well. up to donald trump follows up a series of contradictory tweets first threatening russia but later toning it down the white house press secretary has a hard job to pin down the president's message our maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table what is 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 a statement through british police he says she will refrain from media contact refused help from the russian embassy and relatives at least for now we explore the facts behind the poisoning. if this was a variety of the new drugs a single drop is enough to kill people ten people within minutes. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohamed wins over the french president on his

whirlwind tour of europe with president a crumb now asking critics of the saudi had to give him a chance. in the news team here at all to h.q. in moscow might have called him brain just turned two in the afternoon stories this hour as the u.s. and its allies most strikes against syria tension between america and russia continues to grow the president from tweeted that moscow should get ready the white house press secretary later came out to clarify the position our maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still in 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. the president has

a number of options we're considering all those options he said. certainly like several times a day all options are on the table trump promised quote nice and new and smart missiles will be fired at syria in their response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of duma within an hour about first tweet president from posted another message this time calling for all nations to work together and disarmament he goes down of looks into the an easy choice facing the u.s. president. but all options are on the table for syria or 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 from 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 you 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 his in his syria approach fifteen months in the trumpet ministration 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 president of left many confused . militarily i don't like to say where i'm going and what i'm doing. to shoot. by the syrian 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 on a hot boil at the white house now he's put himself in a trap or he's got a deliver on something he has to 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 do. we think. 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 stop the arms race you muppet can someone put him in a diaper and spank him until he calms down. and

. much of the bad blood with russia was caused by the great and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the democrat loyalists or people that work for obama. who just threaten to start a war with russia like twenty minutes ago and now you're blaming the bad blood with russia on the democrats. trust twitter page grabs the. tension 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. sure what order do you think they came out in. bottom one first. stop one second in middle one last actually it was that one was first of that home a 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 babel. nope and so our relationship with russia is worse now and then much of the ok got it i'm thinking one two three rivers 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 you've got places like the n.b.a. and n.f.l. telling players not to tweet during the game and that's something small then obviously you know as president the united states tweeting about you know stuff like this it's not going to fly it doesn't work 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 poppen r.t. new york if you thought you got your head around it wrong he's tweeted again in the past hour this is his latest tweet on possible strikes on syria the u.s. president says military action could follow soon or not so soon a role he also asks with america's thanks for eliminating eisel. main

either or the tweet comes ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting called by the british prime minister to resign may show discuss the country's response to the situation in syria and potentially greenlight an attack against damascus or russia's president expressed hope that common sense would prevail and used to. lead to the world revokes nothing but concerns the situation in the world is becoming more chaotic nevertheless we still hope that common sense will eventually proverbial and international relations will into a constructive course the entire world system will become more stable and predictable tensions reached breaking point following claims by the controversial white helmets group of a chemical weapons attack on the town of duma in syria russian experts have been to the area and found no evidence of a nerve agent attack or taken place moscow's invited investigators to visit the area the international chemical weapons watchdog is due to arrive there by the end of the week here's what some locals in juba have been telling us. is i'm only doing

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 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 is 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 may well syrian government forces have gained full control of the eastern place according to the russian military syrian troops have raised the country's flag over the town of duma where the west alleges a chemical attack took place it was the final militant stronghold in the area the district was first captured by rebels in twenty thirteen and since then has been under siege by the syrian most of the midterms and their families were evacuated from eastern guta under a deal brokered by russia. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed has just wrapped up a three day visit to paris and it seems he's made quite an impression on the french president emanuel mccrone is now asking critics of the saudi to give him a chance shot or to bend to explain it. the saudis crown prince's been on a global charm offensive of the west for the past three days here in france it

seems like it's been all hugs and handshakes for mohammed bin salman he's even 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 to do so what are 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 to protest his 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 of this weapons and equipment to so 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 korn 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 from 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 next on the agenda in spain where the prince is set to work his diplomatic cash field of 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. ok it's been reported now that the international chemical weapons watchdog has confirmed the findings of a lab in the script for using investigation we'll bring you the details on that after the break.

through i. know. that. you speak french. welcome back the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. has just released the results of its investigation into the poisoning of. last

month in the english city of salzburg the a p c w says it can confirm the findings of the u.k. in terms of the type of nerve agent used let's go live to britain now in london. take us through what the o.p.c. w. say. yeah this is the international chemical weapons watchdog and they've released a summary of its initial findings into the attack on the script hours and what we've seen of the summary document so far appears to suggest well the o.p.c. w. has confirmed the british government's findings in terms of the identity of the nerve agent used on the script files in that attack in march now the u.k. government had said that it was the navi chalke nerve agent but it couldn't identify the government porton down couldn't identify where that nor the child had come from specifically and similarly the o.p.c. w. hasn't said in this summary where it's come from. in fact they haven't even named

the agent in this document at all they've just confirmed the british assertion that it was not as we know that was the british government assertion so they've confirmed that that is their finding as well of course was originally developed in the so by the soviet scientists in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and they have also said in this document that it was of a high purity military grade and we've already had a line from him the british foreign secretary who said that there can be no doubt that russia was behind the attack but the information that we have in this summary document isn't new or particularly sensational in fact because what this investigation has done is it confirmed and independent independently verified the u.k. government findings of the particular nerve agent used so there appears to be consensus on what it was but where it came from is still

a huge source of debate back when to resume a pointed the finger of blame at russia she said that it was the only rules of bull explanation is that it was behind the attack therefore it's. highly likely that it's all russia's fault but the u.k. foreign office now is saying that it's asked the o.p.c. w. to distribute this report to all state parties including russia's sorry to all state parties party to the chemical weapon convention and the british side is making a big point now about how transparent and open it's being with these findings but in this whole square piles saga outside of the fact that it's believed that novacek now was used in this attack the british government hasn't revealed many details about why it's come to this conclusion that moscow was behind the attack and as moronic as day of explains the questions surrounding the case continued to

grow there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgment and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible be to hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less the name nuvi chalk 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 the program in the 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 rich nerve

agents a new she crit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies and mailable to the public neither the formula nor the chemical of any more russian than itself for years now researchers have published studies and the she's on the nuvi chocks which there are dozens and dozens of many developed in different countries there's just one good one in twenty zero seven the us or the publish to people numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity of 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 a 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 sympathise a few grech look intelligent services in the west worked on of each other 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. in four months and it's a country and they're. in many discovers the properties of

a new chemical structure it's the 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 overcharge 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. 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 chemist 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 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 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 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 hours. 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 of it when witnesses found them they said serug

a scrip or 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. port's there are many questions. if indeed this was the nuvi 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 for a new nerve agents there's no other explanation right because they have right where across reaction to the o.p.c. w.'s findings i'll update you again in just about half an hour see them.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for indication let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to use east i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. that guy the product of google also guides the actions of the employees within a google and they can stop the algorithm isn't this just like fantasia the disney movie with mickey mouse where he goes to war with the dancing groom and he tries to chop it down and it creates more than a trance a flood within the wizard alice i mean these are algorithms that are out of frickin

control and employees within the company can't stop them. from my algorithm who's in charge the algorithm or the head of google who's running the show. ratings 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 beyond making him piles of money wednesday morning opened up a whole new social media door 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

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