series of. house. on the president's. power maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table what does that mean. i think there's a lot there that you can read from that at the same time the president has a number of options a statement through british police. refused help from the russian embassy and relatives at least for now explore the facts behind the poisoning of the. variety of the new. single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes.

saudi crown prince mohammed bin. paris. calling. by saying. thanks for joining us live an international for the latest global news update. as the u.s. and its allies mull strikes against syria tension between america and russia continues to grow so after president tweeted that moscow should get ready white house spokeswoman later came out to clarify their position. we're maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table but it's 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 as other options there are options options and

all of those are control made on the tape once again the president has a number of options we're considering all those options you see. russia certainly like tanks and they all options are on the table all trump promised nice and new and small missiles would be fired at syria in response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of duma within an hour of his first tweet president trump posted another message this time calling for all nations to work together for disarmament hugo's got off looks into the an easy choice the u.s. president has but 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 of that list from the looks of a trump who doesn't have many doors 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 the 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 by 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 and numerous major inconsistency is in his syria approach fifteen months and the trumpet administration has no serious strategy threats tweets one of strikes are not a strategy baiting russia is not a strategy this is why congress needs to reassert control over the war powers so whatever action he chooses a strike or no strike trump may have just tweeted himself into something of a corner the conflicting signals from the american presidents 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 smart. president trump also crebbin so get ready for serious missiles a military strike against syria is on a hot boil at the white house now he's put himself in a trap where he's gotten deliver on something he asked and 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 readers 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. song put him in a diaper and spank him until he calms down. and. much of the bad blood with russia was caused by the plague 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 russia on democrats. 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. short 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 babbler. nope and so our relationship with russia is worse 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 ah 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 scrutinised 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 kaleb oppen r.t. new york. of the u.k. a prime minister to resign my house call for an emergency meeting to approve the country's response to the situation in syria and potentially greenlight an attack against the mosque while russia's president has expressed hope that common sense would prevail. 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. all tensions reached a 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 they say they found no evidence of a chemical attack taking place moscow's often international investigators to visit the area the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog is due to arrive there by the end of the week we spoke to some local residents in the town. i'm only 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 but we've got some expert opinion on america's possible strikes and trumps rhetoric on syria is going to be bombs or bombast that's what we don't know you know i've been waiting with bated breath like everybody else last night maybe tonight will he launch an attack or is he going to use this rhetoric as some kind of a means to set up a meeting with putin which he says he also wants to do and will he pull back at the last minute he's always said if you're going to do something militarily you don't talk about it you just do it but he's talking talking talking and weaving back and forth like this i am hoping it means something i hope it means he has something else in mind i think there will be some response and i think that response will be decided on thursday morning after the national security meeting and i think it's going to be probably more than some would want and probably less than some would would would expect. police in the u.k.

have released a statement on behalf of you describe the daughter of a form a double agent both of whom were poisoned in the british city of salzburg over one month ago they were cheater 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 or 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 yep it is a very i ask the u.k. and you personally to reckon siddur 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 the 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 places like highly likely no other possible explanation and not evidence and. has been definitively. 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 probe into the source bring incident and as for its results to the british side now on the o.p.c. w. rules the u.k. has to share that information with other members of the organization within twenty four hours what does the 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 chalk sounds russian means russia did it establish that it is not a chaka matter 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 nerve agents a new she quit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies available to the public neither the formula 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 good tool in twenty zero seven the us or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity the author invited 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 say 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 antidotes it's true to say that russia is not the only country being able to

sympathize a few grams of no beach up in the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on nobody charged because there were these rumors about a new military chemical agent produced in russia so so i'm not surprised that in france in a new king in the united states you 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. and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of a new chemical structure it's the city a chemical weapons potential they must immediately according to the convention fragile it would be obviously 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 a pure nerve agent. and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the lab has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment and the chemists themselves have to be educated not every lead can synthesize 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 scratching their heads is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already a very very toxic so a small amount 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 chocks 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 doods had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing a little 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 v chalk a nerve agent at work the script balls were very fortunate british medics must have realized quickly what was at work here or else have a miracle cure of a no nerve agents there's no other explanation will stay with us for more updates and global headlines with us here on team task. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

when you don't. get a court. what are you not. supposed to. make. a. club into no term until i see that. you speak french. the same year the. new president is talk of soldiers because of the cold so. much of the program a crown prince mohammed bin solomon of saudi arabia has been on

a three day visit to paris and it seems like he's made quite an impression on the french president is now asking critics of the saudi government charts a shot at their explains the saudis crown prince is being on a global cho my friends to the west for the post three days here in france it seems like it's being all hugs and handshakes for mohammed bin solomon he's even joked about having special bond with the french president. 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. and i hear 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 acts 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 been calling on france to stop the use of these weapons 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 almost condit

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 much 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 u.s. he finalized an arms deal with twelve and a half billion dollars in the u.k. humanitarian aid deal with one hundred and forty million dollars was branded

britain's national disgrace by critics next on the agenda in spain where the prince is set to work his diplomatic cash filled much. once again this time he's expected to beef up the saudi arabia's military might by bowing warships and despite protests his cool still prince solomon to be given the cold shoulder it looks like those deep pockets to keep governments in the west on friendly terms with saudi arabia. police and environmental activists are once again clashed near the french city of nonce on wednesday officers were met with a barrage of stones and bottles when they attempted to a vicks squatters from account in the area.

authorities responded with tear gas being demolishing the protesters makeshift houses one by one the activists say to stop in defending the site for the most a decade now take a look at the story. oh . it. was the headlines for myself on the team here at r.t. for the. about thirty minutes for more global updates here on alt.

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destroy that's right if that's slavery. so thank you thank you good to welcome to the alex salmond show in the spring cities of programs we've been looking at the changing politics of the celtic nations of these islands ireland scotland and in this week's program wales today alex is in conversation with someone whose political career stretches back almost half a century logically arrived in the house of commons as a young m.p. and fair pre-one nine hundred seventy four now he sits in the house of lords has played commies only peter of the realm in between as leader of plight of the party

of wales he took the party to its best ever election result in the first assembly elections of one nine hundred ninety nine and to within a whisker of ending labor supremacy of both politics and this interview he explains why plight unlike the s.n.p. have never managed to build on that success but i guess it breaks it may be about to change the political landscape of wales but first your tweets messages and emails and in the mission to assure a couple of weeks ago with opec and peter tatchell sun compass says to heartfelt interviews last night we sometimes forget what our politicians to after losing their seat it's not always back to an edited family business absolutely so suzanne when finlayson says in relation to last week's show great interview with alex neil what an interesting life he's had i wish the show was an hour long of a bit about mind cattle.