i guess women wore photographers starting may third on t w. you're watching the news live from berlin and russia slammed the united states britain and france for launching air strikes in syria moscow called an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council after the strikes targeted allegedly chemical weapons facilities overnight syrian state television has released these images purportedly showing the destruction of the western allies say the strikes are in response to the suspected

poison gas attack by president assad's forces last week and the u.s. says it's ready to strike again if further chemical attacks take place but these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead u.s. president don't trump denouncing assad and now praising the u.s. military for what he calls a perfectly executed attack tweeting mission accomplished. a maverick or a boss and welcome to the program the u.n. security council has rejected a bid from russia to condemn air strikes on syria that were carried out by the u.s. the united kingdom and france russia had called an emergency meeting of the council over the attacks representatives voted against condemning the strikes us ambassador

nikki haley told the meeting that the allies are quote walked and load it just strikes syria again here if further chemical weapons attacks take place security and u.n. security general antonio terrorist spoke earlier and called for calm. and they are all members to show restraint in these dangerous circumstances and to avoid any of the good escalates matters and worsening the suffering of the syrian people as i did yesterday i was stressed the need to avoid the situation from spiraling out of control for more on the story we go to our d w bureau chief in washington alexander phenomena and to russia where analyst constantine found agora joins us and he's been following the story alexandra we'll start with you the u.n. security council meeting has been ongoing now let's listen first to what the u.s. ambassador had to say we're here today because three permanent members of the

united nations security council acted the united kingdom france and the united states acted not as revenge not as punishment not as a symbolic show of force we acted to deter the future use of chemical weapons by holding the syrian regime responsible for its atrocities against humanity alexandra it's a move to deter further use of chemical weapons but the u.s. is saying that it's ready to act again isn't it. yes you're right ambassador had he was really clear about that she said that after talking to presidents trump she can only stress that the u.s. as locked and loaded to strike again if the syrian government uses chemical weapons again and she also added that if this administration draws a red line that it's that it forces the red line so it was

a very clear message experts say however that the risk is that the u.s. could end up in a cycle of escalation that untangles the american forces more deeply in the syrian conflict that this administration actually intendant constantine before we come to you let's have a listen to what the russian ambassador had to say at that very same meeting. school during his agent for the prohibition of chemical weapons dispatched its experts to syria in order to investigate all the circumstances of a misnomer however it is scientific cynical to stain a group of western countries decided to take military action without waiting for the results of the investigation russia condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack against syria where russian military personnel are assisting the legitimate government and its counterterrorism unit from sony through its actions united states makes an already catastrophic humanitarian situation in syria even

worse. now russia is obviously denouncing the move and saying that it's a threat to the humanitarian situation there constantine how do these attack actually threaten russia. well i think that it's classic russian showboating in the u.s. and then shifting shifting the attention from what is actually happening in syria and how russia has blocked. several you have been resolutions that would have probably provided for a more objective investigation to the strikes i think that this tactic or rather than the strategy will continue i don't throw think that russia will back down although at the same time i think to some extent to some extent love that putin can be pretty satisfied with today because the scale of military action by the allies was much smaller than it was expected then that it was predicted so he can now digital to the claim that it was he's threats to strike back at the u.s.

forces that actually force. the united states britain and france to back down however i do think that's this is not the end of the story and i think that. in a sense what we've seen we've seen a very significant shift in present trumps position of course alexander knows more about that but what i want to say is that definitely russia was not prepared to have an administration. soon washington that will be as ready to act as this one of course now probably quite a lot of people in in the kremlin then in the foreign ministry want to roll back time and hog barack obama but it's too late constantine mentioned president transpositions i was going to alexandra alexandra president trump did not get approval from congress but what kind of support does he have for such a move not only within his own party but within the country. we have

seen rather mixed reactions after the strike some lawmakers most for the republicans praised the president's decision saying that there needed to be a strong response to the. alleged to the us its regimes alleged use of chemical weapons in syria but some of them are also concern for example senator mccain that the president does not have a coherent strategy on syria and that is something that many democrats seems seem to be concerned about as well though we saw the democratic leadership chuck schumer and nancy pelosi saying that limited punitive action is appropriate but that it can be a separate use to a coherent strategy and there are some lawmakers from both parties who are concerned that the presidents decision could be on shaky legal grounds because the

current legislation that gives the president. to use military force with though it's congress's approval has not been updated since two thousand and one. perhaps there is not a long term strategy right now but the u.s. has said it's not going to hesitate to intervene further constantine will come to you now with the threat of further assault hanging in the air how could russia potentially respond. well i think that for now there is possible be friend that really diplomatic plus russia will probably add a few paragraphs a few measures to the draft law that mr putin's pocket dumas parliament is discussing now or to punish and then recover for sanctions that were imposed on russian companies and individuals if you days ago militarily i still think it's if the united states continues to consistently strike syria then of course the the the

balance is not in favor of russia which is militarily let's face it weaker but i think it is exactly the question of lot of the allies want to achieve it syria if they want to achieve the and to chemical attacks then possibly possibly only possibly mr putin could assure him by talking to mr asa but if they want to achieve a wider solution then of course some kind of idea for that is needed to put it it's all very simple he is preparing himself for the world's top most authority on a countering regime change and as long as assad is a follow up he's that he's achieved his goal but then it is much more difficult but i don't think there's going to be any military response from the russians not as yet at least analysts constantine font agger and d.-w. bureau chief in washington alexandra phenomena thank you both very much meanwhile

nato representatives have been meeting in the belgian capital brussels the military alliance says all twenty nine of its members are backing the airstrikes or nato allies expressed their full support for the last night's actions which was intended to degrade the sooner she aims chemical weapons capability. to deter further chemical weapons attacks against the people of syria. may strongly condemn the repeated use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime amidst all this a team of international chemical weapons inspectors have a rives in the syrian capital damascus to begin its probe into the alleged duma gas attack that prompted saturday's airstrikes the team from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons arrived just hours after the united states friends and britain targeted syrian facilities the alleged gas attack

a week ago is thought to have killed at least forty civilians. absent the other stories making news around the world a palestinian islam missed a militant group says orbit's members have been killed in a bomb explosion in the gaza strip the blast struck near the border with israel close to a palestinian protest camp it's not yet clear what or who caused the explosion and the israeli military says it's unaware of any activity in the area lee protests over their capture the journalists were investigating a rise in drug fueled violence and they were seized by former fark rebels the leaders of colombia and ecuador are now promising a military crackdown in the border area south african anti-apartheid icon winnie mandela has been laid to rest and so had to go tens of thousands of mourners from across the political spectrum attended her funeral the political activist died last week at the age of eighty one after

a long illness. it was an epic farewell to an anti-apartheid heroine thousands packed into the stadium to celebrate the life of nelson mandela's former wife winnie singing cheering and crying along the way i am your. memory mandela. you wrote here to post about it to the young soul returned to him for what he has done for the rhythm of the insult of. how we were docked his belief. is that african today now mourning the death of our mother we need to give that a mandela we are yet and understand them to celebrate their life to lead them to ease the last place i saw what i can say as much i read me did i see my dad supplied so i know my place how can i am we need a magical that i'm a little old. for more than thirty years she was at nelson mandela's site during

her husband's long imprisonment she took up the struggle of black south africans occasionally calling for the use of violent means even so such as her in jewing legacy political leaders to pay tribute. march us this is a painful moment for us. we do not want to be denied. joy in the recording of the life of so wondrous a person. after five hours spent remembering the complex picture of when he mandela's life and more than two weeks of mourning the heavens opened. in the bundesliga cologne and hamburg have both suffer bitter blows in their bids to avoid relegation second bottom hamburg lost two nil at hoffenheim and last place cologne were beaten two one at the hands of her to berlin with four games left this

season the two clubs are five and six points adrift of the relegation playoff spot fire leverkusen strengthen their grip on the fourth champions league place with those four one win over rivals frankfurt washed red card hand over drew one one well spoken out for played out a goalless draw on friday and four games remain to be played this match day. checked for movie director milos foreman was who found fame in hollywood with his american films one flew over the cuckoo's nest and i'm a dad has died those films aren't him best director oscars and thirteen statues overall he moved to the us and one nine hundred sixty eight with a small portfolio and limited english language skills that was after a communist crackdown on political and artistic freedom and what was then czechoslovakia armin died at the age of eighty six. and watching the

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