syrian state media reports several soldiers have been killed and others injured after an airbase in homs province is hit by a missile strike. by the clashes erupt in the french city of longs as environmental activists defy a deadline to leave a squatter's counter at the site of a planned airport. and in the week's headlines british foreign secretary boris johnson is accused of lying over moscow's role in the script foul poisoning as the u.k. lab that tested the nerve agent says it can't prove it came from russia. while his doctors say both the former russian spy and his daughter are no longer in a critical condition a relative who was refused a visa to visit that was written to the british prime minister. are secured over find don't something more than you were told. yes they try to meet you not the

crime one but i i would like to be you know if i fail here i will go to work. thank you for watching the weekly headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate and we start with the breaking news coming in this hour from syria an airbase in homs province has been hit by a missile strike according to state media several soldiers have reportedly been killed and several more injured but the numbers are so far unclear where the state run sun a t.v. channel has released this video supposedly showing the base coming under fire the t four airfield activated its interceptor system and eight incoming rockets were apparently destroyed well the u.s. has denied. any involvement

a spokesperson said at this time the department of defense is not conducting air strikes in syria and according to several media outlets the missiles were launched from planes that pass through lebanese airspace a route previously used by the israeli air force back in february the t. four airfield in homs province was hit by israeli airstrikes but so far there's been no comment from the israeli government on this latest incident. well meanwhile militants in the syrian city of duma in eastern gooch are now leaving the territory through a humanitarian corridor in these latest pictures you can see them traveling by bus through a checkpoint members of the giant islamic militant group agreed to exit the city after negotiations with the syrian under russian governments the russian army says eight thousand militants and forty thousand of their relatives will be leaving tomorrow. well meanwhile

a controversial activist group has accused the syrian government of using chemical weapons in duma the white house which claimed that dozens of civilians have been killed or russia's defense ministry has slammed the story as fake and is ready to send in chemical experts to prove it but the u.s. has already called for the syrian government and russia to be held accountable the u.n. security council is set to discuss the claims as a session this monday and ahead of those talks the presidents of france and the u.s. have spoken via telephone agreeing to coordinate their actions well earlier president trump tweeted that putin russia and iran are responsible for backing animal assad he added the chemical attack was carried out for no reason whatsoever but this lack of motive is now prompting questions over exactly who is to blame as artie's what i guess the of explains. east ghouta is almost over ninety percent has been liberated by syria's government the army of islam nusra the al qaeda affiliate

other mists they've lost opting to take the busses to rebel territories. and the vast majority of rebels surrendered and negotiations are underway for the handover of the last rebel stronghold on the cusp of victory as is now tradition assad goes against all reason and logic he's won this battle and launches chemical

weapons at civilians according to his enemies he contact helped put united states continues to use all efforts available to hold those who use chemical weapons in syria and otherwise a cannibal the regime's history of using chemical weapons against its own people is not in dispute. russia warned repeatedly that this may happen they had intelligence a month ago that rebels were preparing to stage these attacks why not if they can't fight if they can't win why not try to provoke an international intervention it's worked before that is not to say we're jumping to conclusions by all means these allegations are false for a very simple reason now i have a landslide victory and regaining all the territory before why would the syrian regime commit

a war crime there is no possible reason for this in addition there is an evidence that all the stores in the reclaimed territories were having several stores of chemical weapons controlled by the terrorists a third evidence is that weeks ago the syrian government said there are alerts that the. terrorists are planning for a chemical attack on the territory disputed territories just to undermine and put pressure on the syrian regime i mean by all means why should i as a rejean use this when i have to keep a low profile and not provoke the international community it's not logical. clashes have erupted in the french city of know and environmental activists have to

fight a deadline to leave a squatters camp at the site of a planned well or less we're now joined by our correspondent challenge. to the same i mean why the losses so what's the latest on this. well as you can see all around us it's pitch black people were not expecting the explosions to happen until six am this morning local time here in france they started at around shoe am as we were trying to add to the scene. most of the roads were blocked by the police they're not letting press in not letting anybody in and that's because they had been a call to arms for people to come and stand with the saddest the people who've made the land their home over the last few years just stop them from being expelled from this region why are they being expelled well that's because the government decided early this year it would not go ahead with plans long health plans to build an airport here they said that that meant that people who'd been protesting against the plans for that airport should then leave the area and they were given until the

end of the winter period will that finished a week ago and now the government wants them out and it's going to get them out by force this morning we've already experienced a gas as we were wandering through the fields trying to get close to some of the explosions where it's happening we've been hearing the tear gas being fired off and we also know we can see in the distance there have been fires burning throughout the night here in not people are determined that they going to fight for the land the land that they're seeing is their land many people have spent years here building homes homes started off this shanty tents and would have become much more permanent structures people say this is a place where they have been farming the land animals they're living this is now a family territory and they want to hold on to this they see it as being something very very precious to them the government says this long doesn't belong she have to get out now we are hearing that the police are forcing some people out of certain

areas and the saddest as they called who live here are fighting back they're holding this is territory they're lighting fires when the sand they're also throwing things project hours at the place and as we know for the last few weeks they have been. farming this area battling and you can't see it behind me because it's got cape but just behind me there's actually a room that's been blocked by tires because what they've tried to do is almost defend themselves by staying in here and i don't know if you can hear but we can hear something being shot off in the background it sounds like tear gas to me and we have as i said experienced some tear gas this morning very faintly from where we are we've got our safety gear ready but we're hoping to go closer now and to get into the action where it looks like there is going to be some huge clashes between the people who say it's their right to stay here and the police have been told they have to get them out here we can certainly say in some of those pictures that tear gas so stay safe. and thank you. now

a storm of accusations has been raging this week over the poisoning of former russian double agents ok scrip our interest or to yuliya a british military lab admitted it was unable to pinpoint the source of the nerve agent involved but that didn't stop the british government from pointing the finger at moscow as artie's anastasio explains the foreign office has deleted a tweet that it had initially posted on march twenty second and now this is by world leading experts at the defense science and technology laboratory at portadown made clear that this was a military great novacek nerve agent produced in russia now a couple of days before that words johnson the u.k. foreign secretary also said that there is no doubt that russia was behind what happened you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find that out so quickly when i look at the the evidence from the people from from portland they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt well it seems that all of that was going well

until 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 press a source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide aid you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve agent is there to be clear you're not able at all 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 or you heard what they were working on that there is the hard stuff and we are rushing production. as the government point for accused russia. of surrogates of people. he's not an isolated case but the latest in

a pack of reckless behavior by the russian state the russians the russians the russian russia russia russia russia i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and some serious questions about claimed on german television that this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down then examined it and said all that if i was not a troll i couldn't say where it came from. one aside from leader jeremy corbyn members of his opposition labor party also criticised boris johnson's assurances that russia was behind the poisoning one m.p. suggested the foreign secretary should try to delete that interview he gave to german t.v. while others stress the need to check the evidence labor m.p. chris williamson called johnson downright dangerous and said the script case was being used to deflect attention from the government's problems. it seems to me the

government were indulging in political point scoring particularly boris johnson who raced ahead of the evidence and use this terrible incident not so much as a smoking gun but more of a smokescreen really it was a very convenient wasn't for the government to use this as a way of diverting attention from their own difficulties over bricks policy and you know at the end of the day it's pretty clear that boris johnson did not tell the truth he told the german incivil. scientists that said it was without doubt that the agents had to come from russia so i think jeremy called them was absolutely right to caution to ask for clear evidence before we start to raise international tensions what we need to get to the bottom and then the evidence and generally said this seems to point towards russia but let's be absolutely clear before we start raising international tensions in this way this is huge implications for more sensible to take a measured approach and be clear about the evidence all the evidence for both the

former double agent and his daughter appear to be recovering and march the fourth they were found unconscious on a park bench in the southern english city of solsbury and as we heard british officials stated the pair had been poisoned with a military grade nerve agent called now a chalk developed in the soviet union and a time prime minister to resign may said those subjected to such a powerful nerve agent may never fully recover when it became clear the scrip hours were getting better and family relative victoria's secret bar attempted to get a u.k. visa to visit her family members but her application was denied the toria says she has written to theresa may asking for help she is there to be approved. it just was too needed better now the whole world is talking about. the heart of the scam know the real you who together all the documents music identification and i hope it's not your credit tricks prevent me from stealing my markets appears when i ask you

and you personally to reconsider the decision to bring a smile versus when you are scared that i will find out something more due to your will tell me something but yes try to me please when you are not the cromwell but my five year i will write to the year if i fail here or i will go to the public. hungary's prime minister viktor orban has led a rally in budapest after an overwhelming victory in sunday's general election he gave a speech hailing what he called a crucial result and to defend the country with almost all the votes counted the ruling coalition has one hundred thirty three seats in parliament giving them a two thirds majority the largest opposition force will be the right wing anti immigration party with twenty six seats and it was a disappointing night for the socialists winning just twenty seats well actually one has been in power since twenty ten and previously served as prime minister between one thousand nine hundred eight and two thousand and two his hardline

stance on migrants entering the has caused friction with other member states angry has refused to accept you quotas for taking in refugees organ's government has also passed controversial laws on the judiciary and the media political analyst a tailor to war not told us why voters support the agenda of the ruling fidesz party. telling the truth or cement your duty of the people war as i understand the right to defeat this campaign was messy chained and the corner of fear messages that immigration must be stopped and it towards be not allowed for migrants to enter or to hungary and territory that was the fittest messaging of course i expect for new tensions between grass europe be a uni on and hungary and government because or by has already said.

leadership of the your european union on wanted to or even plumb and you will measure us on immigrations polisi in death's. door who she's of the hunger the uncovered. the biggest owner of television stations in the us is facing a backlash over a promotional announcement warning against fake news presenters on dozens of its channels were made to rate identical scripted messages the sharing of biased and false news has become common too common on the social media morning. easy to do with charities first unfortunately presumably. you can't control. everything and this is really dangerous to our democracy.

well the pro conservative sinclair group owns almost two hundred stations across america reaching almost half of all u.s. households the broadcaster claims the project serve no political agenda they do not understand the criticism yet the initiative has prompted anger across the mainstream media and critics warn the move only strengthens fears that popular outlets are spreading fake news while u.s. president stepped into the spat to defend the sinclair group however telling news organizations what to say and do is an accusation we've heard before jacqueline du explains russian media is a beacon of honesty truth and integrity we work hard to maintain our outstanding level of work unlike foreign outlets who lie i love putting. well stop my mind. spicy with irish that's the assumption many in the west make about russian media for controlled broadcasts with angers and correspondent forced to read a pre-prepared scripts no details left to chance so much of it is state funded

after all but in the us where so many channels are corporate owned it must be different right the sinclair broadcast group which owns almost two hundred television stations and broadcast on around six hundred channels proudly proclaims its mission statement that it provides stories that make a difference the key to our success is concentrated says protecting them. on all platforms well and its recent promos there's not much of a choice or a difference it seems our readers misrata libya is just sort of our treasure valley communities deal passed a loss christmas communities eastern i was communities with mission communities we are extremely proud of the quality balance journalism that c.b.s. news produces but. it was. very. very plaguing our country as you can see anchors from different channels reading the same script there which was by the way leaked to some media outlets and it looks like they only had to fill in their names. and be this responsibility is

to serve the northwest community used and if you look closely you'll notice an absence of certain colors in their wardrobes that's no accident they were given specific instructions on how to dress in order to look neutral the goal is to look apolitical neutral. you have professional black. females should wear yellow gold magenta sign how to avoid direct blue pope because everyone knows that magenta is the color that gives you and your bias away apart from these promo sinclair also distributes what's known as must run segments to their stations so while the propaganda finger is so often pointed at russia it looks like we actually have quite a bit to learn. starting with my wardrobe. at least ten palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire on the gaza border on friday off assassins of protesters staged a wide scale and patient protest. oh

we're now maybe one hundred meters only far away from the fence you can see the crowd you can see the protesters flooded and a hundred of thousands phylis unions have been here tensions are running high right now and the israeli army started to shoot random your policies are getting injured why the ambulances are already here to protect take all the injuries that we're now injured from days already i mean by light bullets and light i mean nation and it tear gas canisters this is one of the injuries that was injured just right now from

the al for a booklet and at the tear gas and then it's crouched ambulance and on the medics are trying to save the injuries as you see the palestinian protesters are running away from the tear gas canisters that were thrown just right now and the protesters . so these are unexploded did gas canisters that are being targeted and suited on the palestinian protesters thousands of hundreds of palestinians have been here and we saw palestinian protesters burning view as flags and israeli flags and also saying slogans against the israelis and the americans. a wave of rallies began at the end of march with all the nicest claiming last for six weeks more than twenty palestinians have been killed over the last seven days with many more wounded during what's being called the great march of

return. one journalist has also died and several others have been injured in the clashes yes i'm a target worked for a local t.v. production company gaza health officials said he was shot while filming close to the border and died in hospital in this photo you can see he was wearing a jacket mt press israeli military said it only fired at those it called instigators of the violence. however a spokesperson for the i.d.f. posted on twitter saying rioters attempted to cross the security fence and set of explosive devices in the attempted terrorist attack when we were fourteen of the fifteen members of the un security council have backed calls for an independent investigation into the deaths caused by israel's use of live ammunition during the gaza protests it was blocked by only one nation the united states we discussed the issue with experts from palestine and israel. no record that mentioned that there was fire from the palestinian side there was

a few who could because the princes who have the power theme of flags on different things or the order they were only throwing stones or burning wheels on the billboard of every israelis of the. americans the inquiry commission to come to gaza doing with the gate of the killing of the twenty mind the will and the injuries have been here some of them were actually hamas fighters and bombers dogs and most of those who were killed there last week will demolish them with people who are paid by hamas. actually work for hamas as there always so would who would really want to organize door attacks against israel. and work in the. doing that. now let's return to our breaking news from syria an airbase in homs province has been hit by

a missile strike according to state media several soldiers have reportedly been killed and several more injured the state run sun a t.v. channel has released this video supposedly showing the base coming under fire the t four airfield activated its interceptor system and eighty incoming rockets were apparently destroyed the u.s. department of defense has denied any involvement saying it is not at this time conducting an strikes in syria according to several media outlets the missiles were launched from planes the pastern lebanese airspace previously used by the israeli air force back in february the t four airfield in homs province was hit by israeli airstrikes but the israeli defense forces have declined to comment on this latest incident. well for more on all of these stories go to r.t. dot com otherwise i'll be back at the top of the hour.

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start all these manipulated by cut salaries showing the world that islam is a religion and it's a peaceful religion and it's possible to be a practicing muslims who believe that the koran is the word of god and at the same time via a member of secular societies it is possible. hello and welcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle the continuing saga how did three people in solitary survive contamination by a military grade nerve agent london has a lot of explaining to do. also nikki haley goes off the rails again what exactly is

a normal country. across talking a world in crisis i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victor a leverage he's a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri babbage he is a political analyst with sputnik international hokey gentlemen as always crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it victor let me go to you first here using the word saga is an understatement here . bring us up to speed what's going on with this alleged poisoning incident in the u.k. so what has happened this week first of all mir oculus li all the victims so-called victims of this poisoning have come back to full most. of these people can not only conscious now not only did he come out of

a coma but he can speak his daughter it. was raining in canada his daughter unit is fine and the well didn't really great. chicken to make wonderful she's fine and the thing is the fact is that that type of chemical that the accused of russia somehow using against people if that would actually be used they would never be able not only to come out of a corner but they would they would not be alive to the second of all the british government denied these any quest from. nice to come and visit. and his daughter in london wanted it yes and one of the eason's given by the british authorities was that the cars in. have enough money maybe she would want to stay in britain or they don't have a lot of polish plumbers of course and on top. it off. topic of several hours ago news came out that the united states is considering taking cityscape.

to its witness protection program solely in a sort of an alleged crime happened in the u.k. and they're getting witness protection in the unit in the u.s. and that he isn't going on that he isn't given that officially isn't given is that the united states would be the best place to prevent further isolation attempts to get sinister but i think that it's probably the best place will never find out exactly when there's a confluence of these people mark do we know that if said again you want to go to the united states can they be compelled to go to the united states will we ever see them in front of a microphone where we will you ever be able to visit her family in russia again just like jeremy corrigan peter the only reason that you would question any of this is because that you are attacking the united kingdom as part of the russian spin machine that is that is what the british labor party leader jeremy.