chemical weapons watch dog the o.p.c. w. announces a fact finding mission to syria experts on the ground will probe the latest chemical attack claims. a violent standoff continues between police and environmentalist for a second day in france barricades have been burned to officers fired tear gas. yulia screwballs discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack exceeding doctors initial assessments that she may not recover.

this is our to international coming to live from the russian capital with me jacqueline welcome to the program. we begin with breaking news this hour as the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has announced a fact finding mission to syria to investigate the latest chemical attack claims now the international watchdog has called on the syrian government to take all measures necessary to facilitate the work of its experts on the ground damascus has already responded noting it will provide any assistance needed moscow has been calling for precisely such an investigation to find out exactly what happened in duma. but to do some fucked for the me right now we cannot confirm the use of chemical weapons but we also want independent experts to give their assessment we vitally organizations to the precipitation of chemical weapons experts to visit the site and we will work hard to make this visit happen we cannot blindly believe in the results of investigations achieved from a distance. meanwhile the un security council is expected to vote later on tuesday

on a resolution regarding the probe but judging by what took place at monday's meeting the talks well be far from easy r.t. if you are trying to take sr yesterday's heated exchange when the most powerful people in the world say things like you will face the most serious consequences or there will be a big price to pay what or who was meant to calm things down people in this room was nelson one of the liberation of duma from rebel fighters russian specialist was a specialist in radiological chemical and biological protection to collect evidence and information in interviews non-single president confirmed the chemical to have been so you can place bodies of people killed by chemical agents have not been found and chemical purse now and residents have no information about their potential areas therefore the use of sarin and chlorine has not been confirmed i

could hold up pictures of babies lying dead next to their mothers brothers and sisters toddlers and infant still in diapers all lying together dead who does this. only a monster does this aside from that the envoys to are speaking the language of threats so when men men who are from venus and mars but rather it's the teams from the opposite sides of the security council table looks like we shouldn't really expect any decisions being made together oh. if the critic of it in accordance with its own mandate do and gain in the notion that beat of security and polled in the national low to for godsake ensure a make it made me do investigate if the allegation and attribute responsibility if

history will record the moment when the security council either discharged. or demonstrate under and complete to protect the people of syria there were. well worse. stuff and it mistura is if you haven't forgotten the un's man to sort out syria even the most obvious suggestion from him to probe to send qualified people to inspect the alleged chemical attack site didn't help that something the russian military has already done by the way they went in to do mum went to hospitals spoke to locals no signs of a chlorine attack were found by them moscow says send in all p.c. w mission to the area right now the armies of russia and syria are promising to protect the un staff there. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which said it is ready to investigate this matter should immediately goes

tomorrow go to damascus syrian troops along with bush in force to provide everything necessary to allow the visitors who allegedly chemicals surprisingly london did say it was a good idea not that as a result of the session we heard such a call being officially made in the meantime the official line coming out of the u.n. altogether is don't expect much from a. viewer so just as much of the doctors the rest of us relying on. you know where are your position at this point to independently verify the allegations well even if you and investigators end up in doom let's hope it's not too late. the french president called for a firm response after discussing the chemical incident with donald trump late on monday while mainstream media are full of advice to their leaders on exactly how to respond we spoke about the situation with former u.s.

presidential candidate ron paul now chair of the institute for peace and prosperity . in the time when a crime is committed in this country the stations when they're not sure they're careful they say this is allegedly but they never do this under these circumstances they have zero bits of information it's over and over again the person is guilty and that is the person that is the you know the russians and the syrians are guilty of a crime and it goes over and over again you know did it is the cripples and then they finally had to give up you know that nothing came panned out so they had to go on to a new one so it's one runs out of steam they create another fake news program. i think the least likely would be his saw this whole idea saw it's over and over again ten times today assad is gassing his own people and i've said it every time i haven't saw it in a month or two later they proved it was absolutely wrong so i cannot see any reason

why assad would do this there's no reason for russian have done this there's somebody who wants to serve trouble and the people who want to stay there. meanwhile britain's controversial former prime minister tony blair has bit to push his country into yet another military conflict this time in syria and an interview blair claimed the u.k. should back a u.s. intervention against a masochist in the wake of the alleged chemical attack the man who teamed up with washington to invade iraq in two thousand and three had this to say. this would be action in support of of military intervention by the the us if you don't respond to this too to the use of chemical weapons against civilians then obviously you know we're ignoring what the international community has said which is that this is unacceptable than those that use such measures methods should be held to account even if we take the action which i think we will have to do. it doesn't solve the longer term question of what happens in syria. i gave the order for british forces

to take part in military action in iraq my judgment as prime minister is that this threat is real growing and of an entirely different nature to any conventional threat to our security that britain has faced before. the program in the form that we thought it was did not exist in the way that we thought so i could apologize for that i can also apologized by the way for some of the mistakes in planning and certainly our mistaken in our understanding of what would happen once you remove the regime. for all of this i express more sorrow regret. and apology that you may never know. well complete. the iraq inquiry also known as the chilcot report was published in two

thousand and sixteen and uncovered quote mistakes in the six year long u.k. campaign in iraq the report revealed that there was no imminent threat to the u.k. or urgent need for military action against saddam hussein's government it also highlighted that blair's certainty that iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including chemical and biological biological agents was unjustified the u.k. lost one hundred seventy nine servicemen and women during the campaign and also claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians in two thousand and sixteen a petition was uploaded on the u.k. parliamentary website for the arrest of blair for his role in the disco destruction of iraq over twenty thousand signed the petition before it was removed. now we're joined live by military analyst. so we hear we have the man seen by many as a war criminal calling once again for foreign military intervention what's your reaction to that. i think it's not

a surprise unfortunately to mention blair needs that if a psychologist to help him out because he's time and again be deluded as to what his particular role is in the world especially after leaving office he continues to be a t.v. screens as well as policy trying to be relevant but of course he sounds more and more far away from reality than before now blair has already had to apologize for in fact lacking evidence on iraq as no proper evidence has been found for this syrian alleged chemical attack either hasn't has he just not learned from his mistakes then. there was a mention he has an. extreme conceit an arrogance to think he's always right and even in his apologies he hasn't given an absolute apology of how things went wrong and he continues to talk the way so and washington wanted to talk the ones that want intervention and he's called the original neo con that's the title

of one of his biographies saying he's far more right wing than some of the american these clowns as well now we've just had the o.p.c. w. announced that they will investigate the syrian alleged chemical attack but why do you think we have the rest already rushing to threaten military action before that probe has even been started let alone complete. so this is a tried and tested formula of the last seven years the west make their mind up even before a minute has passed for any action on the ground the russians and the syrians have said they will give protection and go in to check what's happened on the ground but of course no one's interested because they were ready made to mine and in this case the americans the europeans and the british have always wanted to be the judge jury and executioner and you can't do that any crime that's committed you you need to look at the evidence but if no one wants to look at the evidence then you want to look the other way. given that do you think there's any possibility that britain will agree with blair and go ahead and back military intervention in syria. i think

so i mean unless there is an outcry in parliament or there's major opposition in parliament but as things stand it seems like. we'll have a relatively easy time because most people because of the media hype seem to be agreed that the british should go in because that's the only way britain can be relevant as far as the british perspective go they don't want the for engineer americans taking all the glory in this that that's all there is to it this is all about playing to the gallery this is all about headlines twitter and media this is not about syria what was good for syria as far as us from seeing u.k. goes it's making themselves feel good and patting themselves on the back well as you mentioned there is has been a lot of media hype around this and now we have blair making these statements do you think his announcement might be the you know the straw that broke the camel's back and push people over do you think he really does have influence over the british government i think is actually influence is limited at least for the

current prime minister he was close to the former prime minister cameron but not this one as far as the current government or the policy makers go i think teresa mayes been quite aggressive in a stance yet the british have said might welcome an inquiry but once the americans go in there's very little the british can do one could argue that britain have not had an independent sovereign foreign policy. and when it comes to iraq do you think that blair will ever be brought to justice for his role that he took place then for the invasion of iraq. absolutely unlikely because as far as the war in iraq goes or other war crimes are international tribunals go they've always been very one sided and political only the people who europe oppose come to the hague but the ones that europe support never make it to the hague so it's unlikely that blair will be called for he has been called for and received in the investigation they have been citizen the rest are as far as international law goes

he will get away and so will the others military analyst kamel alarm thank you so much for your time and your insights this evening. protesters have been burning barricades while police have fired tear gas near the french city of not that's a stand off by environmentalists continues for a second day officers have been trying to evict protesters from their camp and are tear charlotte urban ski was caught up in the actual you can see that we just had two new gas fired into this campus trying to move this out demonstrators away and that's because just in the foreground but difficult to see behind some of the smoke or some of the structures that some people have been living in some protesters have been living on the site since two thousand and eight they say it's their land and they won't stay and we've been speaking to one young mother who's got a fifteen month old son who's been living here for seven years and this is what she told us about her thoughts on losing her house which looks like it's next in line

to be demolished i think i'm pushing away any kind of really emotional attachment to the buildings right now maybe a cry later to me where all in this together and crushing a building on those on the side is crushing a building on this that i think i cried first on i think i cried. for me it just means that we have less buildings for all of us together and that's the shame i don't think i want to particularly attach a sentimental attachment to these buildings i happen to live here i have a fifteen month old child who lives here as well and he's not here right now because. because there's some horrible people there and take as well the tear gas is continue to rain down here on day two and just behind me you can see that they're actually just soaring down a tree anything that they can do they're bringing dogs in or anything they can do to barricade themselves in from the police to defend this land this land that they say is that learn to defend.

if i am the. me me me me feel. good thank god my room was filled with police are just about a hundred meters down in the distance in ready and waiting at home where are they going to charge for the. if.

the police are not trying to push everybody away a tactic that we've seen earlier in the day with the huge eyes bright getting rid of all the sadness all the activists. my well the protesters are so desperate to hold on to this ground there's one person behind me who's actually just grabbing at a small pebbles and mud to be able to fling that at the officers we actually saw some people flinging mud directly at officers yes they were just going to try and get a little bit closer don you might be able to see somebody there one of the saddest activists throwing projectiles this is bottles glass bottles plastic bottles as well as bricks towards the c.r.'s and there you can see where we're getting some things thrown back at them that would be some tear gas going off there don you can hear it's quite loud it's a larry and not too gas can reach really fall probably about one hundred fifty meters when it is fired the police the c.r.'s have

a lot of work to do if their aims to raise or this entire site is to take place it's unlikely it's going to be finished today because the ziad resistance is very strong but we know that the force of the police is also that around two and a half thousand gendarmerie all here and the government is determined this will be one some for all the and all of sant. a video emerges apparently showing israeli troops cheering the shooting of a palestinian protester we'll bring you more details on that after this short break . you know when you don't see what the. two are. dead according. to what they're the most through only ten space. left to be. said. no servant is messy that.

you speak french. he. looks a new president he's still good busy to discuss. the. welcome back doctors in salisbury have now confirmed that yulia screwball has been

discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack she has asked for media to respect her privacy her father said today is also on the mend but at a slower rate. we have no discharge from salzburg district hospital yuliya has asked for proof from the media and i want to reiterate a request her father has also made good progress. on friday i announced he was no longer in a critical condition. although he's recovering more slowly at the new year we hope that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course well sol's very hospital has issued that short statement confirming that yulia scriptural has indeed been discharged and they said that this isn't the end of her treatment but it marks a significant milestone report suggests that she left last night that she's been taken to an undisclosed location where she can be safe from the media the foreign secretary boris johnson has tweeted saying congratulations that is wonderful that

you list is out of hospital and his to have a full and speedy recovery and there's already been reaction from the russian embassy here in the u.k. saying that we congratulate you on her recovery but we need urgent proof that what's being done to her is being done according to her own free will now the medical recovery that you are and to a lesser extent her father have made is being presented as nothing short of extraordinary given the severity of the nerve agent that they were said to have been exposed to five weeks ago. were found slumped on that park bench in solsbury and very soon afterwards the british government announced that they had been poisoned with a deadly nerve agent one that the government laboratory have gotten down to identified as the chong and throughout the media scandal and the in searing

diplomatic who allowed the medical gnosis for this for pals was catastrophic grave many chemical. weapons that were saying that they wouldn't survive and media reports in the first few days some of them even jumped the gun saying that the script had been murdered and when she pointed the finger of blame at the prime minister to reason may was also pessimistic when talking about the script files condition sadly late last week doctors indicated that their condition is unlikely to change in the near future and they may never recover fully but despite the hospital releasing this statement saying that you. has been discharged the story here is already being spun in a particular way it's being spun in a particular direction again some of the media reports here now a keen to make one thing clear to paraphrase a b.b.c.

report from this morning the idea that yulia and her father again to make a full recovery is wrong they're going to be permanently damaged by what's been done to them. this is really military has launched an investigation after soldiers apparently filmed themselves cheering a sniper who had shot a palestinian approaching the gaza border security fence. all the growing. range of zero or zero you know. the words of one of the richest of them did the. fall of one of the shoe will. or the. whole. thing or the whole. war really well they've. been. watching sensually here and see in this video is that his radio defense forces

snipers shooting near the israel gaza border there is a single shot and you see this palestinian fall to the ground after being shot in the leg and you see the crowds converge on him now the israeli army has released a statement in response to our request for comment they say that the issue is under review they say that this happened several months ago and that it was a small part of what was a much bigger protest that happened that day the israel gaza border fence in which it says its soldiers had stones thrown at them and a number of palestinians tried to breach the border fence but the israeli army says that it has identified the soldier to quote it is reviewing the case it is investigating the case and those responsible will be disciplined another point at the army makes is that the cheering and the swearing that you hear in the video is not part and parcel of the code of conduct of the idea if not naturally the story

has caused a bit of a few it here in israel there are number of israeli politicians who have commented and who have stated that the soldier should not be judged this is a person they argue who is on the battlefield and to strace and as such particularly because he's defending israel's borders you cannot pass judgment but if you hear in a very contrary point of view coming from the head of the arab joint list who says that the sniper must be brought to trial now. this video surfaces more than a week after protests have been happening along the israel gaza border and according to the palestinian health ministry those protests at least some fifty people killed. because. they are oh. the palestinians argue that the searches are nonviolent and at the same time the civilian lives but the israeli side is arguing that the protests are eight cover for what you see state should be these soldiers being fired up with molotov cocktails explosive devices and people trying to reach the border fence

between israel and gaza hamas has admitted to mass of course being the ruling party in gaza has admitted that among those who have been killed in the past more than a week of violence are some of its members. in the latest protest mentioned by paul a young boy who was killed by israeli soldiers he is said to be the youngest among the thirty palestinians who died in the demonstrations the boy's family held a memorial on monday when he would have celebrated his fourteenth birthday. and that's all for me today but my colleague neil harvey will be taking over and bringing you your live news update in about thirty minutes time as always thanks for turning in. a flight for many flips over the years so i know the guy even saw dives. football

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like that over there now and this is pumper going day in day out we didn't have any choice really we could have put it over that way or ways i mean we could have moved it a little bit. but we have to let the people who own the mineral rights get to those minorities and they compensated us for what they took here but the company built it and we have it now for own next forty years i'm guessing i don't own. my house up there from there we have we used to have a beautiful view. now we have this to look at brings in a little bit of money very little if they took us out of here and get back all the money i made off of it's. going to happen.

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 be out of mind for sure. i. 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 they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission foreign oil industry follows a proper practices i don't think will have

a problem but there's always that if me if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to to ground water as i see it when we live are in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our old so 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 inhale the chemicals 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 off in a ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill it any kind of living organism of any kind it kills it because one of our guy has. a.