just so nine pm here in moscow the top story the main story dominating our coverage tonight british military experts important say they're unable to establish the origin of the nerve agent that chemical used in the poisoning of a former double agent and the daughter of someone's free we have not verified the just a source but we've provided the scientific information to the government of that after weeks of the u.k. and its allies of course nonetheless pinning the blame on russia from the onset resulting in the current political standoff and diplomatic.

things watching out international monitors kevin when so then the top story to remind you again the head of a british military lab says it has so far failed to determine the country of origin of the substance used to poison the former russian agent service cripple and his daughter a month ago that's despite the u.k. government though having already laid the blame firmly at russia's doorstep. we have not verified the press a source but we've provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish at porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide you know the scientific evidence that identifies what the particular near of each end is but it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured so to be clear your not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that well of the development of boris johnson pointed the finger firmly at russia in the scruple case partly based on the search

of portadown that he's the boss of the gauges. but when i look at the the evidence from the people from from porton down they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said that in their dogs. the situation is on the line no q in london therefore a sorry this is broken now we're both three i was this news big turn of events isn't it the porton down the saying no we can't trace it but we're unable to we're out there actually saying it wasn't part of our remit you dast maybe it should have been. well kevin certainly major major developments to the script paul saga that's been unraveling for a whole long now with all sorts of i.q. the nation's flying with measures taken against russia not just by the u.k. but by other countries and of course russia continuing this whole time to say we have nothing to do with this let's look at some evidence and if we were here we have a leading british defense science laboratory saying they can't prove whether or not

a child came from russia or for that matter they can't prove this source at all so this is a huge announcement to be made to and certainly well most immediately we're seeing some damage control taking place from the foreign office who have come out with a statement that says that this is only part of the intelligence picture they said that over the last decade russia has worked on ways to deliver agents quote probably for assassinations that russia has a record of assassinations and that it it is quote our assessment that russia was responsible for this brazen and reckless act and of the international community agrees there is no other plausible explanation this despite the evidence and rather the statements that have been now made here in the u.k. today and of course it's important to remember that this whole time all we've been hearing is that russia is to blame russia is culpable that it's highly likely that it went to there's no question that it's not russia still with no evidence proof

for real facts or samples even provided to russia that it's been asking for however the accusations really have been harsh here in westminster. it's highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia koku culpable culpable for the attempted murder case is culpable quarrel. and we think it will be likely that it was his decision. so those were statements from the british prime minister from the u.k. foreign secretary also at some point throughout this whole ordeal we heard the u.k. defense minister say something like russia should shut up and go way in this kind of tone indicating no room for negotiation and there was one voice however which was the leader of the opposition party german corbin he wondered whether there is room for dialogue or conversation or at least providing some information to russia . how has she responded to the russian government's request for

a sample of the agent used in the soles read time to run its own tests. as a resolution trace analysis been run on a song of the nerve agent and has that revealed any evidence as to the location of which production all the identity of its perpetrators and. the i'll see a spending plan behind level contacts does the prime minister agree that it is essential to maintain a robust dialogue with russia. well while love most of those questions certainly remained unanswered and russia hasn't seen samples or any of the questions that jeremy corbyn had raised there in fact facing criticism himself for even asking those questions in parliament his position was extremely unpopular what we have at this point is again this is a war tory in the u.k.

that are saying no proof of russia we don't know the source we know that there's a police investigation ongoing in the police have said quite recently that it's very likely to take weeks if not months we've also of course know that the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. the o.p.c. w. have been in the u.k. to conduct an investigation of their own russia has been asking to hear what they have found so all of these investigations ongoing yet the accusations have certainly come we before any fact and been presented so far nastier part of our team there in london thanks for the update and of course see the line. we're hearing they've got. meeting been requested by russia's could be behind closed doors maybe something will come out of that tomorrow because as well in the hague right more go see it through the snow across this from the start before we wind back and talk about the chemical analysis etc etc president putin spoke but it just i was questioned by some journalists he's in ankara having

a bilateral meeting with the turkish president. of course as you'd expect one of the journalists brought up scrip all tags for what had to say about the first well putin he's we didn't numerous times now on the screwball case he said that you know scotland yard said they had. two months before the stablished a clear picture of what exactly happened so it's a long investigation nevertheless to me of putin's ease media p.r. campaign underway. there is and tire pressure. campaign that's clearly going on for. some but the commands. tomorrow. we will file an application so that there is a meeting. but it is organized.

by the united nations aegis of the proposition the chemical weapons of course what we want is a come to investigation. the interesting thing to me putin said is that twenty countries no less than twenty countries have the capacity have advanced enough with enough chemical programs to make the novacek. nerve agents there's there's a home multitude dozens and dozens of different ones united under the name. told initially the initial of it would just be maybe a couple of countries that number's going up the well of course it was the what you got the picture you got from the media from british politicians is that movie talk is what it was russia wasn't a couple yeah right only russia could make it we've had interesting revelations important down today the head was asked whether britain has its own

stockpiles of nuclear chalks and he refused to answer the question he refused to comment he but he did dab that nothing escaped nothing got out from his laboratory indicating that you know presumably britain does have its own stockpiles whether they synthesize them or have them by other means because there's a whole. you know wealth of evidence to support this i was talking to a number of military chemists researches and in the military chemical laboratory here in moscow and they. you know as experts they had a few interesting details to share for example they said that britain all but for sure has no ritual the thing is they identified the substance almost straight away after the assassination attempt which is only possible if they had had the substance and if they had measured it very quick you know chemistry crash course in

every single chemical calm compound mixture in the world it doesn't matter what it is it's water cooler this table metal anything if you put it in the machine it gives you a special number it's mass spectrum this is an identifier of every single chemical called compound there are libraries with millions of entries so if you have an unknown substance you quickly put it into a machine it gives you straight away the odds of what it is the caveat is that you have to have measured this substance in the first place to get this quick answer which means that the british must have synthesised procured and measured information wouldn't be anywhere else written in a book you physically got to have this and it it has been it has been in books the formula for newer trucks has been out for decades american research published sixty different formulas which presumably synthesize it really and research of some published step by step procedures on making the crux is you kind of almost need.

to match to it to compare that's what you're saying exactly exactly the thing is of course that. this was said by both the head of porton down and by the military chemists i spoke to they say you need a professional boy to read this this isn't the basement you know amateur thing this requires almost state sponsored boards or a lot of knowledge a lot of money so you know it narrows down the potential potential sources it is important to mention that there was one incident in the nine. where a russian chemist smuggled out a quantity of nova took some wood was used to kill a bank it was a very big scandal but there may have been more smuggled out we don't know what we do know is that the british the americans other countries presumably did synthesize novacek if for nothing else than to make anti to see is what the chemist told me.

as the group of toxic agents known under the umbrella term novacek we first came across them in open sources back in two thousand and seven that's when the publication was made in the us when multitude of formulas were included with as many as six to talk six agents than it's of them was assigned an index in the chemical expert system so they're all available in open sources these formulas and no secret. if it's really not the chalk we're dealing with here i must say it's no real problem to synthesize such a toxic agent all the components needed to easily available on the open market the synthesis doesn't call for particular sophisticated procedures and it chemist specializing in organic chemistry would be able to make it. because when we have zero information and what toxic agent we're dealing with that is still possible to identify it applying

a lot of resources and the process is likely to take a few weeks according to british authorities their experts were able to do so very quickly so i assume the british chemists already had samples of such toxic agents at their disposal so that they could compare the poor's in a tant with those samples. i mean that was a great explanation but just in case there's any confusion basically what he's saying is that the fact that the british identified nova chucks so fast means they had it in their database they had the already made it in the past they had the identification it's mass spectrum which is how they managed to identified so quickly which of course you know sort of sewell's the theory that only russia has the know how and when asked he would not deny that they didn't have that important exactly the head porton down did not deny that they had in their possession over trucks or that they had synthesized. develop them so plenty of twists and turns in

this story for the general these are the i'm going to talk to him now or is he should be able to show it hey there phillip thanks for being with us sir philip giraldi former cia officer i want to get your criminal mind if you like in on this one what do you think this is taking us tonight so we've got porton down the leading chemical research lab for the for the military in the government. saying they know what the agent is but they can't trace it back are you surprised they can't trace it but the. official reason is that it was in their remit to trace it back would they be able to do you think i'm not surprised at all if they could back because i don't believe she denounced this alleged chemical attack so something like it was highly likely or it was apparently. chemical weapons are needed the chemistry of course in the chemical weapons is basically similar in a broad range of the weapons so all she was basically saying it's this is something

that looks like it might be and what surprises me here is that the government lab is actually being honest about their conclusions well philip london says there is no other explanation that russia is behind the assassination attempt despite saying that they will investigate protocols and look into the possibility of other players . jus think that's ruled out that they will you know take that seriously or is this investigation over given that the punishment has already been handed out. you know that's the key point the they were already gone into the punishment phase in terms of expelling diplomats so i don't think we can expect much of a return to reality in this the. problem here is that the conviction of russia was basically a political conviction that theresa may and i needed to good story because she's in

trouble politically in britain and suddenly something that possibly could be linked to cat came up and she's exploited that to the hilt i i know that many of my colleagues here in the united states have been very suspicious of the story right from the beginning russia had no motive and. very strong motives in the other direction not to get involved in something like this and there are and indeed many countries that have a motive for. doing something like this and implicating russia and those countries would include include places like ukraine that could have stopped chemical weapons available to them so i know it's always a little course we could and maybe it's because none of us know at the moment i mean britain thinks it knows russia is being asking for concrete proof of this saying look hands up if you've got the proof show it to us that proves not being forthcoming there's no dialogue at all. is russia going to get in on this

investigation at any time or is it going to be kept bearing in mind if he just said an arm's length well if you listen to to either the crime on the foreign minister obviously they're going to try to keep it in-house. there is of course pressure from international bodies to do some kind of analysis that's not controlled by the british government but we shall see if that happens then of course russia is. completely correct on this issue that this thing is a chemical weapon traceable to russia by some means let's see the evidence. or for the thoughts philip giraldi former cia officer. so up until now there's been no evidence presented to back up london's claims them despite that some countries of course and some organizations have been quick to side with the u.k. expelling russian diplomats nato was no exception ordering seven russian diplomatic staff to leave its age q russia's deputy foreign affairs minister and former

permanent representative to nato told us he thinks the scruple affair was likely devised to boost military spending is another theory. i think this whole script case was concocted to prepare public opinion for the ever increasing amounts of money being spent on the military at present the military budgets of european nato members put together to approximately two hundred seventy billion if they achieve the two percent target that some will come to four hundred billion that would be ten times more than russia's military budget. obviously such whopping amounts of money being spent on the military are liable to be the subject of heated public debate to make sure this goes down well you need the image of an enemy and a powerful one at that so it's crystal clear that this huge provocation that was carried out by the u.k. was intended to achieve this goal which is to add fuel to the flames of recent phobia which has recently begun to peter out as people are simply got tired of it

having expelled russian diplomats nato is soaring off the branch they're sitting on as it were i can't believe they don't realize that in this turbulent time a lack of proper communication between the two powers in europe could potentially bring about very dangerous consequences that. now thanks to nato efforts we have a military dimension and these countries are now considered in russia's military planning nato countries are trying to find a balance between defense and dialogue but they have crossed the line. now the story now next clashes erupted in paris israel workers have launched one of the largest industrial strikes against president across all state transport skis got the story. to just a 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 business is throwing bottles at the police and setting the lights have been seen 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 a cast no tear gas as of yesterday but we are expecting things to stay heated 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 saying 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 all 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 and they're unhappy with michael's plans to change to upgrade the the railways here in front saying that the proposals being put pooled by macaroons government will lead to the privatization over the rail meant to night that in fact so yes the strikes ongoing today this is the first day of around fifty six days of strike between now and the end of june this is a huge fight between the unions to decide whether the union still have the kind of power that they assume you see to live here in france and of course comes to terms . nation 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. this here in for us. it got pretty heated this is now next fight fake news that's

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political agenda they say however the initiative has drawn outrage across the mainstream media with many saying that the method to actually supports donald trump's narrative that popular outlets are spreading fake news presidents also stepped into the spot as well to defend the sinclair group check that out once again describe c.n.n. and n.b.c. as dishonest and fake news networks and it's not because they should we've heard before of course as jacqueline bouguereau explains next 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. well stop my mind. spicy with irish that's the assumption many in the west make about russian media fully controlled broadcast with angers and correspondent 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 one alert protecting them . on all platforms well and its recent promos there's not much of a choice or a difference it seems the sharing of biased and false news has become a call to comment on the social media world. he recently are going through with the first unfortunately the summers and receive. the solicitor. general control. of the usa and this is really dangerous towards r.c. 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 hi and i'm be our greatest responsibility is to serve our own

northwest communities. and if you look closely you'll notice an absence of certain colors and 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 not devoid red blue or purple because everyone knows that magenta is the color that gives you and your bias away apart from these promo think they're also distributes what's known as must run segments to their stations so all the propaganda finger is so often pointed at russia it looks like we actually have quite a bit to learn starting with my wardrobe. now the story next is happening tonight president putin's in ankara ahead of a trilateral summit along with turkey and iran on wednesday before the main event for talks with turkey's leader. the two states say that they have the same views on

the many problems and syria and the no external factor is those said earlier on in a joint news conference that they held that could spoil relations let's get some thoughts on this from former u.s. diplomat in the government relations john for us on the line i love it yeah this is a president putin's first official visit abroad to since being reelected a week or two ago he headed there he said they had good and constructive relations in fact it was a prime partner are you surprised to have. no not at all it seems that there is a burgeoning in the in the russian turkish relationship that encompases number the number of things that don't jerk use react to the nuclear reactor with the russian systems we have the turks tree line we have russian cooperation with turkey and also iran in syria turkey buying russian your defense systems there's a lot going on between us they don't agree with everything though some issues of

what's happening in syria they don't see eye to eye on today. that's true and of course turkey has been one of the biggest supporters of this let's be honest the terrorist groups trying to overthrow the syrian government however i think they must understand that this is going to wind down and that this side government is going to remain in power turkey's going to have to accommodate itself to that and their biggest concern really are the kurds that they have their nato allies united states and france supporting and that's rancorous main concern at the moment it seems to me we were reporting it say the militants are leaving meaning it leap is the final halt spall militants in syria what options are going to be for tightening rebels in that in that province now going forward that's a good question because we already have the uncertainty over the turkish offensive enough for in in northern syria against the kurds who have some working relationship with damascus i think at some point the damascus and ankara are going to have to come to some agreement about how to say liquidate these last pockets of

terrorist assets that turkey had supported the past but i think are just becoming a liability to the now. putin said no external factors could spoil relations with king we went over the cliff a couple of years ago. to be sure that is there anything else will not arise in the maybe may upset things look strong at the moment he was talking about prying patni it was me. i think that's right and what one can never be sure about this i mean we look for example at this whole mess over this cripple case in the united kingdom are there assets of other countries that are active in turkey and could perhaps internally try to stage some kind of a provocation against their close relationship with russia i wouldn't exclude that and let's remember of course there could have been couple years ago that history or two on river portably just barely survived only because of russian assistance just quick mention of this new plan to dock e.u.

it's a huge investment for us russia's concern there is now about twenty billion dollars russia is going to add about in just over half of it the rest will be up for it investment it's a big deal of turkey has a little delay on it but they basically let the first stone is a construction today it's something to occasionally needs obviously but i think so and this is no the thing i think was pointed out with the press conference today is that the russians respect turkey as a partner they can do business when they want to do a deal they want to have a project it goes forward it's not it when you deal with the e.u. for example tied up in endless red tape been getting a bunch of other countries to agree and environmental concerns and all of the things that are always a problem with the europeans and jim all right thanks for your thoughts likes to see you on the program jim chap trust so fully u.s. diplomat and the governor relations expert thank you we can go i'm told to. covering a bilateral meeting for area. hope you can hand we haven't done

a quick check with you but tell us a little bit about those meetings that have been happening today president putin's first trip abroad since being reelected and. kevin hello well i can tell you that a lot of our putin is of course here an anchor up for two days the first day of talks is over and the general told was. very positive we understand that this is the first trip of lattimer putin since re-election he was personally invited by the turkish leader. both leaders called each other dear friends they were joined by i believe a dozen of different ministers the foreign minister the minister of communication of sport and all.