systemic deficiencies. an investigation into a chemical attack in syria accusing it of bias against the us government. underestimated. and do not try. to move to china. warning to north korea. and dozens of royal figures on ministers are detained in saudi arabia and what riyadh calls an unseen corruption push the u.s. president has expressed his support for the sudden despite alleged ties to one of the detainee.

a worldwide news headlines live from moscow from the news team here at the international a very warm welcome to you. russia has slammed a joint report by the un and a chemical watchdog on a deadly sarin gas attack in syria in april saying it is full of systemic deficiencies osco warns that if nothing changes the work of the joint investigative mechanism will simply turn into an assad tool will be used. we believe that the joint investigative mechanism which isn't trusted with such high responsibility cannot go on working in the same way without a comprehensive change it will become a tool for settling political accounts with the syrian authorities. the report was issued two weeks ago concluded a government was behind the attack which left over eight hundred but the mandate of

the joint investigative mechanism will expire in a week and now both russia and the us are calling for its extension. and has more. russian ambassador spoke to the meeting of the un security council and he was less than enthusiastic about the report he pointed out to many problems with the report in many aspects of the way the investigation was done relying on third parties as being rather on satisfactory. the investigators carried out their work remotely the report is full of omissions and consistencies and discrepancies of very mediocre quality there is a question as to the samples collected by third parties and whether they are from syria at all it is unclear how the syrian was transported and used also a visit to sharon to air base would be crucial to prove it's there and was there and to find out who was responsible for the attack in other words it was the gym's

task to find this out well immediately after hearing the report from the o.p.c. w. we heard from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations now when she spoke she praised the joint investigative mechanism or the gem of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w for their report and then she went on to urge the council to pass a new resolution prolonging their work investigating chemical weapons in syria the gym's report not only identifies those behind the chemical attack it also explains how it reached its conclusion it makes note of any irregularities it found in the information obtained from the investigation many developments are in the works others talk of a new resolution russia and china working together with the united states to draft a new resolution but as of yet it's not clear what's next for the o.p.c. w. or the joint investigative mechanism as they continue their work in syria. the head

of the joint investigative mechanism said that even if experts had visited the site of the attack it would have changed nothing in their findings and conclusions he also said the body takes great care to ensure its methodology is technically sound however russian and military experts presented their own conclusions saying that the attack could not have been carried out by a syrian jet none were anywhere nearby also no aerial bomb fragments were ever found russian explosives expos added the chemical attack was likely improvised and that a bomb had probably been placed on the pavement now despite russia's concerns the west was quick to point the finger at damascus alleging it had carried out the attack long before both the report and its conclusions and we spoke to investigative journalist rick stirling who says the report has significant flaws. they've got a very shaky conclusion and even that report indicates that

a number of various irregularities it is yes definitely an understatement started to report it sick knowledge that there were fifty seven victims transported to five different hospitals before the attack even happened. so how do you have a victim of an attack the floor it happens they acknowledge in the report that they cannot confirm that there were a syrian chair over a con shaken at the time of the incident which nobody you know showing syrian jets the syrian air force says they were not over a cake on shake the and they were an attack and other town and actually the u.s. radar tracking confirms that syrian jet fighters passed no closer than five kilometers from conflict so in addition to that any investigation an essential component of it is looking at motive who has a motive for a chemical weapons incident in syria obviously it's the opposition and the syrian government has every motive to prevent or never to have that happen.

no trump no wall that was the message to the american president from protesters in seoul ahead of his speech to the south korean national assembly in his address trump described north korea as a quote hell that no one does a while also assuming a stark warning to its leader. when i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try. we will defend our common security our shared prosperity and our sacred liberty meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov commented that the war of words will not lead to anything good now the next leg of president trumps asia trip is china a much anticipated visit there. samir khan reports. as donald trump arrives in china on his five nation asia tour it's now the chinese president's turn to roll

out the red carpet just six months ago the chinese leader came to washington and the two hit it off bonding over chocolate cake but trump couldn't help but be a bit theatrical during the dinner topping the magnificent dessert with a show of washington's military might we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen and president she was enjoying it so what happens is i said we've just launched fifty nine missiles heading to iraq and what were you headed to syria yes heading toward syria trump loves his weapons so much he thinks they're the solution to every problem and when the threat is as serious as north korea all the other countries in the region must be armed to the teeth and prepared to respond well that's the idea he's been trying to sell on his asia trip so far in both japan and south korea japan is going to be purchasing massive amounts of military equipment as he should south korea will be ordering billions of dollars of

that equipment we make the best military equipment by far we make the greatest military equipment in the world the f. thirty five fighter which is the greatest in the world the greatest in the world missiles of many different kinds whether it's planes whether it's missiles we make the best the greatest military equipment by far in the world be purchasing it from the united states. thank you very much. now trump is counting on the chinese president to back him up as he puts pressure on pyongyang president where we will be tomorrow china has been very helpful we'll find out how helpful so on but he really has been very very helpful well it's often said that diplomacy is merely seduction in another guys so the question is will trump's efforts to seduce the chinese. leader kerry over and will he be able to strike a sweet deal for the u.s. samir han park t. washington d.c.

international relations expert victor garber says that trumps harsh words for pyongyang simply put our unhelpful president of the trump is. a very controversial president but i think from the chinese perspective we need to deal with the presidency of the united states very seriously so whatever rhetorics or other things which president obama trump may result to china need to stand firm on its own principle and do the right thing president on trial has been normal in recent months for using very inflammatory rhetoric about d p r k and i personally believe these rather rigs very threatening in nature threatening war warmongering for example is not helpful at all ever see the president on. need to know why allows the united states has been selling huge amount of military weapons to many countries in different parts of the world selling more weapons may actually make

whatever military confrontation which may happen even more bloody causing more loss of life and that's the wrong thing to do at this very particular moment when peace as at stake nato is backing up donald trump's recent promise to boost america's military presence in afghanistan by sending three thousand more troops to the war ravaged country i know hawkins picks up the story. it's groundhog day for afghanistan an official announcement confirms another troop surge in the war torn country and while previous increases have involved american troops this time it's a combined nato job we have decided to increase the number of troops we will not go back in combat operations the current level this around thirteen thousand the new level would be around sixteen thousand a role train a system of the wise advise reassure assist boosting security notas

usual russian oil for sending troops across the globe a variation on its european deployments designed to reinforce the fences in the face of russian aggression europe is close to a more assertive russia we are implementing the biggest reinforcement to unclick to the fans responded in the proportionate measured way by increasing our military persons in the eastern part of the alliance a few hundred troops here a thousand there with nato expanding its troop numbers across europe see eastern borders every little helps now u.s. troops often make up the bulk of these missions but aside from the obvious places american soldiers can be found even further afield such as africa from jew booty to egypt there are over six thousand combat equipped troops in eleven different countries across the continent and if you didn't know the full extent of those the problem and don't even top us politicians sometimes seem to lose track of where

exactly their soldiers are at any given moment but i didn't know there was a thousand troops in niger you heard senator graham there he didn't know we had a thousand troops in the air did you know i did not nato was a stablished for something entirely different however its mission has changed they solve the think the nato members saw that it's all mission basically had become obsolete and that they had. undertake something else another approach if they want to remain relevant in the world and as we saw earlier when nato had had more troops in afghanistan they stayed predominantly in safe areas even though some some of the nato members particularly from germany were killed that's going to be the political. decision. with the hope of trying to show a a us a picture of unity of nato forces. working on the afghan

problem when in fact just working on troops per se as i said earlier is not necessarily going to be an effective remedy and security and stability sounds like a good mission and also an irrefutable justification for increasing military influence around the globe well a plenty of stories coming your way here on the program today on saudi arabia's corruption push sees many royal figures jailed and some of them key allies to the form a bush and clinton presidential administrations story and we'll just. in case you're new to the game this is how it works in our economy is built around core. confirmation from washington to washington post media the media.

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thanks for joining us here when i see saudi arabia has detained dozens of royal figures and ministers and what it calls an option push these arrests do not represent the start but the completion of phase one of our anti-corruption push eleven princes for ministers and many ex ministers were detained by the saudi anticorruption body and the us president has expressed approval for the controversial move despite the fact that one of his form of business partners has a reportedly among those detained. investigates. riyadh's ritz carlton became the impromptu site and luxurious prison for some of saudi arabia's most wealthy and powerful over the weekend it was a serious fall from grace for those rounded up including princes ministers and business people who had to make do with sleeping on the floor in the five star hotel.

it's all part of an unprecedented anti-corruption purge decreed by the king and put into motion by thirty two year old prince mohammad the sweeping or us are thought to be the young saudi heirs gamble to stamp out political rivals and clear his way to power and on that way he is ready to shatter decades of royal traditions by breaking saudi arabia's addiction to oil we will not allow our country ever to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility or external markets we have developed a case of oil addiction in saudi arabia and his rise to power principal home it has also forged a close relationship with the trump administration. so it perhaps came as no surprise when trump gave his backing to the so-called corruption purge on twitter i have great confidence in king son of man and the

crown prince of saudi arabia the new exactly what they're doing some of those the hall she treated have been milking the country for years so who exactly is as donald trump claims milking saudi arabia dry one person is sixty two year old prince all what we'd been told all an internationally known businessman holding shares and several u.s. companies like apple twitter citigroup and time warner funding early enough trump himself has ties to bin talal who reportedly helped bail out the tycoon turned president twice in the ninety's but the relationship seemingly fell apart in two thousand and fifteen. you are a disgrace not only to the g.o.p. but to all america withdraw from the us presidential race as you will never win do prince. wants to control our us politicians with daddy's money can do it when i get elected apparently about doesn't always apply to saudis pouring money into america trump is now pleading for the gulf states national oil company to float its shares

on the new york stock exchange so while term criticizes those arrested for milking saudi arabia it would seem the us president has nothing against milking riyadh's coffers to fill washington's. it's been three years since the genocide of the yazidi a kurdish religious minority in syria and iraq the crisis is far from over but the un acknowledging the genocide is ongoing r.t. is probably boyko spoke to one years ago the woman who are from an islamic state. these were the images that shocked the world over three years ago thousands of use edis trapped on mountain jar in northern iraq. to. the media told the harrowing stories of the use e.d.s. persecution at the hands of jihadists it all i shot them and then they put their

heads over overwhelmed by people trying to jump on the crowd on board the helicopter burst into tears the united nations has called i sold the temp to wipe out the religious minority group genocide the genocide is i'm going and remains largely unaddressed despite the obligation of space party to the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide of nine for eight to prevent and to punish the crime three years old the public's attention has shifted elsewhere but the struggle continues the genocide is still ongoing our people have been suffering in camps for a brit who he is i solicit a holding every three thousand years of the people our area has been completely destroyed now the community cannot return home we want the international community to support us in rebuilding our area and returning our people in two thousand and fourteen for rita abbas was a child living in a year. iraq well i say let's hacked they murdered her father and her

brothers and they took her and the rest of the women as prisoners. living under eisel captivity was terrible they separated mothers and children young girls and killed the man i tried to escape twice to talk to each attempts they cost me and beats me this is the time i succeeded and fled to the main highway i went to the first house i saw people there helped me but the minority group wants their. cool's back in the international eye and for more action to be taken we haven't seen much use for the international community each. week and i asked him to admit there's a village or city studio where it could be done what i wish. but the caliphate of terror in syria and iraq on the verge of collapse the end of its brutal regime could pose new challenges for the region for the biggest concern for

this minority group is that with no international attention or protection will anyone even notice if they just become a collateral footnote in a victory over i sell. it is art international thanks for joining us here it's wednesday morning in moscow the russian football team is set to play a friendly game with argentina twenty fourteen world cup finalists are already here in moscow in preparation for the game and the team conducted a training session of the new spar stadium which will host matches for the upcoming fifo world cup one of the players that's grabbed the most media attention is the argentine captain lionel messi of the game between russia and it will take place at the newly rebuilt luzhniki stadium.

as football fans prepare for the upcoming fifa world cup launched a new program hosted by former england striker stan collymore in the latest episode he interviews for my english football star michael owen a quick preview for now the full show is all day friday. i just had this what i thought was normal view going into guy and it wasn't intentional i just thought the i never looked to you know is the he said is he slower than the other one i was focused on anything i was going to school no matter what i don't even think. i just assume it's just another guy i always score goals so i will score. just you know just play me and i'm you know i was just

a ball of excitement really i had no favorites all i had no idea apart from the were playing argentina no idea about that play is any strengths weaknesses and i just went into the guy probably as bad as anybody in the in the same in terms of knowing who i'm playing against. program on this friday for the meantime the headlines continue in about half an hour.

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u.s. military contractor k.b.r. is under legal fire today over real fires in iraq the firm is charged with causing illnesses from massive burn pits used to incinerate garbage there. the veterans who are now suing k.b.r. because of their what they believe service connected health injuries say that k.b.r. short cut it didn't install and center raters when they should have had burned all this hazardous waste when it was a guess the o.t. regulations to do so and as a result they're sick of all the contracts that k.b.r. and held receive require them to comply with e.p.a. regulations the allegation is that k.b.r. rather than complying with the contract complying with these environmental regulations disposing only of what should be disposed of using incinerators doing

it the right way for reasons often related to profit margins was disposing of dangerous toxins in a way that directly impacted the health of soviet troops. seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products this is a do not truck tires all types of styrofoam and polystyrene batteries trucks quite a bit of different stuff. that should have been segregated out it was mine it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you're k.b.r. employee and you're throwing. biological medical waste into the. into the burn pit tires and anything else. that is known to be a toxin. then you're you're careless and you're you're putting people's health in jeopardy and that's exactly would a lot of these k.b.r. contractors were doing.