was. chaotic scenes near the french city of nonces riot police break up an environmentalist camp tear gas used against protesters throwing rocks and fire bombs. i mean. also this hour israel carries out a missile strike on syria's largest military base that's according to russia's defense ministry it's claiming the attack killed a dozen people and form a double agent powell and his daughter are reportedly offered a new identity by u.s. intelligence that has a relative at the believe that you would like to return home to russia.

hello welcome it's five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now our top story this hour police and protesters have been clashing in western france since the morning violence by both sides been reported with the riot sparked by an environmental dispute our correspondent shoulda been skiing is at the city. if you want to kill you you want people to give you the. god this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people were against that people moved into the they took over they built a coal miner the many years 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 an extra week's grace and what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.s. of the government and the protesters the saddest who say that this is their land and they will do anything they can to defend it i'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 this side of the sky was raining with tear gas here and our colleagues artie's video agency will caught up in that take us. through because you. already are you ready for a fury and they want you to see well as you can see now the scientists have lit fire to one of these a barrier case 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 to down the line and 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 gas is actually chlorine at my skin because it hurt so much . real growth. over growth so just. 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 is that 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 placard 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 utilized by 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 and it is wreaking because the long clearing this site a site that's been occupied for many many years sad could be over faster than many people thought it would be because she's also still continuing to

tear gas is still being sprayed. with that report then i russia says no proof is emerged to back up claims of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian enclave of eastern ghouta that are reports surfaced over the weekend of mass casualties following the supposed use of a deadly substance. this is at the scene of the with the wreck rest as representatives of a great reputation by international humanitarian organizations didn't find any traces of chlorine gas or any other chemical substances. but israel has also carried out an air strike on syria's largest military base according to russia's defense ministry the attack claimed the lives of at least a dozen people train care has more now on the latest 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 call flecked last year an alleged chemical attack immediately made donald trump fired 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 an animal on twitter the french leader emanuel macron caught on by saying damascus won't get away with this and they pointed the finger at russia and iran to president donald j. trump spoke today with president new micro or from both leaders agree that the assad regime must be held accountable for its continued human rights abuses they agreed to exchange information on the nature of the attacks and coordinate

a strong joint response 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 but people with no chemical protection themselves this looks. the video is from a year ago from the white helmets ready proved to be untrustworthy those who work without any chemical protection in crates a bomb with sarin gas line that this was all used 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 on security council what the next steps of all sides are going to be as question number one most importantly what the likes of the u.s. and france pushing ahead with their military action plans again all of this is due to that cloying 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 nuestra the al qaeda affiliate other islam ists they've lost opting to take the buses to rebel territories.

when 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 goes against all reason and logic he's won this battle and launches chemical weapons at civilians according to his enemies he can't help it united states

continues to use our efforts available to hold those who use chemical weapons in syria and otherwise it 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 gaz the of there will have been a motion all things to his people he managed to escape duma reunited with their families labor party been held hostage for five years by the minister josh. they were taken to a sports center which can see here where people in the stands pride as they try to find their loved ones. were back in eastern due to rebels are continuing to leave that enclave with the last militant group finally agreeing to be evacuated to the

north of the country. browns policy professor at northeastern university in the u.s. and an expert on terrorism and political violence says that both the motives and sources behind the alleged attack raises serious questions. key determinant for attacking civilians is weakness 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 wins 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 of the so-called white of these are. our fault readers that you will have

a political agenda independent evidence certainly needs to be gathered. in other news today with media speculation over the case continuing it's been reported that now recovering sergei and being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence powell every family relative believes that yulia would in fact like to return to moscow speaking to r.t. agency victoria's secret past to reason made to personally overrule britain's decision to deny her a visa. yep is that i ask the ok and you personally to reckon sitter the decision to refuse my these or they are scared that i will find out something more that you'll be able to tell me something yes they tried 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 meanwhile the british foreign secretary boris johnson has branded the opposition labor party leader the kremlin's useful idiot but after jeremy call been refused to blame russia for the poisoning takes a closer look now 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 tend to fire 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 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 part of the spy swap.

he was handed in to britain as a result of exchange so why 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 slip an anchor's death and secondly former spies are not exactly stream ists but to follow boris is 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 kemper experts await now if by the man becoming rather notorious for his gaffes or restraint this is certainly with that report will chemical weapons expert james taught told us that making such nerve agents is actually much easier than some people think given that the structure of the substance is already 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 that 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 a particular laboratory. still to come from his our general election in hungary his . old ban and his strong anti migrant stance we'll have a look at the details on that story just after the break. a little blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles. that you socks for the tell you that well because of the public are filed this report is. about as they tell me

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with that international hungry as prime minister is celebrating today a crushing general election victory is really in 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 the opportunity to defend his country. maybe even him 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. well ban strong and he migration stance is one support from anti establishment parties across europe but not from e.u. officials who will vote shortly on whether to strip budapest of it see you voting rights political analyst to tell a tall order mag told us that tackling immigration is proving

a vote winner. telling the truth or some majority of the congo. voice i'm doing is standing by to defeat this campaign was the message chink and decor and old message use that immigration must be stopped and it towards be not allowed for migrants to enter hungary and dirty dirty dirty wars the foetus messaging of course i can expect for new tensions between but asked so that europe be a uni on and hungary and government because or ban has already said. leadership will do your you will be a uni on wanted to or even plan and you will measure us on immigrations polisi in. the hunger the end got them

and. meanwhile with rocketing try made some widespread concern over corruption the candidates for july's presidential elections in mexico to face an uphill battle to win over voters and they face an even harder struggle too in the small town of shit and that's because it's banned all political parties are to pay the bills. to me to not. have complete control over the city our council is in charge of giving security to our can. units. that we are trying to keep the invaders out so they can take away what little is left of the forest.

has not existed started because of the incompetence of those in power especially over 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 the device of the community a communal government without political parties without a city hall government with the cultural heritage of our ancestors established through dialogues around a long time. but the thing that the community became more united there was more affinity with our brothers than maybe it is. now it has been one hundred years since russia chose a new destiny and revolution which saw the overthrow of the country's last royal

family to tell the story the romanovs today launching a new interactive project and you can learn more back to the family through the through a collection of about four thousand photos some taken by the romanovs themselves over the next hundred days the life story of the royals will unfold on four different social media platforms age with their own unique content that is behind the project shed more details. so last year when we were preparing one nine hundred seventy liter project about the russian revolution of one nine hundred seventeen we struck absolute gold and we've discovered about four thousand photos of the vermin a family in the state archive here in moscow yeah so it turns out that the romanov family will complete photo of these they have their own cameras kodak sent them some very special brownies and they even had a panoramic camera we have a project coming up which is incredibly exciting for going to use these images in a very unique way. so we picked up on this archive and we thought how could you

sort of look at the opportunity not to publish it and tell stories. so we're creating what we're calling a kind of a social media picture post well 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 photos are not going to be pasted. so a you tube is going to be kind of music and facebook i think will be a little bit more lyrical to threaten to be looking at a kind of a family that 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. to choose your network and then get on to the past i read when i was one hundred. plus and i think stuff well worth a look at that side of things looking so far today we're going to be back for more nice even thirty five.

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questions of prime minister's questions to go do minority government needed to raise them a into war because of weapons of mass destruction he wanted on says about a financial statement on monday the n.h.s. is clearly in crisis so why wasn't there a penny extra of the n.h.s. in yesterday's statement by the chancellor the prime minister told coleman to look at the arguably blairite labor party in wales perhaps you might look to see what the labor entering in wales. that the latest on you would say to the nation star new data shows when i look at twelve hour waits in any that's three point four percent of patients waiting over twelve hours in wales compared to one point three percent in england he once told that meeting targets he should talk to a neighbor government in wales cool bin would hear nothing of it any chance england abandoned it psion the targets until april two thousand and nineteen it's

a bit rich for the prime minister to be scam on me about why you are she's on she's until you get anything but was it scaremongering he talks about scan on bring in wales i'm just pointing out the facts about what it. was. and that's why we do see that's why we do see people in wales often trying actually to get treatment and. rather than not rather than in wales people the dying said corbin people are dying because of overcrowding and long waits in our hospitals i think the prime minister should get a grip on it and ensure the n.h.s. now has the money that it needs to deal with the patient the monds and then corbin referenced everyone's favorite scientist stephen hawking who died this week we started with professor stephen hawking and he said just a few months ago there is. there is overwhelming evidence that any chance

funding and the number of doctors and nurses are in adequate and it's getting worse does she agree with professor hawking there was no answer for him to resume about one of britain's best known scientists she had science on the mind though or revenge based on science one assumes britain would within hours veto the un resolution to investigate the atrocity in the south west of england well to take a better look at the russian threats narrative and how it may now affect the future of a post-breakfast britain i went to the green outside the palace of westminster to talk to a member of britain's house of lords international relations committee lord bell for well to take a better look at the russian threat narrative and how it will affect the future of a post directed britain i'm not joined by lord valve member of the international relations committee of the house of lords and former member of the european parliament. thanks for being on the green outside parliament twenty three russian deploy.