russia says the alleged chemical attack in syria's doomer on saturday was fake as no traces of chemicals or dead bodies were found in the area but not a single local resident has confirmed the reports. of those. chaotic scenes near the french city of nonces riot police break up an environmentalist tear gas is used against protesters who threw rocks and firebombs . and former double agent and his daughter all reportedly. by u.s. intelligence was a relative of the screwballs police would like to return home to russia.

thanks for joining us. international our top story this hour russia says an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma was staged came as part of a speech by the country's representative before the u.n. security council is what he had to say a bit earlier. was lesson one of the. following the liberation of duma from rebel fighters russian specialists were sent there specialists in radiological chemical and biological protection to collect evidence and information they took soil samples which show the lack of nerve agent and chlorine containing substances in interviews not a single local resident confirmed the chemical attack having taken place the bodies of people killed by chemical agents have not been found and medical personnel and

residents have no information about their potential burial areas therefore the use of sarin and chlorine has not been confirmed. to the states now and catch up with our correspondent there caleb moore ping kelly take us through what else has been said in a busy evening in new york. well as the fifteen member body convened and we had a meeting of the u.n. security council we heard first from the representative of the russian federation now when the benzema spoke he just kind of broke down how the facts just aren't there about this alleged chemical attack in duma he talked about how traces of the chemical they just didn't seem to be there furthermore they could not find a single civilian eyewitness to convince them that the attack happened they could not find victims in nearby hospitals or any graves or our sites of bodies it just didn't add up now from there he went on to talk about the fact that anti government

fighters terrorist groups like al nasr and others there have been occasions in which territory has been liberated from them and it's been discovered that they are stockpiling chemical weapons and that they have in the past used chemical weapons against the positions of the syrian government now this is what benzion the representative of the russian federation said here he is. you produced it as you heard the warnings but you consciously ignored them because they didn't correspond to the doctrinal arrangements of those who sleep and dream about the liquidation of the official government in one more arab country. now from there we heard from nikki haley the representative of the united states she went on to blame the syrian government for the attack despite the fact that very little investigation has taken place she blamed the syrian government for the attack and from there she said that the united states intends to respond to this alleged chemical attack

regardless of whether the u.n. security council approves of that or not she she says that the usa intends to take action now her remarks come after donald trump said the usa was in the process of making some big decisions regarding the chemical attack in duma this is donald trump speaking prior to the u.n. security council meeting. when you are studying that situation extremely closely we are meeting with our military and everybody else. will be making some major decisions over the next twenty four to forty eight hours i'm sure with his own people but nothing's off the nothing's of that is there. now that was donald trump saying that nothing is off the table in terms of response from the united states to the alleged chemical attack now and later in the meeting we did hear from the representative of the syrian arab republic bashar jafari and when he began speaking and distracting the allegations made against his country at that point the

u.s. delegation walked out making a point that they did not acknowledge or or respect the syrian arab republic now at this point many countries are concerned about the possible other possible implications of this situation in the opening of the meeting we heard from de mistura the u.n. special envoy for syria and he warned about the threats to international security resulting from the situation in syria and the allegations being leveled so people are worried about the international implications of what could happen as a result of these allegations and there's clear differences in the u.n. security council about how these allegations should be treated and responded to it was a very very tense meeting with a clear clear level of difference between different countries represented on the council because the latest from new york so of course women thank you. this is a former u.s. army judge advocate and currently joins me on the line could speak to todd's so

different approaches here we heard special envoy to syria stephan staffan de mistura saying that this is a really dangerous point in time for the world and one of the things he called for was that the u.n. security council act in unity go they have to go together whatever they do at the same time you've got the u.s. ambassador nikki haley saying that the u.s. would respond regardless of what the security council decides what you think of the different approaches. well we've seen fifteen years of the different approach by the united states going it alone in iraq beginning in iraq fifteen years ago two thousand and three and we've made chaos out of the mideast we've created the conditions where there is a mass migration into europe which brought with that other problems that europeans you know have responded to and and now ready to do it again so we should not be seeing the united states should not be seen in any way as an honest broker in any

of this or are seen to not have a conflict of interest we've been lying repeatedly. in order to have pretext for war in the mideast rather libya iraq and starting things off with according wiki leaks in syria with our clandestine support to the rebels and. we're ready to go into another great war and we should consider the whole context of these things that always seems like there's some chemical attack just when it seems like. maybe the united states might pull out of syria like trump was talking about a year or two ago which i never considered to be sincere but nevertheless somebody on the ground in who wants keep the united states involved might well have thought that a chemical attack would be timely now to keep the united states in syria and even to act to escalate tensions so we need to look in the international community needs to look at who is actually involved with the united states policy makers and look at their record for the last fifteen years or more and consider whether or not they

have any credibility left on these issues anymore we're destroying the mid-east we're destroying our own country united states economically with their constant wars perpetual war and it's you know we we have to turn to the international community to hopefully bring some rationality back to us there's been a very rapid trial by media on this alleged chemical attack all based on an unverified video. russia and syria are on the back foot but then we've heard the russian ambassador say that their experts have been in and they found no bodies no traces of chemical weapons no witnesses and they invited independent experts from the u.n. itself to go in tomorrow and take a look for themselves now if the u.s. is so sure that there is evidence why would they not accept that invitation well i think that answers your question by itself doesn't it. why why would they if there was evidence on the ground. the benzine. also

mention the fact that donald trump and pledged major decisions on syria within forty eight hours donald trump has already jumped the gun in a sense he's already pledging a extreme response before the u.n. security council even discussed it what you think he's likely to do. you know i can't speculate but you know last time i think it's a year ago about when a chemical attack was alleged and we did a missile strike on some syria the u.s. media gushed over it thought it was a great fireworks display. not caring at all about the human cost on the other and so too great and opposed to trying to popularity particularly with the neoconservatives who've been wanting to get united states more and more into war in syria for years and perhaps as a stepping stone toward the war with iran that they've been seeking for years along

with nato and yahoo who is also funded you know financially by donald trump's backer sheldon adelson all of whom have been eager for war against iran and i can just see how this could be seen as a stepping stone toward escalating attentions with both around and now russia as well which we've been working toward for the last year or so tremendous danger that the world is in. my gratitude for your time and your opinions many things told piers is my guess fully u.s. army judge advocate. even to the days of the new suspended a volley is not far from the city of months in france police that moved in in the early hours of the morning to evict environmentalist's camps there for years injuries were reported on both sides from the scene his shell the david. so get.

her if you 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 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 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. already feel like i don't want you to see well as you can see now the zionists have let fly to one of these a barrier case the police are just about a 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 clear 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 to my skin because it hurt so much . real growth. over growth to just. want to take you to have a look at this stamp 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 is attempting to throw a moment of 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 his well they are absolutely determined that they will move the saddest away from this camp we saw one man with a package 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 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 they are clearing this site assortments been occupied for many many years ziad could peel back the many people thought it would be the clashes are still continuing to tear gas is still being spread well here in the city of nohant which is about thirty kilometers south of not too dumb to land where those clashes were taking place today as the police were going in and raise a ring designed this homes and structures and we've also seen those clashes from today come back out into the streets tonight there's been plenty of to you gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. these cases take a new twist with x.v.i. said again and his daughter u.v.-a partner being offered new identities by u.s.

intelligence details coming up. local blogs telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight a battle that. you thought spread to tell you that will be gossip and probably. for years to. tell you are not pulling out by. the hawks that we all. want. our.

media speculation over the script continuing it's been reported that now recovering said again you are being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence but a family relative believes that you would in fact long to return to moscow speaking to a video agency victoria asked to raise about it personally to overrule britain's decision to deny her a visa. yes it is a very 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 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 has sensationally branded the leader of the opposition the kremlin's useful idiot after labor party leader jeremy corbyn refused to blame russia for the poisoning party's political takes a look at the consequences for corbin of not toeing the line. jeremy corbyn is one of the few people questioning all 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. critic ability to its propaganda. and that's when politicians from the targeted countries join in the efforts. 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 beauteous 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 as resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent saying movies things has really got jeremy corbyn in hope. 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 of questions coming from the kremlin are all part of a 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 corbin on top of the talking cool bit in his article johnson also made numerous claims that raise questions over the rock curacy. report. 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 case straight once and for all. boris writes that britain's porton downs chemical weapons the tide ten to five 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 narrow feature there is but typically you will not tell you to look all down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that. they have investigated ways of delivering nerve agents probably for assassination and as part of this program have produced in stockpiled small quantities of norwich ox 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 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 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 slipping in case death and secondly former spies are not exactly stream s 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 and lengthy and thorin 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 boris johnson. hungary's prime minister a sort of writing a massive general election victory his ruling coalition secured a two thirds majority in parliament with a record turnout of almost seventy percent addressing supporters torben said that the result gives him the opportunity to defend this country. really remembered 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 opens strong stance on immigration is one support from anti establishment

parties across europe but not from brussels officials who vote surely on whether to strip the purse of its e.u. voting rights we discussed organs reelection and what it means for the block with the hunger and a political analyst. warst majority of the congo. wars and standing by to defeat this campaign course mysie chained food deliveries. the opposition was very split it and the opposition of was not able to show all sure that it would be able to talk who were hungry properly migration as such were singled out as a single topic for this election it is quite sad to see no other issues could enter the agenda because we see the feedback from the proclamation that this

is the right way to go and i think. we will all be surprised if we talk about what but down from destructive g. i think you just want to push it further 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 ok that's all from me for they see. that we're too much we're back tomorrow in the meantime stay with us if you can't get a party to bring you the latest in half an hour. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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someday you know on oil is all pumped out of the ground they will come back here and level it all out and turn it back into farmland but that's you know like i said it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes it would be out of mind for sure. have nothing to say about where. i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest but they don't have to listen to you don't i mean you have no legal say in it put

it that way so yeah they can put it wherever they want they don't need any your permission for a while under st paul's a proper practice is i don't think we'll have a problem but there's always that if need. they don't then we could have an issue and in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live our air and or all areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our old school if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. as all that fraction job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and healthy chemicals because they use as it is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pumped out that often to ground.