the u.n. security council fails to agree on how to investigate an alleged chemical attack in syria bringing a potential escalation in the conflict a step closer. in such cases. the u.s. threatening military action against them without any investigation a mission by the international watchdog is only set to arrive in syria by the end of the week. also this hour facebook's bosses probe. but it turns out those grilling the c.e.o. have been financially supported by him in the past meanwhile the social media giant faces a fiery battle from. users we want. to

live from moscow with. the program. now a war of words has broken out over the war in syria so after three resolutions over the latest alleged chemical attack in the country was shot down in the u.n. security council. could someone clearly explains only why this alleged chemical attack was necessary for the massacres especially for almost all militants were having a similar numbers because today they vetoed for the sixth time a resolution condemning aside for chemical weapons attacks on his own people the rim only you have already a point to guilt in such cases in the wrong. way we are not able to

support the text it would be like watching a fire and identifying that there's a fire and doing nothing to put it out fortunately american partners and colleagues the real investigation whose attentions reached a breaking point following claims by the controversial white helmets group of a chemical weapons attack on the town of duma russian experts have been to the area they say they found nothing to show any strike had taken place in moscow to cry foul its called for international investigators to immediately visit the area washington though as is calling for immediate action. we are meeting with our military and everybody else. making a major decision. we have an hour early and. we'll be learning you know producer russia's envoy to lebanon says any missiles will be shot down and launch sites destroyed if syria takes place all right now washington is

reportedly deploying an aircraft carrier group to the middle east and europe replacing another already there well other alarming signs have appeared that also you see two flag up possible action against syria let's take a look at some of them now the e.u.'s. notification air control body has said wardle their craft in the air on the mediterranean in the next seventy two hours should exercise caution stating a potential strike against the mask would be ungrounded russia put forward a resolution as well that would require experts from the chemical weapons watchdog to carry out on site investigations of all supposed incidents that's contrary to washington's proposal russia also rejects the notion they should be tasked with attributing blame. your gut says the sure you would never know us delegations they made one more step towards confrontation as a pro draft of. the full support of the un security council members this text is

nothing more than an attempt to renew the joint investigative mechanism in syria which investigates the previous chemical attack jim became a puppet in the hands of the ass of forces and was disgraced as a judge the sovereign state spies of a lack of credible proof. despite the obvious tension between the russian and american envoys before the meeting they still exchanged a friendly kiss they also talked for a while bustling abends is seemingly unwilling to let nikki haley leave as you can see that the chat ended up with a handshake. i would hope they'll be some clarity on the situation later this week when a fact finding mission arrives in syria that's according to the un's chemical watchdog until now the u.s. is not even sure which chemical agent could have been used you 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 with

used this has nothing to do with the alleged use of chemical weapons this has everything to do with a geo political agenda that wants to put the iranians in a box wants to confront the russians and syria that is really upset over the thought that the effort that's been going on for seven years by western powers that are local friends like like saudi arabia has failed and that the assad government will remain in power they've been seeking a pretext to try to change that so this really has nothing to do with the truth or falsehood of the allegations about duma. the french president to my no more call has also been calling for a tough response on syria following the reported chemical incident it's not a view though shared by all politicians in his country everyone knows perfectly that in war time the first victim is truth and what happens on the ground is almost unknown to us the chemical attack which evidently took place is abominable we must condemn it but we still have to find out who committed it so it sounds a lot like an excuse for the united states of america and their allies to get back

in the game and to engage in an armed conflict i think that's currently france is contributing to the creation of the we creation of a certain form of the cold war with russia and it's pointless because it doesn't benefit france or its economy or international relations to let the u.s. seeking to stir up a conflict with russia past us around during tuesday's security council meeting the us ambassador nikki haley proclaims russia's hands are covered in the blood of syrian children she added that same russia with pictures of those kids hasn't worked up a trunk or takes a look at the pictures of children the u.s. envoy chose not to show to shame the russians all the u.s. officials think they have to do is say one word kids russian regime who three arms are all covered in the blood of syrian children who are not being streamed by pictures of its grip. returned for you see mrs haley said it out loud

they're used to telling the world about kids russia's friends killed with the latest chemical attack call like always the american media were there to spread the word these images are so disturbing the children the families in such distress what you see around their mouth has to be thrown that's a sign of a chemical attack hundred think images of syrian children fighting for us accusing russian and syrian president assad ruined children's lives thousands of graves that weren't meant to be dug so early stories from war ravaged parts of the middle east will make you cry and all of them must be told but i can't help asking why for u.s. officials or journalists these agonizing stories from mosul iraq or rocca in syria don't exist.

no on some channels you'll never see their stories maybe because there are scars or how america's top military man puts it a fact of life civilian casualties are a fact of life civilians will get caught in the crossfire civilians will get hurt civilians will get killed if you want to liberate your towns and cities it comes at a price the responsibility for civilian casualties in iraq and syria lies with isis that is on them not on us we are the good guys and munitions people on a battlefield know the difference kids lives in another arab country yemen have turned into a disaster that's a fact so say humanitarian groups and it is a fact of life in a sense that washington is pretty much at hand when saudi arabia is bombing civil. across the border the saudis have spent billions on what sam has to offer and

donald trump loves selling guns to riyadh in terms of dollars very very you know of five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars there's been a review. besides in case someone forgot the americans themselves have for years been taken away innocent lives in afghanistan must have when the explosions happened i was with my uncle and cousins american soldiers opened fire and a bullet flew by my face. this is my younger brother. he was killed by u.s. troops this is my brother shot of fats. and this is my father's age group he was killed as well i want the government to avenge my father and kill his killers reversing reason or hurting arms are all covered in the blood of syrian children are not being screened by papers or good script. or.

franco in moscow. well a man who led his own country into a war under questionable circumstances tony blair has weighed in over syria it seems he still believes military interventions are a good idea this would be action in support of of military and 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 and those that use such measures methods should be held to account i gave the order for british forces to take part in military action in iraq 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 a know. or can believe just to remind you the iraq inquiry known as the chilcot report was published in two hundred sixteen and uncovered mistakes in the u.k.'s six year long campaign in the country revealed there was no imminent threat to the u.k. from saddam hussein but also highlighted that certainty iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including chemical and biological agents was unjustified. in other headlines the so-called russian

bot seem to be behind many news topics in america lately and the media is increasingly branding any opinion it doesn't like as russian despite the organization which monitors internet activity dismissing the multiple claims of bots activity artie's he picks up the story. everyone seems to love a russian port story shadowy russian troll farm used a number of fake accounts russian bards attempted to use this tragedy to russia when bots are hyping terms like russian linked trolls are at it again trying to sow discord in america votes are apparently to blame for trending hashtags or pro-gun campaigns after shouting look a little closer back when you find this site one source in particular for all that bought information how will ten sixty eight.

this not is how milton sixty eight doesn't specialize in trucking quite russian both it's a recent change in say that monitors are around six hundred accounts they simply belief may be linked to russian operations regardless of what even means we don't track bots we've tried to make this point clear in all our published reporting yet most of the third party reporting on the dashboard continues to appear with some variation of the headline russian bots are pushing x. this is inherently inaccurate said the mole hamilton sixty eight and mit they suppose it russian and to count on seoul even based where people might seem they are not all in russia we don't even think they're all commanded in russia at all we think some of them are legitimately passionate people that are just really into promoting russia one news outlet with that red faced retracted its russian claims and was forced to clarify what kind of accounts the group actually tracks but most media simply ignores the facts and runs with that conspiracy theory but who can

blame the mainstream media off several russian bolt sounds so much more menacing then the account of just quote someone who really likes russia it's the worst journalism it's criminal journalism there is such a thing the journalist to. this dashboards that there's a twenty eight hundred per cent increase in and i paraphrase laurie ingram references based upon but immediately upon which the dashboard company said no this merely did tax changes in reference or in reference to the particular name and that can be misleading you could have a six thousand percent increase and have four tweets or five tweets from nothing that's number one and number two it said there's no way to determine if these are russian by which is the as the gravamen of the

story facebook's boss has grilled by the senate election modeling data breach is moral not just in a few moments. the drive towards war against syria is unmistakable the pretext is still another alleged chemical attack as usual no evidence is presented as usual conclusions are drawn for an independent investigation we live in a very dangerous time. for the long hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings us to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battles that. you talk to try to tell you to be gossiping about. my eyes and telling you all and by product. of the

heart that we all. know what. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. come back to our international us social media sensations diamond say facebook still hasn't inform nonwhite suddenly restricted their viral pro trunk page. yeah. yeah. that's the media forcing your idea we tell people what the subject of. this is. and i see

these two on shall. i say they are the greatest. the i. think. will do it became a web sensation for their comments on the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election it's not the first time though they've been blocked online you want ties that almost all of their content a year ago here's how facebook commented on the issue we have communicated directly with diamond and silk about this issue the message they received last week was inaccurate and not reflective of the way we communicate with our community and the people who run pages on our platform we have provided them with information about our policies and the tools that the ripley people to their page look forward to the opportunity to speak with them over the geo claim the social media giant cut the notifications to their millions of subscribers without explanation the company

claimed the content was unsafe before clarifying it was because of inappropriate behavior we spoke to the g.a.o. who accuse facebook off discrimination. i didn't understand it and when he said that our cottage and our right hand is unsaved to the community our grain is that i'm going to still die i mean the circus to black chicks that's down with politics that's right now only of that we are conservative we love our country we love our president of ok so when i said that i was offended by it we with our part by it we look at this has been since issue of discrimination defamation of character and even a byelection of our civil rights to black women as if we are some type of animal or limbs or somebody just out there just get out and say that is appalling to me your face book is going to have the 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 could not appeal it and this was final phase because

a big huge entity ok that is an entity that people from around the world join facebook so we don't want to get into this here our lane where you have one person dictating what people can see and what people can hear on this platform when a star has millions our round 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 live all our silence people's free 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 eye you are open to the public you cannot discriminate. well nearly five hours of friendly chat that's what facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg faced as he answered questions from the very sentences he previously donated money to the committee probes him on personal data misuse and the alleged russian ties to the u.s. presidential election were these people eighty seven million people users

concentrated in certain states are you able to figure out where they're from do you think we need consistent probably protections for consumers across the entire internet ecosystem have you heard of total information awareness you know i'm talking about you know i do not ok this is not what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in u.s. elections as we discussed in my office yesterday the line between legitimate political discourse and hate speech can sometimes be hard to identify and can you discuss what steps that facebook currently takes when making these evaluations would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night. no. i think you're genuine i got. conversing with

you you want to do the right thing you want to enact reforms. it was a move designed to eliminate discrimination in the u.k. but it seems it's having the opposite effect job out of us which states only minority groups can apply if you're a tutor has this report positive discrimination is not a new concept but once again it's sowing discord this time the body preserving the english heritage is at the center of the speech our inheritance our legacy. the land just ditched and plowed bedded down laid out. alive but has stirred up the question of how acceptable it is to replace an entire internship speaking with one of the targets minority groups so there are thirteen sought after placements on offer only to them across the u.k.

a graduate training scheme can be hard to find so there's been a particular to it's a backlash over the offer only to black asian or other minority groups i would love to have applied for this have you got any more heritage training placements available for those who are not an ethnic minority i'm a minority immigrant and i still believe this is racist whoever decided on this should be investigated and fired understand that these opportunities are aimed at being me community and the reasons why however paid entry level placements in heritage sector and a gold dust. some are even going as far as to cancel their membership of the organization historic england introduce the scheme as the government toss them with improving the ethnic makeup of their workforce but some might question whether or not they should be the cost of not that graduates having a stab at climbing up that career ladder to for example they could have split the

number of placements offered a set number possibly to ethnic minorities only and opened up the floor for the rest here's how they responded the initiative aims to inspire. number of people from black asian minority backgrounds to consider a career in heritage their response unfortunately won't help those who are a little perturbed at the lack of placements in the industry the debate for positive discrimination is unlocked once again and firstly can you describe how you felt when you first read the. a little bit and really i think well when i read it and a little bit surprised. at it why quite a large portion of the population would be next from applying for the job and i think probably the place of the angry was was my first thought well the company

itself has explained that the government had task. with the job of increasing the number of ethnic minorities within their workforce well i would say if i was actually an ethnic minority i think i would be insulted that i was having to have the opportunity to make with a load of people its food because i'm quite sure there's a lot but the amount is that we do a wonderful job in those roles and on marriott and i think i would be equally insulted as part of that community as i would be from the community that sex looted . new safety roads have appeared in the netherlands that contain special rumble strips that recreate a local some of motorists are travelling at the correct speed it was hoped this would encourage drivers to slow down to listen to the song correctly the moves driving the locals around the bend though due to the incessant noise.

we were actually sleeping when we began hearing strange sounds we didn't realize that it was coming from the road we got scared at first so i ran downstairs with my survival night to look and see what it was but it was coming from the road.

there's the latest updates fall out join us again here at the international in a half an hour for more global news and views. tracking gave americans a lot of new job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year truck so i chose to drive truck people rush to a small town in north dakota was an unemployment rate of zero percent like gold rush is very very similar to a gold rush but this beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here and slowdowns for much they lost their jobs. that laid off the american dream is changing it's not

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we're back on after a time g. and you're watching the first episode of a brand new season of going underground as israel stands accused of conducting air strikes on syria and killing more wounding thousands in palestine coming up in the show twenty years to the week of the signing of an agreement to lay down british and ira arms in the nile and be a little hey would speak to us about one little right to fall for those maintaining teresa mayes grip on power and with u.k.

labor leader jeremy call been calling for an inquiry into arms sales to israel after it kills thousands in palestine the grandson of a signatory to the israeli independence week of the lead talks to us about injustice the story of the holy land foundation five plus from this week's headlines war on syria the shooting unarmed civilians by israel and palestine told us the more coming up in this first episode of a brand new season of going underground but first while we have been away it is arguably become obvious teresa mayes case against russia is falling apart could only russia really have been responsible for attacks on british spies scribble and his daughter no one is still really given a satisfactory explanation for this statement from the boss of britain's top secret chemical warfare lab after foreign secretary boris johnson claimed porton down told him russia was responsible for the chemical attack on british soil we haven't yet been able to do that and of contradicting boris johnson who still remains foreign

secretary at the time this show is being recorded isn't bad enough there was this it's not our job and see where actually was manufacture not our job many thought it was exactly bought and downed o.p.c. w remit to find out where the chemical was manufactured after that interview the u.k. foreign. deleted a tweet alleging porton down support for the certainty of tourism is government but then the even the n.h.s. hospital treating this cripples had to be bounced by a russian t.v. journal into admitting that the deadliest of nerve agents could actually not be deadly at all following intense media coverage yesterday i would like to take this opportunity to update you on the condition of the two remaining patients being treated at salisbury district hospital. last thursday i informed you that condition had improved to stable. as yulia herself says her strength is improving daily and she can look forward to to the.