british scientists admit they are unable to identify the source that the nerve agent used to poison a formidable agent thousands daughter in the u.k. this comes after weeks of the u.k. and its allies are squarely blaming russia. nor verify the for so you source but we provided the scientific information to the government . the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w is expected to shed more light on the case if it meets in the hague. and american photo journalist who was once held by al-qaeda in syria says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. he claims the intelligence service used him to track were terrorists and didn't try to help them. and manchester united football legend and

european champion peter schmeichel kicks off his new show on r t p travels to one of the city's hosting the world cup matches in russia there's a. very warm welcome to you you're watching r.t. international with me becky aaron. countries around the world are looking to the international chemical weapons watchdog today for answers in this group power poisoning case the o.p.c. w is meeting as we speak to discuss the attack on the former spy and his daughter in southern england a month ago ahead of the talks the chief of the british military laboratory may have partly debunked the u.k.'s core search and that moscow was to blame he said they couldn't tell where the nerve agent used was produced. we have not

verified the for say source but we 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 for the particular and there of the agent is but it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured so to be clear you're not able at porton down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that but when i look at the the evidence from the people from important they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said i was medart . the u.k. defense research laboratory however maintains that the substance used is not a chalk a military grade nerve agent the british government swiftly moved to defend its position by claiming that its accusations against russia remain valid despite this

latest revelation is that it's working from a larger intelligence picture and that russia has a record of state sponsored assassinations and views its former intelligence officers as targets person also says there's no other explanation it deems plausible but with scientists unable to verify the source is possible london may have jumped the gun. explains. scotland yard said it first they need. these was a professional assassination attempt whoever did it made sure to leave as few traces as possible and it was a geisha of this complexity and size will understandably take some time and we ask for the public's continued support and patience the media didn't need much time pundits for when the whole boring you know investigation part but that's the media no surprise they need their ratings politicians they only needed

a week is highly likely that russia was responsible between the poles russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder is k. is culpable our quarrel is with kremlin and we can get overwhelming you likely that it was his decision what's remarkable is the detectives silent technical experts silent no details at all russia is asking for some any information in fact a sample of the nerve agent perhaps so far nothing instead downing street gets down to the punishment with its allies keeping the whole innocent until proven otherwise likely is good is guilty. we are with doubts that russia is responsible there is no plausible alternative explanation needed to one hundred diplomats expelled by britain myths allies and

russia diplomatic relations hate rock bottom and then we get the chemical expertise from britain's own laboratory we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies the particular and their feet. it is you'd think that would at least slightly embarrass those shouting loudest about russia's guilt now really it comes down to one particular job certain scientists now porton down say their job is to work out what the substance was never stablished that it is not a chaka matter is by definition of the translation of the name which means newcomer part of a program in a soviet union in the late seventy's and eighty's the movie trucks dozens and dozens of different nerve agents have been synthesised not just by russia the head

of porton down refused to clarify whether his own lab oratory had its own stockpile while the snow we have anything like that would ever have come from mars or you know leave the four walls of our facilities we deal with a number of very toxic substances as part of the work that we do we've got the highest levels of security in controls the newer chalk formulas have been available in public books for nearly a decade now and pretty much any specialist with solid knowledge of organic chemistry can create it you're going to jewel's if it's really another truck we're dealing with it's not a real problem to synthesize that kind of nerve agent all the necessary components easily available on the open market this it says does not require sophisticated procedures any specialist an organic chemistry would be able to make it. the fact

that the experts can't determine the russians did it doesn't mean that u.k. authorities will change their mantra it is our assessment that russia was responsible for these brazen and reckless acts and there is no other plausible explanation remarkable how quickly things escalated and all. that faith based likely assessment. well russia has always strenuously denied its involvement in the poisoning despite frequent accusations against the state and even the president and the russian presidential spokesman dmitri peskov says that boris johnson will have to apologize for his inflammatory statements against russia the case foreign ministers have been plain invite him in putin's behalf to look at noise of the u. colleagues and he will have to apologise to russia somehow this is a classic russian strategy trying to conceal the evil of truth in

a haystack. in the sound of the station for him i believe this is the resigning martyr because he didn't just join in the chorus of bloom russia he lied on national television on the broadcast of the b.b.c. he said i have spoken to the. porton down by the very guy who made the statement on behalf or porton down and he said the guy told him that it was russia that did it could only have been russia that did it this was what than a mistake it was a lie a chemical expert james taught says that many states know about this type of weapon and are able to manufacture them. it would be natural to pin the blame on ana on russia in that russia has has indeed made these a part of their weapons stockpiles we're talking about

a development that probably took place more than thirty years ago and with the fall of the soviet union. the word has gotten out to many states as to the how to make these things many states know about this to the point where we're just chemists talk together know about these types of things and not i don't work for a state system and i learned this just by talking with chemists for her cs i'm not russian term receiver so there are chemists remember that know this type of thing that have nothing to do with russia well our correspondent will be following is following the i.p.c. debbie amazing in the hague be talking to us later in the program. president putin's comments on the script poisoning case came during a meeting with the turkish fleet every. day one in ankara they are both now going to be joined by half and behind me the leader of iran for

a summit on the syrian peace process it is that for us. first of all on tuesday we listened to vladimir putin and dawn here in ankara and i'll tell you what they sounded like they totally know what they're doing together in syria as if all the conflict obstacles on the ground are easy to overcome cease fire violations ankara's all of french offensive in the north to syria and the kurdish resistance to what the message is that everything can be sorted every general powers even if they're backing opposing sides genuinely work together if words are followed by specific actions on wednesday as you were saying the president of turkey and russia will be joined by his son will money the leader of iran and the three guarantors of the peace process in syria will come together again they do that once every few

months to have a look back at what's been done and also to think of the next steps in soon we will hear what the trio will have to say about that a party that's not been working with the trio but still remains in syria is no surprises here the u.s. but lately the americans have been sending mixed signals about their future role in the war torn country and their presence in syria will become another syria like very soon very soon very soon we're coming out of saudi arabia. is very interested in our decision and i said well general you want to say maybe you can have to pay there still are some children some areas where they are there are present and that we will have to continue to operate on coming back to what we expect from the trio what we will most likely hear is the leaders of russia turkey and iran praising each other for the commitment but we as journalists will definitely be looking

forward to hearing something about the future role of america in syria they might say something about that they might not soon will find out well michael mann a former pentagon official about the contradicting messages coming from washington . the u.s. was never invited into syria in the first place we just walked in and occupied areas controlled by the kurds who were at that time against the assad government so how long the u.s. can sustain that and under what authority the congress never has approved it and it's costing us billions of dollars so i think at some point there's got to be oversight by congress on on the expenditures by the u.s. in syria and what what the policy is i think what all of this shows is a is a lack of any policy formulation strategic vision and and and game if you will of what what the u.s. intention is in maintaining troops in syria and i think that the trump

administration needs to come clean with that so far it has not. gone many cities in syria lie in ruins off the years of fighting i still some doubt trying to make the best of it the video agency create travel to aleppo where they found a local park or team going to that paces. study and then when our team was established nearly four years ago i missed the crisis and brutal war in the country it trained under difficult circumstances. facing many problems due to a lack of facilities like the inventory training and what not any injury means we

have to stop for two or three months. there are very few professional parker trainers we're using and other facilities on the internet to contribute to the movement and its experience. on the back after the break stay with us.

they've been waiting. for a long time because it talking about the dollar back to this world reserve currency countries are tired of america's wars because there's got to be trainer in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to use that money a wage wars all over the world. welcome back and american photo journalist says he feels betrayed by the f.b.i. now so off they spend seven months held by terrorists in syria he claims the f.b.i. used him to track the jihad ists instead of trying to rescue him. ok to paid off my

discover card caraway that's what it takes to pull the f.b.i. and the immediately started to look at me as an enemy of the state the lead agency prudie she admitted this to me but i'm sure if there are some time went by they realized that it wasn't me and by that point they were buying show many laptops tablets which created an intelligence gathering dream come true for the f.b.i. if they entered into if they intercepted these laptops and tablets which i know that they did and then delivered them into the hands of al qaeda it did not really matter if i was with them or not well i mean more was gone by the time i discovered all this change told me he's basically he's a coward. ignored me ignored my emails he ignored my message on facebook. my story i was attempting to cross the syrian border into turkey when he was captured by al nasra which is that that's on the funny ated with al-qaeda he spent

months in different rebel held prisons in aleppo but in twenty thirteen he managed to escape becoming the first westerner to do so he's now written a book about his ordeal called the don't press which describes the nightmare of his captivity we caught up with matt again ahead of the book's launch later this month . i wrote in syria eighteen days before my abduction during the time i was photographing the war from the free syrian army side i was the air force intelligence and come out to bell which were two of the most dangerous parts aleppo at the time and on new year's eve after i got the photographs i went there for i was on my way out forty five minutes from the turkish border when i was abducted by the unanswered front ok in syria i didn't want anybody coming to rescue me there was no way you can lay seals in the areas that i was in one prison yes it was out the country every other was in a lot of folks there's just no way to fly black hawks low enough we were not going

to get shot down so i didn't want anybody coming to get me but i did want them doing the best that they could to keep me safe and then when that was done. a potential trade war between china and the united states is spiraling beijing has announced that it will introduce reciprocal tariffs on u.s. goods like food products and cars worth around fifty billion dollars a year chinese foreign ministry has all also condemned the recent u.s. proposal to impose a levy on one thousand three hundred products. to the release of the tariffs on the united states side it was a typical unilateralist and trade protectionist approach in this regard of china saw them represent stations and with no basis in fact the chinese side strongly condemns and firmly opposes this washington slant to thirteen hundred chinese products with terrorists on tuesday it includes construction machinery consumer electronics and medical devices and is worth around fifty billion dollars

a year we discussed the issue with economist richard wolfe he told us that the u.s. could pay a high price for trump's economic decisions. all of this destruction of the world trade is the theatrical mr drug this is about domestic political theater it's not a solution to the underlying economic problems of the united states the chinese have all kinds of economic leverage on the united states and my guess is if you keep provoking them in the way that mr trump thinks is useful for him politically they will look at all of their weapons. let's just eleven weeks ago into a twenty eight hundred world cup kicks off in russia legendary danish goalkeeper and manchester united star peter schmeichel is one of our guides through the tournament and he's been checking out some of the host cities first on the list is

nizhni novgorod which is about four hundred kilometers east of moscow area. it's. all come to needs to knock out stage a brand new arena that will see some serious action when brayfield plays argentina just one of those six games being played in this magnificent arena and i can promise you it won't be on snow it will be on the cross of course for what is just silly all about i'm peter schmeichel and i'm about to find out. the first thing you need to know about nice and all go on is that it was risky to go to as it used to be called about thirty years ago most people sleep off limits to foreigners and the reason for that was just to gas car factories.

during the second world war the factory was forced put to use military equipment and because of that they got completely flattened by german bombs. to look at just how hard you have to kill it's. amazingly enough it took only one hundred days for the local community to completely rebuild the front and it was then for there without the running of the city became a restricted zone i'm just going to go. until the house because. this is now a multi-billion dollar oberoi from the round twenty thousand people work here that used to be a long haul truck to do five times longer but then these fellows are right.

i think it's everyone's lunch you know and now i'm on my own. the factories mind i'm completely on my own. i could actually now make my own coffee and no one would know that. i just came from the factory where they produced the cars and i'm driving a good sale next slice absolute denies you know i'm a big boy i like to be totally something needed in the big mall and i know they've got exactly what i'm looking for. it's a racing shell it's a doubtful this it raises money from icy conditions like this so it is police

a little bit all over the place and it's also set up the first real job of us and a lot of professionals either. but i'm guessing that. this judge is a fun ride but it's so difficult. i need a figure because a big a chalk up big or whatever. but an easy a joyride. so let's see what this is. it's got a good enough but no team. i think it's much easier to be a gold people than a rally driver. if i was to have it plays in a reality. this would be my job my place see hold still cool drive it.

was really good fun. i really enjoyed that and how can you not what i also like to do is to do a little bit of culture and what i found was this museum exhibits twelve thousand pieces of russian historical and amongst them this one and i really like this this is the kind in speech he was credited for being one of the pie in the as abstract. so nothing abstract about this i'm going to take move right back to the russian foods we all know this you know this is cold will come up it's if you add russian

guns he made before and then she showed the scene it with this it's so common that even fee for. using it on their official motioned us and now i'm going to have a go at painting one of these and this is osama hello would you teach me how to paint you. officially challenge to. you see mine is not too bad but i think she needs a little bit of practice. well

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle words have consequences and threatening actions can be very dangerous this is the atmosphere engulfing the west relations with russia the poisoning incident in the u.k. has yet to be explained to the public but this is not stop the british and american governments from playing the role of judge jury and executioner. across talking toxic relations i'm joined by my guest charles shu bridge in london he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer in brussels we have any michelle and

she is a former british intelligence officer and writer and in washington we cross to james chatteris he is a former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership all right as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate any let me go to you first in brussels you know the law you were only on last week but the more we learn about what happened with this poisoning incident there's only been one thing that has been consistent russia did it everything else keeps changing it's very fluid except for the conclusion reflect upon that any place well the more we. apparently because we have a situation where one. potential two they have. had time to make but second. well that in terms of a classic investigation technique within a few hours the british media was saying it must be in russia because he's a russian spy and within a week the russian government saying it was russia so we have

a situation where things have escalated as control in hugely fast ways and to date a month later we still don't even know exactly how the so-called substance was applied to these two people it was supposed to be an incredibly toxic substance but two of the victims have survived and are recovering and scruple himself is apparently in a stable condition and three we still don't know what he might be involved in which might create a motive over the last eight years since had safe haven as a former m i six agent finding safe sanctuary having a pension in the u.k. so the whole thing is a mess the fact that the british government rushed in to condemn russia is a mess the fact that they have apparently shared so-called intelligence with other allies in order to strong arm them into trying to make sure that they expel.