just to look for common ground in the. syrian peace process brings together the leaders of russia turkey and iran for a trilateral meeting on wednesday in is in ankara to meet with president head of the summit. clashes erupt in paris is the rail workers launch a huge industrial strike against president magnetrons drive to overhaul the state funded transport industry. and this is really dangerous george marci. and us media companies under fire after telling t.v. presenters to read a scripted promo against fake news critics say though that it is a politically motivated message. and the british media indulge in alternative theories on the poisoning of former double agent and his daughter in britain months

in the absence of any official information from the investigation. giving team this is r.t. and. putin is in ankara for talks with the turkish leader brigitte type one the russian president was treated to a lavish reception at one's residence but at one point the host realized the arrangements weren't exactly in his favor as the two leaders were posing for photos with a group of young people the turkish president noticed a difference in how they lined up as there were three young men next to add one and three girls next to president putin the usually the last one of the girls to switch sides with his visit his aren't easily patrik. just outside the presidential palace in ankara turkey we've just heard candid speaking fart that's

how. it is welcoming his. russian counterpart vladimir putin it was totally visible previously and you can see it on the leader's faces today now there is absolutely no doubt that they put behind the conflict over the downing of the russian army jet from a couple of years ago turkey and russia are genuinely very close now and i have a perfect example to prove that sources in the diplomatic community have suggested that there was an enormous pressure on and corrupt from the west to make them kick out russian diplomats as a result of the script all poisoning scandal just like many european countries said but despite being allied with the u.k. and with the u.s. through nato ankara said no way just because some countries took some steps based

on allegations we shouldn't just follow them and do the same the presidents of turkey and russia of course have many joint projects to take care of including launching the construction of a nuclear power plant then besides that something that always bothers mr putin and mr aired on is syria we are in the turkish capital ankara it is the first destination abroad for vladimir putin after reelection choose day as the time for all kinds of discussions between vladimir putin and the turkish president and on and on wednesday they will be joined by the iranian leader hassan rouhani reason number one for all that is syria absolutely different things are in it for all three leaders but somehow thanks to the trio the syrian crisis is no longer a dead end the so-called calif it is all but gone and russian efforts have shifted

on to conflict knots that before seemed to be impossible to on time russia has almost. completed its operation and east ghouta thanks to the so-called reconciliation center and the humanitarian pauses backed by moscow as many as one hundred fifty thousand civilians were able to escape the blockade. at less than the government isn't enough because you. plus it was thought that the rebels were never going to leave another area called duma but an agreement has been reached and the fighters are being escorted to adlib on green busses some would argue it only plays into the hands of the assad government but then why are some rebels saying yes to turkey next which is trying to find

a balance between war on kurdish militants which it considers terrorists appeasing syrian rebels and being friends with russia and kurds all of branch military seems to have paid off for the turks turkey has taken the city of our friend from the kurds and a massive blow for the community that ankara considers terrorists when it comes to sorting out the war damascus versus the rebels turkey is also actively taking part but obviously they're backing the syrian opposition it is thanks to ankara some of the toughest syrian rebels agreed to come to sought cheap for the syria national congress iran clearly wants to stay on top of its game as a shia powerhouse of course we've always been on a sad sight fighting a proxy war with saudi arabia and trying to put up a bit of a show against israel but perhaps surprisingly the tentative three way align seems

to be working in the meantime we're knocking the hell out of isis will become a. assyria like very soon let the other people take care of it now to put it mildly the russians in the rain ians won't be so sure it was america that knocked the hell out of islamic state besides take a look back at the last few months and you'll see that lately sorting out syria is really been up to the trio and so they're back together talking again this time in ankara. r.t. . clashes have erupted in paris as railway workers launched one of the largest industrial strikes yet against president moved to overhaul state transport with the details he's already shallot even scale. to just look behind you get a sense of the police who are out in force this is the gendarmerie and the c.r.'s who are here to try and stop the demonstrators from going down streets and not meant to we've already seen clashes from those at the front of the demonstration

they appear to be members of the anti father or the black boxes they known here in france has been smashing up businesses throwing bottles at the police and setting the lights have been saying what you see normally from these guys is they try to have as much provocation to the police of the c.r.'s as possible and then we see obviously the c.r.'s returning that in kind sometimes it's no tear gas as of yesterday but we are expecting things to stay he did now as if you can see in the background there is a large group behind me this is the front of the crowds many of them have their faces covered because they don't want people to be able to identify them in fact when we were trying to film some of the devastation that they were cool seeing just in the last half an hour they physically came up and stopped us from filming and told us we were not to film anybody breaking old damaging any businesses until they

had finished and fled the scene this is of course meant to be a strike by the ensigns yes this is the way it works here in france also efforts to offer on strike as well as some other elements of society that they're unhappy with michael's plans to change to create the the railways him front saying that the proposals being put forward by macaroons government will lead to the privatization over the rail government has denied that in fact so yes the strikes ongoing today this is the first day of around thirty six days of strikes between now and the end of june and this is a huge fight between the unions to decide whether the unions still have the kind of power that they assume you see to do here in france and of course comes to terms. to push through his policy but for the moment this is yet another violent protest with clashes between the protesters at the front and also the c.r.s. the police here in this. fight fake news that's the

mission statement of the largest local broadcasting corporation in the united states and it's requiring its presenters to read out a scripted message to back that up the sinclair group which is known for its conservative stance owns almost two hundred stations across america and he sent out a memo telling presenters to read out a statement during their news programs the script attacks the quote troubling trend of irresponsible one sided news stories plaguing our country here's how it looked the sharing of biased and false news here you can call to comment on the source of the more. recent the ruling. fortunately the members of the review was the solicitor. to control. for you and this is really dangerous for drivers. or the book us the states that

the projects have no political agenda but the initiative has drawn outrage across the mainstream media with many saying that their message supports donald trump's narrative there's some popular spreading fake news the president has also stepped himself into the spat to defend the sink group once again he describes c.n.n. and n.b.c. as being dishonest fake news networks and it's an accusation you might recognize we've heard it before jacqueline explains russian media is a beacon of honesty truth and integrity we work hard to maintain our outstanding level of work unlike foreign outlets who lie i love food. my mind is in the. spicy with a lot of that's the assumption many in the west make about russian media fully controlled broadcasts with angers and correspondents forced to read a pre-prepared scripts no details left to chance so much of it is state funded after all but in the us where so many channels are corporate owned it must be

different right the sinclair broadcast group which owns almost two hundred television stations and broadcast on around six hundred channels proudly proclaims its mission statement that it provides stories that make a difference. the key to our success is concentrated says protect and. on all platforms well and its recent promos there is not much of a choice or a difference it seems the sharing of biased and false news you can call to comment on the social media. recently you are going through with the first unfortunately the summers and receive the. general interest. for you and this is really dangerous towards marci as you can see anchors from different channels reading the same script there which was by the way leaked to some media outlets and it looks like they only had to fill in their names . and i'm be our greatest responsibility is to serve our northwest communities.

and if you look closely you'll notice an absence of certain colors in their wardrobes that's no accident they were given specific instructions on how to dress in order to look neutral the goal is to look apolitical neutral nonpartizan yet professional black or charcoal suits from an females should wear yellow gold magenta sign devoid red blue or purple because everyone knows that magenta is the color that gives you and your bias away apart from these promo sinclair also distributes what's known as must run segments to their stations so while the propaganda finger is so often pointed at russia it looks like we actually have quite a bit to learn starting with my wardrobe. by listening to some breaking news that's just come in the head of a british military labs says that it has failed to determine the country of origin of the substance used to poison former russian aid the surrogates group our

daughter a month ago let's go live to london and our correspondent on the syria church. turn up for the books if this is how it sounds bring is the latest police. well neal certainly some major breaking news coming in this hour in terms of the developments to the script called scandal and we're going to have to wait and see if the media here in the u.k. and the press give the same kind of attention to these developments coming out of a major british scientific defense laborde story we know that in the sky news interview the chief executive of ports and down has said that british scientists have not been able to establish that whatever was used in the script paul and his daughter poisoning came from russia so they were not able to come up with proof of all of these allegations that have been made throughout this last month he has said that they've been able to determine that a new use was again

a military grave nerve agent but the origins of where it came from these scientists here in the u.k. were not able to prove and this is of course a major development given all the anti russia hype that we have been seeing unraveling here over the last months with the punishment coming way before the crime and the source of the crime was determined of course the very serious measures that the u.k. had taken having other countries take place in these anti russian russian measures that followed following this poisoning and now we're hearing a whole month after tomorrow will be the month that one month anniversary of the poisoning that we're having these the leading british laborde story in this area saying that they have not been able to prove that this came from russia. now if we just keep you on the line for a short while nasty just to get a bit more context to this i mean let's just remind our viewers the situation started with reason

a saying it started out as it was highly likely it was russia and then it it transgressed into into certainty didn't it from from politicians this if they have to walk this back if it's a big if at this point it would be hugely embarrassing wouldn't give them the certainty the u.k. government has shown. well absolutely and also you know the vigorous notice with which the u.k. and other western countries have response actually providing a specific where the rest of the world for that matter seems to really be putting things into perspective as well indeed to resubmit a did initially start with the use of such language as quote highly likely that russia was behind the incident then there was talk that there could be no other alternative that it had to come from russia but proof and evidence was never quite presented and one of the major demands really that russia had in all of this given the seriousness of the measures that had ended up coming from the u.k. russia kept saying we would like to see evidence also being provided to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which russia is also

a member of and according to those international agreements russia kept saying that we at least would like to see proof provided so that we can respond to the situation that has been unraveling and if you remember tomorrow there is a meeting that russia has been asking for to shed more light by the o.p.c. w in terms of this incident and we've heard the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov say that if no real answers come that russia is going to consider this whole story of provocation and this is something that moscow has said over and over again is that they want clarity otherwise the seriousness of the measures that have taken place don't seem to be reasonable according to them so again with these major this huge announcement that scientists here in britain have not been able to find a link to russia is certainly going to be raising lots of questions about where the british government certainty had come from many thanks unofficial could reporting

from london for us. as. we go to the seven on the scale it's the speed so of course when right does give us a little bit across the story has just broken and i'm. very curious just to get to my new sure of this because it sounds very significant porton down saying that they can't be certain they can't prove that this was a russian chemical military grade chemical i mean maybe they're still sticking to highly likely exactly where do we stand in terms of certainty. well i was talking to chemists working for the russian ministry of defense a few days ago while the they agreed that you know no ritual for example any substances complex is the new feature of viral agents nerve agents or they cannot be made in a basement it requires years of experience it requires a professional aboard torie requires dedication and money to make

a nerve agent any sort of nerve agent more complicated than the x. . which is sixty odd different nerve agents they would require a lib oratory a proper border tory to make but with regards to identifying the origin of this substance well they've all but said that they believe this is new which will johnson you know if we remember on the fourth of march when screwball and his daughter were poisoned with this substance two days later you had boris johnson in parliament promising to retaliate against russia if there was any proof at all then said they said it putin smug response showed russia's guilt what exactly and this was this was a huge campaign that lasted for weeks and culminated in the expulsion of two hundred odd diplomats one hundred odd russian diplomats and one hundred diplomats

from the countries that expelled russian russian diplomats or russia kicked out for tat one diplomat for every one of its own that was expelled from any odd country but russia blamed britain for this they said there was no evidence there was no proof no discussion it was just a few days after the incident that in all likelihood russia did this and in fact in the media we had this huge from the early days from when we found out that sergei's . i was the victim that he was a my six double agent who was also formally a russian agent from the moment we found out who he was there was an endless ceaseless tirade of accusations against russia.

the government has concluded that it is highly likely the weather. in the high confidence assessment that was released this past october the intelligence community made very clear that this was activity directed by the highest levels of the russian government. what russia is doing when it can comes to cyber warfare not only that interference not proven in the american presidential campaign probably in the world referendum last year we didn't have the evidence for that. the conclusion that the russian state was probably involved in the murder of mr litvinenko is deeply disturbing. and just to kind of back up what our correspondent on the situation was saying in

london even just today that the u.k. press have been having a real field day i mean this is real great fodder for the tabloids in terms of their theories of how russia was involved and you know how that many tentacles had wrapped itself around this story if portadown comes out and says well you know we can't prove that it was russia even if they believe it was russia it means that it's just as likely to have been the u.k. or anyone else i mean surely the whole argument from a legal point falls apart as well that the thing with the new rich rock is that as i said it is not a single nerve agent it is a name of a subgroup of nerve agents and it wasn't only russia that was researching these for example back in the ninety's many a number half a dozen a verb form of chemists who were working on new virtual. claim that they were working when they emigrated from russia they left with the formula with the formulas that they knew with various texts with various information and they buy

you know all appearances they settled in different countries and they could well have shared the new richer form formula. some of the substances in the new ritual group but the interesting thing here is that. the russians or the russian chemists who i spoke to military chemists they said that almost every country with significant about two dozen countries with you know significant advanced chemical labs they research and they synthesize these nerve agents if nothing else then to be able to make an antidote to protect themselves or in some cases they may weaponize them the thing with the u.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is there are no inspections so every member merely declares what they have declared what they're going to destroy. and after that there are no inspections all of these laboratories across the world in the united states and russia the united states by the way has

still not destroyed its chemical arsenal it says it will do so by two thousand and twelve. it's all based on based on trust but there is there is also a clause that says you can research and you can synthesize nerve agents so long as it isn't to weaponize and so long as you're doing them for research trust exactly exactly but the thing with no overtalk is that many countries were working on this nerve agent synthesizing it we have various publications where the formula for various know we talk nerve agents have been published we have rain ians americans british czechoslovakia many others who have researched and who have synthesized this this nerve agent able to because they said that this was new to chalk in the early days one on one almost than the one on a few days later i believe they mention which of specifically the thing ease to be

able to identify a substance is you take this substance you measure it in a special machine which looks at its molecular formula and there's a vast library it's publicly accessible most countries share these libraries there's a vast library of. information about these chemicals so you put a chemical in it it'll break it down and if it's in the least then it'll tell you exactly what it is. by the looks of it the british already knew what new talk the nerve agent or one of the nerve agents and novacek subgroup was they had the information about it to get that information though you have first have to have synthesize the drug the nerve agent so you have to have produced it to be able to tell what are these and this is the thing. that these russian chemists i was talking to say gave britain away they couldn't have identified the substance

that quickly without having had it themselves so you know there's a lot of there's a lot of ways to look at this some very interesting context appreciate the analysis there and goes there with me in the studio let's bring in a guest now to get some more opinion on this journalist broadcaster neil clark joins me so i mean this information just coming in this report its statement for a lab representative it was unable to identify the origin of the novacek agent at this point though i don't know what the subsequent government response will be i presume though they will say well even if we can't prove it is still highly likely so does that actually lessen russian culpability or not i mean it doesn't mean what we've had in the past three weeks really is hysterical we have a trial by media basically the political media establishment actually blame this on russia it's gone form it could be russia too it's highly likely to russian too of

course it was russia and that's been the line taken by newspaper journalists writers that centra commentators on the b.b.c. and it's all the newspapers and it's not true this is fake news because it certainly is not proven that it came from russia you know that you said today you book down scientists saying that they cannot prove this substance was not a truck came from russia the original wording of course. statement was it was a nerve agent developed by russia which is very very different actually came from russia and as you just said there in europe or several countries are able to make this stuff and so it could be any number of countries who actually was responsible for this or even a non-state actor so i think it's quite interesting really what we've got the scientists on the one hand who are saying look we can't say this was a rush we can't prove this one for russia and yet we've got the political the neo con political establishment and. and there are a few people now because what's happened is because as

a journalist i'm absolutely sure i knew of the standards the way the standards of sleep in my country my profession and the people reporting as under present back things are really suppositions i mean the fact that porton down the government can't prove it was russia doesn't mean it wasn't russia it also doesn't mean that it wasn't some other country and surely the fact they've nobody can prove anything that surely that's not enough to go forward with any kind of sanctions or expulsions of diplomats will the government be under pressure to walk this package i think there's enough the momentum behind that this is to keep on. well i think the opposition are should be holding the government to account just think back to three weeks ago when it was jeremy corbyn the labor leader who actually said you know where's the evidence i want to see the evidence if i can and he said he asked whether russia has given a sample and he was how he was actually attacked by the neo con attack dogs the federal attack dogs in the media for being a traitor even focal questioning for saying the company see some evidence and then

he sort of backtracked a little bit and he actually supported and spun in washington this is wrong because if you cannot prove something how can you then go out there and punish russia whatever happens the presumption of innocence the burden of proof so and so i think that really what we've seen in the last three weeks it's been really quite alarming on a number of levels where the government has accused russia of doing something which they get now the proof we've had a real escalation of the diplomatic tensions between russia and britain and we've seen expulsions not only expelling russian diplomats neal that they've been trying to pressurize other european countries to expel russian diplomats to and they haven't got the prove what i said all along so i think what should happen now is your position should call for an emergency debate on this in parliament and i think there should be also the resignation of the british prime minister teresa may and the foreign secretary boris johnson i think it's very important now we mention boris johnson because there are some people have got all in as a as i've tended to say on the screwball case from boris johnson went so far so it

was overwhelmingly likely that putin ordered the nerve agent attack so they've kind of really put all of the regs in this one one basket and you can't realistically see some like boris johnson backing down on this is this suddenly become like a very public battle to the end in terms of political careers absolutely i think boris johnson is an absolute discretion of britain and as you say he's gone so far down this line now of accusing russia to be very good for him to come out now and say i'm sorry i went at it myself we actually haven't got any proof because and of course you have to resign. and the government too so i think it's very important what happens i think the opposition jeremy corbyn was right at the very start to be skeptical about this and to ask for evidence he they are fortunately allowed himself to be bullied to go on the back foot and then to kind of take a more russian line wrong when we had the evidence i think i recall we now is going to great opportunity. to make capital out of this and to say that what's happened

is the government presented something as a matter of fact which wasn't fact that really went back to the iraqi wm the story again and as you said.