u.k.'s representative to the. more claims against russia at the meeting linking this group our poisoning case to the chemical attack in the syrian town of can shake last year that attack led the u.s. to take military actions against syrian government positions he claims that russia had called wednesday's meeting in the hague to make a political point. well chemistry professor dave colons says the nerve agents believed to have been used in souls is not that hard to produce the chemistry that was being claimed to be unique. basically claimed it was not there really remarkably simple compounds and they're all very similar so they all have basically a phosphorus group with four groups attach they all have an oxygen and a fluorine which are invariant and so so the trick is to get the other two groups in and i would say that the ones that i've looked at which is at least a dozen of them they could be made in two or three steps by pretty much any organic

chemist in my opinion which is why this notion that it's specialized russian technology i peg the needle on that and said no it's not you might die trying to make them my you would need special equipment to keep yourself from getting a dose of the stuff but there's ways to do that for about twenty or thirty thousand dollars so there's nothing. about him except for not killing yourself it's a very simple modifications you could almost imagine making one by mistake which would be a catastrophic moment for that chemists but but there you know i could give a problem a set my first year grad course how would you make these and the students would all get it. on facebook has admitted that this stamp of a data breach if it's accounts that was used for political purposes has turned out to be followed to them previously thought was the tech giant says that the profiles of up to eighty seven million people could have been shared with dates it was

cambridge i'm melissa. said fifty million. in total we believe the phrasebook information of up to eighty seven million people mostly in the u.s. may have been improperly shared with cambridge and only to cambridge analytical license data for no more than thirty million people the firm that has been using this information it's called cambridge and a little and essentially it does data collection and polling and analysis for political parties political campaigns and groups they use this information essential to craft their messaging craft their campaigning in a way that would be persuasive they kind of create a psychological profile of the potential voters based on what they have collected from facebook and social media they then use that information to craft their campaign advertising their messaging etc and now the data harvesting happened in a tacit agreement with facebook now facebook says they had no malicious intent.

however this has really hurt their reputation the government of germany actually went as far as asking for a clarification from facebook for an explanation we also have seen the trend it delete facebook all over social media with people you know tweeting out you know delete facebook calling for people to stop using facebook in response to this perceived you know dissemination of people's personal information that we do know that facebook is now in the process of changing their apps so that certain apps are more protected that the privacy of their users is more protected but as we see you know this call for for facebook to be deleted for people not to be used to using facebook is expanding so a lot of questions are being raised and it's certainly true that the reputation of this very widely used social media app is is severely tarnished. well we asked internet no expert and media analyst timothy coffey that is on the face but thanks

to scandal hemorrhaging at least the guys denying the figure they they claim that it is only thirty million but i don't think it makes a lot of the from the very thirty million to late in the year and i think it is the principle behind it is the old story about what about the use of intimate robots as we call them boats in order to meddle with the u.s. elections now still stories seem now a little bit out of there a little bit ridiculous nobody is talking about it but it was very interesting to hear his desire to beg only a couple of weeks ago. almost apologizing for allowing him to leave the boxes today that it was then being used to influence election is that if this story was about influencing election but by body. rather than access to news as they've done locally this is a company that routes so rapidly that the people who are managing facebook lost

control of their creation and the whole business model of facebook is built on this idea that they they collect highly targeted data on their users and then sell that data to advertisers and others and i think there just wasn't enough oversight of that process basement to say that they can they can police themselves internally they can solve these problems with their own oversight but i think that you know there's a legitimate reason that that's not good enough that we need to look at a new regulatory framework that will protect the privacy of users of social media not just facebook but people go on google and other popular platforms. it seems the presence of american troops in syria has become a confusing issue even for washington last week donald trump announced he wants a withdrawal to happen by. very soon the reports in the u.s. media say he's being advised not to pull the troops out at all so with an ever

changing white house rhetoric trump is backpedaling promising that a decision on the matter should be taken so we're not going the hell out of isis will become another syria like very soon let the other people take care of it now or the primary mission in terms of that was getting grid of isis we've almost completed that task and will be making a decision very quickly to pull the troops out say i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation the question of america's withdrawal from syria has raised it was raised as a sum as an anchor with the leaders of russia turkey and the wrong to run expressed it skepticism that washington's plan. united states is one thing one day and then a completely different thing the next so we cannot trust the words or actions it seems they want to benefit from syria as much as possible the main focus of the

ankara summit was to discuss a peace plan for water on syria and despite some differences russian irradiate and turkish need this found common ground as a tip or trying to reports. the three guarantors have met here at anchor us presidential palace there's absolutely no doubt about the three countries commitment to what they're doing together though they're all here with their own different visions fibered on keep saying that his country won't tolerate any artist militias in northern syria so the so-called bad continues no matter what the iranian leader hassan rouhani says that external powers although he did specifically mention the u.s. and israel keep trying to use terrorists on the ground to reach some of their own goals for to iran is strong foothold in syria is the. strong message to tel aviv and some of its other regional adverse rees

a lot of our proof proudly speaks of russia's evacuation efforts and he's which have paid off although perhaps the most important point from the russian president here and ankara was that moscow is in possession of some intelligence that points to plans by some radicals to destroy the road to peace with a chemical attack. on a joint strategic goal is to eliminate the terrorists who keep trying to destabilize the situation on the ground and sabotage the peace process but they are doing this in every way possible we have obtained undeniable evidence of planned provocation by the militants with the use of chemical agents there were no questions planned but then suddenly type aired on encouraged the audience to ask some things and then the first question came it was about the price that there is to pay for doring syria and

a lot of my putin said that all three countries feel it's their duty to spend money on that and help syria recover but he also encouraged everyone else the entire international community to get involved in actually turn words into actions people in the u.s. state of michigan take on food giant nestlé that's over the use of ground water the boat looking after the. break. when the make this manufacture come sentenced to the public will. when the roman closest protect themselves. when the final merry go round lifts only the one percent. we can all middle of the room signal. the real news is

really low. level blogs selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings in most of the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle is going. to stop spreading tell you that every gossip and tabloid by files for newsday. off after doesn't tell you on the cool enough to buy their product. all the hawks that we along with our loved ones. hello welcome back now there's a david and goliath battle playing out in the u.s. state of michigan despite widespread public opposition food giant nestlé is being allowed to extract more drinking water from the state's groundwater table it can

now extract one thousand five hundred liters per minute minutes which is five hundred more than previously allowed one of this has sparked huge concerns about the environmental consequences eighty two thousand people voted against the corporation getting a permit to pump the water vs to seventy five he thought it was a good idea but that was ignored or storage he's saying the poll was irrelevant and didn't apply to their policies in full transparency in the majority of the public comments were in the position of the permit but most of them related to issues of public policy which are not and should not be part of an administrative problem and decision opposition goes back to two thousand and one when nestlé was first sued for potential damage to lakes rivers and streams as a result the company had to limit its water extraction people in michigan are once again forcing their concert he says when we moved here you can see that there is no

or no growth either side this lee has a reputation worldwide of going to perp or rural communities are free markets and economic benefits to the community that never really the curia lies are taking as much water as they can get and the oil industry runs dry they believe unless a contractor who received the permit says it will carefully review the agreement and will comply with all its requirements michigan environmental council says the water extraction is going to be highly monitored. if they do pomp and look but well all of the water goes down so this is something that groups like your own could take nestle to court and have the courts and force the permit we make sure that no nobody takes too much water out of the river so that out so that it runs dry or everything so that's why they're going to monitor the flow and make sure that flow

maintains a healthy glow and in cases where if the stream flow starts to drop then they're required to turn back their wells and turn them down so it's going to be very closely monitoring withdrawal and if we do see that impact happening then what we're asking state officials to boil the curb it and make it worse make nestle turn the wells off. students that's a florida school where a mass shooting took place have spoken out against a new security measures there a teenage shooter killed seventeen people at parkland high school in february one of the survivors who joins the anti gun lobby expressed her frustration as a see through backpack which is one of the school's new safety measures students say they want well thought out changes not useless quick fixes as american reports it's been almost two months since the survivors of the deadly school shooting in parkland called on the government to take action what's more important is actual

action and pertinent action that results in saving thousands of children's lives but some of the initiatives taken to curtail gun violence haven't been so popular like these clear backpacks made mandatory at marjorie stoneman douglas high and by the editor of bad intentions my new backpack is almost as transparent as the end i raise agenda i feel so safe now started off the last quarter of senior year right with a good old violation of privacy now i can't lie about not having gum moving on to another state and another brilliant and mission if a middle school teacher in georgia after going through write a letter to come. congress demanding a stricter gun controls the assignment enraged parents who complained that it was unethical to bring the issue into the school's curriculum pennsylvania has its own rather unique solution if an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance to any of our classrooms they will face a classroom full of students armed with rocks and they will be stoned but apparently this is plan b.

the district superintendent said that the rocks were his own suggestion after scrapping plan a which was great for golf balls so it looks like those in charge of fixing the issue of gun violence seem to be using the debate to score political points and one of the best examples of this is senator marco rubio i respect their views and recognize that many americans support certain gun bans however many other americans do not support to come back a statement like this in makeshift solutions or perhaps not what the shooting survivors had in mind when they called for action samir khan r t washington d.c. . to get to have your say on this story and everything else by following us on social media either back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines for you that.

we've been waiting. for a long time because it talked about the dollar that this world reserve currency countries are tired of funding and america's wars because ever there's got to be trained in dollars including oil to buy oil got to buy dollars first that means america gets a commission to use that money to wage wars all over the world. then what. well you always will pull you out of the. woods with the goodies.

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a kissinger is sad that's russia and the west full speed into the ukrainian crisis while acting rationally based on that misconceptions of the other tensions heightened once again over this crippled case other side still guided by the same misconceptions or perhaps deliberate misrepresentation of the other well to discuss that i'm now joined by you begin a bush and ski a retired lieutenant general of the russian army and the chairman of the board of the peer center mr brzezinski it's great to talk to you thank you very much for your time thank you now you recently gave an interview it's you b.b.c. radio which carries a lot of people in that. to hear you sad you want to actually have that russia and the west moving very far so a war and not just the war you said this would be a conflict that would be worse than the cold war in fact the last war in the history of humanity for a military guy like yourself i think that's a pretty dramatic statement what made you reach that conclusion well first of all

maybe i exaggerated a little bit and maybe i was a bit misunderstood a little bit but what i actually meant first of all comparing the present day situation with the days of the cold war i say that the day of the cold cold war in the seventy's eighty's i was active military i felt more comfortable by the way it was everything was clear yes it was ideological confrontation maybe. extent military confrontation but still there were rules definite rules red lines the corner of the soviet union so i said there is no containing the soviet union well. yes but no it's not containment no there are there rect threats to corner russia do i suddenly trash it politically to strangle it economical it to to do everything possible even to well the latest the latest statement by

the pentagon concerning syria to heed damascus if the syrian government allegedly used chemical weapons which there was a very serious statement made by general direction of that and keys the central damascus will be hip where the center for a consolation where the russian military russian policeman. russian federation will have to do to answer and now it will intercept the cruise missiles and carriers and what does that mean carriers. since all the cruise missiles launched from u.s. warships that the russian air force will strike a pretty serious yes it's unprecedented in my. view make spirit well i think what's also unprecedented. is an allegation of your heart from the united

kingdom that russia actually used military grade chemical weapons that put civilians at grave danger. in the center of a large community in the united kingdom i cannot recall anything of this or that was. similarly geishas during the times of the soviet union can you see i think first of all absolutely sure it's a grand provocation and it's so poorly organized that well you see so many questions so many questions first of all it's a great it's different in trying to be investigate the first question the investigate the investigator start the investigation who has the benefit but. mr brzezinski i think it's very clear that the british side is not interested in the investigation it's interested in the political response to that yes and i wonder i mean russians are often accused of you know making up all sorts of

conspiracies and it's hard not to do that when you have so little information at such a great grave allegation but how do you explain that personally to yourself both the use of the supposedly military grade chemical agent the miraculous improvement in the health of fuel escape all as well as the persistent denial of the russian access to its citizens well because you see i think that nobody in the west is interested in the even fight into the major effect that has already been achieved russia has been accused russia has been so. and there it has been produced e.u. summit was devoted not the brakes it durham's not the financial compensation on the british part on the. of russia of chemical effect the civilized world and the west so. i think for any

neutral observer it should be. do you think that it's actually now because i'm obviously not a military person but from what i understand they be claims ofa teresa mayes government they're actually saying that russia attacked them by the use of military means and when you are attacked by the use of military means i suppose you would respond militarily do you expect that to come well i don't inspect the u.k. to counter russia militarily because well with all respect that the british military with all respect the united kingdom it's not the it's not the nation to confront pressure militarily at present but i think it's not the it's not the probably cation organized only by great britain the u.k. well in this case it was used as a tool i think that it was at least carbonated because washington and the follow up reaction by watching the show that they the most interested part that they expelled

not just symbolically just to show solidarity a couple of freshman diplomats they expelled sixty people they closed our consulate in seattle so it's. what frightens me the spiral of confrontation between the well we call it collective collective west but it's mainly the united states where the degree been there for more than a year but. what i hear from my colleagues from my friends the degree of anti russian he. and president now speaking out for the. just a few days ago president putin's foreign policy adviser your call suggested that the russian president may actually be open to visiting washington at the invitation of donald trump and that comes after all these expulsions that you mentioned after the closing of the of the consulate in seattle on what moscow believed to be

a fabricated pretext why would the russian literature should be so open and so accommodating to the united states after such a hostile act to meet them here can president on his own territory. well you see for me it's i can understand the what the americans are doing now because he said it was it has never been that the president says one thing and he's administrations he's key ministers says well say quite the opposite for example it turning to syrian president trump says will withdraw very shortly immediately make your set will it will reinforce the whole group of forces in syria what does that mean do you think that's a deliberate conclusion or just i think they're waiting around for i think that president trump i don't know how it comes but he's acting on his own he says.

it's good to cooperate with russia but his administration said come russia is our enemy is zero adverse or e all the all the documents issued. during the last four months i mean a national strategy nuclear posture review national military review all national defense review there is reason that the russia ellen said our adversaries now you mentioned that the fallout from this criminal case has so far been limited to mutual expulsions although on the a massive scale is that going to a fact of the quality of diplomatic relations and are there any diplomatic relations still left to be affected well of that very good question of course when and when they speak about the the spiral of confrontation if you see the clasico the classical moves first message expulsion they expel sixty

people more than sixty people so thirty five in december sixth the now also around one hundred diplomats on the diplomats. so. what is the next step logical step the breach of diplomatic relations and after the breach of diplomatic relations what's the next step it's work usually now a few weeks ago they had a russian intelligence and security services visited washington to be have also just seen a former cia had being designated as the next secretary of state does it mean that spies or former spies are now taking over the roles that were previously if reserved for career diplomats well i don't like that we are splashed. intelligence on evidence surfaces yes the people at the more correct i think it's normal that what once president or any intelligence officer is around. president

bush be the junior the senior it said once that all decent people serve in the intelligence services that they will also have made a good quality diplomat so i think yes you are. joking of course but i think that the intelligence intelligence officers there are. qualified people that qualified diplomats if they served in the you know the minister for and affairs each country now can i bring you back to your initial statement about the war on our doorsteps i don't know if you would agree with me but i think the russians have a somewhat different attitudes toward the war even compared to the europeans let alone the americans because the americans have long been isolated or insulated from conventional calls like by their job rafi russians i think have a much more visceral reaction to a threat of war if that scenario of

a major. conflict. were to transpire what are you seeing would launch the opening salvo. not russia not russia that. but i seeing that all the logic of the. latest events testified to the fact that russia is getting ready is getting ready for anything i mean these are a form of the armed forces are weak wittman of the armed forces which actually started after. unix speech where he actually there it to challenge the so-called american leadership that was in my opinion the stuff that i'm not sure he even challenges you simply expressed his criticism or how that leadership transpires in the case of. more in the middle he know the speech this speech was not know that that poli and he

openly said that they want both the world that is dangerous but it's not necessarily something that americans disagree with for example president obama in different words also express that idea that the united states does not have to dictate nineteen's will or to the other countries and present trying by the way also in he's special way articulated that idea to some extent i don't agree or read the national strategy or a bomb or nuclear posture review them erica united states is an exceptional nation .