british scientists failed to pinpoint the source of the nerve agent used in the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter. we know but we provided the scientific u.k. and its allies squarely blaming russia resulting in a political standoff and diplomatic expulsion. did amazes me how fast this anti russian hysteria has come about tomorrow we're calling it a meeting to get the facts straight on this whole situation. clashes erupt in paris rail workers launch a huge industrial strike against president macross drive to overhaul the state funded transport industry pretty much into my.

life marty h.q. in moscow or this breaking news the says it has so far failed. to provide eight identifies for been able to do the. rest on the research of that porton and he said that there's no doubt shortly after the u.k. government seemed to do a bit of damage control with a statement saying that london always knew russia had had a hand in the scruple case and this is part of our team in the u.k. as the latest date. 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 probably for assassinations that russia has a record of assassinations and that it is quote our assessment that russia was responsible for this brazen and reckless act and as the international community agrees there is no other plausible explanation this despite 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 or 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 calling. you likely to do with his decision so those are 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 corbet he wondered whether there is room for dialogue or conversation or at least providing some information to russia as resume asian crisis analysis been run on a song of the nerve agent and has not revealed any evidence as to the location of which production or the identity of its perpetrators. and the i.o.c. spending. does the prime minister agree that it is essential to maintain a robust with russia 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 or 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 and said quite simply 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 certainly come we before any facts have been presented so far. before without any conclusive evidence ever being provided here's a look at how the russia did it to works in the scruple case.

but earlier discussed the latest in the script whole saga president putin's reaction to it tonight with the correspondents were just. well putin he's we didn't numerous times now on the script all case he said that you know scotland yard said that they had two months before the they established a clear picture of what exactly happened so it's a long investigation nevertheless putin said there is easily a media eight p.r. campaign underway what was that amazes me how fast is anti russia hysteria has come about tomorrow we're calling in a meeting to get the facts straight on this whole situation regarding you know which we have proposed at least twenty questions for their consideration we hope a final conclusion will be reached there as to what happened in seoul but of course we're interested in a comprehensive investigation. the interesting thing to me putin said is that

twenty countries no less than twenty countries have the capacity have advanced enough enough chemical programs to make the nova chalke nerve agents that once united under the name. down today the head was asked whether britain has its own stockpiles of new rich oaks and he refused to answer the question he refused to comment to but he did add that nothing is really britain does have it with them by other means be 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. 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 sic agents them h. 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 a novel 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 particularly sophisticated procedures either and it chemist specializing in organic chemistry would be able to make it. a good conscience because that's when we have zero information 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

the 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 already measured it in the past they had the identification it's mass spectrum which is how they managed to identify it so quickly which of course you know sort of soils the theory that russia. they didn't exactly the head of porton downs or that they had synthesized. develop them so plenty of twists and turns in this story trace it back i don't know if anyone is tonight in britain trying to do that. the u.k. is gone so public so quickly with these strong statements and actions against russia its intelligence service is therefore you would think have evidence to back them you'd have maybe heard it today we're still not seeing it. i don't think we're

ever going to see it so i mean there's two possibilities they have and they're hiding it for good decent patriotic reasons or they haven't got it and they're bluffing and peddling furiously i incline to the latter explanation particularly because where looting now through weekly leaks actually the u.k. and the u.s. have been aware of the book which revealed the formulas as the professor referred to earlier they've been in the u.k. and u.s. have been aware of the significance of that book and have been trying to suppress knowledge of that book precisely because it does show how a modern chemistry lab can make this particular next generation agent so clearly for a decade now the u.k. and the us have known that it can be made elsewhere even as to reason may have been breached by whoever that only the russians could have made it so the establishment of the u.k. and u.s.

led by the state department i should say from two thousand and seven had been aware of something which to reason may appear to be unaware of and indeed boris johnson who's benefiting from this current cold war rhetoric do you think over it. well that's the thing is really the old question who benefits is perfectly clear anybody who wants to make russia look bad for any reason has had a great time the last few weeks because this is been black and russia seriously time and and they've been working on it actively loudly hysterically without as i say evidence and hiding the evidence that they knew that they were wrong in the first place you're going to i would say those that go you know if you're going to accuse someone russia saying simply here look let's get involved in the in the conversation the investigation give us some if you can provide some sample let us analyze it as well not give it all just give us so we would look at as well if you

could accuse somebody of something they've got to defend themselves. is that going to happen shortly right rush's asked these important questions it must be judy better than answer. well they're trying to treat russia as sun cut some kind of guilty party in advance that this doesn't deserve to know anything but of course even guilty parties or real parties accused of being guilty all under british justice have to have access to the evidence that's supposed to convict them so this is a complete distortion of everything the british justice system tries to do the mystically rush is being hung drawn and quartered without being able to contest anything to do with the claim it's been prejudged in advance by people like threesome and boris johnson who really are not great scientists to the best of my knowledge and the russians are supposed to be taking this and and admitting to guilt that they clearly do not have and the sad thing is that a lot of the so-called international community that little international community which is the us and various e.u.

states have joined in this international lynch mob which as i say is backed up by zero evidence the o.p.c. w. is having it and share jeweled hearing tomorrow it's been requested by russia that's going to behind closed doors because it will get much out of that but i suppose it's for the o p c o p c w i have to say at the end of this in a week or two maybe where they come back with some conclusions well that with the hard fast evidence that that is needed either way or not i don't think so i think that certainly the u.k. and us will find a way of neutering any conclusion that the o.p.c. w comes to to really express no particular opinion it would you say is not in your hand in the hands of those who spread the original one sorry are you saying it's not independent. i was saying that it's independent but it's under severe pressure will be under severe pressure to produce a conclusion that doesn't totally embarrass the u.k. and the us we've been leading with this story from the front from the word go in

appropriately excessively loudly and unjustly. international affairs commentator thanks for your time tonight with the of the london background behind you there thank you. well up till now there's been no evidence then presented to back up london's claims despite that some countries as marco is saying and organizations have been quick to side with the u.k. expelling russian diplomats nato is no exception ordering seven russian diplomatic staff to leave its headquarters russia's deputy foreign affairs minister and former permanent representative to nato told us he thinks this cripple 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 russia 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. 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. consider for a story. those stories are making headlines light to go through the next day she

with clashes erupted in paris as well workers launched one of the largest industrial strikes against president lacrosse mood to overhaul state transport. correspondent as the latest if you just look behind you get a sense of the police who are out in force this is a shunt armory and the c.r.'s who are here to try and stop the demonstrators from going down streets they not meant to we've already seen clashes from those at the front of the demonstration they appear to be members of the anti thought of 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 saying what you see normally from these guys is they try to have as much provocation to the police c.r.'s as possible and then we see obviously the c.r.'s overturning that in kind sometimes you know tear gas as of yesterday but we are expecting things to stay here now

as if you do. 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 causing just in the last half an hour they physically came up and stopped just from filming and told us we will not go anybody breaking all damaging any business is until they had finished and fled the scene. a little bit like you know. this is of course meant to be a strike by the ensigns yes this is the way it works here in france also a bronze star for on strike as well as some other elements of society that they're unhappy with plans to change to create the the railways here in france saying that the proposals being put forward by macaroons government will lead to the

privatization of the rail government has denied that in fact so yes the strikes ongoing today this is the first day over the 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 this here in front and a man comes to terminate to push through his policy 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 france. you know another developing story tonight president putin's in turkey his first foreign stop after israel lection last month the two presidents hold a press conference just an hour or so ago vladimir putin commented on the british military labs failure the big story tonight from that to identify the origin of the nerve agent used in the script or poisoning and putin hasn't been the only one to

react to that. news here in russia or either. you can tell us more from the anchor and so we could be a prime. time you're a couple of minutes no take us through it the two leaders give their joint media briefing in the last what came out of those talks. kevin hello again well first of all as you were saying let's talk about russia's reaction to the latest updates on the script ball saga of the script ball scandal and as you were saying latimer putin did say a few things about that during the press conference but he only learned about these conclusions by the laborde three less than an hour before the press conference began so obviously that was right during the talks and apparently someone passed on the message to him so perhaps that was the reason why his reaction was that mellow he didn't have many things to say about that and then obviously the journalists work here is so they came up to vladimir putin's press secretary dmitri peskov

right after the press conference there were many cameras there and that was the point when obviously dmitri peskov is also a senior official in the atom or putin administration besides being the press conference that was the point when we heard some of the harshest commons against britain from the russian side there were a number of things said after hearing that when russia takes this case to the o. p. c. w. the organization for the prevention of the use of chemical weapons that's a un body there is absolutely no way that the findings or the procedures will go against russia then he also called whatever britain doing none sorry whatever britain is doing nonsense and that regard and something else that we heard from dmitri peskov was that london will have to apologize for this when it comes to its relations with moscow something that was also high on the agenda was syria but

we're remember that choose day is only day one of the talks here in ankara that's a really busy middle of the week tomorrow on wednesday the iranian president hassan rouhani will be here guarantors of the peace process and peace. may actually be established in syria but obviously we're going to hear more about that on wednesday when the three leaders meet and perhaps they will have to say they will have something to say about the progress of the evacuation the progress when it comes to the cease fire in other deescalation zones and also possibly the fact that donald trump said that the u.s. was leaving syria after knocking the hell out of islamic state that's a quote from donald trump so still loads of things coming up haven't yet prodi partner recalled to turkey to the president putin all right so plenty for you to talk about to us will rely on your updates tomorrow than any patrol crank or for

now have a good night. fight fake news that's the mission statement of the largest local broadcasting corporation in the u.s. and it's requiring its presenters therefore to read out a scripted message to back that up the sinclair group which is know for its conservative stance owns almost two hundred stations across america so it sent out a memo telling presenters to read out this prepared statement during the news programs the script attacked the quote troubling trend of irresponsible one sided news stories plaguing our country as they put it you put it all together this is what it looked like. the sharing of biased and false news here you can call to comment on the social media. recently through with the first unfortunately smokers receive the. commission and control. for you and this is really dangerous towards marci i

cross the world the broadcaster states the project served no political agenda over the initiatives outrage across the mainstream media with many saying the message supports donald trump's narrative that some popular outlets are spreading fake news the president's also stepped into the spot no to than to defend the same clear group he once again describes c.n.n. and n.b.c. is dishonest fake news networks and it's not his ation we've heard before as jacqueline bouguereau 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. last up my mind is in the whitish 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 is 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. recently are going through with the first unfortunately the summers and receive. the solicitor. general control. of the usa and this is really dangerous to our democracy 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 high and i'm be grossest

responsibility is to serve the 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 and 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 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. story get in former f.b.i. deputy director under mccabe who was fired of course by president trump just a day before he was due to retire has reached out to the people of america asking

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