systemic deficiencies russia slams an investigation into a chemical attack in syria accusing it of bias against the us government. thousands of royal figures and ministers are detained in saudi arabia and what riyadh coal's phase one of its anti corruption push. underestimated us and do not try a. warning to north korea during his asia tour which now sees him in china where you hopes to get beijing to take a tougher stance with pyongyang. and russia's investigative committee rejects the conclusions of the mclaren report on alleged russian state sponsored doping saying there is no proof that athletes violated doping rules on maps.

showing the team here at the international a very well welcome to you we have your wednesday world headlines. russia has a joint report by the un chemical watchdog on a deadly sarin gas attack in syria in april saying it is full of systemic deficiencies moscow warns that if nothing changes the work of the joint investigative mechanism will turn into an anti us too. of macabre but you should just wish you the work of existing international structures that reveals 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 to 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 could be traced to government stockpiles the mandate of the joint investigative mechanism would expire in a week and now both russia and america are calling for its extension but on different terms as caleb maupin reports the russian ambassador spoke to the meeting of the u.n. 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. investigates is carried out of the work remotely the report is full of admissions in consistencies and 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 so and most transports of the news also the visit. would be crucial to proof of sarin was there and defined who's responsible for that sack in other words it was the gym so 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 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 report not only identifies those behind the chemical and. it also explains how it reached its conclusion it makes know 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 earlier russian military experts presented their own conclusions saying that the attack could not have been carried out by a syrian jet they would none in the area also know aerial bomb fragments were found by russian explosive experts added that the chemical attack was likely improvised and that a bomb had perhaps been placed on a pavement now despite russia's concerns the west was quick to point the finger at damascus alleging it carried out the attack and this was long before both the report and its conclusions and we spoke to investigative journalist rick stirling

who says the report has gaping flaws. they got a very shaky conclusion and even that report indicates that the number of various irregularities definitely an understatement so i had 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 big good look at the terror happens they acknowledge in the report that they cannot confirm that there were syrian chair over khan shaken 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 apparently another count and actually that u.s. radar tracking could herb's that syrian jet fighter says it has no closer than five kilometers from conficker 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. he has detained dozens of royal figures and ministers what it calls phase one of its 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 us president has expressed approval for the controversial move despite the fact that one of his former business partners has reportedly among those detained his artie's jacqueline phooka. 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 we will not have a 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 salmon 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 all what we'd been told all an internationally known businessman holding shares in several u.s. companies like apple twitter citi group 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 fairly 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. no trump no war that was the message to the american president from protesters in seoul ahead of a speech to the south korean national assembly in his address trump described north korea as a quote hell that no one deserves while also we're hearing 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 president

has now landed in china for the next much anticipated leg of his trip details here with some error. as donald trump arrives in china on its 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 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 leave 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. so marathon r.t. washington d.c. international relations expert victor gao says the trumps harsh words for pyongyang are not particularly helpful. 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 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 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 while the u.s. president conducts his asia trip nato has backed up donald trump's recent promise to military presence in afghanistan by sending three thousand troops to the country and daniel hawkins has 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 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 djibouti 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. he is going underground to spoken to willem dafoe the star of a new movie called the florida project which the critics have called a deeply moving and unforgettably poignant look at childhood is a preview. you

know having long should be a basic right these people don't have that. they struggle and that's the world that we're talking about in this movie so the second week of the summer there's already been a good fish in the pool. water blue strong lead tourists. the mother money you. can there's something joyous about its portrait of childhood but at the same time always in the shadow you see the adults who are struggling and you recognize if these kids don't have different opportunities and if they continue to grow up this way though and. facing the same challenges sister parents. i think you're showing your wednesday well let's hear one oxy international just a moment a live report with what up guys did have the issue of being russia has questioned the conclusions of the mclaren report on

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selves worlds apart. to look for common ground. just twenty twenty past here in moscow russia's investigative committee has rejected claims of a russian state sponsored doping program and said that the world anti-doping agency had provided no proof of the allegations made in a report by canadian lawyer richard mclaren let's get details now our teams but i guess the warning us here live on the program good to see you the committee what else is the committee had to say well this has been an exhaustive study they questioned more than seven hundred athletes as well as their coaches various

medical personnel on these allegations and they actually address the specific allegations the first being that samples was switched they rejected that they say that the mclaren report says that after the positive soundboards positive drug samples which switched with negative ones by way of adding salt and distilled water to the urine samples and this way any banned substances in them undetectable basically and the russians said that. these samples couldn't have been positive because once you study them once you look at their consistency once you look at their makeup well any any one thing could make them an anomalous result for example if it out the train hard then he drank something depending on the volume and what he drank the result could be called a normal us which is what the mclaren report called many of these samples the next

allegation that was rejected was that the bottles themselves were opened the swiss firm that makes these bottles markets them as tamper proof and the russians after experimenting with them said that well they found that if you tamper with these bottles you can't you can't open them and close them without damaging would destroy . their integrity so basically you leave a mark any way you look at it the other allegation serious allegation was that there was a huge duping program a state sponsored mass doping program and again the seven hundred athletes and coaches and medical personnel that they question none of them admitted to a mass doping program russians say that while there may have been individual individual violations individual use of banned substance there was no state sponsored duping program in the mclaren report has no evidence of

a mass state sponsored doping program more than that though the prosecutors are also in possession of a phone call between. nick of he was the disgraced now disgraced head of the restart of the russian anti doping agency during which he called the current head of the anti doping agency and offered money for a database. for a database of athletes results doping results he offered money as well as u.s. citizenship and amnesty. it was concluded that flushing who is now in the u.s. and works with professor mclaren telephoned a former sat a hat and asked her to sell him the database of russian athletes test results the former saddam had told russian investigators about this and now the committee has records of their conversations. this all of course after two russian

athletes skiers were banned for life from competing in the olympics after they were found guilty of using bad substances questions here arise as well because these the investigation itself is still ongoing get athletes are already being banned for life. at the. 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 it all i shot them and then they cut the heads off of the oval room people trying to jump on the crowd on board the helicopter burst into tears the united nations has called isolate the temp to wipe out the religious minority group genocide the genocide is ongoing 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 z.t. struggle continues the genocide is still ongoing our people have been suffering in camps for over two years i solicit all holding every three thousand years of the people in 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 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 young girls and killed the man 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 to. because back in the international eye and for more action to be taken we haven't seen much less from the international community treat. us well he and i asked to. see the spirit continue and when i was.

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 sell. r.t. london. it is a day of general strike in catalonia where pro independence activists have blocked main roads and stop commuter trains all in protest over the recent juggling of regional leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and deems the catalan declaration of independence as illegal protesters cut off one of the main motorways in the region of gerona the one that connects france and spain also pictures are emerging online of hundreds of people breaking through a police court on the gerano railway station.

was. us football fans prepare for the upcoming fifo world cup launched a new program hosted by former england striker stan collymore in the latest episode he interviews former english football star michael owen a quick preview for now the full show on friday. i just had this what i thought was normal this view going into games and it wasn't intentional i just thought the i never looked you know is the he left footed is he slower than the other one i was faster than anything i was going to score no matter what. i don't even think. i

just assume it's just an older guy i always score goals so i will school. just you know just play me and i'm you know i was just a bowl of excitement really i had no favorites all i know i did apart from the we're playing argentina no idea about that play is any strengths weaknesses and i just went into the guy probably as well as anybody in the in the in terms of knowing who i'm playing against. or that wraps up for me here on r.t. international but my colleague mickey aaron will be well presenting your wednesday world headlines in about half an hour.

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