as a tourist for. another scandal hit c.n.n. political commentator is caught on camera ridiculing the. coverage. what do you think's going to happen this week with all. the things that. really. is foreign ministry u.s. accusations of a potential syrian chemical attack saying washington seems to be creating a pretext for military intervention. in the northern syria america's allies in the region are fighting it take a look at what impact u.s. support for the kurds turkey. in the region.

may day in london seventy m. in new york two pm right here welcome to r.t. good to have your company i mean our top story this hour the russian foreign ministry media spokeswoman washington's allegation that the syrian government is planning a chemical attack she sais that such claims could be a sign of an upcoming u.s. intervention. it is even we knew about statements from washington we also knew that the u.s. officials refused to confirm the claims with any facts so we don't know what these conclusions are based on the situation looks like a massive provocation both military and informational it's targeting not only syria but russia as well it's good if you're meaning it is likely that what we are seeing at the moment is the threshold of

a new intervention. in the studio is correspondent steve to speak more in this did indeed the foreign ministry spokeswoman elaborated anyway on that comment well the gist of what the russians are saying is that what we are witnessing now is the united states laying the groundwork for a full on syria intervention an. intervention and this chemical weapons craze according to the foreign ministry is a provocation it's a set up a stage designed to do what all other chemical attacks in its theory of that followed after you know what they tried to do each time and that is justify an. intervention in syria remember the chemical attack in two thousand and thirteen horrible indeed hundreds of people dead and injured yet they try to use that to barack obama david cameron to launch an intervention in syria to punish assad

before the investigation had been conducted in april of this year was another chemical attack immediately afterwards without any due process trump launched fifty nine cruise missiles a syrian air force base devastated the place according to reports and this is what this is what happens after every chemical attack and the russians are saying this time it's no different look at the situation he sees an overview the united states says assad is preparing a chemical weapons attack. ag they say that if an attack happens they will automatically blame and punish as sad he would have to be an absolute idiot to use so much as touch chemical weapons if he if indeed if indeed he has any the problem here is that it doesn't have to be him launches a chemical attack. i look at the us experts and then he said

openly that extremists could use these claims by washington provocations and shift blame onto the syrian government and that is the fear the concern for the rebels especially of the jihad this is a win win situation if they manage to stage a chemical attack no matter how you know how should you or how rough because the united states is according to this statement said that there won't be any jew process no fact finding mission no investigation no trial only execution they will blame assad in case of any chemical attack and you know it's if they've got absolutely nothing to lose if they manage to pull this off the cavalry the united states comes in and does the jihad his job for that the other thing is evidence you know for a claim this big you need to provide some sort of some sort of proof that assad is indeed trying to trying to do this and according to reports the bin to villages to

villages mention the village of a read her and said i keep both in india both in territory controlled by filling it in syria nusra front you know if that isn't cause for concern well more than that the united states says that it can't provide any details any proof because it's all classified. that's evidence kids shared with us about this potential preparation for these chemical weapons because that was an absolutely right and nor would that be laid out because that would be considered an intelligence matter when you guys believe that it's in your interests you do what you say it's evidence of truthful things that it all intelligence i'm not going to get into that one with you but this is a very serious and grave matter you know it's a tremendously worrying situation the united states is loading its guns the russians are beating the alarm bells and while in syria anything could happen the

jihad is stabbed now every you know every motivation to carry out a lot of stage some sort of attack artie's marotta because they have bring us right up to date and i spent by the foreign ministry thank you very much. we talked to a national security policy professor america's prestigious mit university he ses about washington's words essentially enable false flag attacks by extremists in syria. they have invited additional salmon attacks by the rebels what they have essentially told the rebels is that any attack that you can pull off or make people believe happened will be blamed on the syrian government and the russians the rebels are losing the war and the best thing they can do if they can succeed it is to convince the americans to attack the syrian government military so

they're creating an incentive for a false flag attack. so another headline stories this hour another undercover video has been released revealing attitudes at c.n.n. towards russia related stories this time one of the american news channel's political commentator seems to shrug it all off. what do you think's going to happen this week with all russia. was going to be really. well up to the second video in as many days from investigative journalism group project verdict house with the details here's killam up and yet another leak related to c.n.n. from james o'keefe and project vera toph's that was van jones who briefly served in the obama administration and is now a commentator for c.n.n. in the clip he says that the russia thing is a nothing burger and now it's important to be clear here we don't exactly know what

he's referring to about the russia thing could be the russian investigation could be the allegations about trump the context of the clip is not exactly clear who this leak comes on just in the aftermath of another recent leak from project veritas and jon bon a field an important producer for c.n.n. says the russia story is the polite term is nonsense that was just recently released as well now we here at r t reached out to c.n.n. to ask for their comment and they have not replied that it's important to know that these videos that are coming out are not without controversy james o'keefe is personally facing a million dollar lawsuit at the hands of a contractor he interviewed after he interviewed them posing as someone else and this was a contractor allegedly working with the democratic party so there's a lot of questions that still remain you know we asked the people behind the video what the russian thing refers to. we were the entire video out there i mean people

can judge for themselves sometimes you have to infer things from the conversation but that's certainly my interpretation and i think that's the way the mainstream media is reading it the way the drudge report and the headline strikes again you know the president of the united states just went out to a radio urson the instagram if you're not so i'm going to make you well. with c.n.n. it's been struggling to get a grip on its russia coverage of late with stuff quick to publish with solid evidence earlier in the week three journalists quit after c.n.n. retracted the story of an alleged senate investigation into links between a russian investment fund on a confidant of double trouble and in january c.n.n. broke a story claiming russia had compromising personal information a by president trump based on a dossier written by a former british spy it was later admitted that the report was flawed filled with on verified allegations the group behind the latest undercover video say c.n.n.

is not the only outlet lumping itself in hot water. not just c.n.n. i want to make it clear if you are going to make. america you are telling you ordinary people your story if you're keeping them in public for not going through you're on our list if we may be. right now we are watching you and if you're one of those organizations i probably would be sleeping well at night because it might be on the mark. meanwhile russian media have been single valued during a senate hearing devoted to alleged meddling in the u.s. presidential election of course. made their effort to have a a an effect on the election. so just the fact that maybe our t. in and. had a myriad of that was different in britain then maybe the mainstream press that

would be a sign of russia trying to influence the outcome would it not. across the alps hearing for us in washington was artie's alexy yada chefs. nothing burger has becoming a very foreign term in the political lexicon in the united states and another one has been served on the senate floor today despite all the scary sounding things like russian meddling in the elections worldwide and this whole two and a half hour session was dedicated to that talking not only about their past election where russia allegedly meddled but even the future ones while russia will definitely meddle and some of the wording of course on the floor was very tough rushed blatant interference in the united states twenty sixteen presidential elections was unprecedented in both scale and scope and many have said this is actually the crime of the century. if you think about it it is russia has interfered or an attempt to interfere in elections from france to the netherlands

from the balkans to the baltics russian interference in european political space is strategic you have any doubt that russian interference is driven by himself no doubt about it and mr. the same answer no doubt. no doubt. so somehow without any shred of evidence they have linked the soul to putin himself nonetheless the list of countries i've heard is very rare very wide those countries allegedly affected by the so-called russian meddling hacking and all those things in those countries obviously included france and france was actually voiced on the senate floor today the only problem is that as we know the head of the french intelligence recently said that russians apparently had nothing to do with a parent hacking off across campaign purposes is not possible to see. a criminal group it really can be anyone in the it's like it's still the simplicity

of the technical part can make us think it's just a simple person who created it and so this person can be in any country with any kind of motivation so you know generally for us covering the story for a long time this is just another day in the office reverting back to accusations without presenting any proof and it seems like when anything goes wrong anyway it's russia's fault or russia's playbook to describe democracies across the world and this was just another day on the sounded like this with no actual substance produced. american private investor under three charles or telus summed up his thoughts on the allegations against moscow but you have here sadly is clear evidence of just how dysfunctional the american legislative branch of government is now of course to arrange these type of hearings they're done in advance this is long been schedule i doubt they plan to have these hearings just following what happened recently on c.n.n. you know we've now had multiple different people even james komi himself under oath multiple times has said that. no foreign power successfully meddled

and effect of the election results in two thousand and sixteen and the general reaction that's coming out inside america is another fall ready with this rush of which which now admittedly is a which. there is little sign of a thaw in the simmering rod between germany and turkey you know the german foreign ministers advice ing president urged him not to hold public events when he comes for the g twenty summit we have received in the fischel request for president to have permission to address german based citizens during the g twenty summit it is not a good idea the federal government is of the same opinion on this. let's go live now to berlin on our europe correspondent peter all of our peter i suppose it's lining up to be an or quite old g. twenty isn't it but this has been building for months. all the diplomatic

relations between birth and are at an all time low we heard from sigma gabriele there the german foreign minister now martin shultz the social democratic party his candidate for chancellor of course the former president of the european parliament he's also said that foreign politicians that trade on our values at home should not be given a stage to speak here in germany talking about the one we've also seen venue's were to want to try to book to to give top give a talk in north rhine-westphalia they declined that was just last week we've also seen this diplomatic situation just descend into the gutter around the referendum that took place in turkey back in april the representatives of the zero to one side wanted to speak here in germany they were shut down that resulted in some very angry scenes and some very angry words indeed from both sides

germany you have no notion of democracy your practices are no different from the nazi practices of the past my comment that the nazi comparisons in turkey sparked must and is valid without ifs or buts and fortunately we see that this comparisons haven't stats and we are not going to allow it. they would revive gas chambers in concentration camps if they weren't ashamed this is their mentality they are disturbed when we say that this is not seem entirely. different cannot accept that our citizens are incited against each other and that's a comparison this is the case for all countries in europe that's why we should say with close words to mr erdogan that he cannot continue like this. well nazi name calling aside the list goes on and all of stumbling points in the relationship between germany and turkey at the minute we've seen president the ones body guards being told they won't be allowed to enter the country in order to

attend the g. twenty that's after their heavy handed approach as they were when they were in washington d.c. we've also you seen germany announce that it's at the end of this month it's going to stop pulling its troops out of the air base there they're going to be moving to jordan that's after german lawmakers were refused access to go and visit their troops that are stationed there we've also seen turkey angry over germany looking to accept asylum applications from some soldiers that are accused of having taken part in the attempted coup that tried to overthrow the relationship is in tatters at the moment and of course we've got to remember germany a key player within europe turkey is the key component in the e.u. refugee return deal which at the moment all but exists only on paper yes some very interesting conversations to be had eight days from now after the g twenty summit

peter all over in berlin for us thank you coming up war games for peace we'll tell you about means in about ninety seconds. lead. our. little.

called the feeling of going to. every the world should experience the lead you get the old the old. the old according to a just. world come along for the ride. welcome back to r.t. in a few months sweden will conduct its biggest military exercise in twenty years it coincides with russia holding large scale drills as well but there's a third event in the pipeline to on this on a very different mission there described as the first piece seeking war games thirty swedish russian activists will take part in a two day exercise called seventeen with the goal of deescalating

a hypothetical conflict one of the organizers told us that someone house to recharge with a message of peace they are of course not that cold that you would have if you have a war exercise. has to be prepared if the escalation continues but we have bigger and bigger military exercises on the russian side to begin to begin military exercises on this we decide. we are getting closer to meet you on the swedish side and we have the capability of the swedish and russian politicians to to make meets ends meet to somehow among themselves make agreements then we have to have some kind of civil society that does the job for them so we are preparing for this well the neighboring finland the country's former ambassador to russia suspects the peace groups event is a moscow ploy to sway public opinion here's what the organizer thinks of the sentiment he wants do you claim that we are something that we are not because he

wants us he wants to show that we are agents of a foreign power like as soon as you stand up for peace people within your own country will say that you're a traitor. but you somehow work for the other side. going against the grain in the us one rightwing artist has put his creativity behind the president on these determined to get his message across not trump and the republicans are as punk rock as it gets. the right wing guerrilla artist as far as i'm concerned as far as i know i'm the only person that does it on the other side you've got shepard fairey bag she robbie carlisle i'm pretty much the only one on my side that does this twenty four seventh's. but i've been a trump supporter ever since i've seen him kick the media in the teeth but when you

see hollywood heads are exploding i just fell in love with the guy but i think he's this punk rock is punk rock has ever been. my goal what i do is is to let young kids understand that there's another side out there no political side. turkey has targeted kurdish white p.g. militia forces on syrian territory the attack on weapons that took place in one of the country's many hotspots the tone of offering.

well here's where the fighting between kurdish turkish forces is concentrated most of the bottle is on territory this yellow area claimed by the why fight or something strongly disputed by turkey meanwhile the u.s. considers both sides allies in the fight against islamic state that hawkins looks at how the u.s. support for their rivals may actually lead to more instability in the region. it's turkey versus the kurds both of them u.s. allies and it's left washington walking a delicate tightrope between its two friends which happen to be you shall have sworn enemies. we should be using we should be looming that we do not need terrorist organizations like the p y d n y p g and the rock operation we could have a lot of great success over the next coming years

a difficult balancing act to say the least but lately the scales seem to have tipped to favor the kurdish side after all kurdish groups have been washington's weapon of choice in the fight against islamic state the us government to supply them with arms and even sent special forces to support them we have already started to provide the weapons and equipment in the area nation to or syrian democratic forces both the syrian arabs in the syrian kurds so what happens to the kurds when i saw on the brink of defeat is taken out of the equation will the us remain such a faithful friend probably not it turns out the weapons washington has given to its kurdish allies were actually just loaned out temporarily when the fighting is done the guns will have to be returned at least that's what was promised to turkey what we gave them were weapons for urban fighting basically and yes we will recover the gear when it's no longer needed by them and our syrian kurds might dream of autonomy in their country but if they think they'll be granted this soon reward for

being the most effective and full force on the ground they just need to look at the iraqi kurds across the border this is how the us responded to very calls for independence we support a unified stable democratic and a federal iraq we understand and appreciate the legitimate aspirations of the people of iraqi kurdistan even leaderless is an internal wracking matter but first and foremost we have to defeat isis if the kurds in syria were hoping to at least keep the territories they've liberated from islamics. that's also not likely to happen judging by previous u.s. the mines that those areas be returned to locals as soon as the fight is over we do have a commitment as we've spoken to before from kurdish leadership that those forces who stabilize the area will mirror the local population they will turn over areas to local population as long as the specter of syria kurdish fighters will spearhead the front line but six months down the road and it's anyone's guess. from the

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i think david cameron was so convinced that he would. have to keep the british people would forget. that he felt justified in taking the gamble and i think that was an irresponsible gamble i think he was playing russian roulette with the british future because it's in there it's in a radical change it's not like an old reelection i guess you could vote for. readings and salutation. some days we must take stock of where our true values lie all quaters like what do we value more our health happiness some

physical so. fifty or do we value more an anti-bacterial eyes house having no weeds in our gardens or our never ending lust for corporate dollars this week the state of california the sixth biggest economy in the world secured a rare victory for food and health activists when they declared that good life to the main herbicide used in one sondos roundup weed killer will be added to the state's list of cancer causing chemicals as of july the seventh corporate seed and chemical but he myth has vowed to continue to fight california's decision to the mail despite suffering the loss of her loss in state court efforts to block the listing reuters reports that monsanto is vice president of global strategy mr scott partridge promises that this is not the final step in the process and it has no bearing on the merits of the case we will continue to aggressively challenge this improper decision but corporate pesticides serving as cancer salads throughout our

lives aren't the only potential dangers we are facing a new study at the edward be a college of osteopathic medicine in the virginia maryland college of veterinary medicine has found a lovely lovely connection between common household chemicals and birth defects in mice work who birth defects in mice and comic how's that comic of commonality. terry roback research assistant professor at virginia maryland college department of biomedical sciences and path though biology told science daily that quote these chemicals are regularly used in the home hospital public spaces and swimming pools most people are exposed on a regular basis. this makes you feel all warm and tamely inside doesn't it so let's put our values where our health lies in store watching the hogs.