was. russia says saturday's alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma was fake as no traces of chemicals or dead bodies were found another local residents have confirmed the reports. chaotic scenes near the french city of norms as riot police used tear gas to break up an environmentalist count as protesters throw rocks and fire bombs. former double agent surrogate screwball and his daughter are reportedly offered new identities by u.s. intelligence while a relative of the script files believes you would like to return to russia.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. well russia says alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma has been staged but came as part of a speech by the country's representative never now ben zia before the u.n. security council. was nelson one of the. following the liberation of duma from rebel fighters russian specialists were sent there specialists and 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 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. has the details of the meeting 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 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 you were there more they could not find a single civilian eyewitness to confirm that the attack happened they could not find victims in nearby hospitals or any graves or or sites of body is 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 nusra and others there have been occasions in which the 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 was literally to put 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 the russian representative said that russia would favor the creation of a new independent body to investigate allegations about chemical weapons and their use in syria now the united kingdom spoke up in agreement with russia's call and furthermore when the syrian arab republic took the floor they also spoke up and said they would favor the creation of an independent body to investigate the use of chemical weapons in syria 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 and this is donald trump speaking prior to the u.n. security council meeting where 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 a mission with his own people nothing's off the. nothing's of that is. now ben's you pointed out that when donald trump said that nothing was off the table in regards to syria and the action that he might take these words sound very dangerous the implications of possible aggressive action from the united states in syria could be very severe and that the whole world should be deeply concerned

about this kind of rhetoric and this kind of language coming from the commander in chief of the united states 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. well let's discuss those implications further with historian and strategic analyst gregory cooperate gregory thank you very much indeed for joining us well let's look at some of those words and he said wasn't it russia's u.n. ambassador says no bodies no trace of chemical weapons no witnesses found if the u.s. is so sure the attack happened what they want to investigate. well so that want to

investigate and they were probably willing but there is however a situation where the u.s. once again being allowed to paint itself into a corner by these allegations being raised and we have to look back at the history of these allegations all attacks going back to the my county marketplace bombing in paint sorry a really good attack in. the twenty first twenty thirty when it went allegations are made and the allegations are what get all the attention and all that it lines and then you let it find out that this was a staged attack designed to achieve a certain objective and what was it yet objective this time egypt it was to stop the united states from drawing from syria when president trump indicated that he was thinking about pulling us forces out of syria. they are idiot response from the jihadists and i and i concluded that their turkish backers particularly now the

response is they can go back to the tried and true corpulent claim that it actually got a waste of human rights a bombing of innocent civilians a chemical attack on the life these are always proven to be incorrect they are always. surfaced at a time which has been strangely convenient to achieving a political objective for the sake of this time is from the turks and from the jihadi groups is to keep this in syria the reality is that there will be no evidence found a credible attack by syrian or russian forces using chemical weapons in this area and the fact that this time there was not even any attempt at staging harridans is very significant because it shows that this was very much a hasty kneejerk reaction to the u.k.'s announcement of withdrawal and of course

the president trying to appear to be. prejudging the situation by saying that he believes we're just believe the reports he did his statement that nothing is off the table is a standard response to a situation in that regard us and no major power can afford to preemptively. rule out options in any strategic circumstance well let's follow on from that point i mean since that trumps met his come on this and he says there are lots of military options looking at his was there so what do you think he'll do next. well i think that he the u.s. . national security structure really wants him to. take a military action a risk military and military response to the accusation so that he appears to be strong so that he appears to. be. if you like careful of public

opinion public opinion is the real decider of this one and moreover i think you'll find that there are a lot in a lot of people at the u.s. national security establishment who want just say a continued u.s. military presence in syria iraq and the region generally in order to compensate for the. russian presence and in order to compensate for the fact that they've seen a decline in u.s. influence in recent years so this may be seen by the pentagon for example in the particular excuse you keep the u.s. in the game in syria regardless of whether there's any real belief or not in the this alleged chemical attack and also looking at the wider picture there i mean the special envoy to syria staffan de mistura said the situation is very dangerous for the wall well nikki haley says the u.s. will respond no matter what the security council says let's listen to what they had to say just a moment. earch iftikhar it becomes it in accordance with its own mandate

do and gain international peace and security and our poled international law will do for godsake ensure i'm a commitment from doing basically gave the league asian and attribute responsibility if defers time during my bridge inclusion over four years of my own briefings did they reached a point in which i am expressing a concern about international security not only regional or national or of syrian security we have reached the moment when the world must justice done history will record deaths are the moment when the security council either discharged its duty or demonstrated its honor and complete prayer to protect the people of syria there were a united states well respond. we had from bases and they're mean which added to the

to do you think is talking the most sense. it is case or not i'm passing to haley i think she'd see her role and probably task in the role to be an attack dog to do what you do to make the united states look strong as possible clearly she is not necessarily in that the decision making has to whether the u.s. will not take a military step i do believe that the u.s. will make some token military gesture just to show that it's being tell which way they're actually much tougher for washington to back down when they find out that the allegations are unsound that. the reality is that any time and allegations like this is made made to look to the history of the people making the allegation that the white helmets you've made this claim and been proven to be out of sack in the

past they do it for a very particular reason now that it's a rear guard action by the jihadist movement. so i think it's going to be. us has allowed itself to be put into a very open position once again and the president is pretty much isolated in trying to make painting a position of settling there. and that for a point well david gregory copley historian and strategic analyst thank you for your thoughts thank you. you. now police officers and protesters have reportedly been injured during a day of violence near the french city of known riot police moved in the early hours of the morning to evict a group of environmentalists who've been kept there for around a decade r.t. shiela do bensky reports from the scene. so god. will kill you you would be if you feel 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. all 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 this 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 scientists have lit fire to one of these a barrier case the police are just about one hundred meters down in the distance ready for racing 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 tear down the law 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 is actually chlorine at my skin because it hurt so much. real room. for a whole board room to. i want to take you to have a look at this down this is one of the rocks that they've been throwing at the police and gendarmerie and there's understand that one of the c.r.s. offices has been injured by one of this project as has been taken to hospital one

person who was attempting to throw a mullet of coke to the police but it didn't go squat so well. but as you can see behind us the c.r.s. and the police have come into another zat this point this is a point where. a couple of dozen people were trying to hold off as you can see the police are pushing the way they steer gas in the air already they've brought dogs in his 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 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 is sad could be over for the many people thought it would be because she's also still continuing to tear gas is still being spread well here in the city of north 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 the scientists homes and structures and we've also seen those clashes from today come back out into the streets tonight there's been plenty of cheap gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. scrips old case takes a new twist as expires said again daughter unio are apparently offered new identities by u.s. intelligence while not after the break.

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welcome back reports claim poisoned former double agent sort of a script pal and his daughter junia being offered new identities by u.s. intelligence however a family member says you would like to return to moscow speaking to auntie's roughly video agency victoria scrip british prime minister to resign mates who overruled the u.k.'s decision to deny her a visa to visit her relatives. yes it is a very i ask the u.k. and you personally to reckon siddur 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 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. to me while british foreign secretary boris johnson has sensationally branded opposition leader jeremy corbyn the kremlin's useful idiot that's after the labor party leader refused to blame russia for the poisoning artie's polly boyko looks of the consequences for corbin of not toeing the line. jeremy corbyn is one of the few people questioning or refusing to accept or to magically 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 sucker script ability to its propaganda. and that's when

politicians from the targeted countries join in the effort. driven to the conclusion. join 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 evidence of the government's assertion that the kremlin is behind the attack against sergei and beauteous script how boris johnson has serious questions to answer as the prime minister taken 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 and 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 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 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 that this strategy of writing off and 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 the two reason may as prime minister in the lead because for the first time since the general election polls are showing that

to reason may is more popular than jeremy corbin. well as well as attacking corbett in his article johnson also made numerous claims which are open to question. the explains. 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 case straight once and for all. boris writes that britain's porton downs chemical weapons the tide ten to five the substance used had been developed by moscow well we remember the porton down interview slightly differently we have no verify the precise source you have not been able to establish that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to

provide eat you know the scientific evidence that identifies for the particular nerve agent 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 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 as part of the spy swap. he was handed in to britain as

a result of exchange so why russia and even. a man 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 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 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. congress prime minister viktor orban is celebrating his landslide victory in sunday's general election his ruling coalition secured a two thirds majority in parliament following a record turnout of almost seventy percent addressing supporters or one said the result gives him the opportunity to defend his country. remember regarding the results so i can tell you j 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. or ban and his protest party's strong stance on immigration has won support from anti establishment parties across europe but not from brussels

officials who vote shortly on whether to strip budapest of its e.u. voting rights we discussed organs reelection and what it means for the block with a hunger an m.p. and a political analyst the orson majority of the. war and standing by the campaign course mysie chink food deliveries. the opposition was very split it and the opposition of was not too sure. sure that it would be able to two who were hungry poorly 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 and it has received the feedback from the population that this is the right way to go and i think. we would all be surprised if they would but

down from this strategy i think you just want to push it for an hour and he's not going to be scared of. perhaps increasing the tension between other western countries or other european countries that hungary i think is just going to push their strategy further. i'll be back with the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories as well as he took home. the slogan see the blood of them so much. good you are who was before. much of those who heard it's a preview are you ever see him with the north we will we're going to.

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follow unwelcome across all things considered i'm peter lavelle the continuing saga how did three people in solitary survive contamination by a military grade nerve agent london has a lot of explaining to do also nikki haley goes off the rails again what exactly is a normal country. across talking a world in crisis i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and secured.