and i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's now it's happened. at an emergency u.n. security council meeting russia's resolution on the investigation of ceres alleged chemical attack falls short of the required majority america's counter proposal is in turn vetoed by moscow which accuses washington of pretty lucky since to conduct an independent probe. you have already appointed the guilty party you don't want to hear anything you don't want any investigation. of. the. 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 might never recover. thanks for joining us is a busy news hour here on r.t. international monitors neil harvey at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council both americas and russia's resolutions on a mechanism to investigate syria's alleged chemical attack did not get passed washington's resolution was vetoed by moscow russia fell short of the required majority let's go stateside now kelly more pin falling proceedings in new york it's been a busy evening in the security council several resolutions considered take us through the action. yes there were two resolutions put forward before the u.n.

security council one resolution was put forward by russia and the united states vetoed it another resolution was put forward by the united states and russia vetoed it the two countries especially canceled each other out in the second day of meetings at the un security council related to the issue of alleged chemical weapons in the syrian city of duma now in a benz the other representative of the russian federation gave a very thorough explanation of why russia vetoed the united states' resolution this is what he had to say. to conduct an issue front finding mission a new mechanism to attribute blame is not required to be needed to put the mechanism to give a make you 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 before any country had spoken before any voting and taken place we heard from

nikki haley the representative of the united states she spoke just after france and she said that she was basically urging countries around the world to vote against russia's resolution which she argued would create a mechanism that she didn't consider to be independent this is nikki haley our 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 russian. now at this point the o.p.c. w. team is on the verge of leaving for syria the syrian government is preparing to welcome them and russia has offered to provide military protection for the o.p.c. w. chemical experts to make sure that they're able to visit the site in duma where the

alleged attack took place russia is working and it's prepared to provide protection so that chemical experts can actually visit the site and get to the bottom of what exactly happened russia's experts have already been there and they've said they did not see traces of chemicals on the ground they could not find any eyewitnesses to an alleged attack they didn't find any bodies or any victims in hospitals getting treatment so at this point as the o.p.c. w. team is on the verge of leaving the question in in contention that was not resolved at the u.n. security council meeting was would the new investigation actually visit the site and that's a question that is hanging over the heads of the world the the u.n. security council the fifteen member body that leads the united nations could not see eye to eye on that point two different resolutions were proposed both of them were vetoed and at this point there is not agreement in the leadership of the united nations about how the investigation into the alleged chemical attack in duma will proceed at this point other such strong disagreements that there's not an

agreement about what exactly the o.p.c. w. team will do in syria sort of right to do with events from the u.n. . these are pictures from inside do at the scene of the alleged attack russia's military and chemical experts searched this area but they say they found no traces about banned substances there no patience treated for chemical poisoning found either in dumas hospitals and it's led russia to claim as reported chemical attack was fake and indeed staged. on a jar joins on the line now he's from the american mideast coalition for democracy and appreciate your time jon i don't want to belittle the efforts of the u.n. but they were green to disagree and no one knows how they're going to investigate

this alleged attack which really doesn't seem to take any way forward what can we expect the u.s. to do next. well i think ultimately when the u.n. fails to act the united states must act as the ultimate you know ensure of human rights in the world and there's a there's a precedent this is not under this act is not unprecedented but shahrazad used chemical weapons last last year and. he's used them several years previously were under the term of president obama which was supposedly led to. an oversight by the russian government of the disarmament of syria's chemical weaponry but that obviously did not take place and because that wrote that line in the sand that president obama did not act upon. president putin sart as a light

a green light to enter into syria which he has done the stablished very strong control president trump feels it's necessary to to strike back to protect the innocent syrians people especially children at this point though john we have claims and counter-claims. no one seems to have any hard evidence we've seen a video we've heard claims from n.g.o.s no one's even established what this chemical weapon was that was used if it was used shouldn't the military action wait until after some kind of hard facts have been established. look if this was the start of the syrian civil war two thousand and eleven you could say yes we need a fact finding mission we need to know who's to the real perpetrator but seven years of butchery by the us side regime backed by iran backed by hizbullah backed by unfortunately president putin and the russians has led to the end escapable conclusion that the the assad regime is primarily culpable and these other actors

have blood in the hands listen there's a million and a half syrian refugees in lebanon a million refugees in jordan one quarter the population of syria's does been displaced over half of the have been killed who gains from all of this but for president assad he wants to establish control around the capital of syria and he said he wants to regain every square inch of syrian territory and he must be very dismayed that very close to damascus and duma that there are still there are still holdouts who have not accepted his rule his brutal rule of dictatorship over these poor innocent people a mention that the seems to be no so precise knowledge of the chemical weapons used in this alleged attack and i think that's something that's been acknowledged by the u.s. state department and then to their representative i believe this is the now it now

we do know that some sort of a substance was used a chemical was use we're just not sure at this point today exactly what was what you. couldn't of grounds though to rush in and strike we we know she's saying we know something machines but we don't know what it is i mean that it's pretty hard isn't it it's like you've got tough the facts if not. well i mean that i have i'm not privy to any intelligence of than what i see in the media and read online but that may explain our president trumps hesitance in lack of action to this point i think he wants to see more evidence and he's promised a very harsh response if in fact the evidence backs up the fact that the bush our side once again is slaughtering his own innocent people and i think that's the key thing you know no one would would question action once the evidence is put forward

unfortunately so many of these major diplomatic incidents that the evidence isn't forthcoming let's listen to what nikki haley's had to say about the u.n. she's been quite scathing about the inaction of the u.n. . our resolution guarantees that any investigations will truly be independent russia's resolution gives russia itself the chance to choose the investigators and i had 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 what do you think about the usefulness of the u.n. frequently what we see is american vetoes or russia vetoes or one of the permanent members is still so fit for purpose. now the

that's why i said in my opening comments that ultimately united states has to be the guarantor of of human rights you know i know we don't want to get involved in president trump campaigned on on america first in focusing our efforts on strengthening our economy in our homeland however we in the light of such heinous acts in the consequences of not taking action are just too great iran already has effective control of lebanon. very strong influence in iraq and in syria and it will guarantee a reading of germany from the mediterranean through ron and eastward from there action has to be taken president trump is talked about pulling pulling troops out of syria in the after vanquishing the islamic state but i think his advisors especially now that john bolton has been appointed as national security adviser in my pomp aopa has been nominated as the new secretary of state i think the advice

that they give the president is the consequences of the just too grave to pull out they were both proponents of the iraq war and i think president. basser bolton will be using all the influence he can to convince president trump to stay take action or you'll see more chaos in syria more bloodshed in more arraigning ascendancy in in our absence. britain almost always supports the u.s. on the diplomatic front with the british ambassador had to say tough words for russia about vetoing that u.s. draft resolution that's listen confessedly by featuring question has crossed a line in the international order and worse if possible history is repeating itself one year own can con chicken. it sounds to ford exactly do you think that the british ambassador meant that by the cross the line.

well you know there's all kinds of i'm not an expert in international law but there's all kinds of treaties that guarantee against the use of chemical weapons of which russia the united states and all members of the security council as signatories and i think that's a very clear line and you know listen i'm not i'm not defending all the rebels in syria quite a few of them of every sort of quite brutal tactics but one barrel bombs drops to force people into submission and worse when when women and children are gas chlorine gas and other chemical weapons that definitely clearly burst through the line and russia should should not stand by in light of these actions by their ally bashar assad it's a it's a war these are war crimes that are being committed and they should speak out forcefully and the u.n. should act but i'm not holding out hope that it will john i appreciate your time

and your opinions thanks so much for coming on r.t. john had jaws my guest from the american mideast coalition for democracy thank you neil. now in the mean time the new organization for the safety of ad navigation issued a notification alert it says that all flights in the mediterranean area within the next seventy two hours should exercise caution in planning to possible asteroids in syria european powerhouses germany and france have come out with their statements on the situation blaming russia for its alleged obstruction in the investigation this is also we're just internationally russia's served in preventing opportunities to examine things and sustain response ability we don't see this approach as constructive so. it can't continue like that anymore on new can't go and a decision would take will not affect serious allies but if the decision is taken

it will of course target syria's chemical capabilities. meanwhile britain's controversial former prime minister tony blair is bid to push his country into yet another military conflict this time in syria in an interview blair claimed that the u.k. should back a u.s. intervention against damascus in the wake of that 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 that 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 all 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 mistake in 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 have no. or complete. the iraq inquiry also known as the chilcote report was published in twenty sixteen uncovered quote mistakes in the six year long u.k. campaign in iraq the report revealed there was no imminent threat to the u.k.

origen need for military action against saddam hussein's government also highlighted that 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 in that campaign it also claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians twenty sixteen a petition was uploaded on the u.k.'s parliamentary website for the arrest of blair for his role in the destruction of iraq when twenty thousand people signed the petition before it was removed. military analysts kemal i'm told is that tony blair is just following the western line on syria 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 u.s. fronts and u.k. goes it's making themselves feel good and patting themselves on the back so this is a tried and tested formula of the last seven years that 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. doctors and solsbury have now confirmed that you're a script has been discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack she just for the media to respect her privacy and father sergei is also on the banned albeit at a slower rate. we have no discharge from sol 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 where the souls very

hospital has issued that short statement confirming that you need a script has indeed been discharged and they said that this isn't the end of her treatment but it marks a significant and miles stowed 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 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 not 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 identify. the chong and throughout the media scandal and the in searing diplomatic who allowed the medical notes this for this script files was catastrophic grave many cameras. weapons they were saying that they wouldn't survive and media reports in the first few days of them even jumped the gun saying that this script had been murdered and when she pointed the finger of blame at 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 going to make a full recovery is wrong they're going to be permanently damaged by what's been done to them. social media sensations diverted facebook still hasn't and for the white restricted viral pro trouble without explanation the networking giant stop notifications to the millions of subscribers the latest claim that the content was quote unsafe before admitting behaving inappropriately we have communicated directly with diamond and soup about this

issue the message they received last week was inaccurate reflexive of the way we communicate with our community and the people who run pages on our platform we've provided them with information about our policies and the tools that will ripley people to the page and look forward to the opportunity to speak with them. facebook still hasn't removed the restrictions well done and so consistent they still haven't received any explanation that you have became an internet hit for their comments during the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election it's not the first time they've been arbitrarily blocked online with you tube to monetizing almost all of their videos last summer and i'm pleased to say they're going to speak to the ladies in question now dominic joining me on the line pleasure to speak to lady some great confusion here facebook in a statement saying they have communicated to you the reasons why you seem to have transgressed their regulations and understand though you're saying that they haven't what's going on they have not communicated with us we have not talked to

any representative from facebook we haven't and have to our birthright haven't received an e-mail so that the only communication we got was the other day when they said that they deemed our canteen and our brand which is that i mean and say to the community have you got any idea whatsoever why this is happening well i have no idea well you know what maybe it's because they are frayed there we are more conservative we are black women we thought what our president we thought poor his agenda so maybe they are great at that but they need to get an grade i don't pray and they need to make their platform where is that discriminatory where it is an even playing field on both sides of the. what do you think about the media coverage of the way you've been treated as this kind of hoped do you think of it a positive support from the media forcing facebook to address the issue so far i

think we've had a positive outlook on this here is we want facebook to fix this here we want facebook to be here start thousand our voices that are being by as we had the first amendment right here our freedom of speech of being faithful and that must. initially the understand there was talk of your content being labeled as unsafe when you heard that could you make any sense of it because you could you understand what they were trying to talk about that i didn't understand and when he said that our candidate and our brand is unsafe to the community our brand is that i'm a little guy i mean the circus to black chicks that's down with politics right now we are that we are conservative we love our country we love our president ok so when i said that i was offended by it we was apart by it we look at this has been sister ship discrimination defamation of character and even a byelection of our civil rights being too black women as if we are some type of

animal or limbs or somebody just out there just a get out and say that is appalling to me your facebook is going to have to answer to that why what was the reason because we don't know that's right and we can appeal that they said that we cannot appeal that and this was final. and here are this is a worrying trend has been a lot of talk of the last year or so about you know fake news and people can talk about just about anything they like on facebook but it gets a bit comes to comes to. what i do because first of all our facebook is a big huge entity ok and it's an entity that people from around the joint they work so we don't want to get into this here our are lying where you have one person dictating what people can see and what people can hear on this platform when a service millions are around the world not just in the united states but millions around the world because that's where it gets dangerous that's right do not drive

or silence people re speech that's where i stand is that you've got to be balanced and we know that they want to say that they are private entity but you are open to the public and i know you are open to the public you cannot discriminate i'm interested on how kind of bold you feel about this because obviously facebook's a huge platform and it gives you an opportunity to air your views but if you feel that they've wronged you to what extent do you take them on would you consider ditching them going to other platforms unless they change their ways why should i they need to it's their right that's right they put this here in place those are our rhythms that you have on our ages are to dumb down our videos to keep it where our millions of followers won't be able to view our videos or we don't come up in their new space that's like that's not proper place facebook is going to have the things that why don't we have the run i'm not running even around and i want to stand right here with you right you buy you challenge and that's what i'm doing and

i'm not talking about this i'm talking about come to the table and really was this can be resolved but my are with the on our facebook of course the result of this right do you think this could tell you in a new direction maybe you could become champions fighting censorship on the internet. may be but i don't like people both as being silent i think that that's dangerous that's dangerous our no no we don't live in that country everybody have a right to have a point of view whether you agree with that or not and sometimes we're just going to have to agree that this is a growing we're going to have to learn how to do that i've got to ask you about donald trump you're famous for making your comments about him how do you assess his performance as president he gets a plus plus plus plus he will do an ape or nominal jarman and we love him what about all the hostility that he seems from judging from the other side of the world it feels like he's been under fire since day one is he being treated fairly by the

media around the public well first of all you have to start looking at a news that's the number one thing ok now looking at that steak news as the one that treats him unfairly but the american people love him because he fights for the american people that's right he looks out for the american people and by golly that's what the american people love are present there is a delivering on his his promises is he trying to deliver he is delivering we've got our unemployment is our the way down home ownership and he cut regulations so if you want to become an actor producer you can't so we are doing a number now in our country and we're so proud is there anything that you're unhappy with about donald trump as president perhaps is done that you wouldn't have liked. i love everything that he does he's doing what we sent him to do that's right voting for businessmen because we set them up there because we want him to make america great again and surely that's what he's doing making america great

again can he survive though because i said he has been under constant attack now is is the lawyer is being questioned constant calls for impeachment do you think he can actually last the full term less than our president is going to do here eight years is what's going to happen that's right so i love that stuff you talked about i don't want to hear on ok just throwing out the window yeah is that we thought it was the big thing that's right this summer you know first get out and rush marched out and we voted for him and he's doing his job he's doing what we sent him up there to do and as we are based in moscow i like to ask you about relations with with russia something that donald trump was keen to see improved he said you know it would be great if russia and america get along it feels as though he's being opposed at every turn on that do you think that it's possible for the two countries to be on friendly terms i don't know a little now well that was short it was sweet it was very diplomatic more

diplomatic than some of the u.s. to promote some a so we've been listening to today ladies greatly appreciate your time some fascinating opinions there diamond and internet commentators my guests thank you for having and i haven't. and of course we couldn't do without you guys always appreciate you chiming in i'll be back in exactly half an hour with the latest headlines. thank. you.