at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council russia vetoes america's resolution for a mechanism to investigate series alleged chemical attack. a violent standoff continues between police and environmentalists for a second day in france barricades have been burned while officers fired tear gas. discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack exceeding doctors' initial assessments that she may never recover.

here in moscow neil harvey this is r.t. international and an emergency meeting of the un security council russia has vetoed a u.s. resolution for a mechanism to investigate syrian chemical attack allegations because the latest let's head to new york now and join our correspondent there caleb moore following events what was in washington's resolution that spot russia's veto. well this is the second day of meetings of the un security council here in manhattan regarding the issue of alleged chemical weapons in syria these meetings were called after allegations that a chemical weapons attack took place in the duma now at this point there were two resolutions that were proposed in the meeting the first resolution was proposed by the united states and it was vetoed by russia after that we heard nikki haley the representative of the united states urged countries to vote against the resolution

that russia put forward. the resolution guarantees that any investigations will truly be independent russia's resolution gives russia itself the chance to choose the investigators and i and states is not asking to choose the investigators and neither should russia the united states is not asking to review the findings of any investigation before they are final and neither should russia now the representative of the russian federation made clear that russia wants to get to the bottom of what exactly happened there investigated and their chemical experts on the ground shown that they're not finding chemical traces they're not finding victims of the alleged attack they're not even finding any eyewitnesses that the attack took place and they argue that the united states is not really being genuine when it says it wants an independent investigation that the rather the usa simply wants this as a pretext to attack syria this is the russian representative before the u.n.

security council. to conduct an issue folks finding mission a new mechanism to attribute blame is not required to be needed to put a mechanism to give make it work why do you need the mechanism when you have already appointed the guilty party you don't want to hear anything you don't want any investigation. now there have been calls for a response to the alleged chemical attack even though facts have not really been established we've heard from trump we've heard from a chrono frantz now interestingly when mcclaren called for action in response to the alleged chemical attack he did specify something very clear he said that allies of syria would not be targeted this is the president of france. who can go and the decision would take will not affect sirus allies but if the decision to stay can it will of course target syria's chemical capabilities. now this is

quite different from what was said by donald trump donald trump said that nothing was off the table and he named iran and russia along with the syrian government as countries he suspected were responsible so a lot of questions are being asked everyone in the room seems to agree that that people need to get to the bottom of what's going on however at this point there is disagreement about how exactly to do it there's disagreement about the previous investigation into conflict kuhn and the work of the joint investigative mechanism there big disagreements among countries but everyone in the u.n. security council is absolutely clear that using chemical weapons is unacceptable there's just a real difference of opinion about how to go about determining the facts about what's going on in syria and i'm open now with the latest for us from new york thank you well despite the obvious tension between the russian and american and voice before the meeting they say they exchanged a friendly kiss they also talked for a while with the city in a benz and seemingly unwilling to let nikki haley go to chat with the hunching.

virginia state senator richard blank told us that the members of trump's administration make a military response all the more likely. it is very possible that the entire thing was a complete fabrication and we were not even bothering to who were not even bothering to say was there a murder committed and there's only history of the false flag attacks and another thing that i noticed is that the reports that came out of the white house much which are a subsidiary of tight at the same group that brought down the twin towers in new york and killed three thousand americans on nine eleven what bothers me is that president trump has so war surrounded himself by a war cabinet the one exception is general mattis matter just

made it very interesting statement and this was just last month he said the anonymous state cannot confirm that syria has ever used chemical weapons this is exactly the situation in duma and the unwanted state has no excuse for going in there. security on a chelsea bridge told us that the syrian government had no motive to carry out such an attack. from a military perspective there is absolutely no motive and from the political dimension of course it's suicidal to carry out these kind of incidents if indeed it was by a so we certainly got very little if any motive for it whereas if you look on the other side of this coin as indeed with previous incidents of alleged chemical weapons usage you've got every incentive on the part of the rebels indeed ever since obama put in place his red line promises in effect to attack syria if there

was a chemical instance even though what the army itself didn't follow through on that of course you've given every incentive to rebel groups and their supporters to stage false flag attacks in order to provoke that kind of international response also you've got the issue of look at who these victims were in all of the videos even those presented by the white helmet and others we see lots of children killed we see very few adults and we see almost none if any red boards actually in these as victims of these attacks and so we've got a suggestion here that assad just as he's about to be victorious in india and indeed as a whole for some inexplicable reason he then launches a chemical attack the first sarin attack or whatever substance is alleged for a year in this way which will bring international condemnation on him and yet do nothing to assist him militarily because order victims for whatever reason seem to be children and other civilians. meanwhile britain's controversial former prime

minister tony blair is bid to push his country dhea to another military conflict this time in syria in an interview black claimed the u.k. should back a u.s. intervention against damascus in the wake of the alleged chemical attack the man who teamed up with washington to invade iraq in two thousand and three at this to say. this would be action in support of of military and intervention by that the us if you don't respond to this to 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 could 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. or complete. the iraq inquiry also known as the chilcote 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 those no imminent threat to the united kingdom origen 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 agents was unjustified the u.k. lost one hundred seventy nine servicemen and women during the campaign it 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 destruction of iraq more than twenty thousand signed the petition before it was removed. and the journalist told us that tony blair is just following the western line on syria. the only intervention blair needs is that of a psychologist to help him out because he's time and again been deluded as to what his particular role is in the world of course he sounds more and more far away from reality than before is going to concede to now against jews who think he's always right is someone who continues to to talk the way certain elements in washington

want him to talk the ones that want intervention 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 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 they want to look the other way. richard becker of the antiwar answer coalition joins me on the line now thanks for giving us your time richard what do you make of the british ambassador statement that we heard what we just listening in live to the security council the statement that russia has crossed the red line here by vetoing america's resolution is it just the usual rhetoric they really think that they've gotten too far or. well we can count on the british leadership to do with united states government wants and this is

a growing and decade after decade as has been indicated by earlier speakers and we see that they really are willing to engage in any kind of rhetoric in order to try to back up the u.s. position which is really their position as well i mean it's really a case of the old colonizer of the region and the new coloniser of the region where the old colonizer haven't been put in the subordinate role willing to say anything in order to defend their position in the alliance with the united states now we have from russia's ambassador as well he said still in a benz here that washington and its allies don't want an independent investigation because they've already pin the blame on the syrian government is that fair comment or not. well it's an absolutely fair comment and there has been no investigation and you know we we've seen this happen over and over again and there was no investigation of the previous allege attacks with nerve gas or with poison gas by

the syrian government there was just an immediate within minutes or even minutes or hours you had the u.s. representatives and their allies at the united nations at the security council in the media saying that they knew what had happened and the syrian government was guilty how did they know they didn't know they only knew what they intended it with their intentions were and their intention was to make use of this in order to justify further intervention in a country which is already been torn apart by intervention of those who want to overthrow the government. of the media in the west and the messages coming out of western governments is convinced large numbers of the public but there are skeptics out there and you say why is the west so we get to strike syria why don't they wait for an investigation maybe they'll get the evidence that they need to support military strikes but why don't they white. well there we have to say that as if

there were activists in the united states we do not support u.s. intervention under any circumstances that we've seen dozens scores of times of u.s. intervention and they've all been they've all been negative for the people who are being intervene so you know and history is a long history where you have a lot of people who will believe these stories when they first come out the vast majority of people in the united states believe the gulf of time can story back in one thousand nine hundred eighty four which led to the massive intervention of u.s. troops in vietnam remember the maine in the spanish-american war so this is going on over and over again and of course in two thousand to two thousand and three we heard over and over and over again from u.s. and british officials that iraq without a. particle of doubt had weapons of mass destruction including the alleged well nuclear weapons and they knew they were lying then but they did it to scare people to get them to support the war because if they lose the battle of public opinion

they know. they can lose the war itself and richard we just had this is a quote from russia's envoy to lebanon who said that russia will respond if the u.s. strikes syria so if you take him at his word it seems like the serious danger of escalation if the u.s. launch a military strike would the u.s. debt to do this alone or what they need to form a coalition with the likes of france before they would launch any kind of military strike. well they may decide to form an alliance but the top person in foreign policy as of yesterday in the united states is john bolton who is the most extreme form of warmonger imaginable and the fact that he's been selected by trump to be as top foreign policy and national security advisor i think should be viewed as an extremely worrisome sign that the united states this aggression by the united states in syria in the middle east against iraq the threats against iran and the

support we all our support for israel against the palestinians and against syria this is such a census was such great danger a danger of an escalation without being able to know what the consequences will be in the end no one can know that now and the escalation ladder as it's called can be climbed very quickly and in ways that perhaps no one intended at the beginning but can and other disasters we've seen in previous wars and want to make it and if you heard the comments that have been made recently by tony blair saying that the u.k. should back a u.s. intervention in damascus now this is the same tony blair who got it wrong over iraq and quite honestly i don't think it's go too far to say that he's largely loathed by the u.k. public off the back of that military action. how can he come out and take this risk again. well i think to be honest from blair's point of view it's completely

calculated he knew that he was lying back in two thousand and two two thousand and three you know it was. you know that he's lying today. the iraq war was not based on faulty intelligence it was based on falsified intelligence and the british head of british. intelligence that in two thousand and two the summer before the war started said washington is fixing the intelligence around the objective and included objective was to go to war blair joined in he talked about it forty five minutes one can be attacking knew it was a lot he knew it was lang then but he wants to maintain their position the us the british ruling elite wants to maintain their alliance because it keeps. their reward for it in world politics and in economics too so they're going to do what they're going to do then i think it's true that the great majority of people in

britain are opposed to blair and to this idea richard appreciate your time and your thoughts my guess richard becker antiwar activist from the answer coalition. on top of the news and doctors and souls we have now confirmed he has been discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack she's asked for the media to respect her privacy her father said case also on the mental being at a slower rate. no discharged from seoul street district hospital. 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 a short statement confirming that your latest script file 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 out of hospital and his to have 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 scripts 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 seoul's glory and very soon afterwards the british government announced that they had been poisoned with a deadly nerve agent one that the government tree have gotten down to identified as the chalk and throughout the media scandal and the in searing diplomatic who allowed the medical gnosis for the script files 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 moscow the prime minister to resign may was also pessimistic when talking about the script pals condition and 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 us 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 and 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 compounds were said to have been exposed to a poison from the class of nerve agents developed in the soviet union or the was never called by that name this group of poisons is said to cause permanent damage or death and is believed to be the most deadly sort of substances of its kind british foreign secretary boris johnson claimed the government's porton down the military lab but managed to trace the agent back to russia something later denied by the labs chief look at the the evidence from the people from from porton down

the were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no darby typically you're not able to pull down to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that. we also spoke to a live picture from the foundation for strategic research who believes that this type of nerve agent is extremely damaging. is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already a very very toxic so a small amount should have killed mr creep out for sure but what is still very. difficult to assess today is how the new wieczorek was delivered to the victim so before we know exactly how the no wieczorek was delivered to the victim it's very difficult to assess the amount of the chemical agent that was in

contact with the victim's. purchases have been burning barricades or police of i tear gas near the french city of nonsense as a standoff with environmentalist continues for a second day of his have been trying to evict protesters from their camp or to show the devinsky was caught up in the action. you can see that we just had two gas fires 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 are some of the structures that some people have been living in some protesters have been living on this 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 real emotional attachment to the buildings right now maybe a cry later bethany where all in this together and create crushing

a building on those on those that is crushing a building on this that i think i cried just on the lawn 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 in 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 us 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 dollars 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. my.

if i am to. to meet him in the field have. to think it was a police car just about a hundred meters down in the distance and ready for waiting in whether they're going to charge for the if. if it. was the police and are trying to push everybody away a tactic that we've seen earlier in the day where the utilized by getting rid of all of the sadness all the activists i was that

while the protesters are so desperate to hold on to this ground there's one person behind me who is 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 offices 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 scientists activists threw in 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 prey larry and that to gas can reach really from 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 are here and the government is determined this will be it once and for all the end of sant. israeli military has. launched an investigation after soldiers apparently filmed themselves cheering a sniper who shot a palestinian approaching the gaza border security fence after an initial review the army insists that the shooter's behavior was appropriate that the cameraman wasn't serving with the border unit will face a disciplinary hearing. vivid. zauner wrote. that the words of one of the richest of them did. all of the initial. or the part.

of. the whole. where are you mother he can hear. what you're essentially hear 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 try to breach the border fence and another point that 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 i.d.f.

not naturally the story has caused a bit of a few it here in israel there were a number of israeli politicians who have commented and who have stated that the soldiers should not be judged this is a person they argue who is on the battlefield under 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 have made some. take the full field from. the bathroom. and. the palestinians argue that the searches are nonviolent and at the same time the civilian lives but the israeli side is arguably the protests are a cover for what use is to ensure these soldiers being fired depth of knowledge of

child explosive devices and people trying to reach the border fields 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 protests mentioned by paul or a young boy who was killed by israeli soldiers who 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. the leader of the lebanese militant group hezbollah has revealed that washington offered to remove it from terror watch lists more over the u.s. would give it financial aid if the party dropped its resistance to israeli occupation of the submissions set the picks up the story the u.s. terror list arguably the most dangerous list in the world and if you're on.