that's an emergency un security council meeting russia's resolution on the investigation of syria's alleged chemical attack full short of the required majority on america's counter proposal is then vetoed by moscow which accuses washington a reluctance to conduct an independent probe you have already appointed the guilty party you don't want to hear anything you don't want to be investigation. is discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack exceeding doctor's initial assessments that she may never recover. a violent standoff continues between police and environmentalists for a second day near the french city of norms barricades have been burned swat

officers fired tear gas. m k cartridge you know watching the latest headlines here at r.t. international thank you for joining us the u.n. security council has held an emergency meeting in new york to discuss the alleged chemical attack in syria both russian and u.s. proposals on a mechanism to investigate it failed to be passed washington's resolution was vetoed by moscow while two consecutive russian draft proposals and failed to obtain the required minimum votes caleb maupin reports three drafts were put forward one from the united states one from russia and another from russia based on a swedish draft but at the end of the day none of them. passed russia and united

states vetoed each other's resolutions and the other one did not have a majority at this point there is not agreement within the body that leaves the united nations about how the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will proceed to investigate the situation in duma this city and in syria there is an alleged chemical attack that took place there chemical inspectors from the o.p.c. w. and the u.n. are on their way to determine what went on but how they will investigate is still up in the air russia had wanted that they would be required to actually visit the site russia offered to provide support militarily to protect the inspectors so they could actually go to the site but that was not agreed upon this isn't a benz the the representative of the russian federation explaining the situation. this vote is a litmus tests that tells us a lot and it's very worrying we proposed a very innocent draft resolution which was substantially identical to the swedish

one proposed yesterday it's not clear to us why they voted against it they simply should have said they were against it because it was russia's draft resolution you say we are good at playing games but i would say you are good at threatening and your threats to syria worry us a lot with nikki haley she took the floor representing the united states and she urged countries around the world to vote against russia's resolution this is the logic behind her arguing this is what nikki haley had to say the resolution puts russia and the assad regime itself in the driver's seat for making arrangements for the fact finding mission investigators were just supposed to trust with the same government who says everything about the duma attack was fake will work in good faith. with the o.p.c. down under the u.n. rules the syrian arab republic had a right to address the security council because the resolutions that were proposed

pertained to them so syria took to the floor and it it basically said they did not want what the united states did in iraq and libya to be repeated in syria and they did not want syria to be reduced to chaos and a stable government to fall under false pretenses now elsewhere heather nauert the spokesperson for the u.s. state department she was speaking in washington d.c. and in her comments she it made it that the united states does not know who carried out this alleged chemical attack in duma this is what she said now we do know that some sort of a substance was used a chemical was used we're just not sure at this point today exactly what was what used everyone in the u.n. security council was absolutely clear that they are opposed to the use of chemical weapons in syria and they want to investigate the matter and get to the bottom of what has actually happened whether this attack in duma took place however there is

clear disagreement among countries about how that should be done russia insists that if there is an investigation it needs to be done properly they need to visit the site where this alleged chemical attack happened they need to need to interview people they don't need to rely on n.g.o.s and forces that may have a specific agenda in order to come to their conclusions however there is not agreement about that from the united states there is clearly disagreement among the countries that lead the u.n. security council and even though at this point inspectors are on their way to syria there is not a clear mission for them to carry out and it's not an agreement what the o.p.c. value will do in syria as the country and the world is reacting to these allegations about the use of chemical weapons. in the reaction on the allegations that this cost that further with an american politician. thank you very much indeed for joining us this evening your time i mean what are we expect now then from the u.s. now that the u.n. security council meeting has failed to adopt

a direct course of action. what the u.s. has done historically is based on the u.s. as bizarre assumption that a chemical attack done within syria doesn't matter who is done by as somehow an attack on america listen that is insane it would be one thing if there was a suspicion that assad had done a chemical weapons attack on say washington d.c. at that point a military or a us response makes some sense but here we're talking about an internal matter of a foreign country what the u.s. has done historically and what i hope and pray they don't do again is unilaterally going forward and getting involved in somebody else's civil war this is an area where the united states has no place the libertarian party and many other groups recognize the united states has no place in syria in any way of any kind whatsoever of the correct thing to do would be to pull out what they're going to do you know we can hope for the best. among unopposed if not then let's look at what has been

said by the u.s. state department in heaven now says that they don't know what kind of chemical weapon was used and there's a query from the russian side that one was used a tool but they still considering the military option mean what you think the such a kind of rush destroying. what we have over here is just straight up crony capitalism fueling an aggressive foreign policy right now the united states is actually finally finally talking about getting out of foreign civil wars and at that moment just one trumpet said let's get out of some of these problems at that exact moment we have a chemical weapons attacks that not surprisingly is going to be a huge boon for u.s. military defense contractors what we need to see is people say let's with the american people first let's stop worrying about what's happening in other countries let other countries manage themselves let's bring our troops our troops home and let's actually stop being involved in foreign countries where we see over here is

just pure economic opportunity to them combined with a backward military policy that we need to see added. moving forward i mean do you think washington will hold off taking any action in syria at least until the un-p.c. to an investigation has finished on the ground. do i think they will i have absolutely no idea historically no historically they've just charged ahead just gotten these unilateral air strikes against other countries that are in a civil war these are countries that have even that the united states has even declared war against these are under cleared unconstitutional wars that in the past the u.s. government has got as unilaterally attacked my hope is that they won't do the same this time my hope is that they will wait and even come to their senses and say it doesn't matter what weapon was used within another country that is not our country it is not our business it is not our problem if we have no reason to be in somebody

else's civil war and also looking in terms of not just the u.s. but also as you said mentioned traditional allies as well let's look at the british ambassador mean i had tough words to say from russia to the sowing the u.s. trough as a nation let's have a listen to what she had to say. can firstly find featuring question has crossed a line in the international order when she says there they russia has crossed the line what you think that remark means. what she's trying to say is that russia is not playing along with the rule that says that the united states is allowed to be the saw moral and political leader of the world the simple fact of the united states has a business managing the united states but it has no business being militarily or politically or economically involved in any other country in any way whatsoever and the fact that you have people that are challenging that you know incorrect believe

that that is guided in misguided american foreign policies for their other american foreign policy for the last several decades that stepping out of line i think that really is a line that you say that people are saying listen the united states is not as morally superior country it is a country that has carried on one immoral illegal unconstitutional war after another we need to stop that you know it's easy to bring our troops home we're there stop being involved in foreign countries and we need to let other countries manage themselves and in terms of management i mean this is a u.n. meeting i mean let's listen to the u.n. representative nikki haley about what she thinks about the u.n. i mean effectively saying she thinks it's proved it's uselessness that's just what she says yesterday i said that history will work or dismantle when we either lived up to our responsibility as a security council or showed our complete failure to protect the syrian people today we have our answer well today we have our answer i mean quite dramatic stuff

but what do you make of her claim. what she is i hope realizing what many libertarians have realized for a long time is that organizations like the u.n. like nato serve no useful purpose save it giving the united states an excuse for getting into all these different wars what the united states should be doing is leaving nato pulling out of the un being involved in foreign countries civil wars or talk about civil wars in other countries and the united states has the audacity to believe that they have some business there the united states need to stop being a part of these international militaristic controlling organizations step out of other country's civil wars and really cease to to to deal with other countries with threats and violence and that point will leave it often very vice chair of the libertarian national committee thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you. well meanwhile the e.u.

organization for the safety of air navigation has issued an alert it says all flights in the mediterranean area within the next seventy two hours should exercise caution in planning the possible air strikes in syria well russia's federal air transport agency also informed the country's airlines of possible danger in the area. in germany and france have also issued statements on the situation blaming russia for its alleged obstruction of the investigation. this is internationally russia's. opportunity. and that's his dream which grants ability we don't see this as constructive so. it can't continue like that because any more on who can go and the decision would take will not affect syria's allies but if the decision is taken it will of course target syria's chemical capabilities. well meanwhile britain's former prime minister tony blair says his country should get involved in another military conflict this time in syria where claims the u.k. should back a u.s.

intervention against damascus in the wake of the alleged chemical attack the man who joined forces with washington to invade iraq in two thousand and three says britain has no choice but to back it on allies this would be action in support of of military and 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 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 mistake in that in our understanding of what would happen once you remove the regime. for all of this i express more. saru regret and apology that you may have a no or complete. when the iraq inquiry known as the chilcot report was published in twenty sixteen and uncovered mistakes in the u.k.'s six year long campaign in iraq the report revealed there was no imminent threat to the u.k. or urgent need for military action against saddam hussein's government it also highlighted blair's certainty that iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including

chemical and biological agents as unjustified the u.k. lost one hundred seventy nine servicemen and women cheering the campaign it also claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians in twenty sixteen a petition was uploaded on to the u.k. parliamentary website for the arrest of blair for his role in the destruction of iraq over twenty thousand people signed the petition before it was removed. military analyst come on alarm things 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 the west make their mind up even before a minute as poss 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 in the english city of saul's we have confirmed you a scrip our has been discharged from hospital following last month's nerve agent attack the daughter of former double agent sort of a script our has asked the media to respect her privacy was that gay is also recovering at a slower rate. we have now discharged from salisbury district hospital yulia has asked for privacy from the media and i want to reiterate her request her father has also made good progress on friday and i'm still eighty was no longer in a critical condition. although he's recovering more slowly it's a 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 us cripple 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 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 gree and very soon afterwards the british government announced that they had been poisoned with a deadly nerve agent one that the government laboratory have porton down had identified as not of the chalk and throughout the media scandal and the in searing diplomatic all out the medical gnosis for the script files was catastrophic grave many chemical weapons experts 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 pal's 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 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 and as we heard the script hours were said to have been exposed to a poison from the nabi chalk class of nerve agents developed in the soviet union although it was never called by that name this group of poisons is said to cause permanent damage or death and believed to be the most deadly substance of its kind british foreign secretary boris johnson claims the government's porton down military laboratory managed to trace the agent back to russia however this was later denied by the labs chief when i look at the evidence when the people from

from porton down the were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy was so i said are you sure and he said there's no dark you're not able to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that or chemical weapons experts pick believes this type of nerve agent is extremely harmful. is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already very very toxic so a small amount should have killed. for sure but what is still very. difficult to assess today is how that was delivered to the victim so before we know exactly how the drug was delivered to the victim it's very difficult to assess the amount of the chemical agent that was in contact with the victims. now in france protesters have been burning barricades while

police fired tear gas near the city of no and that's a standoff with environmentalists continues per second day officers have been trying to evict protesters from their camp where they've been for a decade artie's shola do bensky reports from the scene you can see that we just had to gas fired into this campus trying to move desired 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 will 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 to me where all in this together and question everything on the on the

side especially building on this that i think i. think. for me it just means that we have less buildings for all of us together and that's the same 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 going to gaza as well the tear gas has continued 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 doors 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. baghdad.

the but. the but we. were police are just about a hundred meters down in the distance we really are waiting to find whether they going to charge for that. if. the police are now trying to push everybody away attempt because we've seen during the day with the huge rise by 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 is actually just grabbing at a small pebbles and mud to be able to fling the to the offices 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 it was getting so things thrown back at them that would be some tear gas going off there don you can hear it it's quite loud it's a larry and that tear gas can reach really far 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 aim is 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 their own two and a half thousand gendarmerie are here and that the government is determined this will be once and for all the end of. this rainy military has launched an investigation after soldiers apparently fill themselves cheering a sniper shot a palestinian approaching the gaza border security fence after an initial review the army insists the shooters behavior was appropriate it adds the camera man wasn't serving with the border unit will face disciplinary hearing. visited. the designer for. the awning at the alter of one of the richest of them did. well or one of the two all. or two of the what. are.

you going to go there whole. what are you more than. what you're essentially here and see in this video is it 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 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 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 under strace and as such particularly because he's defending israel's borders you cannot pass judgment so that 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. the people killed. the bathtub. the palestinians argued that the soldiers are nonviolent and at the same time a civilian lives but the israeli side is arguing the protests are a cover for what is essentially these soldiers being fired at with molotov

cocktails explosive devices and people trying to reach the border fields between israel and gaza hamas has admitted to mass of course being the leading 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 well in the latest protest mentioned by paula a young boy who was killed by israeli soldiers he said to be among the youngest of 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 i love about the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more on all of our stories.

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