underground but you can still keep in touch with us while we're away on facebook twitter and instagram. u.k. foreign office to leak said tweet claiming british experts had found the nerve agent used in the script poisoning case was produced in russia. and did other developments about the story the e.u. rejects today russia's proposal for a joint investigation into the attack on the former spy and his daughter claiming that moscow refused to cooperate with london. and also the headlines russia turkey and iran agree on a joint effort to rebuild syria today but they're also warning to about militant attempts to sabotage the peace process maybe with chemical attack.

rather than live from moscow this is on tuesdays at ten caramel continue first and more on the developments today in the script it's a case of now you see it now you don't on twitter it appears as the british foreign office is deleted a tweet saying experts said a british lab porton down and confirmed the nerve agent used in the scruple poisoning cases produced in russia it's a move that's not going on noticed by others online with some saying it may be as a damage limitation exercise. part of our team in the u.k. of course next westminster. the foreign office has deleted a tweet that it had initially posted on march twenty second which read that analysis by world leading experts of the laboratory at porton down made clear that this was a military grade novacek nerve agent produced in russia now a couple of days before that boris johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue that they're sure of. the chalk in russia

how did you manage to find it out so quickly but when i look at the the evidence from the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy where so i said are you sure and he said as they dodged well it seems that all of that was going well until yesterday when the chief executive of porton down came out and said that not only were the scientists not able to prove that the nerve agent came from russia but generally speaking they didn't know what the source was 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 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 nerve agent is but it's not our job to see where actually was manufactured are typically you will

not tell you to look cool down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that at the same time the foreign office is saying everything is still the way it was and nothing is inconsistent they really have they've said quote the foreign secretary was making clear that porton down were sure it was another charkha point they have reinforced what the foreign secretary said then and what porton down have said recently is fully consistent with what we have said throughout it is russia that is putting forward multiple versions of events and obfuscating the truth and. quote well suffice it to see that on social media things are not so clear to anybody who has been following this and there have been quite a few tweets posted here in the u.k. calling for the resignation of boris johnson we also know that the labor party has challenged the u.k. foreign secretary to explain himself in the situation regarding what's going on there as stocks and we are rushing production. is the government going to accuse

russia. coaching of surrogates creepshow is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack of recluse behavior by the russian state the russians the russians russian russia russia russian russian i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and boris johnson a serious questions too about the claims on german television that this was a russian produced. port and they examined it and said all that intensify it was some of the truth we couldn't say where it came from well now it remains to be seen whether or not boris johnson is going to be answering any of those questions given the vigorous ness with which accusations against russia have flown very early on in this case pretty much as soon as the name of the man poisoned sergei screwball came out into the spotlight well boris johnson has been active on twitter he set out to accuse labor party leader jeremy corbyn of siding

with russia instead of supporting the u.k. like the twenty eight countries he said that expelled russian diplomats other nations are worth pointing out tonight of question the u.k.'s measures against moscow of the scriptural case austria case in point opted to remain neutral but claimed it was pressured to follow suit. when the situation gets tough you have to keep channels open the u.k. ambassador to australia should demolish on wednesday in order to encourage us to take specific measures on saturday they demolish was repeated on monday while i was in kosovo the chancellor and i spoke over the phone about our position which is now public it's our tradition to bring people together especially in difficult situations. from ken livingstone the former mayor of london he believes that the reason why is government is more concerned about bashing russia that establishing what actually happened in the poisoning case. threesome i was up there virtually from day one and i'm not blaming russia and the president putin for this based on

these claims before they've even been the first report on the people investigating the incident and we still haven't had their final report and i will be at all surprised if it is never made available to the public the british government has set out to blame all of this on president through russia from the very beginning but the simple fact is our country has a principle that you are innocent until proven guilty but here we had our prime minister on the television immediately denouncing russia and starting to order the expulsion of russian diplomats and this has been taken up around the western block our politics is just about the has in some here is a get repeated will retire and i four corridor and into merrill elections library he just says what he thinks he needs to say at the time i've never known a politician so completely and utterly unrelated to facts i mean he wouldn't even

read his briefings before we went into those debates he just says what he thinks who go down well at the time so in my broad rightist pay no attention to anything that's ever said by a foreign secretary it would invariably be rubbish would all other headlines in the story today to brief you about russia's proposal that wednesday's o.p.c. w meeting in the hague failed to get the required votes needed to be adopted british and some european politicians moved to block the joint investigation it was proposed with accusation still standing there for against moscow artie's peter all of our europe correspondent has been following developments in the hague for us as catch up with him ip ok so what exactly did russia proposing a reminder this and what was the reaction to that vote in a bit more detail. well when they started this extraordinary meeting of the o.p.c. w. that was called by russia and the day started with russia's permanent representative i looked down the chute in putting forward russia's proposal which

was for what he called a. communal way inclusive. investigation involving all members of the p.c. w now that was dismissed by the by the executive council it was voted down by by fifteen to six with seventeen stations however russia's representative as he was speaking to us just behind me now at the embassy here in the hague he said with the motion didn't go through it did show that more people didn't support it they were actually in favor of it. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then. you member states and u.s. allies followed suit for twenty three countries have refused one way or another to

take this western viewpoint that's more than half of the executive council. well it was viewed very differently by boris johnson the british foreign secretary he referred to the motion put forward by russia is being ludicrous and said that it was defeated because of that he said that this was being put forward as an attempt to divert attention away from an investigation that was actually focusing on russia or not in fact was repeated in the words that were coming out from the meeting this was a closed meeting that was taking place we weren't allowed in there was the press but there were tweets coming out the tweet from the british side referred to it as the motion was put forward as perverse saying that it wasn't on the day that somebody that was being investigated in russia as in russia being investigated for the poisonings of the school files would be involved in their in their investigation

there now this was also backed up by a very strong message from the european union as well the representative from the nation saying that russia has provided basic information to the united kingdom that it should have been saying that. in fact there was a concern that showed russia not accept the findings of n p c w report that perhaps they could pull out of the chemical weapons watchdog altogether however the words coming from the russian permanent representative also the ambassador here in the netherlands was that perhaps some of these nations don't want russia or involved in a investigation because of what may be found. they fear the truth they fear to take responsibility for their words blatant accusation paroxetine statements from the head of u.k. diplomacy it looks like they're scared that the investigation will help to dot the

i's and cross the cheese and find out what really happened it just said to bear responsibility for slander. it's been a very long day here in the hague but it's been very short when it comes to answers to some of the questions that we were perhaps hoping for we don't hear. many of those remain up in the air and open questions as to just who was behind the poisoning and thirty three power and who will be taking part in the investigation and how that will permit out ok thanks pete for the update there or furthermore the u.k. stable of the o.p.c. w. meeting contained number of arguments to back its case against russia some more controversial than others going by the reaction britain brought up a chemical incident in syria first off which took place a year ago to the day and led to u.s. president donald trump taking military action against syria the u.k.'s former

ambassador to syria peter ford spoke to us he thinks this shows the u.k. struggling to find strong evidence to blame russia the british authorities jumped to the conclusion that they wanted to see a seized on a pretext and then invented the evidence to justify that. was circumstantial evidence that russia might have been involved and the british government quickly. built up on this but when you look at the statement today the only additional evidence is speculation it underlined the fact the british argument weak. and there for it with a diversionary tactic to bring up both and over three the allegations concerning contrail. in fact that it was mission

weakness on the part of the british delegation if they were convinced that the case of salt spray they should have concentrated on on that exclusively the u.k. statement designed precisely to muddy the waters and truth near. russia. meantime a number of russian diplomats are giving their reaction to the latest developments in the scruple case with more on that our correspondent he goes down though there's a good share of irony in the u.k.'s latest accusation against russia well you know that russia is refusing to share any information on the scruple case with the u.k. because from the looks of it it seems that now london is shamelessly boring lines from most closed book of concern for weeks russia has been calling on london to disclose at least some information on their investigation into this cripple case and has been criticizing london for their blatant refusal to do so so now it seems

london is turning moskos argument against itself so really russia's reaction russia's response to this has been hardly a surprise what to chapel and you can assure that russia denied the information on the case was not willing to discuss the question and denied any possibility of corporations this is one hundred percent. well this is far from the only thing with heard from the russian diplomats the foreign ministry has said that basically london is interested in sort of fanning the flames around the whole investigation around the whole assassination attempt to not interested in an act. transparent investigation itself we've also heard from the foreign ministry that now with all the with the berridge of accusations flying the russia way all trust towards the u.k.

in this situation in this scandal has been lost and amid this hail of mutual jabs between russia and the u.k. here in moscow we've heard from the chief of the always see thomas graham he's he's delivering making a speech at a conference on international security he said that basically the cooperation between russia and the e.u. is vital for european security and i managed to get a few minutes of his time and what i was really interested in is whether or not he believes the whole situation around the scruple case how the said corporation and he told me that he believes that it is not writes when one side doesn't hear the other i mean truly very little about. these bristling. relations between east best. day it seems to verse on a daily basis and that is. a matter of concern i think to all

security politicians that we need to end to revert to dialogue we need to sit at the same time table we need to again to listen try to understand development but more empathy towards the security perceptions of each other and i think that is listening trying to understand that's very important if we want to come out after this current mess kalahari logic well judging by the latest events the dialogue the vital and the most basic trait and to all of diplomacy is something that is seems to be for now impossible to achieve in this situation. as for president putin he said that russia is not expecting an apology anytime soon of this crippled case ensuring used we are not waiting for anything we just expect common sense to eventually prevail so that international relations will not be harmed as much as they are right now. moving on to some of the stories that were putin was speaking

there in a joint media conference in ankara earlier today with the presidents of turkey and iran with the three per brokers of peace and syria of met for an effort to try to reduce the violence in the long war torn country despite their differences over the conflict they it seems have managed to find a way to work together covering that tonight. the guarantors have met in ankara turkey and there's absolutely no doubt about their commitment to what the three countries are doing together though they are all still here with their own ambitions stipe aired on keep saying that his country won't tolerate the armed kurdish militias in northern syria so the so-called all of french military options well continue no matter what his son rouhani the iranian leader says that external powers though he did specifically mention the u.s. and israel are trying to use the terrorists on the ground in syria to reach some of

their own goals lot of uprooting probably speaks about the russian efforts to evacuate eastern ghouta which as we understand has paid off with the evacuation of more than one hundred fifty thousand civilians and some of the rebels too although perhaps the most important point that was made by the russian president was that moscow is in possession of some intelligence that points to some radical splatting to destroy the road towards peace with a chemical weapons attack because through options for the. joint strategic goal is to eliminate the terrorists who keep trying to destabilize the situation on the ground and sabotage the peace process they are doing this in every way possible we have obtained undeniable evidence of plan provocation by the militants with the use of chemical agents then came

a little surprise for mr aired on there were no questions planned but the turkish theater encouraged the audience to start asking them and then we heard the one that the journalists had been expecting for two days about america being back and forth over their future role in syria and here's what i mean by that will become another syria like very soon. very soon very soon we're coming out of saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well if you want to say maybe don't have to pay we are in syria fight isis that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission so it was first to jump in iran's president hassan rouhani couldn't miss his chance to ask washington in this case. the us says one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust the words and actions

since they want to benefit from syria as much as possible and all mr aired on wants to say to the u.s. administration stop arming and funding the kurds full stop other developments tonight no new in washington's back and forth over its military being taken out of syria was mentioned there but it now seems tonight the u.s. army is set to stay a say this is new and media reports claim that president trump was persuaded to u.-turn on his promise to imminently get troops during a meeting with military officials on tuesday the white house added wednesday that it remains committed to eliminating the remaining pockets of ice still terrorists in syria we discussed the situation generally on the ground in syria with the president of the international red cross. now at the present moment we see both movements at the same time we see active combat with a lot of emergency displacements and at the same time we see that people are also

returning to some of the places in syria which are more quiet than eastern or northern from. the humanitarian corridors at this certain moment were you wished by people which shows that they came to the conclusion that they were useful tools to get out of the beseeched situation of peace and we have seen a lot of people killed and injured by also explosives remnants of war so this is a very complex situation where different tactics and violations also of international humanitarian law by different sides. to an awful. lot of conditions for disobedient population. an american photojournalist says he feels betrayed by the f.b.i. after he spent seven months held by terrorists in syria he claimed to me the f.b.i. used him to track the jihadists instead of trying to rescue

a kind of paid off my discover card. for the f.b.i. and the immediately started to look at me as. the lead chase agent means you prudy 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 me laptops tablets which created an intelligence gathering dream come true for the f.b.i. if they do if they intercepted these laptops and tablets which i know that they did and then delivered them into the hands of. really matter if i was with them or not well i mean mohler was gone by the time i discovered all this change told me he's basically he's a coward he ignored me ignored my e-mail. she ignored my message on facebook. speaking there was attempted to cross the syrian border into turkey when he was captured by a loser which was at that time affiliated with al qaida you may recall he spent

months in different rebel held prisons in aleppo then in twenty thirteen he managed to escape becoming the first western to do so but now he's written a book about it all this whole deal he's been through called the dawn prayer describing the nightmare of his captivity iraq and syria eighteen days before my abduction during that 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 of 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 seals in the areas that i was in one prison yes it was out the country every other one was in a lot so 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. right ten weeks now and then coming quickly twenty eighteen world cups festival of football gets underway here in russia the tournament set to play out across eleven host cities and visiting them as banalities safe as pair of hands legendary goalkeeper p.e.t.r.'s michel with us of course his first stop is going to big trip was four hundred kilometers east of moscow so here it is in the city of. 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 in snow it will be on grass of course one insists will be

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 still the goalkeeper 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 guess how factory. during the second world war all the factory was forced put to use military equipment and because of that they got completely flattened by german bombs. a look at just how hard you have to pull it's. amazingly enough it took only one hundred days for the local community to completely rebuild the plant and it was then for that 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 not thirty five times longer but then these fellows are right. i think it's everyone's lunch you know now i'm on my own. the factories mind i'm completely on my own. i could actually you know make my own coffee and no one would know but. i just came from the factory where they put used because i know i'm driving a good sale next slice absolute denies you know i'm

a big boy i like the big choice and needed the bit more and i know they've got exactly what i'm looking for. it's a raising shelf and say i'll fold this it raises money from icy conditions like this so it is still leaves a little bit off all over the place and it's also set up a professional job of us and a lot of professionals either. but i'm guessing that. this child is a fun ride but it's so difficult. i need a bigger cars a bigger chaka bigger whatever. but an easy a joy. so let's see what this is.

a good and i've got no feeling. i think it's much easier to be a cold people than a rally driver. if i was to have it plays in the 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 the culture and want to find 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 now going to take you to fried back to the russian roots we all know this you know this is cold will come up it's if you add russian guns he made it before and then she showed the scene it was this it's so common that even fisa are 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. a fish and the challenge to.

the mind is not too bad but i think she needs a little bit of practice. told . much more that become a victim weeks. of a social media for the latest from us twenty four seventh's now from moscow is kevin owen saying thanks for watching this news update from the international. they've been waiting. for a long time because it talking about the dollar that this world reserve currency countries are tired of funding the.