bush should ban. british scientists are unable to identify the source of the nerve agent used to poison a former spy and his daughter in the u.k. after weeks of the. russia we know verify this a source but we provide scientific information to the government the international

chemical weapons. expected to shed more light on the case as it meets right now in the. news this hour an american photojournalist who was once held by syria says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. he claims the intelligence service used him to track the terrorists and didn't try to help. this wednesday countries around the world looking into the international chemical weapon was struck today for answers in the scribal poisoning case the o.p.c. meeting right now to discuss the attack on the former spy and his daughter in southern england a month ago before the talks the head of a british military partly debunked the core assertion of moscow's to blame he said they couldn't tell where the nerve agent used was produced. 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 eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nayar of each and is that it's not our job to see where that actually was manufactured so to be clear you're not able at cotton 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 from porton down they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy so i said are you sure and he said that it was the u.k.'s defense research laboratory however maintains that the substance used is not a chalk military grade nerve agent the british government moved swiftly to defend its position claiming that its accusations against russia remained valid despite the revelation now it says 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 but also says there's no other explanation that it was plausible but with scientists unable to verify the source it's possible moment may have jumped the gun as my guest you have now explained. scotland yard said it first they need time this 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 it's 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 putin's kremlin and we think it overwhelmingly 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 the reason no plausible alternative explanation need 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 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 the particular near of each. is you'd think that would at least slightly embarrassed 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 chalk a mat 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 chalks 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

for 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. go through tools if it's really a novacek 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 nor can a chemist you 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 this brazen and reckless act and there is no other plausible explanation remarkable how quickly things escalated and all hinge on that faith based highly unlikely assessment. well in the wake of the porton down admission on social media the british foreign secretary is being accused of plying dangerous lives pointing to his news interview and say he should resign or be sacked for spreading false information which is always strenuously denied involvement in the poisoning despite frequent accusations against the country and even the president russian presidential spokesman dmitri person says boris johnson will have to apologize for his inflammatory statements. the case foreign ministers have been playing. have to look at noise of the colleagues have to apologise to russia somehow this is a classic mushy strategy of trying to conceal the evil of truth in

a haystack. in the sound of the station for him i believe this is a resigning matter because he didn't just join in the chorus of blame russia he lied on national television on the broadcast of the b.b.c. he said i have spoken to. the very guy who made the statement on behalf of portland and he said i told him that it was russia that did it it could only have been russia that did this was what's known a mistake it was a lie. let's see if any lights being shed about o.p.c. meeting live to the hague our europe correspondent peter all of us there first of all bring us up to speed on what this meeting is that russia's call.

the meeting taking place just behind me well and the way now it's been ongoing since this morning a few tidbits of come out but it is closed to the press that's why i'm speaking to you from outside right now but it was certainly given a. real impetus by that news coming out of the u.k. last night that porton down the u.k.'s chemical weapons lab or a tree wasn't able to link the nerve agent that was used to try and poison. to russia they did confirm though that it was a. chalk type of nerve agents that had been developed in the soviet union though we heard before this meeting from russian president vladimir putin who said that he hoped. what would come out of these talks was would be able to put to bed some of the allegations being made by london. q was there were you do it amazes me how fast this anti russia hysteria has come about we're calling in o.p.c. w meeting to get the facts straight on this whole situation 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 so but of course we're interested in a comprehensive investigation. all the meeting was called by russia after what it called a. at him from a shin blackout regarding the investigation russia says that it sent questions to the united kingdom that were down said there had been no access so far to give me it's going to fall who is a russian citizen also that there'd been no response to our request for all the for example from the poisoning site itself now there has been some criticism of russia asking for that however as both russia and the united kingdom's i think that in kingdom are members of the o.p.c. w the freshly part of the rulebook could be part of the club but they're supposed to share that type of information all of that's been forthcoming but we know that russia did send

a number of questions here to the the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they understand that they've received an answer not an answer to all of those but an answer that the russian delegation is currently going through but there hasn't been a response to some of the questions that were put forward by russia at this meeting no continuing behind me the eyes of the world that are looking at this case pretty much looking here to the netherlands and to the hague for answers right now so scant detail at this stage in the game but from what you know any international reaction so far. well from what's coming out internationally from inside the building just behind me a lot of that's actually coming out through tweets from the delegates. themselves we heard from the british delegation he said that rushes off of a joint investigation was both perverse and a diversionary tactic there was being carried out by moscow the the russian

side have also sent out a tweet saying that fourteen members of the group of been on side with what russia has proposed we've also heard from further afield from from in germany where a senior member of angola merkel's christian democratic party actually said christian democratic union said that the onus was now really on the united kingdom to provide evidence now that was out of to say one of the the deputy chairman of the c.d.u. he said it's britain head asked its nato allies and other allies to take action against russia that they've done not and now following this news coming out of port and down that they weren't able to link. the nerve agent chemically to russia now those nato allies are going to start needing to see more evidence he said that whatever your opinion on russia international law to be followed and not require some moves from the united kingdom side however we heard from the german government

as well a spokesperson from them saying that nothing had changed in the official view of the german government that they still were fully behind their ally the united kingdom we've also heard from one of the european union commission is alexander. and he said that the the news coming out of portis portadown actually didn't mean anything at all that the the u.k. chemical lab was charged with finding out what had been used to try and poison the script it wasn't part of their remit to determine who or where this is who had carried it out or where they said this actual chemical had come from there's a lot of questions still at the moment certainly far more questions than answers. and a lot of the a lot of people as i say look into this building just behind me to provide some of those answers nothing really concrete if yet but this is developing expecting this meeting to continue for quite a while yet we're bringing you all of those updates that north anything emerges

from here in the netherlands ok peter stick with your patience might pay off your mind and more in a few hours from now though in the hague thanks very much for that. well in the last hour we were joined in the studio by a former u.n. chemical weapons inspector in iraq who believes that it is almost impossible to determine the origin of that nerve agent. there is no one hundred percent assurance that you can determine the regions of a chemical everything that we know about a chemical comes from its composition so the chemical is never a hundred percent pure they come from a production at every stage reactions produce some byproducts and these byproducts can carry up to the final chemical no matter how hard you try to purify it every after every stage so by little you know about the those impurities you can tell what the technology was used to produce that chemical but if you have to abort

trees in different countries of the world that produce the same chemical with the same technology with the same regions you have not. to tell exactly which a sample came from which laboratory russia follows exactly by the procedures of the convention so on the thirteenth of march russia requested the u.k. to provide russia with all the formation and who the intended is the u.k. was supposed to deliver that information. do you keep failed to do that so now russia requested the executive council to provide all information the next step. is supposed to do right now is to. make sure that the executive council requests that the u.k. provides all the information about issue because. the executive council is obliged to do that so why wouldn't

the u.k. provide the world with the same information it's not clear and this reason is much more coalitions to the cabinet or for me especially towards johnson in how the really established fault of russian federation in. group us issues. for the headline news this hour a summit between russia turkey and iran is underway right now in the turkish capital to show you some of the latest pictures that we've got from ankara the main focus of this meeting in a peace settlement for syria's seven year conflict president putin a rifle day before the gathering held separate talks with his turkish counterpart. is that 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 mani 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 to saudi arabia. is very interested in our decision and i said well if you want to say maybe you can have to pay there still. she's in some areas where they are there are present. that we will have to continue to operate on coming back to what we 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. they will keep you posted on what happens now while many cities in syria lie in ruins after years of fighting are. trying to

make the best of it. been filming a pocket team going through their paces in aleppo. was established nearly four years ago. war in the country trained under difficult circumstances. facing many problems due to a lack of facilities like the training. any injury means we have to stop for two or three months. professional trainers were using other facilities to contribute to the movement and its experience.

here without a off the break i'll tell you why an american journalist says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. and syria next. chose seemed wrong. but old clothes just don't hold. any you get to shape out these days you can stick out to it and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

they've been waiting. for a long time because it talking about the dollar that this world reserve currency countries are tired of america's wars because ever there's got to be trained in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first means america gets a commission that money a wage wars all over the world. and logan just what do you want to story we brought you last hour a fire has broken out of a shopping mall for children's goods in the east of moscow one member of stuff is confirmed to have died three firefighters are also said to have been injured while putting out the fire which broke out in a warehouse section of the building blaze has now been extinguished firefighters rescued twenty people and evacuated around six hundred others from the building fire at a shopping and entertainment complex in the russian city have come out of the last

month killed sixty four people forty one of them were children. an american photojournalist says he feels betrayed by the f.b.i. after he spent seven months held by terrorists in syria he claims the f.b.i. used them to track the jihadists instead of trying to rescue him ok to paid off my discover card here we've got what it takes to fool the f.b.i. and the media of the shirted to look at me as. the lead agent means you truly she admitted this to me but i'm sure if there are some time went by they realized that it was just me and by that point they were buying so many laptops tablets which created intelligence gathering dream come true for the f.b.i. if they intrude into if they intercepted these laptops and tablets so 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 miller was gone by the time i discovered all this change told me he's basically he's

a coward he ignored me he ignored my e-mails he ignored my message on facebook. manchuria was attempting to cross the syrian border into turkey when he was captured by al nasra which was at that time affiliated with al qaida he spent months in different rebel held prisons in aleppo then in twenty thirteen he did manage to escape becoming the first westerner to do so he's written a book about his ordeal called the dawn prayer describing the nightmare of his captivity in iraq and syria eighteen days before my abduction during that time i was photographing the war from the free syrian army so 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 youngster front ok in syria i didn't want anybody coming to rescue me there was no way you can lay in seals in the areas that i was in one prison yes it was out

the country every other one was in a lot though 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 none of that was done. a trade war between china and the united states is spiraling beijing's announced that it will introduce reciprocal tariffs on american goods like food products and cars worth around fifty billion dollars a year the chinese foreign ministries also condemned the recent u.s. move to impose a levy on thirteen hundred of its products. to ensure the release of the tariffs on the united states' size it was a typical unilateralist and trade protectionist approach in this regard of china saw them represent stations and with no basis in fact that the chinese side strongly condemns and firmly opposes this washington's tariffs cover construction machinery consumer electronics and also medical devices. economist

richard bove told us though that the u.s. could pay a high price for president trump's economic decisions all of this disruption of the world trade is the theatrical mr drop 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 drum thinks is useful for him politically they will look at all of their weapons. pilots from russia's pacific fleet are getting in some extra air time in the skies over the far east of the country they're practicing night time midair refueling for the first time. to be able to get the.

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said of entering its educational system you see the more educated of civilization the more chances it has to not only survive but the flourish and you will not have an educated public without proper teachers which is why lately here in the united states the hubris of american exceptionalism doesn't be beginning to fade when you enter its education systems this week in oklahoma more than thirty thousand educators staged a walkout in protest of the state's low education funding and even lower public school teacher salaries and the statistics back up these these teachers according to the national education association oklahoma ranked forty seventh among all fifty states in per student expenditures and forty eighth in average teacher salaries and twenty sixteen this comes just a month after teachers in west virginia successfully fought their state legislatures for a five percent pay raise after staging weeks of massive strikes. with the

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