chaotic scenes in the french riot police break up an environmentalist tear gas is used against protesters throwing rocks and fire bombs. also this hour in r.t. israel carries out a missile strike on syria's largest military base that's according to russia's defense ministry is claiming the attack killed dozens. of former double agent palin his daughter reportedly offered new identities by u.s. intelligence that is a relative of the script believes you would like to return home to russia.

but i welcome it six pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now it's been a day of violence not far from the city of nantes in france riot police moved in in the early hours of the morning to a victim vajra mentalists who had been camped there for years injuries have been reported on both sides from the scene is shot at the bit scary. oh god. her world will you will be if you will the. god this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people are against that people moved into the land they took over they built a coal mine over many years many people say that this is now they family land they

say from here 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 if in 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 sky was raining with tear gas here and a colleague's artie's video agency will caught up in that take us. inside. because you. were reading writing off your i don't want you to see well as you can see now the zionists have lit fire to one of these 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 here in not 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 to just one. 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 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 white faced tear 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 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 you choice by getting rid of all of the saddest 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 working because the long 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 because she's also still continuing it here gas is still being sprayed. shut in the basically they're reporting from france now in other news this afternoon russia says no proof is emerged to back up 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 suppose a genius of a deadly substance but those are not amused. this is visited the scene of the go along with the wreck rust and representatives of a great reputation by international humanitarian organizations didn't find any traces of korean gas or any other chemical substances. meanwhile israel has also carried out an air strike on syria's largest military base says russia's defense ministry the attackers reportedly claimed the lives of at least a dozen people there are also reports that iranian forces have been hit. trenchard

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 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 adam all 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 president donald j. trump spoke today with president manu 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 the chemical weapons while having over them but people with no chemical protection themselves this looks like the video is from a year ago from the one helmets ready proved to be untrustworthy those who work without any chemical protection in crates a bomb with sarin gas that this was all yes' 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 bow. oiling

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 will the likes of the u.s. and france push 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 nusra the al qaeda affiliate

other easily 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. that means he called in to help put the united states continues to use all efforts available to hold those who use chemical weapons in syria and otherwise accountable to regimes 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 more and as they have reporting more meanwhile there have been emotional scenes as people who managed to escape duma are reunited with their families they deported li being held hostage for five years by the medicine creek jaish al islam they were then taken to a sports center where people in the stands cried as they tried to find their loved

ones they're. back in eastern guta rebels are continuing to leave the enclave with the last militant group finally agreeing to be evacuated to the north of the country. politics 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 the key determinant for attacking civilians is weakness when governments are losing about all when it looks like regime change is imminent the structural conditions in this scenario are the opposite the assad regime has implemented secure. it makes absolutely no sense for the assad regime to jeopardize all of its when 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

a so-called white all of these are. our fault dear readers if you will have a political agenda independent evidence certainly needs to be gathered. now with media speculation over the scripts case continuing it's been reported that now recovering sergei and yulia are being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence however a family relative believes yulia would in fact like to return to moscow speaking to our to the video agency victorious could have asked a reason made to personally overrule britain's decision to deny her a visa europe is that i ask the ok and you personally to reconcile with the decision to refuse my these are they are scared that i will find out something more that yulia will 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 british foreign secretary here boris johnson has sensationally branded the leader of the opposition the kremlin's useful idiot that after labor leader labor party leader jeremy corbin refused to blame russia for the poisoning let's get more details on this from marty's polly boyko in the u.k. she's following it course polly just tell us what prompted this latest outburst. well jeremy corbyn has questioned the government the british government's narrative in regards to the attack on the script pals from the very start and as a leader of the opposition one might say that it's his job to question everything that the government says but in the case of the attack on the square pals it's something that he's really come under fire for not just from the conservative party

but also from members of his own labor party as well and now jeremy colvin has also come under fire from the u.k.'s top diplomats as well from boris johnson the foreign secretary johnson has written an article in a british newspaper here the times accusing jeremy corbyn of helping russia to push its narrative and also calling the opposition leader the kremlin's useful idiots take a listen to an extract from that article by forest johnson. there's only one thing that gives the kremlin some. credibility to its propaganda. and that's when politicians from the total get it countries join in the efforts. driven to the conclusion. has joined this. well boris johnson i'm really tearing into the labor leader in the strongest words possible and all this because jeremy corbyn has consistently all sked evidence of the government's assertion that

the kremlin is behind the attack against gay and yulia script how take a listen to some of the things that jeremy corbin has said in recent weeks. as the prime minister taken the necessary steps on to the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government how has she responded to the russian government's request for a sample of the agent used in the souls return to run. as a resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent and has not revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of which perpetrators boris johnson has serious questions to answer he claimed on german television this was a russian produced nerve agent and porton down then examined it and said all that

had to fight was over true we couldn't say a word came from a saying movies things has really got jeremy corbin in the whole war he hasn't just been criticized by the foreign secretary affectively of this sort of treasonous behavior and refusing to accept the government's narrative another cabinet minister sajid javid he claimed that mr corbin has let the british people down in in austin these questions but these types of personal attacks against the labor leader they aren't to everyone's taste a junior minister in boris johnson's own department in the foreign office has said in an interview that getting personal about these issues isn't helpful at all take a listen. now tell us will there be door slamming in the foreign office is is this the sort of language a foreign secretary should use despite the words and i would always try to play the blame on the man when it comes to these things i think to get personal about it is

not helpful i think at all. but right now the line of hair and it appears to be accepted most unanimously is that russia is to blame and any protestations or questions coming from the kremlin that's all part of a propaganda campaign and jeremy corbyn he's one of the few people refusing to subscribe automatically to that story and he's having to shoulder a lot of criticism as a result. polly that was. there for us in the u.k. well a lot is being questioned about recent statements made by boris johnson. now reports . boris johnson's been caught out a fair few times in his role as british foreign secretary sometimes doing the wrong thing of 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 straight once and for all. boris writes that britain's porton downs chemical weapons the tides done 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 that you have 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 to 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 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 fem 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 in 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 and 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 this is certainly reporting there were 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 by to

a certain country that there's many well published formulas of nerve agents and the structures are known to 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 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. now a general election in hungary has seen voters back to obama and his strong anti migrant stance will have a look at the details of that story just after the break. a

plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the families it's the age of the super money just kill you know their own lives and spending two to twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else

only because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game like great so what more chance for. at least. welcome back to r.t. now hungary's prime minister is celebrating a crushing general election victory his ruling coalition secured a two thirds majority in parliament with a record turnout of almost seventy percent and addressing supporters victual ban said that the result my gave him the opportunity to defend his country. really you know 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 our country hungry 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. strong stance on immigration is one support from anti establishment parties across europe but not from brussels officials who vote shortly on whether to strip budapest of its evaluating rights we discussed or bans reelection and what it actually means for the block with the hunger in m. pain and also a political analyst. orse majority of the people was understanding what. was messy chained. good. thing. the opposition was very split it and the opposition of was not able to show all sure that it would be able to to all who are hungry properly migration as such were singled

out as a single topic for this election it is quite sad to see no other issues can enter the agenda it has received the feedback from the proclamation that this is the right way to go and i think. we will all be surprised. but down from this strategy i think you just want to push for an hour and he's not going to be scared off by perhaps increasing the tension between other western countries or other european countries that hungary i think is just going to push their strategy further. meanwhile with rocketing crime rates might spread concerns over corruption as well the candidates for july's presidential elections in mexico face an uphill battle to win over voters although i face an even harder struggle to you in the small town issue because it's banned all political parties. paid a visit. sumit

innocent. have complete control over the city our council is in charge of given security to our community. but we are trying to keep the invaders out so they can take away what little is left of the forest. is not resistance started because of the incompetence of those in power especially of the kidnappings attacks an extortion and clearly over the issue of the devastation of a sacred source of life the forest. over my time and we started to say that we had done with parties with division that

would speak for itself and they devised the community in a communal government without political policies without a city hall government with all the cultural heritage of our ancestors established through dialogue around a bonfire. but both of that the community became more united there was more affinity with our brothers and maybe it is. he watching us he thanks me company deceiving is just coming up to six thirty pm here in moscow about with wolf you in the headlines insisting it's. cracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand. smaller secure trucks or chose to drive

trucks people rushed to a small town in north dakota was among the employment rate of zero percent like the gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and the bus station a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slow downs for much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream is changing that's not what it used to be. and that's a tough reality to deal. with trying to deconstruct all these manipulated i cut series shaun of the world that islam is a religion and it's a peaceful religion and it's possible to be a practicing muslim and so believe that the koran is the word of god and at the same time be a member of secular societies it is possible. this

is harlan kentucky. we hold this view of the employees susan you could walk through street fanny's. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal rises showed that there was a lot of to see these people a survivor of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that is anything ever happened to the coal mines here and that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened.

hello and welcome across all things that considered i'm peter lavelle they came to new wing saw 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 victoria levitch he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and we have dmitri bob 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 victor let me go to you first here using the word saga is an.