legal trouble. just because something is legal doesn't mean it's. full of systemic deficiencies at the u.n. security council russia slams a probe into a chemical attack in syria. the first time since the cold war nato increases its number of headquarters in europe to speed up the tree movements across the continent. cia chief mike from player comes under fire for meeting a former intelligence official who says the last years hack of the democratic party was an inside job rather than a russian directed cyber attack spoken exclusively to the unofficial. do not underestimate. and do not try and trump their ascent a stark warning to north korea on this tour of asia he's now in china where he's

pushing beijing to take a tougher stance against pyongyang. and a massive pro independence rally is taking place right now in catalonia capital barcelona as part of a general strike this to demonstrate is that block roads in protest over the jailing of top politicians. very good evening to you my name is the this is r.t. and. russia has slammed a joint report by the un and the chemical watchdog on the deadly sarin gas attack in syria in april they say that it's full of systemic deficiencies the country's deputy envoy to the u.n. addressed moscow's concerns to the security council. what macabre would you suggest through she does the work exist in international structures reveal systemic

deficiencies as regards to syrian chemical weapons reports the results of their investigation of incidents involving the use of poisonous substances are deeply disappointing the report issued two weeks ago concluded assad's government was behind the attack which left more than eighty people dead and also stated the sarin gas used can be traced to government stockpiles the mandate of the investigation expires in a week but moscow and washington are calling for its extension but on different terms more pain has the story 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 un satisfactory. investigators carried out their work remotely the report is full of admissions inconsistency is in discrepancies of very mediocre quality there's

a question as the samples collected by the parties and whether they're from syria so it is unclear how the sarin was transported and also the visit. would be crucial to proof of sarin was there and define 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 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 explained 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 earlier russian military experts presented their own conclusions saying that the attack could not have carried been carried out by a syrian jet they say they were known within range also they say no fragments from an aerial bombs were found russian explosives experts maintain that an improvised device was used which had been placed on the 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 that even if experts had visited the site of the attack it would have changed nothing in their findings and conclusions also said that the body takes great care to ensure that its methodology

is technically sound that's not the view investigative journalist rick sterling shows that. they got a very shaky conclusion and even their report indicates that the number of various irregularities that is your only an understatement started the report it's a 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 floor it happens they acknowledge in the report that they cannot confirm that there were syrian chair over on shaken at the time of the incident which nobody zero showing syrian jets the syrian air force says they were not going to take you and they were apparently another town and actually that u.s. radar tracking converts that list 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. nato has admitted its boosting command structures in europe for the first time since the cold war all amid growing tensions with russia let's get the story now from our correspondent for the boy. polly how significant then would you say this decision is well pretty significant may taste planning a pretty big revamp of fat come on stop that take a listen. to what's going to happen. yes up to often it took a mom structure will further strengthen our ability to reinforce our lives quickly and effectively. but military will be that it's not only about new moms it is

also about the ability to move forces in the quick went quickly with the right transport means on the right infrastructure so in other words the idea behind this is to create a europe wide zone where it's easy to move forces and equipment across the continent and nato commanders really want to get rid of red tape when it comes to taking things like tanks and military hardware and personnel and sending them from one country to another on the continent in europe and even though the alliances chief insists that they're not targeting anything a separate country that this isn't being done against any specific threats take a look at this. nato. turns on the fence is not directed against any specific nation. and we don't see any imminent threat against any nato ally.

nato you came about as a way of containing communism that was it's residential and in recent years it's been all about containing russia take. 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 presence in the eastern part of the alliance. as part of this and mounts to revamp there are also plans to help protect the lines of communication those would be vital in the event of a potential war because that supplies that potentially coming into europe for the military alliance and all this talk of preparedness for a potential war with russia is really quite reminiscent of the cold war rhetoric

that we were used to hearing all those years ago the kremlin has made so doing an aggressive strategy on its borders that threaten the sympathy stabilize eastern europe and with this latest move to expand nato its capabilities on the continent this sort of cycle of military saber rattling appears to only be getting worse and is that the line from london that's already correspondent ali thank you. in other news the u.s. and north korea have been trading insults again prone gangers called trump the lunatic old moment before adding that washington is not fit to act as a judge of human rights that of president trump of described north korea as a hell that no one deserves this during his stop in seoul as part of his tour of asia. as usual tom didn't miss the chance to stick it to north korea on twitter he

released the warning video it was accompanied by a rather dramatic soundtrack. response. a strong force isolate. our response. our duty to run this danger to get. us. right. you. are secret if. i'm president trump is now in china for the next much anticipated leg of his trip and the visit has already proved fruitful because it's been reported the u.s. and china are signed some twenty trade deals with nine billion dollars the chinese side of the may warm up before a big a ceremony on thursday on to smear a car takes a look back now at trump and cheese previous meeting 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 fiat's recalled 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 it in 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 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 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 trumps 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. or coleman director of the case crisis research institute in oxford believes that the weapons trump is pushing allies to buy a bound to leave china concerned. his willingness to sell and indeed his insistence that japan and south korea must buy sophisticated american anti missile technology is something that worries trying in particular to a lesser extent russia because of course these kind of anti missile systems based in south korea or japan might provide defense against north korea but their radars would also reach deep into the people's republic of china and be an intelligence threat to china itself so one reason why china would like to calm the issue is so that particular south korea could avoid being pushed into buying american military equipment and intelligence gathering equipment that could provide the u.s. with eyes into china itself as well as provide

a kind of defense against any possible maverick north korean missile launch. this is investigative committee has rejected claims that the country been running an elaborate state sponsored doping program so the world anti-doping agency had provided no proof to back the findings of a report by canadian lawyer richard mclaren with more he's artie's rigas the. 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 questioned 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 developing 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.

allegedly claimed 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 sad 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. r.t. spoke exclusively to russia sports minister pavel call of course on the country's cooperation with the i.o.c. and wider as well as if russia will take part in the upcoming winter olympics in south korea. a part of the announcement made today by russia's investigative body is very important i think what they should take into consideration the conclusions reached by russia's investigative body i very much hope there will be cooperation between these entities but with the aim to determine the truth if the i.o.c. does decide on making sanctions against russia in games such as not allowing the russian national anthem to play bahrain then it gets their feet from the opening ceremony would you consider that as being an acceptable humiliation for russia and would you then consider what we call the games. i don't like the word

boycott there were boycotts in the one nine hundred eighty s. and had a very adverse effect on sport this is an impossible scenario now our team is calmly preparing for the games staying in constant contact with the i.o.c. on many points we do disagree i still hope that the final decision will be in the name of sport i've said many times that athletes that violate doping rules should be punished but clean athletes shouldn't have to bear responsibility for those breaching the rules our goal is to make sure clean athletes get the right to compete i think the international sports organizations have the same goal while making such decisions we must think about every individual athlete involved. the cia director mike brown has come under fire for meeting a former intelligence official over the alleged hacking of the democratic party back in two thousand and sixteen the u.s. intelligence community laid the blame for that of moscow. with william binney

a former national security agency official turned whistleblower the. we believe that the alleged hand of the democratic national committee was in fact a link carried out by a d.n.c. employee you also coauthored a memo to the president on the issue which he's been dubbed a conspiracy theorist just recently i spoke to binyam silva about his encounter with the cia director. he said the president told him that he he should talk to me to try to get some facts on the russia gate issue and so that that was the opening statement from him in the media i didn't believe the intelligence agencies were telling him or the president the truth so i went through the technical data that we as the veteran intelligence rationals who have technical experience all of the technical data that we had available and could look at the analyze and from there it was very clear that it was a local download and we also tried to test it in the real world not in the speculative world trying to do the transfer to make it something that would be

compatible with that download rate and we could not achieve that either. back in two thousand and thirteen william binney was a welcome guest on american news channels when he expose privacy violations in the n.s.a. spying program then c.n.n. described him as a whistleblower with a dramatic story and whether now the network seems to change his tune describing him as a conspiracy theorist william binney unself says that the channel uses labels instead of actual evidence they have a problem of course because they've been asserting this kind of. speculation at the gender driven stuff for over a year now and it would be kind of difficult to go back up that so but i mean to me it basically shows the shallow weakness of the argument when you have to throw labels at people instead of dealing with any factual evidence in fact the f.b.i. knows a lot more about this than are telling anybody so it is n.s.a. but they're not saying it either so and they're not telling that this is

information i'm getting from other sources i don't have it substantiated but they need to come forward and say exactly what they've got so far they've not done that . center of the canceling capitals in our life by huge pro independence protests this comes after a general strike that brought much of the region to hold to this blocking key roads and stopping trains in major cities in a protest over the jailing of regional leaders dreaded accuses them of rebellion sedition is today or no of the region's declaration of independence. i. i scores of roads have been blocked by protests in barcelona police clashed with demonstrators as officers try to remove them from the motorway the test is also that of the regional route through zero that connects spain to france and adjourn the train station hundreds of protesters

broke through a police court. to . it. well here's a quick recap for you what happened in catalonia over the past month or so on october first the region held an independence referendum odds by a violent police crackdown an overwhelming majority voted to break away from spain and independence was declared on october twenty seventh but later that day madrid stripped the region of self rule in order to snap elections and last week eight former catalan ministers were jailed on charges of sedition and rebellion meanwhile the spanish foreign minister says that madrid's ready to change the constitution in

catalonia is interest to have created a committee in the parliament to explore the possibility of amending the constitution to be able to sort of accommodate better you know vs creations of some of a couple of people i think we are ready we you know we acknowledge that there is a political situation that deserves to be looked at. earlier on we spoke to a member of the european parliament joe de soleil who believes that the catalan crisis is a matter for the entire continent. it's a shame that in today's europe there are political prisoners there are ministers of him a democratic government in jail just because they organize a vote this is a shameful situation to see this repression what is that at the stake in catalonia today is fundamentally dopey and valueless from the mental rights. european citizens we have rights as citizens of the european union and this rights

being violated in catalonia so it is in european mother and the european institutions should they care about our rates about us as european citizens. certain religious practices have been banned by 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 in a statement how president said that certain events had raised questions and how to deal with religion in study research and everyday life for the university statement goes on to say that the new approach came after consultation with experts from various fields of study the new code of conduct at the university of the bands religious celebrations on site and says that any rituals should not disrupt other students wearing religious symbols though is permitted unless they impede

communication we spoke with students at the university and got a mixed reaction. the reason classics of religious freedom is permitted i think this statement is clear for everyone and this shouldn't be in doubt it's me basically on my 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 corrosion. rationally i don't think it's problematic to wear a full covering because i think there is the other extreme example well or young student shows fly too much skiing is a muslim living in germany in a christian democratic country and i think it's good that i'm able to practice my religion university souces is against any discrimination chairman of the v. spartan academy for integration i would. says the case should be addressed separately the aim of this contest context is. to bring

religious activities just in one small room out of the real life of the students what religion is for the old 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 this situation is to have already a lot to talk really with those people. were there are misunderstandings with. u.k. international development minister pretty pottle has just quit according to media reports that softer unofficial meetings with israeli officials while on holiday if confirmed patel would become the second cabinet minister to fall in just a matter of days with noise and theater from london. 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 israeli officials of 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 archy's ations 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 we shouldn't be applying especially. and if for this particular turkey to go i find it difficult to see how he can stay you know the. coast to coast live supplies above all true bruton street and i found 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 house 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 to recent may's 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. and stay with us here on r.t. to national don't forget you can get your news on the go if so you so choose you can catch it on facebook also on twitter and plenty more news stories available on our web site.

in terms of foreign policy donald trump has already earned himself the title the low expectations president this title is now being put to the test during his tour of asia is the us a status quo power in the asia pacific region for oil challenging china. if you were going underground a century on from the day of the bolshevik revolution that would arguably save britain from.