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a relative of the script believes that you would want to return home to russia. this is international now the u.n. security council is currently holding an emergency meeting about the alleged chemical attack in syria russia's representative has just addressed the council and he had quite a few things to say let's go over to our correspondent kelly morgan he's been following the proceedings. would say the time that he really took the u.s. to task over a few issues bring us up to date. well the meeting at the un security council headquarters in manhattan it began with remarks from steven de mistura who is the special envoy for syria and he kind of laid out the situation in the country

the humanitarian catastrophe the plight of civilians he talked about the fact that certain n.g.o.s had had made allegations about the use of chemical weapons in duma and that certain photos had been posted on social media from there after we heard the opening presentation from the u.n. special envoy we then heard from countries around the world and the first country to address the u.n. security council was russia now the russian envoy he was quite critical of the narrative currently being put out of circulated in our western media that he began by essentially pointing out the staged nature of some of the attacks talking about how the trajectory of certain missiles and bombs it just isn't natural the something just isn't right about the story he went on to talk about how forces on the ground from the red crescent society as well as a russian medical personnel and chemical experts could not find in duma the side of

this this alleged chemical attack could not find any samples or traces of this chemical furthermore they could not find any civilians who could confirm that this to attack and taken place and they couldn't find any victims of this attack any people in hospitals or any bodies or any sites where they could have been graves that the just the facts were simply not adding up now from their benzema he went on to talk about how repeatedly russia had come to the u.n. security council and warned the u.n. security council about the fact that fighters against the syrian government some of the extremists and terrorist groups that are working to bring down the syrian government groups like al nasra other terrorist groups repeatedly in territory that's been liberated from the it's been discovered that these groups have been stockpiling chemical weapons and he argued that these reports and rick. and allegations about the extremist anti-government forces developing chemical weapons and in some cases using them against syrian government positions that these reports are not being properly investigated and taken seriously by the o.p.c. w.

and international bodies so from there he went on to talk about the united states and talk about how you know a russia is simply asking for civilized diplomatic relations with the united states he was quite critical of the united states and remarks recently made by nikki haley he touched on the situation with the of the salisbury incident and how a lot of the facts around that case that you know all the allegations being made against russia in that case a lot of them are starting to untangle it was quite some quite heated remarks from the representative of the russian federation at the u.n. security council meeting but the meeting is not over now other countries are going to address the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations we're expecting to hear from different countries the meeting is continuing and all eyes are on it as important to note that at the end of d. mr is remarks he said he was raising for the first time in his four years reporting to the u.n.

on syria the threat of international security in relation to the situation in syria and warning that the situation in syria could escalate on the international scene and there is a threat to the international security being raised by the crisis in syria so a lot of the you know a sense of the whole world is watching the u.n. security council as it meets them as the two different countries many different countries fifteen countries represented in the u.n. security council meet to discuss these new allegations being made about a chemical attack in duma. ok let's get him open bring us right up to date of the latest many thanks and as you mentioned the meeting of the u.n. security council continues nikki haley the u.s. representative is speaking out let's listen in this allowed russian also weaken the credibility of the united nations we are quick to condemn chemical weapons in the security council but then russia prevent any action vetoing five resolutions on this issue alone unleavened vetoes all together to save assad. and our lives go

on as usual. the council created the joint investigative mechanism it found the syrian regime responsible for the attack it concha couldn't a year ago because russia's support of assad and his actions russia killed the mechanism we condemned it and our lives went on as usual. we pushed for a cease fire the council unanimously agreed but it was immediately ignored by russia and us side we condemned it and our lives went on as usual and now here we are confronted with the consequences of giving russia a pass in the name of unity a unity that russia has shown many times before they don't want here we are in a world where chemical weapons use is becoming normalized from an indonesian airport

to an english village to the homes and hospitals of syria since the assad regime used chemical weapons that concha can one year ago chemical weapons have been reportedly used dozens of times and this council does nothing what we are dealing with today is not about a spat between the united states and russia this is about the inhumane use of chemical agents on innocent civilians each and every one of the nations in this council or on record opposing the use of chemical weapons there can be no more rationalizations for our failure to act we have already introduced and circulated to the council a resolution demanding unrestricted humanitarian access to the people of duma assad is doing all he can to assure maximum suffering in duma. our priority must be to help the starving the sick and the injured that have been left behind we also call

on this council to immediately reestablish a truly professional and impartial mechanism for chemical weapons attacks in syria including the attack this weekend we hope our colleagues on this council will join us as they have before. this is the very minimum we can do in response to the attack we just witnessed russia's obstructionism will not continue to hold us hostage when we are confronted with an attack like this one the united states is determined to see the monster who drop chemical weapons on the syrian people held to account you have heard what the president of the united states has said about this meetings are ongoing important decisions are being weighed even as we speak we are on the edge of a dangerous precipice the great evil of chemical weapons use that once unified the

world in opposition is on the verge of becoming the new normal. the international community must not let this happen we are beyond showing pictures of dead babies we're beyond appeals to conscience we have reached the moment when the world must see justice done. history will record this as the moment when the security council either discharged its duty or demonstrated its utter and complete failure to protect the people of syria either way the united states will respond thank. you going up on lara i would have been ok very brief response from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations if there's any developments there at the u.n. security council bring you any new in for that comes through. let's move

on to some of the day's other big stories a spend a day of violence not far from the city of nonce in france riot police moved in in the early hours of the morning to victims are mentalists who've been camped there for years injuries have been reported on both sides from the scene his shoulder to . shoulder. the. world. you were born. in. 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 commune over many years many people say that this is now their family land they they farm 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. or 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 police 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 call. ati's video agency will caught up in that take us back. because you. ready for your farewell to. work well as you can see now the scientists have lit fire to one of these a very case the police are just about one hundred meters down in the distance ready 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 is

a follow up in that in the background it is incredibly difficult to breathe we keep being moved on by that gas is actually chlorine to my skin because it hurt so much . for your group. or for your 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 they just 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 mole a tough cookie 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 satisfied this is a point where. a couple of dozen people were trying to hold off if you can see the police pushing the white face to gas in the air already to put dogs in his well

there are absolutely determined that they will move the saddest away from this camp we saw one man with a pack of cards 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 a. everybody away a tactic that we've seen earlier in the day where you generalize by getting rid of all of the sadness all of 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 his ruling because they are clearing this site a story that's been occupied for many many years. could be over faster than many people thought it would be the clashes are still continuing here gas is still being spread well here in the city of narked which is about thirty kilometers south of not to the down dillard's where those clashes were taking place

today as the police were going in and reserving this that this homes and structures and we've also seen those clashes from today come back out onto the streets tonight there's been plenty of tear gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. with the media speculation over the script continuing it's being reported now that recovering certain dually a script being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence but a family relative believes that you would in fact like to return to moscow speaking to our video agency victoria stories of may personally overrule britain's decision to deny her a visa. is a vote i ask the u.k. and you personally to reconcile or the decision to refuse my these or they're 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. meanwhile british foreign secretary boris johnson are sensationally brown to the leader of the opposition the kremlin's useful idiot so after labor party leader jeremy corbyn refused to blame russia for the poisoning party's political takes a look at the consequences for corbin not toeing the line. jeremy corbyn is one of the few people questioning or refusing to accept or to mattick leave that narrative from the government and he's getting a lot of criticism as a result and now jeremy corbin has also come under fire from the u.k.'s top diplomats as well from boris johnson the foreign secretary is only one thing that gives the kremlin soccer a full script ability to its propaganda. and that's when politicians from the targeted countries join in the effort. driven to the conclusion. joining this

effort truly he's the crew useful idiot boris johnson i'm really tearing into the labor leader in the strongest words possible and all this because jeremy corbyn has consistently all asked for evidence of the government's assertion that the kremlin is behind the attack against gay and script how boris johnson has serious questions to ask the prime minister taking the necessary steps under the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government has risen lucian trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent saying movies things has really got jeremy corbyn in the whole war 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. 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 and play the ball not the man when it comes to these things i think about it is not helpful i think at all but right now the line here and it appears to be accepted almost unanimously is that. russia is to blame for what happened and any protestations or questions coming from the kremlin are all part of propaganda campaign but this strategy of writing off anybody questioning the government's narrative as effectively treasonous as betraying the british government it appears to have been rather fruitful for the government and for two reason may as prime minister personally because for the first time since the general election polls are showing

that a reason may is more popular than jeremy corbyn now on top of attacking corbett is article also numerous claims that raise questions about the iraq you see. explains. 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 straight once and for all. boris writes that britain's porton downs chemical weapons the tides 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

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. they have investigated ways of delivering agents probably for assassination and as part of this program have produced and stockpiled small quantities of norwich ochs 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 after moving 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. 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 its death and secondly former spies not exactly stream s but to follow boris is logic the kremlin is simply willing to kill someone in britain 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 thorin 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. let's go back to our top story this hour the un security council's currently holding an emergency meeting on the alleged chemical attack in syria russia's representative has already addressed the addressed the council in great length as well slamming western countries for laying the blame on moscow and damascus without conducting any serious investigation the u.s. representative nikki haley promised a response regardless of what the security council actually decides. let's discuss this story now with peter ford former british ambassador to syria and bahrain peter thanks for joining us it's been a fascinating last hour or so the security council although us the holy stated that the u.s. was going to quote respond no matter what the security council decides and in fact when she spoke there in new york surely addressed the members for what five minutes

saying very little apart from saying that the council does nothing about chemical attacks in syria do you think that she's already made up of mind as the u.s. already decided what it's going to do. i think that probably the u.s. has decided what it's going to do and that is attack syria probably with multiple attacks within the coming twenty four thirty six hours and what is happening in new york is there for a show rod. what the american the appear to be aiming at is a russian veto of the draft resolution that the americans have put forward it has been drafted in such a way that it appears to call for an investigation but in reality it attach to the extra conditions that have nothing to do with the duma insident but you but which will attract

a russian veto because the conditions would create a new in best they could to body. which would be rigged effectively to come up with the verdict that the americans want what do you think donald trump's major decisions that he promised within forty eight hours are going to be. well. targeting essentially where and how to target russians and the iranians as well syrians on syrian territory bearing in mind that there are russian forces embedded with the syrian forces in particular the air defenses joint and i think he has been probably assessing with military advisors the results of the

israeli strike which i interpret having been carried out the best at the behest of the american. program a test of how the russians would react. in a given. type of missile attack and now the americans have the answer to that question or they think they have the answer to the dangers in all with can hardly be exaggerated. i mean it's very worrying to think what might happen tomorrow and this two very target of possibilities we've got the russian ambassador to the u.n. security council saying the russian experts investigated in duma they didn't find a single local person who confirmed any reports of a chemical attack he said they didn't find any victims of the chemical attack and he said tomorrow international experts you can go to syria will ensure your safety

go and investigate that's one possibility on the other side you could have a military option which hasn't been taken off the table by the u.s. and donald trump is the u.s. being reasonable here to be talking about the possibility of military action. no and especially in the light bess ago haley's remarks that whatever happened with regard to the resolution that america will take the action it sees fit. not what's happening in in new york sharod and just a pretext. who gives the american some kind of diplomatic cover for making the attack the whole object to the americans and the british and the french is to attract that russian veto now whether the russians the actually deploy the veto the really interesting question here because if the russians did

allow the resolution to move forward then it would actually i think in the eyes of the world opinion be extremely extremely difficult for the americans to go ahead certainly in in britain there would be no understanding for this happening. i don't see how the british government could support it in the context of an investigation being imminent. you've talked to you know you're skeptical about what's happening at the u.n. security council we heard from staff and de mistura saying that he wants. international laws to be abided by and he wants an independent thorough investigation that's something that was at code by russia but nothing from the u.s. in reality can the u.n. security council do anything. well yes can

it focus world attention the the our youth of the whole world are on this. earth mentioned if. by some miracle. the resolution is passed providing for the investigation then the power of the united nations will be demonstrated because that will act as a brake on any. u.s. action with regard actually to the realities of what happened i'm personally convinced that what happened with a fake flag operation that there was no attack quite with the image of that with being now would be thought to fabricate. ludicrous that we should be on the point of armageddon. image you which to form of certainly been

concocted. many thanks peter always appreciate your time and your forthright opinions peter ford my guest former you can blast the two syria and bahrain. so hungry now are the prime minister celebrating a massive general election victory his ruling coalition secured a two thirds majority in parliament with a record turnout more seventy percent addressing supporters viktor orban said that the result gives him the opportunity to defend his country. relieving them 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 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. open strong stance on immigration is one support from anti establishment parties across europe but not from brussels officials who vote surely on whether or

not to strip budapest of its e.u. voting rights to discuss the reelection what it means for the block the hungary an m.p. and a political analyst. orse majority of the. wards and standing. in course messy chained. good deliveries. the opposition was very split it and the opposition of was not able to show all sure that it would be able to two who are. already 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 because we see the feedback from the proclamation that this is the right way to go and i think. we would all be surprised if. but down from

this strategy i think you just want to push for it now 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 this strategy further. some contenders in sunday's election it was not about winning but about making money there are reports of these fourteen so-called fake parties registered this year they were seeking government subsidies to do that they're required to have at least twenty seven candidates and get hundreds of thousands of euros in cash without even needing to account for the money most of these parties don't even have a website or a social media page the law requires them to repay the funds if they get less than one percent of the vote however it's said that they can get around even those restrictions. around the fact that we've run out of time that will be back with the very latest join me.