the u.n. commission on syria says there's no clear proof of any chemical weapons being used there despite one of its top investigators saying she suspects the rebels have resorted to sarin gas. meanwhile israel's condemned for a series of air strikes inside syria but all too takes a look at whether the ultimate target of the attacks could lie elsewhere. here after the government protests turned violent thousands rally in moscow to demand the release of those accused of inciting clashes with police. record unemployment painful austerity and the lowest ratings and recent french history falls well earned marks the end of a tough first year as president. online

on screen international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow this is r.t. the u.n. team looking into the conflict in syria says there's no conclusive evidence any side has used chemical weapons that's despite earlier claims by leading team member that deadly nerve gas may have been used by the rebels or he's got a card is following developments. human rights investigators say based on the evidence that they have the rebels in syria have used sarin nerve gas on the leading u.n. investigator said she was quote stupefied by the evidence during our investigation for crimes against humanity and war crimes. we collect. witness testimony that. that made to appear that some chemical weapons were used in particular. and

what was. what appear on. to our investigation that was used by openings by the rebels and we have no no no indication at tool is that the government. of the city government had used chemical weapons that was if you did was to provide that. first the first indication we got. to the use of never been gassed by the opening in this sound bite made headlines the commission issued a cautious press release saying quote it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in syria by any parties to the conflict as a result the commission is not in a position to further comment on the allegations at this time end of quote nonetheless are we seeing politics getting ahead of facts not clear at this point but nonetheless this is a major development which comes at

a time when the assad government is being accused of having used chemical weapons damascus denies the claims and asks for an investigation at the request of the syrian government there is supposed to be another u.n. investigation into a concrete incident in the middle of march when chemical weapons were allegedly used but that investigation is being hampered by additional requests from the u.n. chief who wants the u.n. mission to have access to all seriousness facilities some worry that it could turn into a hunt for weapons of mass destruction and of course the iraq experience comes to mind and the fear that politics again may get ahead of facts now president obama said if there is hard evidence that assad forces have used chemical weapons it would be quote a game changer washington is not saying exactly what it's going to do but last week the u.s. defense secretary said the administration is we thinking its opposition to arming the rebels what the administration did not say is what they were going to do if there is evidence that the rebels are using chemical weapons which begs the

question is it somehow not a game changer. and they're going to say from the french center for intelligence studies told us that syrian rebels may have received chemical weapons from abroad while it's very difficult to say probably be stolen them in in some syrian stock but they could also are being. received at the gateway center in from the foreign countries because they're dumb ass and bashar they don't have any interest to use chemical weapons because they control more and night person to offer territory they are in position or they're going to war again to rebuild so they've doubled after use chemical weapons because it would be upset if it counterproductive so every time we receive something from nation see that the bashar regime is using chemical weapons we are very very cautious because we don't believe that going out of information after launching air strikes inside syria over

the weekend israel is bolstering missile defenses on its northern border it wants to protect itself after launching two attacks on syrian targets within forty eight hours syria has reportedly pointed its rockets at israel and threaten to strike back immediately if there are more raids on the port of slip is following events. the syrians are stressing that all options are on the table although they haven't specified exactly what they mean when they say this assad has also said that he would announce how the student organizations operating in his country to wage war and to wage attacks against israel from the golan heights which is of course the mountains that border israel and syria what this means in effect is that the syrian army will not stop any palestinian from embarking on any kind of military action against israel that emanate from within the syrian territory is whole does seem to have shot itself in the foot to have its borders now open for palestinians who essentially israel has strained relations with is hugely problematic for this

country and what we see now is that israel's actions have made its northern borders are vulnerable for attacks or infiltration from palestinian groups what many are saying is that the israeli strike could essentially or is essentially backfiring on them israel says that it was targeting a military convoy that was making its way from iran to hezbollah in lebanon through syria but what syria says is that one of the targets was a research center as well as a very specific military targets such as soldier barracks and compounds. both the u.n. and arab league have condemned the israeli action but there are concerns the attacks could be aimed at another major nation in the region an old israeli food result has made it a question of explains. there is a third player here fellowship a lighter side and has a lot of the big boy on the block and israel's arch enemy iran now reports suggest

that it was an iranian shipment to has valar that israel was targeting so it's possible that syria is just the middle man and it wouldn't be beyond reason that iran is equipping has a block as a backup in case of conflict with israel israel with this provocation there will be for a response either from syria either from his block or better yet from the point of view of the obama administration and israel from the run so if you run in syria don't do anything for the moment just wait this will be seen as it is just a provocation but if there is you know the slightest bit of a response from either syria or iran that's the perfect brick text for what really shock and awe against syria iran is seen as the main thread by israel's government which is very nervous about its nuclear activities and in response to these airstrikes iran has already called on the whole region to stand against israel iran

labeled the airstrike as an act of aggression accusing israel of advancing its own interests by creating instability in the region with an unprovoked attack and the commander of the country's ground forces warn that iran is ready to provide logistic support and military training to help syria defend itself against israel so townshend's ass collate and the motives are for onlookers to gas that is launching missiles into syria actually part of israel's plan to contain iran. election three. with killed in the latest attack. in the program. the plane that disappeared over the year ago with. a much more later in the program.

of thousands of opposition activists have gathered here in central moscow to mark one year since mass protests that ended in violent clashes last year the anti-government rallies left dozens injured and saw hundreds of arrests. joins us live now from the heart of the capital so just how big is this rally now looking at this stage of the day. in fact right now the rally has come to an end and be the people have old blood dispersed from the. during the day the numbers reached around ten thousand members of the opposition protesters here in the in the square as we gather from the interior ministry officials there have been no incidents reported everything went smoothly and peacefully the police presence was heavy during the protest keeping in mind what happened. before every protester there were three police officers on the ground here and there was even chance at

one point that the rally would not have taken place because instead in the morning one of the volunteers who was setting up the stage died in an accident and some members of the opposition were saying that the rally should be called off because it would be disrespectful to the family of the man to hold it nevertheless decided to go ahead with the rally and it's already finished people are leaving the square obviously we haven't seen a repeat of the violence which we saw exactly twelve months ago in the same place in. the demonstrators trying to say today what was their message. well the fact that was held today it was the main reason was that they marked the anniversary of the may the sixth protest last year this protest was a one on one in the street. protests in russia last yeah. exactly one day before the inauguration of president putin and it's still sold the probably the biggest violence. in russia when one point of time. one of the part of the crowd tried to

break the police lines and move towards the kremlin. between them and the police and that led to several dozen injured more than four hundred people arrested back then and two dozen of them still remain in prisons but they are being charged with inciting riots and the main message coming from the state here today was that these people. need to be released and the opposition members described those arrests at the moment as political prisoners basically this was the main idea of the protest and of course we've heard. more other governments but this was in the cornerstone of the whole rally here which is already finished in central moscow thank you thanks very much indeed for that. and on our website when live streaming pictures from that ronnie do have to keep your eye on that.

it's day ninety of the hunger strike at guantanamo bay where nearly two thirds of the detainees are refusing food at the u.s. prison let's take a brief look at the facts now out of one hundred people striking twenty three detainees are being force fed through nasal chub some methods some have described as brutal for others remain in hospital but their lives are in danger according to the military the strike started back in february and since then an ever growing number of detainees join the protest against being contained without charge or trial got to obey is still open for business despite president obama's pledge to shut it down. a group of bahraini anti-government activists has been sentenced

to fifteen years in prison for attacking a police patrol the protesters deny the charges claiming they were tortured into making confessions but the rain has been engulfed in protests for more than two years now with police often brutally cracking down on demonstrators the opposition accuses the rulers of oppressing them and claims western countries are trying to downplay the scale of the unrest the habit of sofie who's an anti-government activist in bahrain says there's a conflict of interest involved in the unrest. because of the oil and behind because of the oil we bought from security because the. whole more straight there needs to be over now time to ensure that the flow of oil is not destructive because we have an acute days here in bahrain which the americans rely on as a spot to watch over the region all of that have taken its toll on the people on the ground the cavity can install on the children that are being arrested from

their schools on the women that are being tortured in prison all of that had just because of the spotless different human rights. next to the political wrong than bahrain we don't really have any other choice but to force this the damage has been done my cousins are and my friends are again and so for me it's the only educating twenty to do is to help them as you help me help me before geo political analyst eric draitser thinks the bahraini regime is intimidating the protest movement because it sees a real possibility of losing power. this sentence is designed as a scare tactic against all other democracy protesters in bahrain it's a way for the for the ruling family for the al khalifa family to ensure their own dominance within the country the family just like the guitar of the south or the

house of saud in saudi arabia they understand that they're engaged in an existential struggle for their very survival they realize that the democratic movements in other countries in the region could very quickly. translate into their own country so for those countries such as rain which has chastised syria for being so-called undemocratic they are the champions of non democratic institutions of torture of killing of extrajudicial killing and all of the rest of these things happening in bahrain that i think is the real scandal this is all a tale of her mosco more international news heading your way in just a minute stay with us.

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is continues now analogy in northwest pakistan at least fifteen people have been killed in a bomb blast targeting a proton about election rally dozens more were injured in the explosion in the could on region in afghanistan it's the latest in a string of attacks against political parties running in the may eleventh parliamentary election more news from altie arabic correspondent to take more he didn't who is in islam of that the attack has targeted. which. summarize the every vicious of your model of my islam which is a party. for all of the taliban and has been and mediating good with between the taliban and the government that this attack is a while the doors of elections campaign in an emergency the bordering afghanistan and the slogans in that that that campaign was anti americanism can

be in the cards and fifteen people so far has been killed and scores are injured there are expectations from observers here that the violence will increase by the time we are approaching to the elevons me elections which is called here i historical elections but the violence is events even parents a few days of this elections. i mean great crowds of flooded the streets of paris putting the pressure on the french president exactly a year after he was elected tens of thousands gathered to denounce for a sturdy drive according to opinion polls he's now the most popular french leader for decades at a time a record unemployment and a shrinking economy what he reports. it was. the change it

was a year ago thousands of people had gathered in this very place to celebrate the victory of socialist president francois hollande but here on the thousands of people are again gathered for a very different reason this time they're asking the president where are the changes that he had promised asked by the very same people who had voted left and put along didn't place recent polls show his popularity has plummeted to less than twenty five percent the biggest force for any french president in the past fifty years but you know i thought it was. i let's you know where your promises are come on where are they it's not just your it's not me and i've yet this is the mission that from now on will be mine to give the european construction a dimension of growth employment and first priority you have france's hit record unemployment of three point two million people in march the biggest source of

public anger it's also scratched hopes of cutting the budget deficit to three percent of g.d.p. by two thousand and thirteen and the european commission's most recent forecast shows fast will be in recession until the end of the year the seventy five percent income tax on the super rich is also a no go after france's constitutional court overruled it on the very talk of it pushed french actor gerard depardieu to give up his citizenship for a lush in one one promise along didn't that it's to keep is legalizing gay marriage pleasing supporters it also sparking fierce concentration. i think. people are happy with gay marriage but it doesn't feed our families it doesn't give us food there are realities that are good to say but there are also priorities priority is employment we need to eat it is obvious is it to blame. if you're in the news that you cannot return to the new president immediately.

into the economy what i would like anyway i just would like to get the president which is not making that much promise is which is keeping some key points which is not going to explain that they're imagining no one has the or. yeah yeah yeah. and magic recipe this film is. says is nonexistent he made this video during last year's presidential campaign to show the country's lack of choice. when you listen to the media you'd think there were a lot of differences between the two but that's just on a superficial level on the most important things they agree do we need to intervene

in another country to fight they will agree to intervening in other countries because the weapons lobby will always be behind a lot is well aware of his unpopularity but says he will weather this storm improve he can't keep his promises at the end of this five year term. that he needs time fine we are here to tell him mr president time is up and you need to start changing things but others like these workers who recently closed deal flooded eastern france are not even whole for symbolically laid to rest or laws broken promises under a heading which reads the trail does are cilia r t paris on our website of the minority dot com a vintage show in madrid ends in tragedy this dramatic video shows and flying machine hurtling to the ground in front of thousands of spectators head online for the details. plus reports of secret cash deliveries

from british intelligence to officials in afghanistan raised questions over the u.k. the gender in the war torn country w.r.t. dot com to learn more about the ghost money scandal. the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the urals killing all thirteen on board has been found nearly a year after it went missing search teams and scout of thousands of square kilometers without success but it turned out they didn't need to look so far afield it was in a swamp just a few kilometers from the airport with more is under from. it was a disaster that looked like it would never be solved this was the devastating scene three men stumbled across this week in the russian urals the remains of a plane that had gone missing nearly a year ago with the loss of thirteen lives normally the biplane was used to put out wildfires but on the night of genius level last year it's believed the pilot took it for a fatal joyride with twelve friends and relatives. was one of three people who made

the discovery and he is with us now this plane was missing for over a year how did you find it. by the off the talk we were approached on behalf of a group of hunters who saw a strange metallic structure out in the bogs not far from the city of sorrow of although they suspected it to be the plane they were not sure. the location was only four kilometers away from the nearest road but the journey was very difficult and it's no easy task trekking through the tiger when we got there it was obvious that the metallic object was indeed what was left of the plate and kenny described the scene of the crash was the playing badly damaged with their bodies. built of the somalia of the plane itself went down at a very sharp angle and became half submerged in the bog the shock of the impact stripped the plane's body of sheeting leaving behind only a skeletal airframe packed with human bones not one skeleton was intact we counted

eleven skulls in various conditions some with evident burn marks others with multiple puncture wounds and why do you think the authorities were unable to find this airplane after all it crashed any eight kilometers from the airfield. bill of those for most of the year the taiga in this area is simply impossible the plane crashed in the middle of a bog and with ice still present there it allowed us if barely to get to the wreckage and the wind to the snow is too deep and in the summer the entire area becomes a bog when the rescue was conducted in the summer rescue a simply couldn't reach the area and we saw the pass that they had left behind it turned out they had passed only about fifty meters from an area where the wreck could be seen. well a criminal investigation has been reopened into the case and will try to get to the bottom of what happened what after all was the pilot's incentive to steal

a plane with friends which included a local police chief security guard and the airport's nightwatchman officials have claimed they may have been drinking and may have wanted to fly to a remote bathhouse in the region and then there are those who think something more sinister could have happened the whole episode is reminiscent of the infamous of pass the plane crash in the same region in nine hundred fifty nine then nine people perished in the circumstances and their mutilated bodies were found at the scene with a soviet investigation concluding they had died from a compelling unknown force or despite the wreckage of this latest crash being found there are still on awful lot of questions to be answered. there coming up all the latest from the world of sports with more news on the health of the.

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welcome to the r t sports show with me kate partridge and here's what's coming up. top bottles hold nets a hat trick to keep sinitta in the title hunt after the test got. to stay three points clear in the russian premier league. plus sweet dreams maria sharapova unveils her own brand of sweets here in moscow before the world number two prepares to defend her french open title. and the rematch tesco warm up for their euro league last fall battle against rivals olympiacos with the end of season win over him keep in moscow. but let's kick off with russian football

where to scabby terror to stay three points clear at the top of the premier league but a hole cut trick keeps an eight in the title chase which of our poor fleet reports . three. it was a welcome return to winning ways for serious claims for a first victory in four one million homes terek punters vera booms called the only goal after half an hour to get beyond human free points clear of the top of the table. thing. called help defending champions you need to maintain their quest for a third straight time to be incredible brazillian made his first top flight hat trick in a four no home drubbing of ten man a line here new environment is picked up two yellow cards off a quarter of an hour from home side took full advantage folk opening the scoring of the first top penalty pulling it out with two more in the second alexander behind us return for it i'm a big loss to a four nil scoreline city to still second a line here a ball.