systemic deficiency. of the geisha into a chemical attack in syria accusing it of bias against the assad government. royal figures and ministers detained in saudi arabia in what riyadh kohls phase one of its corruption push. to. underestimate. and. try. sends a stark warning to north korea. moves to china where he hopes to get to take a full.

day here in moscow thanks for joining us on our team to national we have your wednesday news headlines. 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 and moscow warns that if nothing changes the work of the joint investigative mechanism will turn into an anti tool. of macabre would you should just wish you the work of existing international structures and reveal systematic deficiencies as regards the syrian chemical weapons report the results of the investigation of incidents involving the use of poison the substances are deeply disappointing. the report issued two weeks ago concluded assad's government was behind the attack which left over eighty dead it also stated that the sarin gas used can be traced to government stockpiles and the mandate of the joint

investigative mechanism will expire in zero week and now both russia and america according for its extensions of but on different terms. and investigates the 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. investigators carried out the work remotely the report is full of admissions inconsistency isn't discrepancies of very mediocre quality there's a question as the samples collected by third parties and whether they're from syria so it is unclear how the sarin was transported to the news and also the visits. would be crucial to proof of sarin was there and define who's responsible for that sack in other words it was the jimson asked 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 g.m. 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 there's 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 it would have changed nothing in their findings on conclusions he also said the body takes great care to ensure its methodology is technically sound however earlier russian military experts presented their own conclusions saying that the attack could not have been carried out by a syrian jet there were none in the area also no aerial bomb fragments were found in the russian explosives experts are that that the chemical attack was likely improvised and that a bomb had more than likely been placed on the pavement. well despite russia's concerns the west was quick to point the finger at damascus alleging it carried out the attack long before both the report and its conclusions and we spoke to investigative journalist rick stirling who says there are some very worrying flaws in this report. they've got a very shaky conclusion and even their report indicates that the number of various irregularities definitely an understatement started the report it's 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 a terror or it happens they acknowledge in the report that they cannot confirm that there were syrian chair over a country who are at the time of the incident if nobody you know showing syrian jets the syrian air force says they were not going to take you and they were attacked another town and actually that u.s. radar tracking could herbs that syrian jet fighters has no closer than five kilometers from conch a coup so in addition to that any investigation and an essential component of it is looking at motive who has a motive or 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.

saudi arabia has detained dozens of royal figures and ministers and what it now coal's an anti corruption push these arrests do not represent the start but the completion of phase one of our anti-corruption push and levon princes for ministers and many ex ministers were detained by the saudi anti corruption body the u.s. president has expressed approval for the controversial move despite the fact that one of his former business partners was reportedly among those detained some details now with artie's jacqueline forgot. 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 arrests 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 will not follow a contrary have a to be at the mercy of commodity price volatility in the 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 solomon and the crown prince of saudi arabia they know exactly what they are doing. some of those they

are harshly treating have been milking that country for years so who exactly is as donald trump claims milking saudi arabia dry one person is sixty two year old prince always read that bin talal an internationally known businessman holding shares in 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 don't be prince our will lead to lower ones to control us politicians with daddy's money can do it when i get elected apparently that 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 is also you international no trump the war that was the message to be american president from protesters in seoul ahead of a speech to the south korean national assembly in his address probably described north korea as a quote hell that no one deserves while also issuing a stark warning to its leader. what i say to the north do not underestimate us and do not try this we will defend our common security our shared prosperity and our sacred liberty. the president has now landed in china for the next much anticipated leg of his trip details now with some air con. 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 sciatic all 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 having 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 prime minister the band 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 carry over and will he be able to strike a sweet deal for the u.s. some marathon party washington d.c. . international relations expert victor gao says the trump's harsh words for

pyongyang are unhelpful. president obama trump is. a very controversial president i think from the chinese perspective we need to deal with the presidency of the united states very seriously so whatever rhetorics all of the things which president may result to china need to stand on its own principle and do the right thing president on trial has been all in recent months for using very inflammatory rhetoric. ok and i personally believe rather rick's very threatening in nature threatening war warmongering for example is not helpful at all ever see this 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 plenty of news stories coming your way here on the program today on we return and just. make this manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final merry go round. we can all middle of the room.

new socks try to tell you that. they. are. joining us here on r.t. now what the u.s. president conducts his asia trip nato backed 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 and details. 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 only to the persons in the eastern part of the alliance a few hundred troops here a thousand there with nato expanding its troop numbers across europe's 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 and 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 particular 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 any effective remedy enhancing security and stability sounds like a good mission and also an irrefutable justification for increasing military influence around the globe. it's been three years since the genocide of. a kurdish religious minority in syria and iraq but the crisis is far from over the u.n.

acknowledges the genocide is going. poorly boyko spoke to us these who say the international community has not been doing much to help them. these were the images that shocked the world over three years ago thousands of use edis trapped on mountain jar in northern iraq. to even. the media told the harrowing stories of the use e.d.s. persecution at the hands of jihadists. i shot them and then they cut their heads over over the room they people trying to jump on board the crowd on board the helicopter burst into tears the united nations has called i solicit attempt 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 and the public's attention has shifted elsewhere but the struggle continues the genocide is still ongoing our people have been suffering in camps for over two years i salute still 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 in northern iraq when i so attacked 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 rapes young girls and killed the men i tried to escape twice to talk to each attempts they cause me

and beats me this is the time i succeeded and fled to the main highway i went to the first house i saw and people there helped me but the minority group wants their cause back in the international eye and for more action to be taken we haven't seen much. from the international community. and i asked him to put those villages cities to be rid of them what i wish and go. with the caliphate of terror in syria and iraq on the verge of collapse the end of its brutal reign could pose new challenges for the region but 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 still poly boyko r.t. . twenty one minutes past the hour here in moscow the russian football team

play a friendly with argentina the twenty fourteen world cup finalists already here in moscow preparing for the game for the team conducted a training session at the new spot x. stadium which will host matches for the upcoming three four world cup and one of the players that's grabbed the most media attention is the argentine captain lionel messi the game between russia and argentina will take place at the newly rebuilt luzhniki stadium. as football fans prepare for the upcoming fifo world cup launching a new program hosted by former england striker stan collymore in the latest episode he interviews former english football star michael wood for now

a quick preview friday the full program i just had this what i thought was normal this view going into games and it wasn't intentional i just thought i never looked at you know is that he said is he slower than the other one i was fast 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 and 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 no one who i'm playing against.

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time after time she were going underground a century on from the day of the bolshevik revolution that would arguably save britain from hitler coming up on the show as britain's chancellor for the problem is nowhere to be seen for an emergency parliamentary question on the paradise of papers should britain's head of state apologize for offshoring millions of pounds for aggressive tax avoidance we speak to jeremy koreans u.k. labor party shadow emergencies minister chris williamson and we asked tory m.p. and deputy chairman of the u.k. just a select committee john howell if minority government needed to raise a maze premiership is sustainable in the wake of what appears to be

a new scandal every day there's new figures show alarming rises in u.k. food bank use water. director sean baker an oscar nominated actor will devote one more piece western economic crisis is doing to the children of the usa all the civil coming up today is going underground but first this week marks one hundred years since a revolution without which arguably britain today would be in the hands of nazi descendants the rapid industrialization that took place after ten days shook the world and russia would ensure the defeat of hitler on the eastern front that enormous human cost and allowed britain's escape from being an outpost of the third rush because according to go mark the revolution was supposed to happen here in london not three and a half hours by east of this studio in moscow it's something you can detect in the work of no m. chomsky the soviet union called it socialism in order to gain whatever to benefit from the marl appeal that true socialism had among large parts of the

general world population but this was about as remote from socialism as you can imagine so what about a socialist revolution in britain some marxist analyses require for conditions one a split amongst ruling classes like say over fifty fifty if you like break that to winning over the middle class say by catalyzing resentment over paradise papers tax dodging three instability over law enforcement say slashing police numbers by more than twenty thousand which has happened under the tories for increasing worker democracy arguably like that proposed for british boardrooms by u.k. prime minister to raise i'm a has self i want i've clarified today's meeting very clear we want workers representation on boards and workers on boards are also advocated by u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn so are the conditions right for a real revolution unlike russia nine hundred seventeen there's certainly class resentment over revelations from the so-called paradise papers detailing tax dodging by the rich that people will no doubt decide by joining me now is the

british labor party's shadow emergencies minister chris williamson before we get to . revolution the paradise papers your reaction to these new revelations which is a seriously injured people from the manchurian or attack did not get medical help for an hour that's the may twenty second attack in manchester the grand concert well that's incredibly troubling and certainly merits further investigation as to why that happened i mean i can speculate i mean one of the reasons i think potentially could be the fact that our emergency services all massively under-funded and i've seen substantial reductions in government investments and that's pled to a reduction in staffing and consequently right across the piece the emergency services are struggling to actually cope with the pressures that being put on the show the government would deny the cut had any big influence over the two or all i don't think they can deny the only do deny there is there isn't any any money and you guys seem to have all the money is part of the problem.