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and welcome i'm terry martin. russia says it has proof that the poison gas attack in syria last weekend was staged on orders from britain the russian defense ministry says london told the white helmets the syrian rescue team that acts as first responders in rebel held areas to fake the gas attack in the town of duma inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog are due there on saturday the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov earlier told reporters that there was no evidence of a poison gas attack on the for you to do with chemical weapons inspectors will go to the city of duma where there is no evidence of the use of chemical weapons chlorine or any of the substance how specialists to examine the area did not find

any we have irrefutable evidence that this was another fabrication the staging involved the special services of one of the governments that is now trying to be in the front lines of a russia for the campaign. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov well let's bring in syria analyst khaled yaka a waste is with us here in the studio good to see you khaled what do you make of russia saying that it has proof that the alleged chemical weapons attack in syria was staged by a foreign intelligence agency implicating britain you're talking about a country with his through for information country that does this information this is what he said the truth of the throat basically the book on this information as changes virgine so many thought it was one that isn't if you make it only if there is a chemical but it was done by their bodies themselves to convert own people but put this in quote takes we have a history of the chemical weapons used in this conflict people in damascus if you

talk to a close somebody you trust in damascus this minute the chlorine being the neutral it's not a secret this regime have used or suspected it least of using chlorine and poison gas would one sort of thought it was of the. a civil war team of international chemical weapons inspectors has now arrived in syria they are going to begin their investigation there to morrow what sort of challenges do they face the challenges that this region now is in the hands of the see it is you if you if i did this crime i make sure i hide the evidence ok so they're going to have a very tough time finding anything you think they'll be able to to come up with come up with anything that will allow us to say the chemical weapon attack did take place and we can attribute it to a particular party it seems that when they left this sudden that view and operation transferred the unit but osha took some of the wounded some of the casualties with

them maybe took some of the bodies maybe took a blood sample is at least to try to to preserve something of a legend to happen because what these chemical weapons inspectors find is going to be very important for how this how the next stage of this confrontation unfolds if the united states carries out its threat to launch a missile attack or a military strike of some sort against syria which president trump has promised what consequences do you think that could have. i mean let's put this also in the larger perspective does putin want would theme for the sake of bush. i don't think so but the consequences of this it would depend on this magnitude if you hit the base of the city the security forces the secret police compounds that has been dealing this destruction and death and torture and killings of civilians and the full of course political prisoners to see any realistic options for assad's opponents in terms of influencing the outcome of this conflict. i mean

a sense of this of been abandoned by the international community abandoned by that allies for the sake of books that these are good even thirty which are nonsense. champion champion of defending this one is have abandoned. college thank you very much for your analysis a waste a minute east analyst focusing on syria. united nations the russian ambassador has accused the west of aiming to throw overthrow the syrian regime of president assad he urged u.s. french and british leaders to refrain from military action u.s. ambassador said there should be no such no rush to launch military action on syria but added at one point you have to do something. to destroy its u.s.s. donald cook and u.s.s. port have been positioned off the syrian coast but if and when they get the order to strike it's not yet clear after this bellicose tweet in which he threatens

syria's ally russia that missiles will be coming u.s. president donald trump put off a final decision on military action but we're looking very very seriously very closely at that whole situation and. we'll see what happens folks will see what happens it's too bad that. the world puts us in a position like that the president's more measured tone was echoed by the secretary of defense who said the u.s. is still seeking evidence on the chemical attack there's a tactical concern that innocent people we don't add any civilian deaths and do everything humanly possible to avoid that we're trying to stop the murder of innocent people but on a strategic level it's how do we keep this from escalating out of control. the u.n. rushes and voice said averting the danger of war is also moscow's priority but he

refused to rule out the possibility of us russian conflict. you want to. look at it look people civilities unfortunately because we saw we saw messages that coming from washington. that it would be close meanwhile russia says the syrian government is now in control of the site of the alleged attack inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog are expected to begin their probe into mount on saturday it's not clear whether the u.s. and its allies will wait for the results before deciding on strikes. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world today health officials in gaza say more than five hundred palestinians have been injured in fresh border clashes with israeli security forces it's the third consecutive friday of large

scale protests against the lasting blockade of gaza previous clashes with israeli forces have claimed dozens of palestinian lives in the last two weeks. don't trump has lashed out at james komi after the former f.b.i. director launched a new book a memoir compares the president to a mafia boss who demands loyalty and twists facts to serve his purpose in a characteristically blunt tweet trump lambasted commie as an unlawful untruthful slime ball. and pakistan's supreme court has barred former prime minister no i shall be from politics for life the ban stems from corruption allegations against a retiring his three stance as prime minister zarif resigned last july after the supreme court disqualified him from holding office for failing to disclose an income source. in. the united nations has

held a conference of donors to raise funds to alleviate suffering in the democratic republic of congo it says the situation there has reached the breaking point mylan says spiraling out of control and those fleeing the fighting need food and shelter. fête agencies and congo's government artists puting how many people have fled to safer areas congo the government says only two hundred thirty thousand have been displaced while the u.n. says four point five million are on the move. joe say the country's acting prime minister told french radio ahead of the meeting this conference is being held following lies made by certain humanitarian organizations who are poisoning national and international opinion the congo government has boycotted the aid donors conference well our correspondent has been to the democratic republic of congo to assess the situation and sent us this report. lake albert is divided

between two countries that's crossing here a fleeing violence and war on the congolese signs hoping for refuge in neighbor in need and congo is awash with militias and attacks on ethnic groups a tragically common little quip about a lot of people were killed with machetes people are suffering so much so many are hiding in the bush. the situation is dire around seven point seven million people are at risk of starvation congo is rich in natural resources but civil war corruption and mismanagement have reduced it to one of the poorest countries in the world observe it suspect the government of fuelling the conflicts in order to prevent elections president kabila has refused to relinquish power since two thousand and sixteen. at the zoo fish left it in everything has gotten so bad in the last one to two years there are so many more people affected by war having to flee rape and hunger that the situation is really dramatic to have given time

lachish is u.n. organizations in geneva hoping to raise around one point four billion dollars in aid money to alleviate at least some of the misery the congolese government boycotted the donor conference saying it was bad for the country's image but without a solution to the crisis most here have no choice but to flee. let's bring in mark englehart terry's a journalist and author and has been reporting from africa for years he's been following today's u.n. donor conference and joins us now from geneva mark the conference is over its raised pledges of about five hundred thirty million dollars i'm told for the democratic republic of congo that's far short of what is needed why are potential donors holding back. well plenty of reasons actually first of all congo is not the only trusses in the world the u.n. is asking this year for twenty five billion dollars also for crises like in syria

or yemen then secondly the congo crises is very protracted has been going on for more than twenty years actually and governments asked themselves probably why should we give more this year what has really changed i think that's one thing this summit today showed things have changed the situation has dramatically deteriorated and then thirdly it is of course the factor the fact that the government boycotted this conference didn't make the donors very eager to spend huge amounts of money without asking he mentioned the kabila factor president kabila in in this case of the democratic republic of congo his government boycotted the conference one. yeah it's actually really the very first time in human history that a country boycotts its own donor conference now the official line in kinshasa goes like this the un is doing bad promotion bad at for thais and they're scaring

investors away and that's of course nonsense more likely actually is that the congolese government very much under pressure is looking for a scapegoat for someone who is responsible for the bad situation the country and their singled out the united nations and what happened today is that the humanitarian coordinator of the un very much build bridges he emphasized that this this whole amount of money had been discussed before with the congolese government and the appeal had even been together presented in kinshasa earlier this year so he basically held all doors open while the donors they didn't so much really build bridges their tone was rather pretty harsh ok the donors did pledge about half a billion dollars that's not really peanuts do you think that money will actually

flow towards helping the refugees in the democratic republic of congo or not. yes some i'm convinced it will and i also think that the conference today showed at the same time that money alone conflicts destroy sees it is not about protection and security rape is going on on a massive scale and lots of militias recruit many children younger than fifteen most of them into their ranks and that is something which the german government made pretty clear here it is to responsibility of the companies government really to protect its own people and the civilians and also to release political prisoners and safeguard human rights in the congo marc thank you so much for talking with us so is mark englehart there talking to us from geneva he's a journalist and author specializing in africa. to

india now and the gang rape and murder of an eight year old girl there has fled to fresh protests in the capital delhi the opposition congress party held a midnight vigil demanding justice for the girl eight men including two police officers have been arrested over the attack bondo was kidnapped in january then drugged and repeatedly raped over the course of five days before being strangled police and neighbors reportedly did nothing she belong to a nomadic muslim community in the kashmir in kashmir in the north country's north some reports suggest that the attack was an attempt to force local muslims into leaving the area. local rightwing hindu groups have turned the case into a sectarian issue because the girl was muslim and all the accused or hindu the incident has again put the spotlight on the high incidence of rape in india and a lack of adequate action to punish perpetrators. protesters on the streets of the capital daily on thursday. hundreds of people gathered

to denounce the killing and protest the lack of action by the authorities. i don't know what kind of fund reveal growing up in what kind of country we are taking this country in which direction i can explain what i'm feeling because i am angry but they don't know what to explain the feelings. that is an attempt to use politics and use communalisation to protect those who have committed such crimes and a force that is infuriating and what i feel now is that there's an attempt what makes me angry no is that there's an attempt. after local members of indians governing j.p. parks the accused. anybody of the same to. be the supporters. and lived up to support. the action. also in kashmir hundreds of hindu lawyers but

in support of the accused men and demanded their release. unsuccessfully tried to prevent the police from fighting their investigations of the killing of the girl and the week. or more of the story we spoke to meg hunt journalist focusing on women's issues in mumbai we asked her how difficult it is for victims of rape to get justice and. inductee did you think of the cake thought that women are actually the sponsor little getting raped it's actually a consensus that republicans essentially ass until mindset change or something is going to change for the good old woman on the seas in our religious in our cities not possible to change the fact that forty thousand women get a seat into a baby or that policy in minutes a reset six hundred m. sentiment that our race in this country if you see fit our legal system is our status algy should. sharing that is justice is granted so we do not insist any

sort of fix punishment for the perpetrators there's a systemic failure and that's what is just this that in just daughters mothers and says a do not until. you are watching the though you know there's still to come one asleep at champion sorry to have a new coach one who's familiar with the me mentality of buy a new nick confused we'll explain. first reform but no revolution of v.w. benz here the words of the new chief executive mr dees it doesn't sound like all that much is going to change over. the man the new man of the job of knowledge is the job of coming to face is a big hurdle in winning back consumer confidence after the mission scandal but i think the harder part will be overhauling the huge corporation is what he plans.

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habit he's planning a major overhaul of the company which includes a stronger focus on the automakers business in china and then there's the question of efficiency how best to run such a huge company with so many different brands dissolution organizing them in groups which he hopes will inject some dynamism into the car maker the plan looks like this the company's mass market brands will form one group in it the core brands v.w. skoda see at then there's the premium segment featuring audi the super premium with the company's four luxury brands and truck and bus which says v.w. is being prepared to go public and what about electric cars many observers say v.w. is coming too late to alternative drive trains but that too is something have a d.s. seems driven to change. now i skip the gym today but it's

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it to gauges your whole body engages the basic exercise double pole willing case sixty ninety six percent of the total muscle mass of your body refused to be a professional cross-country ski he pushes me throughout the entire six minute interval workout to go below you oh yeah i was beat isaac reach my abs. suited limits in only a couple of minutes and came close to passing out i certainly couldn't go through this a few times a week because got this because i'm not doing this again. i have to refuel and luckily this known entire market for healthy sports nutrition joy for example brews alcohol free b m with a protein content of twenty one grams per bottle. basically sitting there with one protein shake and one hand kind of be on the other and. we need to combine this that needs to be there needs to be a bit off the top that's all starting a refreshing into a day in the world that still look pretty mind. and tomorrow it's not working out

as well. maybe. the champions league semifinals draw has taken place to talk us through it is chris harrington from our sports desk so press let's start with liverpool going to face roma and of course there's by and munich we can't get them going to take on defending champions relman dritte how do you see that playing out ok the first mess as mentioned liverpool's on fire right now to see them getting past roma but the big match everyone's talking about reality trade face seen by munich these are familiar opponents they have nearly faced each other more than anyone else in the european stage and recent history has really got a reality dreads way you know the only glimmer of hope i think that that by munich having this particular fixture the last time they were successful overreact oh yeah hi kids was on the sideline cheering them along on their way to

a trouble that does the good but you can never discount krishnan over naldo the last high he fired five goals past byron munich you know to a six three aggregate score that's pretty ugly so revenge is on by i mean its side in their mind they might need some of those nonalcoholic proteins beers and the time that we just saw in the earlier. poor but it will be a tough uphill battle unfortunately i think reality grid is destined for a three peat in this competition is the us is it ok well we've got to watch that one up stay with the buy me them for a moment the club's announced its next coach a very big change their frankfurt coach nick koba to take over on july first understand is he a good fit for the reigning champ stating you know when you listen to everyone inside organizations specifically their sporting director we can never forget nico kovacs played at byron munich for a couple of seasons so he is familiar with that we are who we are b.s. on me a mentality he is

a tech titian he did help frankfurt they were relegation threatened at one point and turned that club around now they are knocking on europe's door maybe the champions league next season come but all in all you have to figure that is a good fit and the last projects didn't work out the way byron one of them to pep guardiola didn't really accomplish what they wanted and then we can't forget the axing of carl and. which open the door for your pike is but nico kovacs he had this to say he can't sit with him at a press conference these are his comments. i got a call from munich offering me a contract. and i accepted that offer yesterday. contract like sept of the house mean you think he was happy about it was a way of showing you know this regime is there were reports that he had already agreed to come aboard on by and to be to go you know the sporting director at

frankfurt was taken by surprise by shock because he could go back he's under contract so all in all i feel bad for frankfurt moving forward because as i mentioned they are knocking on europe store it's just interesting to see how they will perform these last five match days knowing that their coach that's been responsible for their success is on his way out chris thank you so much chris harrington from our sports this ok. so your news for now come back at the top of the next hour with another photo that you can find faller stories online at the w dot com thanks for watching.

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