and the french the french government promised the syrian syrian ally. the russian were wrong would be would be targeted by the strike so france. apparently this is will be discussed with the us apparently they would go to launch strikes they would be discussing strikes aimed at the chemical facilities and those facilities in syria that could be producing nerve agents certain you know the toxic the toxic weapons it's interesting if you get injured it is interesting because if you look at what was targeted the last time when when the u.s. launch strikes against syria and it was an air base it was an air base that allegedly were which allegedly was used to launch a chemical attack in the province of idlib so in this situation we have we have a promise to talk to become a call facilities but it is important to understand that in twenty thirteen both

the syrian government had destroyed all of its chemical stockpiles so at this point we have trump saying these missiles are going to be having smart nice new missiles heading to syria look at russia and we do already have a response from the russian foreign ministry spokesperson maria's the heart of a and she said that smart rockets should be flying in the direction of terrorists and not of the legitimate government that has already been fighting with international terrorism for years now on their own territory so that's the response that we have as of yet of course more we'll be following at this point now during tuesday security council meeting the u.s. ambassador nikki haley proclaimed russia's hands are covered in the blood of syrian children and added that shaming russia with pictures of those kids hadn't worked in the past as she has done. takes a look at the pictures of the children the u.s. envoy chose not to show. to shame the russians all u.s.

officials think they have to do is say one word kids a russian regime whose dreams are all covered in the blood of syrian children not be assumed by pictures of its grip terms. you see whirled 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 on their mouth has to be flown that's a sign of a chemical attack hundred thick 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 civilians across the border the saudis have spent billions on. what i call sam has to offer and donald trump loves selling guns to riyadh in terms of dollars very very you know and five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars in 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 also killed and this is my father's did

google he was killed as well i want the government to avenge my father and kill his killers arresting regime who are all covered in the blood of syrians building cannot be esteemed by pictures of its victims. for a million franco in moscow. for more on our breaking news we can now cross live to martin jay beirut based a ward winning journalist now martin we have trump promising missiles to be sent smart nice missile to be sent to syria what do you make of that tweet. i'm not sure at this stage we can take it entirely seriously i mean we have to remember that we dealing with a president who is incredibly powerful capricious and very juvenile or a source of narcissistic and a very much one who has written. a moralist showbusiness menu's only mill technique that made him any money in the past was pulling people that's really what is is essence is is is

a lot if you like and i think if you look back at your you have to give up a few weeks to look at huge statements made on the aluminum still terrorists and threaten the europeans with trade tariffs. north korea i mean the list goes on and he makes these huge statements you know his his idea of negotiating any sneak around the world is this one hundred eighty two camps first and then see if you flinch and i think we can assume that if he really was going to launch an attack on syrian military infrastructure i don't think he would announce it minutes a few hours or three days beforehand so we have to assume that this is some kind of rooms this is some sort of way of extracting something that he needs from them to the some in only a week ago you know there were reports of trump trying as far back in december to extract four billion dollars of cash from the saudis and young roxy's because to him being in syria isn't really paying dividends so i think this may well be

another plan along the line you know he needs to get something from syria and something quite quickly it's got to huge expense coming up in the next few weeks if they don't get his way economically very very bad on the international scene north korean talks we don't know exactly what's happening with those a sensitive question mark at the moment you know. you pull out of the run. you know what it's supposed to sign a waiver if either of those but. it just needs destruction martin this is igor the correspondent in the studio well if this is not an empty threat from trump just how real is the possibility of a direct russia u.s. confrontation in syria i think is a very real one but i'm not sure mr pierce will be so stupid as to strike back on its huge international world will level the options of certain for what it means a lot of military analysts in the last couple of hours in front of a rising. in the person of some some respected figures have been saying you know.

the whole nine yards he couldn't stand on those from russia and here i see american warships in the mediterranean but he could also. u.s. military institution infrastructure all over the middle east is very vulnerable now but if you look on the ground i stink is what the way russia would react would be very very tactical and quite minimalistic to actually show. that russia has the upper hand is the coolest trigger in the region probably the thing to be looking at right now i would say would be the two she would millet's u.s. military sites the americans in the north east and the instance of syria that was prime suspects for a strike. so we also have donald trump just now tweeting that our relationship with russia is worse now than it's ever been and that includes the cold war that there's no reason for this russia needs us to help with their economy something that would

be easy to do if we all work together stop the arms race war what do you make of that. again you know what's what's the game that he's playing just a few weeks ago he was saying about how much he respected. the russians and we used to work together. and just a few months but it's all that he actually managed to strike a deal with russia in syria and so-called peace talks with the character of the hold the escalations zones. but i think now you know he's under certain of pressure america and look strong if you look very closely at some of the things you've done the last few weeks you know sanctions against russia. and talking about a new a new strategy soloing up with the whole poisoning. and the moment which is called the media attention america finally did. it was going to support rich and it took it took me a few days to work out exactly how but i think we're seeing

a new side to trump now which is he is under enormous amount of pressure and the last thing he wants in a few weeks or a few months is for further investigations to make him look so that he's not really in control of this is this is more dynamic now when it feels like so many people are forgetting at this point is there's so little information about this alleged chemical attack we've even had the u.s. state department saying they don't know what weapon was used but it's considering this military option let's take a listen to how they're not real quick 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 with you. so some kind of substance the o.p.c. w still hasn't made it even to the site to begin an investigation so why is there this rush to strike. well i think as i mentioned earlier i think troops in trouble

and i think wearing other world leaders like france is a man no matter on of those. reputation against this chemical so i think just today the french press was wrong would go ahead with his own strikes if the evidence was was conclusive now whether we have ever get to a position where the i.c.b.w. actually shoes evidence of any sort which brings us regime is another question you know that this is not an institution has a very good reputation in the past you know it's very partisan but it first came to syria in two thousand and thirteen it didn't even consider what chemical weapons were in the hands of opposition or extremist groups until some regime we were literally at that time all the salary and gas for example was was was was was caught but it wasn't in fact what i think so what's your question i think trump is on the russian international circuit against leaders who are now lining up to

dismiss any sort of real evidence and the regime also think to save face for himself because he doesn't have any real track record at school in the middle east of really achieving anything in his in his short period not as we discount the meticulous attack on the base from the tomahawk missiles you know he's he's been he's been quite despondent quite weak and i think he was he was panicking to some certain extent because of these two big events which are going to come up in the future needs to appear to be strong and i think he stinks that there will be a public relations collateral and political capital if he puts his weight behind threats now against certain government martin looking at the initial trump tweet it looks like what really got him was russia's promise to strike back not just through strike back but to shoot down anything flying this syria way do. i think the decision to threaten with an imminent strike was sort of

a knee jerk reaction from trump you know saying like oh you promised to shoot us down we'll show you how good our missiles actually are or do you think this was a pre-planned action and trump was just using this russian response as pretext to announce the imminence of the strike. it may well be the one thing you will see in the last week or so what's happened in syria i mean the response news relief to actually attack this base the saying. that in april was the site which launched the drone if you remember which actually result in the israelis losing some place in the region when they lost one of their jets which was supposedly shot down. and see across military response from the syrian government but we still don't know for sure that was the case so i think if you look at that second contacts you know it seems that. russia. is not getting too involved i mean it's russia was very quick to announce that it had nothing to do with the most recent attack launched. and i

think maybe now that russia is standing back a little bit and letting the other regional players take up more of the bandwidth and the other regional player being israel which of course as you know is an ally of the americans but i think israel is a little patience for trump and they're playing their own cards now and they're really concerned about an iranian develop militia insulations about weapons getting upgrades and iranians for has in neighboring lebanon and i think well i'm just wonder whether trump feels as though he's having i want to be saying one of these insecurity pangs. about always needing to close himself at the center of the prices to gain all of the tension so that he can actually make the statement what it was you know he's he's not happy in syria that's clear and there isn't much collateral he can derive from the two thousand soldiers he hasn't seen but i'm wondering whether he's having behind the scenes where else with his generals and the shoes he

still is itching to get out of syria it may well be. airstrikes or strikes from destroyers and the mediterranean may well be a new leaf that he's looking at and you know he is but as i said he just kind of resist the temptation to place himself at the center of a crisis and i think that's probably what more this is really about. martin j.b. root based ward winning journalist thank you so much for joining us today and discussing this breaking news with us. now just to remind our viewers of our breaking news donald trump has promised to send smart new and nice missiles towards syria telling russia to get ready that was likely in response to a quote from a russian basser saying that any strikes against syria would be shot down he also then went on to say that their relationship with russia is worse now than it ever has been before including when it comes to the cold war saying there's no reason

for this to discuss this further are now joined in the studio live by r.t. is. thank you so much thank you so much for being here with us now we've already had some. mild mild reaction a short reaction from the russian foreign ministry spokeswoman maria's a harbor saying that smart rockets should be sent towards terrorists and not the illegitimate government so this whole thing situation started with an alleged chemical attack in syria can you break it down a bit for us where we've come from beginning at the attack and coming to today with threats of missiles being sent to syria well sure right now it looks like a war of words it does look like it is a war of words and looks more and more like it is not going to be contained to just it is a very emotional topic and yesterday's session of the u.n. security council proved just that the united states and russia put forward their

rivaling resolutions as to how the situation should be dealt with then they both in exchange to veto to each other's resolutions so there goes the only the pretty much only diplomatic attempt to resolve this through diplomacy effectively through talk through negotiations. trumps threats of an imminent strike is only the latest in a series of washington's threats and basically announcement of the announcements of their readiness to launch rockets towards syria and of course russia vowing to protect its ally and not be just a spectator in this have a listen. i mean with our military and everybody else. making major decisions. we'll be learning about british soldier was that in case of any threat to the lines

to our troops rushes armed forces will take retaliatory measures against. their launch sites well this is something that was reiterated by russia's ambassador in lebanon saying that not only the missiles will be short down but more school could actually target the firing positions of the united states meaning their fleet there are modern in the mediterranean so we haven't had confirmation of this in this particular situation from from the russian defense ministry but a bottom line is so far this has been very very far from a rational discussion and the bottom line is it could lead to a potential conflict between two nuclear states and the other issue is there's just not a whole lot of facts surrounding this whole incident what do we know about the attack itself and how sound is that information well we do know for a fact that the accusation from came from a group known as white helmets they brand themselves as

a civil defense group and this is something that they claim to be they say they save lives but it's important to understand that the only work in the areas controlled by the rebels. admit that they have a very strong. sentiment so pro rebel against the government they also have been criticized their reputation has been marred by criticism over their filiation not maybe affiliation but basically that they are working together with some terrorist groups like your party we've seen video of the white house members clearing up an execution site of the so there's that and this is far from the only thing why this group this group. petition is rather shady so they they launched this accusation the russian military then entered the syrian city of duma the one that reportedly the chemical attack took place and they couldn't find any

they couldn't find any traces of any chemical so they said we need some actual experts. to conduct an investigation to look into whether or not and what happened there so also they've been saying that the allegation of a chemical attack came at a time when both russia and syria reached a deal these stroke a deal with the rebels which used to hold the city of dumont and those rebels with their families and with civilians were on their way out and the russian military is effectively saying what's the point of attacking the city you've already defacto taken all that was left to do was to get the rebels out and they were moving out voluntarily so why launch the attack there was the point washington in this situation because the o.p.c. w investigation has not even started yet daves they say they've been relying on their own intelligence information but that intelligence information has failed to

provide them even with the exact chemical that was apparently used in duma have a listen. 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 with you. so there you have it and in this promise of a strike the united states could be very much on the wrong because we do know that the donald trump spoke to prime minister to resign me and the french president a month or mckown and apparently according to various reports those two would neither to resume a normal were convinced with what the u.s. had on their hands is evidence actually on that i can tell you right now we have coming in from a government spokesperson from france saying that they at this point have not made a decision when it comes to the possibility of taking action against syria as trump has already promised from the u.s. that happening but we do know that yesterday in manila mccrone said that if there

was any military action to come from france they would target only be chemical facilities the the promise that they won't be targeting targeting the allies of the syrian government but. a lot of experts raise the brother valid point that if they were to target chemical facilities producing chemical agents those toxic weapons were indeed produced at those facilities then and their strike would just cause be another chemical another demographic consequence you have no idea how far that could then reach the effects of such an explosion which would be extremely frightening and that's the point is that there is so little information and yet we have at least the u.s. looking like they're ready to go ahead and take action without an investigation an independent investigation haven't been started let alone finish all we've had is russia going to the site saying that we found nothing inviting everyone else to come to the site including the o.p.c. w. in order to get on the ground real evidence and information about what's going on

and you know so this this latest response from from the one that you've just. from france this shows that the coalition the united states has built around it is not as solid as washington wants to maybe portray it because i mean when we talk about the united states and them taking unilateral action in this the we've rarely they've rarely you know been they've really been mostly most of the time they go for the go on they go forward like for example last year on the seventh of april they launched air strikes against the syrian air base which was accused of launching a chemical attack in libya again that was done before any investigation had a chance to even begin now the french president emanuel mccrone has also been calling for a tough response on syria following the reported chemical incident but it's not a view that's actually shared by all politicians in his country. everyone knows

perfectly that in wartime the first victim is truth 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 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 currently france is contributing to the creation although we creation of a certain form of the cold war with russia it's pointless because it doesn't benefit france or its economy or international relations to let the u.s. seeking to stir up conflict with russia most of us around. well the man who led his own country into a war under questionable circumstances tony blair has weighed in over syria and it seems the former british prime minister still believes military interventions are a good idea this would be action in support of of military intervention by 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 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. express more. sort of regret. and apology

that you may have a no. or complete. just to remind you the iraq inquiry known as the chocolate report was published in two thousand and sixteen and uncovered what mistakes in the u.k. six year long campaign in iraq it revealed there was no imminent threat to the u.k. from saddam hussein and it also highlighted that blair's certainty iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction including chemical and biological agents was unjustified. now just a quick reminder of our breaking news here in r t international donald trump has tweeted saying that russia needs to get ready because nice new and smart missiles will be fired at syria that comes in response to an alleged chemical attack that took place on saturday now our coverage of this breaking news will continue in just a couple minutes stay with us.

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this is art international with me jacqueline bringing you here a live news update thanks for joining us this hour we start with breaking news as president trumps about to strike syria with smart missiles warning russia that if it wishes to protect syria it better get ready although in a follow up tweet he called for an end to the arms race and said relations with russia don't have to be this way the russian foreign ministry spokesperson responded on facebook to trump's message saying truly smart missiles should be targeting terrorists and not the government that is fighting them adding that the u.s. missiles could destroy any evidence of chemical weapons use in syria. smart me south must be striking the positions of terrorists not the legitime.