full of systemic deficiencies at the u.n. security council russia's flounce a probe into a chemical attack in syria. do not underestimate. and do not try donald trump sends a stop doing to north korea on his asia tool he's now in china where he's pushing beijing to take a tougher stance against pyongyang. chaos in council only as a general strike when three areas to look old almost fifty the road so blocked across the region in protest over the jailing of top politicians. and russia's investigative committee rejects the conclusions of the mclaren report alleged russian state sponsored doping saying there is no proof that athletes while

a to do things rules on monday. a warm welcome you're watching on t.v. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital i make you aaron good to have you with us. now russia has slammed a joint report by the un on the chemical watchdog on the deadly sarin gas attack in syria in april saying it is full of the systemic deficiencies the country's deputy envoy to the u.n. addressed moskos concerns to the security council. does the work of exist in international structures do school reveal systemic deficiencies as regards to syrian chemical weapons reports the results of then this to geisha of incidents involving the use of poisonous substances

a deeply disappointing the report issued two weeks ago concluded assad's government was behind the attack which left more than eighty dead it also stated the sarin gas used can be traced to government stockpiles the mandate of the investigation expires in a week both moscow and washington are calling for its extension but on different terms as artie's caleb maupin explains the russian ambassador spoke to the meeting of the un security council and he was less than enthusiastic about the report 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 un satisfactory. investigators carried out their work remotely the report is full of admissions inconsistency isn't discrepancies of very mediocre quality there's a question as the samples collected. from syria it is unclear how the sarin

was transported and also a visit to iraq would be crucial to proof of sarin was there and on who's responsible for that in other words it was the judy sask 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 jail. of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons the o.p.c. w for the 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 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. russian military experts presented their own conclusions samia top could not have been carried out by a syrian jet as none were within range also no fragments from an aerial bomb were found russian explosives experts maintain an improvised devices been used which had been placed on a pavement at the time of the attack the west was quick to point the finger at damascus long before any official findings were released the head of the joint investigation said even if the 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 that's north of you investigative journalist rick sterling says. they've got

a very shaky conclusion and even their report indicates that the number of various irregularities. that lead understatement side the report it signal haulage 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 so the syrian chair over a country a coon at the time of the incident which 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 confirms that the syrian jet fighters 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. saudi arabia has detained dozens of royal fake us and ministers and what it's corning phase one of an anti-corruption 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 anti-corruption body the us presidency expressed his approval for the controversial move despite the fact one of his former business partners was reportedly among those detained with the details his aunties jacqueline. 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've 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 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. the u.s. and north korea have traded insults again pyongyang's called trump balloon a take old man before adding washington's not fit to turn act as a judge of human rights and also off the president trying to describe north korea as a hell but no one deserves during his stop in seoul this part of his asian tour he also issued a stark warning to the hermit state what i say to the north do not underestimate . and do not try every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you say. president trump is now in china for

the next much anticipated leg of his trip the business has already proved fruitful is being reported that the u.s. and china have signed some twenty trade deals worth nine billion dollars the chinese side has dubbed them a warm up before the biggest ceremony on thursday r.t.s. american looks back at trump and she's previous meeting 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 sciatica 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 they said we've just launched. missiles. heading to iraq and what would you have to just 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 the weapons 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 about for the world the purchasing it from the united states. now trump is counting on the chinese president to back him up as he puts pressure

on pyongyang president xi 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 while 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 iraq on r.t.e. washington d.c. and international relations expert victor gal believes no matter what donald trump says tanisha stick to a peaceful approach. 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 resolve to china need to stand on its own principle and do the

right thing that is to avoid war and stand firm for the president on trial as. recent for using very inflammatory rhetoric. ok and i personally believe these rather reeks is not helpful at all it's not constructive 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. spain's constitutional court has officially a no council loney is declaration of independence meanwhile a general strike has brought the region to hope with pro independence activists blocking the roads and stopping trains in major cities in protest over the jailing of regional leaders madrid accuses them of rebellion and sedition and dame's the

independence declaration in lugo scores of roads have been blocked by the protests in barcelona police clashed with demonstrators as officers tried to remove them from a motorway the protesters also cut off the regional routes through to rhona connecting spain to froth and that she wrote a train station hundreds of protesters broke through the police. now russia's investigative committees rejected claims the country had been running and their labrat state sponsored doping program is that the world anti-doping agency has provided no proof to back the fines or

a pause by canadian lawyer richard mclaren and he's more aghast you have reporters . well they carried out an extensive in-depth investigation involving more than seven hundred athletes their coaches various medical personnel and they question them about the allegations in the mclaren report and a number of them they rejected firstly they rejected the claim that some of the some pills was switched and this claim was made in the mclaren report it said it said that some of them are normal or some of the samples indicating that perhaps they were mixed with salt and distilled water in order to hide banned chemical substances in the samples while the investigators stage their own experiments and they found that depending on how intensely an athlete trained what he had drunk his unique physiological exchange process as well many samples could be found as

anomalous the second claim that they rejected was that the urine sample bottles themselves were tampered with were opened them manufactured by a swiss company and they're made to be incredibly difficult to open if not impossible to open and close without leaving any sort of mark and back in march there was an experiment that investigation which found that these a urine bottles can't be opened without damaging the integrity of the bottles themselves or even destroying them so that claim doesn't fly either the other claim that they rejected was that there was a state sponsored massive national doping program in russia investigators say the evidence that they have is that there is no evidence that mclaren report hasn't offered any of them mass stooping to stem but the investigators did say that they don't deny that there may have been individual cases of athletes using banned

substances but those seven hundred question many of them said that. they did indeed buy performance enhancing drugs which they believed to be legal from grigori he's the former head of the russian anti-doping agency on whose testimony much of the mclaren report was was made and here's what they had to say matthew that's what caught our doping while taking the drugs i'd bought from roche and give it said the tests would always been negative if we used these drugs later he took them off me and never gave them back my athletes was disqualified for two years even though we deny using prohibited drugs later i remembered i bought some drugs from rob chink of during the testing period now i suspect the drugs he sold me were banned. of allegedly claim that the athletes that these were illegal substances but after doping tests they were marked as positives nevertheless grigori watching of himself investigators claim they have this phone call on record on tape he called the

current head of the russian anti-doping agency and offered money a bribe in return for a database of all russian athletes doping results. it was concluded that flushing who is now in the u.s. and works with professor mclaren telephoned a former site i had and asked her to sell him the database of russian athletes test results that the former senator had told russian investigators about this and now the committee has records of their conversations earlier this month of course to russian athletes skiers both were banned for life from competing in the olympics due to positive results in doping tests but the questions being asked here now is that if the investigation is still ongoing why are athletes already being banned for life. now the u.k. minister faces coal to be fired this time for the lies told while on holiday find

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welcome back speculations rife that the u.k. minister for international development is about some face the chop after it came to light she held an official meetings with key israeli officials during a holiday if confirmed pretty patel will become the cabinet minister to full in just a matter of days that is to say a check in a report was from london more scandal potentially indicating that recent made hasn't necessarily been keeping her house in order now the latest right rumors around westminster are that international development secretary pretty patel is

potentially about to be sacked by theresa may following what has been described as a cover up scandal following revelations that she had met with twelve israeli officials and leaders or actually held twelve meetings while being on vacation back in august as well as held two more meetings in september without appropriately disclosing this information to theresa may herself as well as the foreign office and the british government this has led to lots of accusations of rebellious behavior acting in defiance with existing process as well as calls to not just sack her but also u.k. foreign secretary boards johnson and we should be applying a special. and if if if. if particular target has to go or i find it difficult to see how he can stay in his ear to go down due to the care of the cost lives supplies above all true bruton street. i find it difficult to see how he can stare at them well of course johnson is obviously no stranger to controversy but

his latest blunder came following comments that he had made involving a case of a british citizen being kept in iran that could potentially. prolong the amount of time this british citizen has to stay in jail in iran lots of questions about whether or not that behavior on his part was appropriate and all of this calms as recently as house of cards really seems to be tumbling left and right because of course we have been seeing most recently the scandals and accusations and investigations looking into the potential sex sexual harassment involving cabinet ministers as well as of course just very recently the resignation of the u.k. defense secretary michael fallen over issues of inappropriate behavior so let's see how this of rubbles but it seems to be clear that at this point anything but calm waters here in westminster. with i still being steadily driven out of syria and iraq the plight of you yet remains dire you know with the u.n.

acknowledged the genocide of the kurdish religious minority was still ongoing and it looks like little has changed since then artie's poly boyko spoke to use of these who said the he said the international community hasn't been doing in 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 a low. 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 a little overwhelmed by people trying to jump on board the crowd on board the helicopter burst into tears the united nations has called isolate 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 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 a brit who he is i solicit a holding every three thousand years and 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's eve village in northern iraq well i so it'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 rapes

young girls and killed the man i tried to escape twice with to talk to each attempts the courts me and beats me this is a time i succeeded and fled to the main highway that i went to the first house i saw in people that helped me but the minority group wants them. of course back in the international eye and for more action to be taken we haven't seen much from. what she asked to meet each village. 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 probably boyko r.t.

london. so it's a religious practices have been bound by a prestigious university in germany the move was reportedly prompted by complaints about students praying too loudly in the library and using the bathrooms to wash their feet while in a state hamburg university's president said certain events had raised questions as to how to deal with religion in study research and everyday life at the university the statement goes on to say the new approach came after consultation with experts from various fields of study the new code of conduct at the university of hamburg bands religious the liberations on site and says that any rituals should not disrupt other students were religious symbols though it is permitted unless they impede communication well we spoke with students at the university who had mixed reactions. the reason class states of religious freedom was permitted and i think this statement is clear for everyone and this should be in doubt it's really saying

that this is basically our say that regarding the full body covering i don't really stand by it in my opinion it's a restriction for women and often it can be a question for correction it doesn't wish her strongly i don't think it's problematic to wear a full covering because i think there's the other extreme example well or young student shows far too much skin it's a muslim living in germany in a christian democratic country and i think it's good to i'm able to practice my religion the university says it's against any discrimination chairman of the vice bond and i cademy for integration in a series on day believes each case should be addressed separately the aim of this conflict context is. to bring religious activities just in one small room out of the real life of the students what religion

is for those students who are christian jewish or muslim is one part of their identity so if this is one part of their identity. to have it also in their normal life i think the right way to handle the situation is to have more of the yellow to talk really with those people. were there are misunderstandings with. what do you get in touch and share your views on the day stories by following us on facebook and twitter and i'll be back in about half an hour with the latest headlines. here's what people have been saying about rejecting the night was your decision to pull on also the only show i go out of my way to launch you know what it was that really packs a punch just leave yampa is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than food nothing's better i see people you never heard of love

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