i. was so. chaotic scenes in the french city of nonces riot police break up an environmentalist camp to gas is used against protesters throwing rocks and fire bombs. israel carries out missile strikes on syria's largest military base that's according to russia's defense ministry has claimed the attack killed a dozen people and also this hour former double agent powell and his daughter are reportedly offered a new identity by u.s. intelligence that has a relative of the script pals believes you would like to return home to russia.

hello there it's four o'clock here in moscow moscow this monday afternoon you're watching at r.t. international now our top story this hour police have used car crowd control weapons and tried to drag protesters off the roof off an environmentalist camp all day clashes continue near the city of nantes in western france. so get. her if you will you will be if you will. was this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people were against that people moved into the land they took over they built a coal miner the many many people say that this is now the family land they say

farm hand and they want to protect it the government said they had to be out by the end of the winter they were given until last week to leave they've been given in recent weeks grace what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.s. and the government and the protesters the saddest who say that this is their land and they will do anything they can to defend it they've been throwing bottles they've been throwing fire at the place and the police have been responding in kind with tear gas at times it felt like the saw the sky was raining with tear gas here and a colleague's artie's video agency will caught up in that take us. through because you've. already writing off your i don't you know see well as you can see now the scientists have lit fire to one of these a barricades the police are just about one hundred meters down in the distance ready and waiting for whether they going to charge forward and i just want you to

just look around me and you can see all of the smoke and that is because it literally has been raining down with tear gas a inot today on the land if you look behind me there's a fire up in that in the background it is incredibly difficult to breathe we keep being moved on by that is actually chlorine at my skin because it hurt so much. real room. for a whole board room to 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 and there's understand that one of the c.r.s. offices has been injured by one of this project as has been taken to hospital one person who was attempting to throw a molotov cocktail at the police but it didn't go squat so well. but as you can see behind us the c.r.s. and the police have come into another zat this point this is

a point where. a couple of dozen people were trying to hold off as you can see the police are pushing the way they steer gas in the air already they've brought dogs in as well they are absolutely determined that they will move the saddest away from this camp we saw one lone man with a plaque card saying no violence he was taken away by the police as he was trying to peacefully resist what's happening here what we can see is the police are now trying to push everybody away a tactic that we've seen earlier in the day whether you choice right getting rid of all of the sadness or the activists they can then bring the bulldozers in to get rid of these buildings this is sheer brute force by the state i mean he's working because the morning clearing this site a site that's been occupied for many many years is sad could be over faster than many people thought it would be the clashes are still continuing to

tear gas is still being sprayed. shot in the busy reporting there from france now in other news this afternoon russia says no proof is a message to back claims of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian enclave of eastern ghouta that after reports surfaced over the weekend of mass casualties following the supposed to use of a deadly substance. our office has visited the scene of the along with the wreck rest and representatives of a great reputation by international humanitarian organizations. any traces of korean gas or any other chemical substances. meanwhile israel has carried out an air strike on syria's largest military bases russia's defense ministry the attack is claimed the lives of at least a dozen people i think has more now on the developments. a number of really worrying updates from syria one after another and the month of april for

a second year in a row could have put the world on the brink of a global conflict last year an alleged chemical attack immediately made donald trump fire tomahawk missiles at a syrian army airbase he didn't hesitate at all made the move without any investigation moscow and washington fell out massively over this so what happened this april again we had reports of chemical weapons being used by the government and the town of duma the siege by syrian troops trump was furious he called the sad and on twitter the french leader emmanuel macron caught on by saying damascus won't get away with this and they pointed the finger at russia and iran to the russian foreign minister has just called it a deliberate campaign against syria and his country. i'm sure you saw this video where people allegedly targets inside the chemical

weapons were having. them with no chemical protection gemstones this looks like the video is from a year ago the one helmets ready proved to be untrustworthy those who work without any chemical protection in crates or with gas that this was all use to launch a large scale syrian campaign and also rhetoric against russia same. criminal regime. earlier moscow said anyone who decides to strike syria over this will face the most serious consequences this really took things to boiling point then early on monday morning syria's largest air base was hit by a deadly airstrike but it wasn't the u.s. or france apparently israeli pilots pulled the trigger according to the russian army the timing. could have really turned things upside down for everyone and just

ahead of you one security council what the next steps of all sides are going to be as question number one most importantly while the likes of the u.s. and france push ahead with their military action plans again all of this is due to that chlorine use allegations and duma with more insight into that here's my colleague mark gasnier east ghouta is almost over ninety percent has been liberated by syria's government the army of islam nusra the al qaeda affiliate in the mists they've lost opting to take the busses to rebel territories.

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 asaad guus 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 well there have been emotional scenes as people who managed to escape to reunite with their families they reportedly been held hostage for five years by the militant group islam it was then taken to a sports center where people in the stands cried as they try to find their loved one. back in eastern going to rebels who continue to leave at the last minute finally agreeing to be evacuated to the north of the country we discuss the latest with. assistant professor of public policy in the department of political science. the key determinant for attacking civilians is we can see when governments are

losing him but also when it looks like regime changes the structural conditions in this scenario are the opposite your side regime has implemented secure. it makes absolutely no sense for the assad regime to jeopardize all of its winds all of the incentives go in the opposite direction that the rebels would like to hear this kind of an attack on the regime i don't think that we should be. strictly . the sort of white of these are the. far shore readers if you will have a political agenda independent evidence certainly needs to be gathered. with media speculation over the script case continuing it's being reported that we're covering sergei and yulia are being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence however her family relative believes that you would in fact like to

return to moscow speaking to our video agency victoria. to reason made to personally overrule britain's decision to deny her a visa. yep it is a very i ask the ok and you personally to reckon siddur the decision to refuse my these or they are scared that i will find out something more that yulia will tell me something yes they try to manipulate me not the kremlin m i five at first i was happy that yulia called but it was clear that she wasn't speaking her own words she was being prompted you can't hear it in the recording but at the start she was told yes you can talk which means that she was being guided. while the british foreign secretary here boris johnson has branded the opposition labor party leader the kremlin's useful idiot that after jeremy call been refused to blame russia for the poisoning mr sethi 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 other times 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 a straight once and for all. boris writes that britain's porton downs chemical weapons slapped the tide ten to five the substance used had 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 eight 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 for assassination and this 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 that appears this obvious motive has zero value russia knows the double agent wasn't of any importance off to me having to be a is part of the spy swap. he was handed in to britain as a result of exchange so why should russia and even. that is of any importance or that is of any value it's unimaginable why not take the

death of one spy into another that seems to be the firm favorite for 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 slipping in case death and secondly former spies are not exactly stream ists but to follow boris his 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 counter experts await now if by the man becoming rather notorious for his gaffes or restraint or chemical weapons expert james taught told us that making such innovations is actually much easier than something given that

the structure of the substance is known. 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 say a post 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 a particular laboratory now still ahead for you this hour general election in hungary has seen voters back all ban and his strong anti migrant stance will have a look at that and get some live reaction to just after the break. we'll try to deconstruct all these manipulated by cut series shaun of the world that 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 that's the same time a member of secular societies it is possible. moser you know when you don't. see the teacher. to what he's not through all the tests you. make. less.

no germans did that. if you speak french. the. morning is talk of. the dog. again they're hungry as prime minister is celebrating today a crushing general election victory his ruling coalition secured a two thirds majority in parliament with a record turnout of almost seventy percent addressing supporters viktor orban said the result gives him now the opportunity to defend his country. really going to start 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 the country for our country hungary is still not where we would like it to be but it's already started along the path it shows for itself we're going to move together this way. and strong and to migration stance has one support from anti establishment parties across europe but not from e.u. officials who vote shortly on whether to strip budapest of its e.u. voting rights let's get some reaction now from martin keown your he's an m.p. and foreign affairs chair that hungry right wing your big party and you very welcome understand your party came second in the election will come on to that shortly but first of all how surprised perhaps were you by a margin of victory yesterday. well after a long campaign we'd started sometime in two thousand and fourteen or two thousand and fifteen at a time when the migration beat in hungary this anti migration campaign was

basically migration as such was singled out as a single topic for this election and it's quite sad to see no other topics could come to the agenda i mean at a time when hundreds of thousands of hungry ariens are leaving for western europe for better opportunities when the health and education system is crumbling in this country there is an enormous shortage of skilled labor migration can dominate as a topic of course we are aware that this is an important topic but it is quite sad to see no other issues could enter the agenda in this in this electoral campaign and it seem to have. brought the results for the governing party. with regard to what happens next with the particularly because the has seen a lot of tension between itself and hungry in the run up to this election do you

think that tension is now set to get worse. well absolutely i mean i think once you are through with such a. hysterical campaign that finesse has basically conducted i think you it has received the feedback from the population that this is the right way to go and i think. we would all be surprised if being taught about would back down from this strategy i think you are just going to push it further and he's not going to be scared of. by perhaps increasing the pension between other western countries or other european countries that hungary i think is just going to push their strategy further what does he have much support for one of his sort of election platforms and that was to add lot. take action against civic groups who are supported by george soros and perhaps seen as pro migrant groups. sarrasin other get do you think that he will have much support for his initiative

now to try and take action against civic groups in hungary who were supported by george soros and support migrants. well look i mean all these issues were of course on the agenda i mean they were at the center of the communication of her few deaths and the government i mean all these issues the anti engineer or law was the end. all the. law was already in the world it was already on the agenda prior to the elections and there are already rumors that that the government is going to push it through the parliament once the parliament sits so i mean i think he's going to he's going to continue. with this topic with this agenda and there is going to be very little to start on a just very quickly and i understand your party came second here can you offer much

opposition in parliament party. well there are going to be four opposition parties in parliament two left leaning parties the socialist and that that will credit quality. politics can be different and of course you want to make your big has run second but of course we are facing a deuced thirds majority once again we have experience that already twice and they're all between two thousand and ten and fourteen and since two thousand and fourteen it is quite tough but i think that we do have to bring back common sense stupid to call to the political arena in hungary and lead you have to do what an officer has to do in such a situation like a well it's really nice to see me appreciate your time this afternoon that is not in an end in foreign affairs chairman but hungry is right when your party thank you . now meanwhile with rocketing crime right some widespread concern i have

a corruption the candidates for july's presidential elections in mexico face an uphill battle to win i have a photo and i face an even harder struggle to you in the small town of shit and that's because it's banned all political parties. paid a visit. soon as. i have complete control over the cd our council is in charge of given security to our community. that we are trying to keep the invaders out so they can take away with little is left of the forest. does not exist is started because of the incompetence of those in power especially of the kidnappings attacks and extortion and clearly over the issue of the

devastation of a sacred source of life the forest. over much time on we started to say that we've done with parties with division that would speak for itself it divides the community in a communal government without political policies without a city hall government with the cultural heritage of our ancestors established through dialogues around a long time. but both about the community became more united there was more affinity with our brothers and mavis. so that's how the news is looking so far today here in oz he will be back with more in thirty five minutes.

join me every thursday on the alex sullivan show and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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. zia's says harlan kentucky. overboard this move the employees see people walking the street fanny's. a co money city it was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the polis

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welcome to. shevardnadze islam in europe has long been viewed with suspicion by the majority accused of not representing european values is that really true and can it be changed well i asked shereen han khan denmark's first female. islam in europe is a magnet for controversy used by the right wing to start fear of feared by the people in the wake of center attacks and the refugee crisis and with the extremists inside the muslim community resisting integration mistrust come to this is circular . is there a way to measure europe's ultimate liberalism and the ancient traditions of islam and how for me is the past i. share in hongkong denmark's first female in mom

welcome it's really great to have you with us and very excited to ask you all the questions that i want now you call yourself an islamic feminist being denmark's first female among do using a woman could ever lead a mixed mosque in prayer in islam not just female only and would you like that to happen actually i had the vision of a mosque with female humam so many years ago back in one thousand nine hundred nine i was inspired when i did my thesis in syria and surface i'm an islamic activists and and back then i was my admission to a mosque with female in moms leaving the prayer actually for both men and women because i always pray together men and women so it's very natural to me i was always you know i was always working against the segregation with indifference fear is.