watchdog emerge what you are likely to see in the days ahead is once again attempts in the security council to come to some form of agreement on a body that not only establishes with the text took place which is what the o.p.c. d w is doing but also to apportion accountability should such attacks have taken place the absence of such a body is precisely what is led us to the situation with these strikes being carried out according to the u.k. and the u.s. and france who actually carried out these strikes they have argued that in the absence of any other diplomatic solution in the absence of any body that can seek and find accountability for alleged chemical weapons attack then these military

strikes are the only way in which to forward some kind of sanction against the syrian state which these members of the security council insist is responsible for those attacks not only last weekend but in the past year now that is where. it would appear to go whether there's any success so will be any greater success than they have been in the weeks and indeed months leading to this crisis well that is something that the security council members have got to come to some form of agreement for themselves certainly the secretary general now twice in forty eight hours has said it is absolutely critical that the u.n. security council agree on some kind of mechanism that can attribute responsibility accountability for any form of chemical weapon attack in any region of the world without that the threat of these chemical attacks becoming a way of life is very real thank you very much mike hanna at the united nations.

now the allies have been criticized for authorizing those strikes before the o.p.c. w produced its report as we've been hearing there inspectors from the o.p.c. w. have a rived in syria's capital damascus security permitting they are now trying to go to the suburb of duma where this is backed of chemical weapons attack took place last saturday the o.p.c. devaney's fact finding mission will try to establish whether chemical weapons were used but as mike was saying there is not mandated to assign blame. so let's just recap on the al syria coverage now u.s. president donald trump has praised american british and french missile strikes against the syrian government is perfectly executed it's the most significant attack against president bashar assad and the first coordinated retaliation for last saturday's suspected attack chemical attack on duma will the u.s.

and its allies launched more than one hundred missiles targeting a scientific research facility in damascus and to chemical weapons storage for facilities near homes syria says it shot down thirteen incoming missiles of a damascus while its ally russia says syrian forces intercepted seventy one cruise missiles throughout the country meanwhile the united nations security council has just voted against a draft resolution condemning those attacks it was proposed by russia and it was heavily defeated earlier russia's ambassador to the u.n. accused the u.s. france and britain of violating international law and the u.n. charter the allies have been criticized for authorizing the strikes before the produced its report we know that to inspect is the fact finding mission from the a p c w have now arrived in the capital damascus they were set to begin their work on saturday so the plan now is to head to do know where that suspected attack took

place in order to complete their investigation. and in some of the other stories that we're covering the palestinian islamic jihad groups say four of its fighters have been killed in the gaza strip the group says the men will mossop during preparations which usually means weapons accidentally detonated but medics at the scene said the explosion was caused by israel though they deny involvement also we're going to bring you much more on syria and everything else covering other world news stories as well much more coming up for you in the news hour and a half announced time off to incite story which starts now.

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