this is as you know use live from berlin the right thing to do british prime minister theresa may defends her decision to launch strikes on syria may also accuses the country's government in moscow of trying to cover up an alleged chemical attack in syria but britain's opposition says mae's approval of the airstrikes may have broken laws across to london for analysis also coming up as

world leaders we act in the wake of this weekend's military strikes on syria the e.u. is keen to switch the focus back to diplomacy with a new concerted push to bring russia back into the fold. and in the world just think garvie lives if you were hoping to move closer to a champions league spot the first things have to snap brakeman's home winning streak when the two sides based on sunday will tell you how they did. with the. land. town well how rock is great to have you along british prime minister to recently has faced questions in parliament over her decision to authorize this past weekend's airstrikes in syria all this after britain joined france and the united states and bombing three alleged chemical weapon sites in syria following a suspected poison gas attack in the town of duma opposition m.p.'s said major

should have consulted them before carrying out the bombing and labor party leaders have suggests that the strikes may have been illegal a both syria and its ally russia have denied carrying out the alleged chemical attack on april seventh that left dozens of syrians dead but i'm a says that is contradicted by the intelligence she has seen and she defended her government's decision to take part in the strikes. this was not about intervening in a civil war and it was not about regime change it was about a limited targeted and effective strike that sought to alleviate the humanitarian suffering of the syrian people by degrading the syrian regime's chemical weapons capability and deterring their use and we have published the legal basis for this action. prime minister may addressing the house of commons a little earlier and correspondent is in a london beriah to theresa may talking there about degrading and deterring syria's chemical weapons capability what else has she said to defend the straits.

well had the main criticism here in the u.k. is that she hasn't looked for parliament's approval as is the convention here in the u.k. but some reason may said she could not wait because there was a risk that the syrian regime would strike again and likewise she could not wait for official investigations to be concluded because she said to that another human a tearing catastrophe she thought that she had to act and this was really had a chance to be prime ministerial in the statement she was quite strong she had a chance to also bring up party together who is very much in disarray over brecht's of the country is in disarray over bricks it but here she really said this is my decision i. being held to account by palm and but it's my decision alone to make all right so her decision alone to make to the british people think it was right or wrong to take part of the strikes. well it's

interesting according to one recent poll they actually now think it was right to strike and i think this has to do with the government explaining that this was basically a one off it was very targeted it was not about regime change you know it wasn't about toppling the syrian government but it was really about this the use of chemical weapons they agreed the british public did not approve of this before when there was discussion when it was in the air that actually something might happen they did not think it was the right thing to do but they do now so i think this goes to show that the government and to reason may has been successful in getting have message across she's been successful in getting her message across pretty good but she's had to face many vocal critics since the airstrikes the took place what are they exactly unhappy about. well the

debate here in the u.k. very much centers on the government going it alone and not asking for permission not having a debate about it but basically just striking now there is this international approval and the reason may also said again in a statement that she was talking for example to other european leaders to justin trudeau from canada and the people that heads of state didn't go along with how decision and supported her but of course here in the u.k. it's a slightly different picture jeremy called been the leader of the opposition basically said that she did not that the the diplomatic route was not exhausted and they should have been more diplomatic efforts without going to do a preemptive the in these strikes so this is what the debate in the u.k. sent us on and as you alluded to previously the u.k. here for the u.k.

this was a one off for the u.s. meantime is keeping the door open a u.n. ambassador saying it's locked and loaded to act again it's britain on board with that. well the reason may stress that this was something that that she did once and it was a one off in order to detach the syrian regime from doing this again and also to make a pint about chemical weapons use that she did not want the use of chemical weapons to be normalized you have to bear in mind that not long ago we had an attack with chemical weapons against a former russian spy and the british government is holding the russian government to account who are of course allied with the syrian government so this is the main point for to reason may she has not said that there's going to be anything again so basically at the moment just this one off and not not no not to big. not a bigger campaign not the same sort of war rhetoric that we hear from the us the

british people are very sensitive when it comes to anything like regime change in this critical region so targeted this is what they support but nothing more than good mass reporting from london thank you. well the u.s. and france have also claimed they had proof that the syrian regime was behind a suspected gas attack on doom and they say the airstrikes were necessary to send a clear message to damascus on out you foreign ministers meeting in luxembourg say they're supportive of all measures to prevent further chemical attacks including the recent air strikes in a statement they call the strikes put specific measures taken with the goal of preventing future chemical attacks but they reiterated there can be no military solution to the syria conflict. all right let's explore more with that exactly means marcus crime is a political scientist and international security alice we're so happy to have you here with us mr come up where in the eighth year of this very protracted brutal war

in syria and the e.u. is exploring a diplomatic channels or trying to revive diplomatic channels getting the warring parties to sit at the same table i don't want to take any way from diplomacy efforts but at this stage are they just naive or have they just run out of options there's no leg off diplomatic channels i mean with the official. told the official negotiations between the syrian opposition and the government in geneva and the also business of the united nations we have been so cold. turkey are around and. the key question is how will it be e.u. and the united states can manage to get a foothold at the table in the talks. personally i have my doubts what could be the leverage to bring the e.u. and the united states into this game i mean the idea of an international content group or group of friends or something like that is a familiar one the group goes back to you with no warst of the nine hundred ninety

s. and it has proven to be effective but my concern it's simply too late it's simply too little too late that your finds itself in a bind especially because there's this growing sense of confrontation between russia and the west. i'd like you to talk to us about how the e.u. is dealing with it because the u.s. is now contemplating to impose more sanctions on russia because of its role in syria what is how is that you dealing with this challenge i mean europe is part of the west so we're not talking about some kind of equal distance from the europeans between washington and russia on the other side we are part of the was in europe and we have imposed on the european union as have has imposed a couple of sanctions a series of sanctions which has been extended and renewed every day for the next herself crimea twenty fourteen and the destabilisation off russia and the eastern part of the ukraine. on the other hand europe is in

a different geographical position compared to them tonight the united states it has an immediate neighbor which is russia and therefore the europeans have to balance the discomfort and disagreements political disagreements with russia. and with some kind of models upon the need some kind of. way to deal with the russians in economic terms and in political terms as well and that explains why some european you member states are more accommodating towards russia compared to the united states right now to some a we just heard or a little earlier said that the aim of these accord needed strikes that occurred over the weekend was to deter and degrade syria's chemical weapons capability how effective will this action actually be in preventing something similar happening in the future again difficult to say i mean there's a technical side still the question and the announcement of the strikes came

clearly five days before the actual strikes to place so even in the case there was some chemical weapons all part of the chemical weapons located in these facilities and probably they have moved to move to a different place and the more political question is that we. in this exactly the same scenario after the tanks in the unfolding of the lead taken in april last year everybody was have been expecting that the president will restrain himself in terms of the use of chemical weapons effect to be opposite happened we see on the increase of the use in the use of chemical weapons so i think it's simply not realistic to expect an improvement with regard to the situation on the ground with the situation on the part marcus kind of political scientists and international security expert thank you thank you. our want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world. on a visit to turkey tomato chief u.n. stoltenberg asked that the u.s.

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a speech to parliament she says the controversial strikes were in britain's interests and she also accused moscow and damascus of trying to conceal an alleged chemical attack in syria. and the european union's twenty eight foreign ministers have issued a joint statement backing u.s. french and british airstrikes on syrian targets over the weekend e.u. ministers have been holding talks on how to resolve tensions with russia and revive peace efforts in syria. all right that does it really hot in berlin monica jones is up next with your business headlines now so you can at the top of the hour. looks. like you're sure to be smarter with g.w. bush not. what you want when you want to look to do it extraordinary. and decide what's on sunday morning. john comes more to the.