donald trump a series of contradictory tweets first threatening russia but later. white house spokesperson made sure the president's message is understood our maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table what is certainly i think there's a lot here that you can read from but at the same time the president has a number of options he has a number of other options as well and all of those options remain on the table. the statement through british police. she will refrain from media contacts and has refused help from the russian embassy. at least for now. behind the poisoning of the us in the u.k. . these was a variety of the movie. a single drop is enough to kill

ten people ten people. also the saudi crown prince mohammed bin. frogs during his three day tour. calling for tics of the saudi by saying they should give the young prince charles. thanks for joining us here on the latest global updates. welcome to the program. now as the u.s. and its allies small strikes against syria tension between america and russia continues to grow soft the president tweeted that moscow should get ready white house spokeswoman later came out to clarify their position. our maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table but he certainly

means i think there's a lot there that you can read from but at the same time the president has a number of options he has a number of other options as well other options options other options options and all those options remain on the table once again the president has a number of options we're considering all those options you say. certainly like. actions are on the table. what he said a new small missiles would be fired at syria that some response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of duma within an hour of his first tweet president posted another message this time calling for all nations to work together and disarmament. looks into the an easy choice the u.s. president faces. all options are on the table for syria well now it seems that this donald trump promise of fire and fury has all but taken a diplomatic resolution off that list from the looks of

a tramp who doesn't have many dollars left open to him anymore but one of them is actually the one he's already tried the same time last year a parallel situation an allegation of a chemical attack blamed on president assad's forces without even waiting for an investigation trump goes in with guns blazing. back then the u.s. president gave the russians an early warning so that its troops could leave the area hawks in washington ripped from for it saying this is exactly why the airstrike turned out to be a waste of time a nother potential option for trump this time is to go full on forget the warnings forget all caution and just unleashing a unilateral military campaign where could that go wrong well where shall we start

it would force russia to consider its own military options evoking memories of the one thousand nine hundred sixty two cuban missile crisis when washington and moscow almost started a nuclear war finally trump could backtrack on the threat and take more of a co-operative stance like the one indicated by his second to eat buy some say this would be as good as committing reputational suicide for trump this would be not simply reversing on a promise but also getting soft on russia as the critics would put it after all trump sold ready being called out over of numerous major inconsistency is in his syria approach fifteen months and the trumpet ministration has no serious strategy threats tweets one of strikes are not a strategy they tell you russia is not a strategy this is why can't. needs to reassert control over war powers so whatever action he chooses a strike or no strike trump may have just tweeted him self into something of

a corner. the u.k. prime minister to resign may has called for an emergency meeting to approve the country's response to the situation in syria and potentially greenlight an attack against the massacres or russia's president has expressed hope that common sense would prevail. and you'll immediately to the world affairs invokes nothing but concerns the situation in the world is becoming more chaotic nevertheless we still hope the common sense will eventually proverbial and international relations will enter a constructive course the entire world system will become more stable and predictable the conflicting signals coming from the american president have left many people confused. militarily i don't like to say where i'm going and what i'm doing. to shoot. get ready russia because they'll be coming and new and smart. president trump also

crebbin so get ready for syria missiles a military strike against syria is at a hard boil at the white house now he's put himself in a trap where he's gotten the liver on something he has some deliver on his tough talk this is sending this sort of message clearly alerting all those forces in syria. a war declination over twitter. the perfect example of impeccable diplomacy. how did to start our leaders there a guy. our relationship with russia is worse now than it has ever been and that includes the cold war there is no reason for this stop the arms race. then. put him in a diaper and spank him until he calms down.

and. much of the bad blood with russia was caused by the freak and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the democrat loyalists people that were. just threaten to start a war with russia like twenty minutes ago and now you're blaming the bad blood with rush on democrats. trump's twitter page grabs the attention of the world but when trump tells russia to get ready for american missiles then calls for a stop to the arms race then blames the democrats for bad relations with moscow the world starts to get a little bit confused we decided to ask new yorkers what they think about the

president's social media activity sht. what order do you think they came out in. bottom one first. top one sack in the middle one last actually it was that one was first of that moment second that was third russia vows to say this is first me you're correct that is the first one awesome ok oh i'm. second would be this much of the babbling. nope and so our relationship with restive recent now and then much of the ok got it i'm thinking more one two three was sort of actually it's one two three if you were in russia if you were like in the russian foreign ministry how would you react to this one how would you interpret it i would take it very seriously united states is a strong nation and if something is perceived wrong it's going to be scrutinized and it does seem inconsistent really inconsistent it goes back and forth so you can't tell what he's thinking honestly i would say he might want to start war

something if i was in russia i would say that usa donald trump is being tough it's a tough situation over there in syria right now but so far he has a lot of stone yet so i'm going i'm ok with it looking at trump's tweets it's not exactly clear where he stands but with lives hanging in the balance and geo political tension on the rise there are probably lots of people out there who wish that donald trump could articulate things just a little more clearly pop and r. t. new york. well tensions reached breaking point following claims by the controversial white helmets group of a chemical weapons attack on the militant controlled town of duma in syria russian experts have been to the area say they found no evidence of agent attack had taken place moscow's offered international investigators to visit the area the u.n. chemical weapons what's the gives you to arrive there by the end of the week we spoke to some locals in the town. some of the duma i haven't seen any chemical

weapons here i don't believe it because i haven't seen it. i haven't seen anyone suffering from exposure to chemical weapons i haven't seen it and haven't even heard about it nothing at all. so long body from the united national antiwar committee says trump's lack of strategy could be very dangerous globally i think we are in a very dangerous situation perhaps the most dangerous since the cuban missile crisis the president of the united states. says different things at different times and seems to have no strategy or but i think that's that's a real problem that he shoots off the cuff he tweets what his policies are and that can be a real danger for the people in ited states for the people of syria and the people of the world where he's unpredictable and a person that has his hand on the nuclear button for the greatest nuclear

arsenal in the world that can destroy the world many times over that's a very serious thing to think about and it's something to worry about. police in the u.k. have released a statement scrip all the daughter of a former double agent both of whom will poisoned in the british city of salzburg just over a month ago that era to the takes us through the timeline. from the russian authorities perspective this statement that's been released by the met police from u.s. cripple has a few concerns now there's some key points in the statement firstly she doesn't want to be contacted by the media she knows that she has the support of the russian embassy but she has asked and said that she doesn't want their help at the moment and she has also asked that her cousin victoria doesn't contact her old visitor now we have heard from victoria publicly and she's rather frustrated she attempted to get a british visa and was denied it she wanted to visit yulia is

a very i ask the u.k. and you personally to reckon sitter the decision to refuse my these are they are scared that i will find out something more that yulia will tell me something yes they try to manipulate me not the kremlin m i five at first i was happy that yulia called but it was clear that she wasn't speaking her own words she was being prompted you can't hear it in the recording but at the start she was told yes you can talk which means that she was being guided now we've also heard from the russian embassy in london they've issued a statement and they are genuinely happy they say for the recovery of year but they are concerned about a number of things like that they don't know her whereabouts they're also worried about reports that she's been offered an american id and they're concerned that she's been isolated from the public once again we have to declare that british authorities continue to refuse to provide any verifiable information about you as

whereabouts her health and wishes it is a vivid proof of the policy of her isolation from the public concealment of important evidence and blocking an impartial an independent investigation now russia sticking to some points that they've been talking about since the beginning of this scandal they are asking for access to the investigation which has been continuously denied and they're upset at the the definitive blaming of russia at this point in time. i'm there saying that phrases like highly likely or no other possible explanation are not evidence and should not be seen as the definitive reason of russia being used as a blame for the attack on the script meanwhile the chemical weapons watchdog in charge of the investigation has reportedly finished its program of the salzburg incident and has forward of its results to the british side. rules the u.k. has to share that information with other members of the organization within twenty

four hours what it does if examines what we know so far there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgement and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less than a movie chock sounds russian means russia did it establish that it is not a chalk and that is by definition of the translation of the name which means newcomer part of a program in a soviet union in the late seventy's and eighty's the points made there are a lot of questions to ask of this whole mess but over the last few weeks we've interviewed dozens of chemists experts and military specialists and hear their biggest gripes. the new virtual nerve

agents a new she crit they haven't been so in decades there's many well published formulas of nerve agents of that snow problem i mean mary where you have sarin so manji v.x. they're abundant abundant and the structures are known and the toxicity profiles are known so so many people can make nerve agents and they know what structures to go to go toward here they are exerts from the books and studies available to the public neither the formula you know the chemicals any more russian than itself for years now researchers have published studies and theses on the nuvi chocks which there are dozens and dozens of many developed in different countries there's just one in twenty zero seven the u.s. or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity

the author inverted them under the system there are more than sixty compounds here and they've all been indexed that means someone somewhere synthesize them and shared the information since then these formulas or some of them have appeared in various publications constantly you simply cannot see they are secret. there's more to it if you suspect a potential adverse arena has made a new discovery you have to do the same in order to study the new substance and make and he devotes it's true to say that russia is not the only country being able to synthesize a few grams of know each other in the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on me chart because there were these rumors about a new military chemical agent just in russia so so i'm not surprised that in france in a new king in the united states is

a. have this kind of information that could explain this speed in which the product was identified that's the purpose and that's the job of this kind of laboratories and there's a whole lot of nerve agents to go around with more being discovered undeclared nerve agents. and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of a new chemical structure it's tex's it's a chemical weapon potential they must immediately according to the conventions register it with the o.p.c. w. but no country does so despite having created many such chemicals. and it really isn't as difficult as it may sound if it's really an overture we're dealing with it's not a real problem to synthesize that kind of nerve agent or the necessary components are easily available on the open market the synthesis does not require sophisticated procedures any specialist in organic chemistry would be able to make

it though every expert we talked to said that you need serious expertise and substantial funding to make pure nerve agent. and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the love has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment and the chemists themselves have to be educated not every concern for such as this but there are twenty or so labs that counter. the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russia has made new rich ox sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation is called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists crashing their heads is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic

five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already very very toxic so small amounts should have killed mr creep out for sure but again it's very difficult to assess and evaluate this kind of question before knowing exactly how the product was delivered the interesting thing with nova chalks is that there are so many of them and they come in so many different forms they can come in a powered as solid as a crystal and even as a liquid but just to give you some reference if this was a variety of the nuvi chalks a single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the hailed even more units one and putting it we can tell you symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and can take

from minutes to. at first one might think that the script could only have survived because the dude's had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing a little bit when witnesses found them they said serug a scrip all was rocking back and forth waving his hands it seemed more like the effects of narcotics if it was a small dose as they claim then first would come meiosis then the rest of the symptoms convulsions uncontrolled urination but we didn't see that in photos or hear of it in reports there are many questions. if indeed this was a new rich aka nerve agent at work the script ulcers were very fortunate british medics must have realized quickly what was at work here or else have a miracle cure of

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joked about having asked special bond with the french president. that's despite the fact that bin selman is the leader of an absolute monarchy considered to be one of the world's most oppressive regimes yet on his visit to france saudi arabia's new tourist reputation for human rights offenses seem to have been swept under the carpet. or your legitimate questions from civil society and from journalists about human rights and various sensitive issues concerning your country we have the choice to stick to our traditional positions and we can

decide that the first act of modernization of this society will be cosmetic as the prince was winded and dined protesters struggle to draw attention to the saudi offensive in yemen and we've been calling on france to stop the use of these weapons and so all of this weapons and equipment. since two thousand and fifteen almost six thousand yemenis have perished in the war between the saudi led coalition and the rebels more than nine thousand have been injured three million have fled their homes all much did to address that is promised a conference on yemen's humanitarian suffering and even then he took the time to reassure the saudi prince. or yemen france has taken a clear. position since the beginning of the conflict in this war it is obvious that we won't tolerate any ballistic activities that threaten saudi arabia and its

citizens and matt corn made sure his guest didn't leave without some lucrative deals between french and saudi companies with some eighteen billion dollars the pair also discussed a strategic partnership with france and plans to create an opera france say in saudi arabia and that's the same situation we saw with other stops on bin salmond's big wooing the west tour in the us he finalized an arms deal with twelve and a half billion dollars in the u.k. humanitarian aid deal worth one hundred and forty million dollars was branded britain's national disgrace by critics plus there were deals with more than two billion dollars next on the agenda is spain where the prince is set to work his diplomatic cash field magic once again this time he's expected to beef up the saudi arabia's military might by buying warships and despite protesters calls

for prince solomon to be given the cold shoulder it looks like those deep pockets are set to keep governments in the west on friendly terms with saudi arabia so. r.t. paris. headlines police and environmental activists have once again clashed near the french city of not on wednesday officers were met with a barrage of stones and bottles when they attempted to a vicks squatters from a camp in the area. authorities responded with tear gas on earth and demolishing approaches the self build houses one by one the activists known as sadists of them did. sought for almost a decades here's the story. if.

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of. strong pressure by the security cabinets by the pentagon and by demeter. donald trump to do something about secret probably at some stage she might give in to his pressure but i don't think it is his intention what i consider more likely another u.s. military attack on syria is that the united states policy bilby. any effort by the russians to turks and during insta find a political solution. greetings and salutations so after spending tuesday witnessing how frighteningly computer

illiterate and out of touch the united states congress truly is while at the same time confirming our long held suspicion that the emperor of silicon valley of the dolls one mark zuckerberg doesn't actually understand what his company does the un making him piles of money wednesday morning opened up a whole new social media door the opening salvos of world war three fired from the company confines of twitter as the world was put on notice wednesday morning when president donald trump tweeted out russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smart you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing an animal who kills his people and enjoys it given the tensions and multiple state parties involved in the syrian situation many are now fearful that this kind of rhetoric can escalate very quickly into a united states versus russia conflict by way of syria for example what happens if

syria and russia shoot down president tribe's missiles before they hit a target like they said they would how in the brand name cheap react more bombs more soldiers what happens of trump's missiles kill russian soldiers these are important questions that we need to be asking russian foreign ministry spokeswoman marie is a car a soccer obama responded to trump's tweets posting on her facebook page a smart missiles must fly towards terrorists not a legitimate government that has been fighting international terrorism in its territory for several years. ladies and gentlemen this is a twentieth century world war of words that's being brought to us on twenty first century technology welcome to geo politics and twenty eight tina let's start watching the hawks. with the. real thing with. us.