several syrian troops are reportedly killed in what's been a missile strike in the country some media reports of pointed the finger at u.s. washington. this comes just two days after an alleged chemical. forcibly claimed dozens of lives security council is set to hold an emergency meeting on the matter. of the french city of. police. even a cameraman from auntie's video. caught in the middle of the.

apparently new identities by u.s. intelligence. believes. the life. today thanks for joining us on the program we start with breaking news coming in from syria where the country's largest military base is said a large scale missile attack that information is coming from the country's state media the attack comes amid growing calls in washington for a tough response to allegations of a chemical attack by damascus. coming in obviously who's responsible. what do we know so father then hi again well the

month of april for two years in a row becomes the time when whatever is happening in syria could bring the world on the brink of a global confrontation last year an alleged chemical attack in the of the province made donald trump fired tomahawk missiles on syrian troops but there were consequences for everyone russia u.s. talk. is basically were in tatters the syrian peace process god he railed to so last saturday we had reports of chemical weapons being used in the town of duma in eastern guta and and this case we don't understand whether. that led to something else who did they the consensus by washing. frocks and cetera understand met with president who did they blame for this incident while trump instantly called president assad an animal as you were saying

the president emanuel macron joined in saying this government won't get away with this plus they blamed russia and iran in this case but last week we heard from vladimir putin russia got intelligence suggesting that the militants in syria were propping a chemical attack and also following the reports of the release of that chlorine gas the russian foreign ministry said that whatever the u.s. may do in response to that any kind of airstrike would trigger the most serious consequence and the most serious response from russia and as you were saying there is also a u.n. security council meeting an urgent one coming up here as you mentioned last year pretty much to the day actually seventh of april was last year twenty seventeen same sort of allegations of a chemical attack a chemical incident and then. twenty four hours later we see. a missile strike of

some sort on an airbase but this time the reaction from the us is completely different first of all allegedly this was an air strike on the biggest syrian government army air base but the americans are saying it's not us the french are saying they've got nothing to do with this so we actually don't know pentagon says that currently for now they're not carrying out any airstrikes against. syria in general of the syrian air space but we're receiving reports from lebanon one of them said was that the missiles actually came across from the mediterranean over the lebanese airspace then another news organization there said that some unknown jets could have flown in from israel so basically people are guessing right now what could happen but again the consequences and the actual effect this may have on international relations in general and the situation in syria may be absolutely

unpredictable but we have to go back to these allegations of a chemical attack because this was the event that initially triggered triggered the tension and this can spiral out of control so here's a report from a colleague more a gallon steve with more on these allegations of the chemical attack. 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 just while you're still in the studio with us earlier we're in a state of got some breaking news coming in all my. idea believes that is that correct yes that is true we just got an update from the russian ministry of defense we were expecting reaction from them and we have it they are saying that early in the morning it was about four pm moscow time a bit earlier than that two f. fifteen belonging to the israeli air force launched air strikes against that military base from the lebanese airspace it says that according to the russian army five rockets were launched a total of eight lockett's rockets were launched five couldn't reach the target

they were intercepted but three eventually that air base so this is the latest update from the russian military on this that we were expecting would see what israel has to say about that and the rest of the international community will of course up until now have denied have declined to comment either way on their involvement or not we do have that security council meeting coming up specter's sparks flying obviously allegations council occasions. of the latest updates on that as well thanks for that. well meanwhile in the besieged enclave of eastern ghouta rebels are continuing to leave the last group has finally agreed to be evacuated to the north of the country we spoke to some doctors who worked in duma during previous reports of chemical attacks in the area. there was one case i faced on january thirteenth at six am reports came in about the strike and the use of chemical weapons six people were hospitalized we examined

them and found no problem with the airways they were just scared and i think that pointed to it and it was impossible to talk about it even after analysis of blood and clothes. there were also cases on january twenty second and february twenty fifth during the medical examinations nothing must. people have the symptoms of panic and fear but not poisoning. so i will get some analysis of the situation from max abrams assistant professor of public policy in the department of political science. for attacking civilians is weakness when governments are losing in bad or when it looks like regime change is imminent the structural conditions in this scenario are the exact opposite the assad regime hasn't been as secure in years it makes absolutely no sense for the assad regime to jeopardize all of its wins all of the incentives go

in the opposite direction that the rebels would want to hear this kind of an attack on the regime i don't think that we should be stars spends strictly. on the so-called white. these are the. mirror readers if you will have a political agenda independent evidence certainly needs to be gathered. so over to france for other headlines over the last few hours police have been clashing with protesters in a town near the city of nonce offices are now using crowd control weapons to break up an environmental squatters camp.

the protesters belong to the so-called movement which comes from french zone to defend the stand off against the construction of a new airport in art has been ongoing for more than four decades let's go live now to charlotte dubin ski our correspondent who's close to the scene charlotte just last hour a lot of tear gas in the area of some action heating up what's the situation there now. well it feels all calm for the moment dan but believe me this is the calm before the storm i just want to show you behind me you might be able to see a barrier in the background behind that the c.r.s.

the police here in france they have been advancing this shield forward now for about a hundred and fifty meters and this is just one of the blockades that the police have created in this area of not. all over the place and what they're trying to do is to push the scientists close it together what we have seen have been some pushy rough clashes between the police and reservists themselves the police have been firing what's felt time like a raining down of tear gas here on the sad camper we've been experiencing some of the effects of that tear gas as it's pretty difficult to get through it and they have because of they can and scott quite an incredible reach our colleagues from video agency service were caught up in that to cast also a little bit earlier this morning before. because you've. already.

lost them. guys i can't hear you. ok we're having a bit of a few technical difficulties with our correspondent charlotte she's going to come back though soon as we can get that sort of give you the latest updates on what's going on. there was a tornado of media speculation over the scribbles continues to swirl it's now being reported that you are being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence services that's as both the former russian double agent and his daughter appear to be recovering that follows that nerve agent attack last month in the english city of salzburg a family member however believes there would be no reason for you or about another home in moscow victorious crapolla spoke exclusively to the ruptly video agency after she was denied a visa to the u.k.

. yep it is a very i ask the uki and you personally to reconsider the decision to diffuse my visa they are scared that i will find out something more that you will tell me something yes they try to many please you not the crime one but m i five at first i was happy that you were called but it was clear that she wasn't speaking her own words she was being prompted you can hear it in the recording but there's a start she was told yes you can talk which meant that she was being guided or meanwhile the british foreign secretary boris johnson has branded the opposition labor party leader the kremlin's useful idiots but after jeremy corbin refused to blame russia outright for the poisoning and he said he takes a closer look at johnson's recent statements. boris johnson's been caught out a fair few times in his role as british foreign secretary sometimes doing the wrong thing at the time saying the wrong thing and this time his blunders have taken the form of the written word is after a series of unfortunate events at the u.k.

foreign office having to delete the old tweets and post new ones boris johnson felt it was time to get the facts in the script case straight once and for all. boris writes that britain's porton downs chemical weapons lab the tide densified the substance used have been developed by moscow well we remember the porton down interview slightly differently we have no verify the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eat you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular and their future is 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. within the last decade russia has investigated ways of delivering nerve agents probably force us to nation and as part of this program has produced and stockpiled small quantities of novacek hold your horses the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has confirmed

the destruction of all chemical weapons in russia actually the elimination of weapons that the last facility to hold such chemicals was in fact a knowledged by the international watchdog last year. boris writes that russia has an obvious motive for targeting sic a script oh well it appears this obvious motive has zero value russia knows the double agent wasn't of any importance off to me having to be a as part of the spy swap. he was handed in to britain as a result of exchange so why should russia and even. a man that is of any importance or that is of any value it's unimaginable why not take the death of one spy to another that seems to be the fem favorite from boris the fate of alexander litvinenko murdered in london in two thousand and six demonstrates the kremlin's willingness to kill someone in this country the russian

duma has actually passed a law that allows the assassination of extremists overseas first of all it's never been proved moscow was behind slip in death and secondly former spies are not exactly stream ists but to follow boris's logic the kremlin is simply willing to kill someone in person after listing these facts boris comes to the same old conclusion that only the russian state has the means motive and the records to carry out this crime a lengthy and thorough investigation carried out by the best scotland yard detectives military and come to expect it oh wait now if by the man becoming rather notorious for his gaffes or restraint. we spoke to james torre a chemical weapons expert he believes it's extremely easy to make nerve agents if the structure of the chemical is low. it is not possible to know where a nerve agent has been produced whether it's whether some one country or another it's not possible to to identify that to

a certain country that there's many well published formulas of nerve agents and the structures are known and the toxicity profiles are known so so many people can make nerve agents they know what structures to go to go to work but the only way you could get the exact source is if the nerve agent were not very pure so if it were not very pure and you found at a particular site the same impurities in the sample as you're finding it some other location then you could say there's a high probability it came from from that source but unless you've had samples like that it's hard and if if it's made by a nation state that knows what they're doing and the purity is there then you don't have any impurities to mark against it would be very hard to to name it to a specific location or particular laboratory. ok we can go back live now to charlotte doing skis near the city of lot covering the protest mental squatters who

are currently being evicted by police officers at the scene shot we've got the connection back there what's the latest update what's the situation on the ground right now while you are. well that tense standoff between the police and the protesters continue as they say the police have been raining down a tear gas on us throughout the morning and one of the reasons is because the projectiles that have been thrown by this activist or just want to take you to have a look at this down this is one of the rocks that they've been throwing at the police and gendarmerie some of those have apparently hit some of the gendarmerie one was actually taken to hospital earlier with an injury we also know that some of these artists have been injured in those clashes between themselves and the police and i also want to take you to have a look at some of the other things have been thrown including this one person who was attempting to throw a moment of cocktail at the police but it didn't go so well.

well the standoff continues here in not the land it's expected that this could take a couple of days the government is determined that it will do everything within its power to expel the hundreds of saddest who've made this land their home that this say they will do everything to defend the land that they say is their home. so strange to see what looks almost like a pitched street battle in the middle of the french countryside. give us the latest . all those environmental inventions will come back to you when you have more updates. it. seems that i shall have more global headlines for you just off to the short break.

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to the right to be press that's what the before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. welcome back to r.t. international and greece prime minister viktor orban has lit a victory rally in budapest following sunday's general election almost all of oats in now the ruling coalition has won a one hundred thirty three seats in parliament that gives them a two thirds majority addressing supporters or one said the result gives him the opportunity to defend and agree with me are there at the meeting to lead to regarding the results so i can tell you dear friends that it was a big battle and we've gained a decisive victory we've created the opportunity for ourselves to defend this country. strong and to migration starts has won support from anti establishment

parties across europe but from e.u. officials who will vote shortly on whether to strip budapest of its voting rights political analyst. told us tackling immigration is proving a vote winner. telling the truth or some majority of the hungry army m.p. for voice and standing by to defeat this campaign was messy chained and decor and messy keys that the immigration to be stopped and it towards be not allowed for migrants to enter or to hungary and daddy that was the fetus messaging of course i can expect for tensions between but asked so that you will be a uni on and. government because or by has already said. leadership of the your european union on wanted to implement you will

measure us on imitations barley see him at death's. door who she's the hunger the i got him and he's. with rocketing crime right son a widespread dissolution and a corruption ridden system candidates for july's presidential elections in mexico face an uphill battle in winning voters over but they face an even harder struggle in a small invasion of the town of thoughts because it's a long biased political parties are to paid a visit. to me to not. have complete control over the city our council is in charge of giving security to our community.

we are trying to keep the invaders out so they can take away what little is left of the forest. is not resisted started by. because of the incompetence of those in power especially if the kidnappings attacks and extortion and clearly over the issue of the devastation of a sacred source of life the forest. over my time on we started to say that we've done with parties with division that would speak for itself the device of the community is a communal government without political parties without a city full government with the cultural heritage of our ancestors and established through dialogues around two point five. five percent that the community became more united it was more affinity with our brothers and maybe.

it's one hundred years since russia chose a new destiny a revolution which saw the overthrow of the country's last royal family to tell a story of the romanovs he is today launching a new interactive project you can learn more about the family through a collection of about four thousand photos some taken by the oval office themselves over the next hundred days the life story of the royals will unfold on four different social media platforms each with their own unique content those behind the projects share more details. so last year when we were preparing one hundred seventeen life a project about the russian revolution of one nine hundred seventeen we struck absolute gold when we've discovered about four thousand faces of the roman a family in the states archive here in moscow yeah so it turns out that the romanov family will complete photo because they had their own cameras kodak sent them some very special brownies the you've got a panoramic camera we have

a project coming up next it's incredibly exciting looking for these images in a very unique way. so we picked up on this archive you thought you saw this and you got the opportunity not to publish it and tell stories. so we're creating what we're calling kind of a social media picture puzzle while it's only running for one hundred days which is going to make it very condensed intense you don't have to follow every single platform all of these stages i'm not going to be cross posted. so you tube is going to be kind of music and facebook i think will be a little bit more lyrical will certainly be looking at a kind of a family with took a lot a lot of photographs of itself twitter would be factually driven the news driven in the style that you're used to and then of course there's instagram. so choose your network and then get onto the. romanovs one hundred.

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