videos claiming to show a chemical attack conducted by assad is a fake saying washington's threat to strike syria in case of a toxic incident has triggered a provocation campaign. c.n.n. has left red faced after undercover videos apparently revealed the attitudes of some of its top employees towards the channel's russia related output and. completely sure. its coverage of this one seventeen confederations cup.

it's five o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all t. international live from our studios here with me in a day or two to welcome to the weekly the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman haslam videos alleged to show the aftermath of a chemical attack in syria saying there are fakes produced as part of an anti assad propaganda campaign. the social media smear campaign under the banner assad used chemical weapons has now started just as we predicted you'll see more of this fake videos over the following days the complain this plan to be on a grand scale. it is purporting to show victims of an assad ordered chemical attack flooded social media on saturday that's after the white house accuse the syrian

government of pairing a toxic strike syrian journalist for him says it would make no sense for damascus to do anything of the sort to survey the amount of the sarong issued a statement denying any use of chemical weapons saying that this actually is a world tactic used by terrorist groups according to the statement of the syrian army when these groups feel that they are on the fallback they try to stage chemical attacks to stop them from advancing if we're going to discuss the circumstances surrounding these attacks and it doesn't make a lot of sense for the syrian government when swimming near the town where you know cheating actually substantial mostly games and more than one from that it would do something that would enable the rebels to benefit from international support that would actually forestall me to bring its operations into a complete halt when washington was asked to back up its allegations that damascus was preparing a chemical attack it failed to provide any evidence but as daniel explains the u.s. doesn't seem to need much proof when it comes to accusing assad. but sure there's

one really bad habit and that's how it is and he only does this when he's winning he ruins everything by doing something really stupid for no reason at. take me now they crushing islamic states liberating vul swathes of syria and belts of the blue comes this. the united states has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the saddam regime this that knows the probable consequences of a chemical attack it's the only thing really right now who could ruin him by giving his enemies pretext to attack him why would he do it because he's evil the murderous syrian dictator bashar assad has been a brutal dictator bashar al assad's a murderous regime in syria assad is the worst kind of brutal war criminal

a classic super villain both stupid and evil beyond any logic the kind a villain man would go off and america is batman. if mr assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons he and his military will pay a heavy price britain is already on board if it does something really dumb for no reason again the u.k. will join the us in punishing him we think it's absolutely right if we can to prevent the use of chemical weapons and we will fully support any u.s. action and if you've been following events in syria recently you know they'll hitting the united states has attacked as that point times and what they say is self defense. problem is justifying the true long conflict isn't easy western voters don't want another gung ho i mean campaign they learned their lesson

off the first few times the international community sick of reckless interventions the only thing left is to wait for asset to give them a cools and since he's a comic book supervillain that's just part of the script. well to discuss this further which i'm diana about director of the trans national foundation for peace and future research thanks for joining us here on the program now as a says that these videos are fake and part of a smear campaign how credible do you think moscow account is. i really can't tell because i have not seen the details of this particular chemical attack that should have taken place but let me say more generally i was in aleppo in december when it was liberated there were none of the west the mainstream media present and neither what i saw or resembled what was really there's nothing new in

the fact that war is something that has to be solved that all and had it whether it was weapons of mass destruction or it was. having a plan for genocide in kosovo etc what is interesting is that the modern media is now a very serious much more intensive battleground for marketing fake news news that are going to legitimated wars and that journalists in general are turned to me with out the concern about the possible role that they play in one i used to call the military industrial media academic complex namely that they would promote warfare knowingly or not much more than peace the ability mediation in security and there is something i think media people should be very careful about these days yeah i mean we've heard washington making threats of an infant intervention. can

you explain and what influence if any these threats are having on the situation. well you know if if if an event is taken serious as as truthful politicians will have to react to it because there's a close simbi else's now between the mainstream media and political power very few critical questions are raised and we've seen again and again that it was possible to legitimating warfare because something was building up something in me and media and media drive was made that looked made it looked like warfare would be the only way intervention such as the dams in mass destruction weapons would be the only reasonable thing to do now after war who has taken responsibility for this now let me say it is very important that we are aware that knowledge good analysis

etc is all put in the background these days in international politics i mean i'm old enough to remember politics based on intellectual reasoning knowledge and analysis what we're into here is totally wobbly ground from it even if you see it at the moment state department in the us is being being being emptied of people who know things. until a tools in terms of scholarly input into the political decision making process is disappearing what we have instead of spin doctors we have marketing companies propaganda we have foundations we have think tanks who all are willing to present our view that in langley percent of the cases is behind or promotive of violence rather than nonviolence or if you will peace journalism or some kind of other journalism than that which promotes warfare and i must say if i was a journalist i would be very or an editor i would be very concerned about the last

ten years development and what they were they tell us about the possible future where we will have wars for completely. any kind of reality behind it oh yeah and very quickly because we haven't got much time you know you mention the fact that politicians need to react and i mean you've mentioned a lot about the media well the media are questioning the lack of evidence provided by the u.s. and whether they're failing to do so or refusing to do so why do you think this is well as a media and i hope as it mainstream media the large media that are influencing the western decision making process and the citizens opinion about this you take the case for instance of the totally black picture that is painted of of us are now nobody can be as evil as he's been made in the western world you just gave some statement before this interview and it is also obvious that what journalists keep on doing immediately is

a wrong thing because they look at the violence being used they don't look and still do not know how to do conflict journalism ladylove warfare somehow but they don't love the conflicts and they don't understand conflict in such a way that they can help the citizens understand what is syria about what it is about is reduced simplified into non-recognition of one man who just suddenly one day in april two thousand and eleven went man other words hurt for eleven years as president done quite a lot of good things for these people but some new one morning he wakes up you know and begins to kill mass killers on people i'd like to see is psychiatry's to can explain that ok well yeah we've run out of time there director of trans national foundation for peace and future research thank you very much for your thoughts on that closure and thanks indeed. now for a t.v. channel video cameras have been giving a c.n.n. a few headaches this week several and

a cover clips are post online at allegedly exposing attitudes at the channel towards russia related stories. they want to see them constantly and. this is really it is really reserve the right. it's just like. you know we don't know. what you think's going to happen this week it's all russia. really. you just saw a c.n.n. producer and one of their political commentators last van jones responded to the undercover video saying his words had been taken out of context and that he did not think there was nothing to claims team trunk colluded with russia and tried to cover it up both videos were released by investigative journalism group project very tight as their founder is already facing

a million dollar lawsuit over an undercover video sting against democratic organizations and activists we also mochas what they think about the media's coverage of and obsession with russia related stories. are you tired of hearing about trump and russia oh yes actually i guess that's all i hear about problems. it's just getting a little tiring we're all exhausted however however it has to be it has to be the truth as to come out and the truth is that there was interference in the american electorate system but by putin the sentiment you feel like this is what the american people want to see on t.v. is they want to hear about trump allegedly working with russia. not me not a my friend i think they would that something you know if if if there is something secret about something people want to know even more so if you just bring it out in the open if there is something you'll come out if it's not then it's just go away and you feel like the media should be reporting on this more or less less i'd like

to hear where these sources are coming from or who's saying it spares i know it could be my next door neighbor they don't have proof they need to drop it. we asked the people behind the video what the russia thing refers to we do 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 from first reading it what the way the drug war and look at the line of strikes again you know the president of the united states just went out to a radio zogby ursule instagram's you know so i'm assuming you're curious as well it's not just c.n.n. i want to make this very clear if you were in the mainstream media in america you know you are killing lives you ordinary people you are be keeping stories you're keeping the little or none of them through you're on our list. now the south of the week's all of the u.k.'s minority. government finally signed

a deal with northern islands democratic unionist party to shore up its power but the deal came at a price with prime minister theresa may having to stump up a billion pounds for the province of the next two years. we have reached an agreement with the conservative party on support for government in parliament this agreement. to deliver a stable government in the united kingdom's national interest at this vital time the agreement sees the prime minister backtrack on a number of key alexion pledges including reforms to pensions and benefits the d.p. has agreed to support the tories in all matters of confidence including talks and national security issues ati's honest to see if you're going to has been taking a closer look. i know you said he was a no nonsense oh. instead of stepping down the british prime minister had a different plan but it seemed like whichever way she turned there was potential

for trouble the tories have penned a deal with the democratic unionist party of northern ireland which is opposed to a hard bracks it something may has accepted as a possibility on top of that the d u p have been criticised for their policies on same sex marriage and abortion as well as previously acts with violent paramilitary groups in northern ireland not a perfect ally but the attendee u.p.a. m.p.'s have been crucial for theresa may so much so she was ready to pay their support came with a hefty price tag of one billion pounds to be spent over the next twenty years that's in addition to the previously announced five hundred million in funds to northern ireland and who is footing the bill you may ask as always the taxpayer taxpayers resent politicians cooking up deals behind closed doors that invariably end with their cash being thrown wherever it's politically advantageous rather than where it could be best spent to recently called it a good deal and the do you be are delighted if you think the same applies to scotland and wales think again this is the worst kind of pork barrel politics which

is shredded the last vestiges of credibility of this weekend prime minister it is outrageous that the prime minister believes she can secure her own political future by throwing money at northern ireland was completely ignoring the rest of the u.k. despite the british government having now plastered together a solution the question is for how long will it stick after all the irony is that a mere seven tory m.p.'s switching sides would potentially be enough for a majority to slip away once they see a party funded opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn claim the deal with not in the national interest but rather in may's own interest and he voiced concern about whether the money for the agreement was coming from and frank there was no investment for the rest of the country. after the break we'll bring you all the build up to the confederations cup final between chile and germany in st petersburg which is just in a few hours. one

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because. it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before . welcome back to the weekly it's the last day of the confederations cup twenty seventeen and the hours a ticking down to the final between chile in germany neil harvey and stan collymore in st petersburg and of been closely watching the closing stages of the tournament so here they are now with our special coverage. all the world st petersburg the sun is shining everything is coming together now for a fantastic final germany against chile this evening it's thirty fourth in the feature

world rankings alongside me my number one sidekick we haven't replaced a yet you sing really well you do know that all things are placed for the back of certain open right place for the cat but there is still time as a professional footballer now with a big match he played in big finals with enough a cup final what are you doing now in terms of preparation it's quite simple leave hopefully have a good night's sleep where the interesting thing between germany and chilly chilly have played in big finals in south america and of course this is the third final consecutively some of the young germans one experienced the build up to the sky and so it's going to be interesting so you have relaxed but not before you trying to get a good night's sleep you get hope you go for a walk that might well have been around some preachers bring this morning perhaps in the grate on the grounds of their hotel there would have a little bit of lunch together they would have gone through with both managers corners said precincts who small can wear one of watched videos of their opponents

and then we just getting ready to get on to the process of the place a reuters type going towards the stadium look a little bit more about the fans of the games themselves now we can go to our correspondents we've got brad guys the now he's in moscow near the spotlight stage and that's where the fourth place matches in portugal and mexico is taking place and also kate party is going to be giving an eye on preparations for the final here in st petersburg let's go first though to run guys there but you know i would much rather be inside there than out here talking about it in the rain but it's all right we're not made out of sugar. everybody is having a jolly old time when we spoke to fads as they were getting in many of the decks out of their favorites of their preferred teams gear you know would smiles and cheery spirits looking forward to it here is what they've told us over the course of the tournament. if we would so much make sure russia we thought maybe the

like going to be bad we want to match it completely opposite they were still playing friendly russian people were so friendly friendly just easy to me it was beautiful yeah definitely we would come back from work and if you come here to be here it will make the. stadium itself is packed from what we've been told all forty five thousand tickets a soul does indeed the sixty thousand tickets for the final so certainly much mary inside there than it is out here. thank you for capital to the second city to st petersburg paltry huge we've had some fantastic times there with the chilean fans guy looks if you're having the same i'm here behind the corinthia high so it's the next to the prospect the main route insipidus back and it's turned into a little bit of chilly because the team is about to appear and behind them are all that she found lays it just about what. he.

got. up. with a city good mood there when she didn't seem to be the table to be out for forty five we can just see the bus directly in front of us and as you can hear is getting pretty noisy as they found a celebration before going underground to get the metro to the subpoenas big stadium they all really adding to the atmosphere but we got a few of them in the studio there ready to go full throttle to support that they give us a song pretty gung ho not. you know they. do you. do know. wolf. oh well a lot of you know. ok

we really need to be funded now to sort of violence and keep doing it i'm going to pull spanish books about the next up and you can tell about that woman right. ok speaking of balance and independence bringing that kid intended now he's a sports writer for the guardian given you've been out covering the torch this the what is it you're looking for on your future show off in a really great time very enjoyable you know there was a lot of concern among foreign fans about whether russia was ready and what generally you know whether russia was a safe place to count but from every all spoken to it's passed with flying colors have you enjoyed it because we've been here filming i've been here the first time in a long drawn and seeing the changes in russia boiling will saw a major the usual suspects coffee shops and big department stores of treasure have a lot since all first time in fifteen years ago we surprised you you know i was

this is my third time in russia and i think. done a great job make it more accessible for fun fans from the airport signage the friendly volunteers have been really impressed by the volunteers actually done a great job always very accessible and willing to help out ok i don't want to overstate how great things ago i know everything that must be something you feel could be improved but you know i mean it is a rehearsal essentially for the world cup what more can be done yeah exactly i think the crowds are a little disappointing that's not entirely unexpected this is not a big you know he's not a huge storm and we're going to get the fans coming in their millions but that must be in the group stages was just. pointing i really hope tonight in st petersburg we see a packed stadium i think the big question for the hosts and for the local guys in committee is are the less the cities the lesser it has population and as a moral center is that when the exactly are they ready but i'll certainly be telling all of my friends and colleagues back hard that you know next year twenty or ten world cup is going to be

a really fantastic one. will join us later today with all the latest from the confederations cup final next all to you though an israeli peace negotiator appalled discussing the country's strategy in the middle east. bosler the dubrovnik venice our will fix travel destinations so it must be nice to live or is it. crowds of tourists disrupt the city's economic and social life before the sun the sun mustn't get out of the traditional story some not as some but yes

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welcome to well to part for much of the syrian war the iranian arab consensus has played handsomely into israel's hands and that is until the friends of syria group imploded from within with turkey and qatar now being more open than their defiance of the saudis and the american stance growing ever more unpredictable to what is a plea for israel people to discuss that i'm now joined by golan chair one of israel's senior peace negotiators mr sure is such an order such a pleasure to have you on the show thank you very much for your time i thank you now it's believed that israel has largely stayed out of the syrian war even though occasionally it did conduct airstrikes as well as had some a system assistance program going on to how the anti government groups operating in and around the golan heights what is your sense about this conflict where is it

heading now. well it seems that the conflict this terrible tragic bloodshed is moving slowly towards some kind of subsided arrangement and israel has been very consistent since the outset of this conflict it does not intervene in this internal tragedy we've been on the sidelines since the outset as you know except for one thing and this is treating the war wounded who ever needed assistance or lifesaving got it from israel well mr show you are you mentioned a phrase subsided there arrangement and if you look at the latest events in syria the americans took down the syrian jet a few days ago the iranians have just fired ballastic misspells at some isis targets in syria it looks like things are really heating up our rob of them

entering the stage of what you call subsided there arrangement do you take that as a sort of calculated bargaining various players trying to secure a better negotiating position for themselves or is the situation progressively getting out of control no i don't think that it gets out of control and i believe that the. phrase that you used to be a calculated bargaining is what is what we see now unfortunately what we what we're seeing is. is us and staying that means that iran has the upper hand which was of course not something that israel has ever desired and i don't believe that the other parties want it that. and especially not the united states but what russia could not do and what america could not do i believe that israel.