ok i was just said i'd. love to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's now it's happened. headline news this hour the international chemical weapons watch told confirmed britain's findings on the type of nerve agent used to poison the script last month in the u.k. . germany says it will not take part in u.s. military action against syria on the chemical attack near damascus this is donald trump post tweet threatening syria with possible strikes. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed wins over the french president and his whirlwind tour of europe with president macross now asking critics of the saudis even the town.

thursday afternoon at three here in moscow money was called in by this is your world news from c international first off for you the international chemical weapons will stop the o.p.c. w has within the past hour released the results of its investigation into the poisoning of a script last month in the inner city of salzburg the o.p.c. w. says it can confirm the u.k.'s findings in terms of the type of nerve agent used when i get more on this now life than on the poly because i take it through all the o.p.c. saying. well it says it's confirmed the identity of the nerve agent used and also it's confirmed the fact that the script files were exposed to it the summary that we've got from the o.p.c. w. doesn't actually name the specific agent used in the attack it just says that it

confirms the british government's findings as to the identity of the chemical weapon and it says that it based its findings in four independent laboratories around the world they all came back with the same results and the document also notes that it was all of a high purity now what we've got to see is this executive summary where as i said the nerve agent isn't named it's fair to assume that the full report will be naming it as. specifically and that full report is being distributed to all the state parties to the chemical weapons convention of which russia is a part of and moscow has already confirmed that it received this document and i imagine they're going to be going through it with a fine tooth comb right now but what does it mean when they say that they confirm britain's findings as to the identity of the nerve agent well anyone who's been following this story will know that the u.k. government laboratory here porton down identified the nerve agent as chuck very

soon after gay and you were found slumped on that park bench about five weeks ago in souls three and of course originally developed by soviet scientists in the late one nine hundred eighty s. what's notable is that the u.k. lamp said it was not a child but at the same time it said that he couldn't confirm where the navi child came from similarly this o.p.c. w summary doesn't say where this nerve agent has come from now the line coming from the foreign secretary boris johnson is already that he said there can be no doubt that russia was behind the attack but the information that we've. gaunt in this summary isn't new and it certainly isn't sensational it's just independent verification of where of want the nerve agent used on the script pals was where it came from is still

a source of debate back when two reason may pointed the finger of blame at moscow she said that the only plausible explanation was that it had come from russia and therefore it's highly likely that most go was behind the attack the foreign office has just put out a statement where it talks about being open and transparent and it says that unlike the russians we have nothing to hide which is why they've lost the o.p.c. w. to publish this summary for everyone to see all there in this whole script all saw guy outside of the fact that the nerve agent has been identified as novacek the british government hasn't revealed many details about why it believes that it was moscow that was behind the attack certainly we haven't seen anything to confirm that in the document from the international chemicals weapons watchdog today and as miranda gaddis dia of explains the questions surrounding this case continue to grow

. there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgement and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible the juveniles 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 a 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 eggs birds 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 you know the chemicals or any more russian then 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 publish to people 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 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. and. and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of

a new chemical structure it's the exit to our chemical weapons potential they must immediately according to the convention register it with the 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 overtrick 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 sheer yes expertise and substantial funding to make sure 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 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 rumen mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists graduating the heads of each other 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 haled even more units one putting it we can hail symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and birth can take from minutes to hours. 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 bit when witnesses found them they said cyril gaze cripple 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 recherche nerve agent at work the script uls 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. i'm joined now by professor pierce robinson who's chair in politics aside in political journalism at the university of sheffield thanks very much for coming on to r.t. we've had this information for about an hour the british government had it for twenty four hours now although the o.p.c. w. was never meant to be it was never tasked with saying where this nerve agents come

from why do you think the likes of boris johnson are still rushing with saying well we know what it is therefore we must know where it's from. well because as from the very beginning of this incident did the behavior to push government has been to rush to judgment and to try to exploit i think the situation the broader political purposes so the kind of any desire to allow so that investigation and police investigation to take its course before the accusations leveled at russia will be made it was never any political will powerful that and so i think the british government is continuing as it has done for now with the o.p.c. w. report they're claiming did it i guess that it backs what they were saying and when it doesn't really back what they were saying in the sense that it confirms the nerve agent identified by porton down but that says nothing about who was responsible who produced the agent in the first place so i think the problem is

that again we have this political game being played by the british government to try to exploit the events and whatever happened in souls very in order to continue the propaganda drive against russia and that's pretty clear at this point in time i haven't seen much international reaction today she has no doubt there will be some how much do you think this will further rally all those countries that back to reason may a couple of weeks ago. well i think it's going to be extremely difficult to disentangle that from what we have going on in syria to sperry moment and i think you know obviously we know what it would do to situation with possible military action in syria in relation to the alleged chemical attack attack it we can do but the chances are that the u.k. has allies who lined up and supported in the british government's claims in relation to screen people will be lining up and supporting the broader agenda in relation to syria in the middle east and i think these things are really going to

submerge together at this point in time probably in a very unhelpful way in the sense that sort of inappropriate claims that the c.w. report confirms or supports the british government claimed that it was the russians who do that is probably going to be exploited by our allies in terms of reinforcing sort of the position in relation to syria and i know it's the real danger of the situation we're in a moment is that you have is consolidation of these events and used exploited for bigger political purposes however when civil reaction comes in the coming hours from now there professor appears robinson from sheffield university thanks for coming in. you're watching r t international rather big story is syria developments after the break. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of it but

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back in the past thirty minutes or so chancellor angela merkel has said the germany would not participate in an american military operation carried out against president assad in syria that's other members of the coalition particularly france and the u.k. are still yet to decide. germany will not take part in any possible operation though there's no decision on that yet. but as the u.s. and its allies strikes against syria tension between america and russia continues to grow it's after president trump tweeted that moscow should get ready the white house press secretary later came out to try and clarify the position. we're 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 he has a number of other options as well as other options options other options options

when all of those options remain on the table and once again the president has a number of options for considering all of those options as you say all options are on the table because russia certainly like i said a few times today all options are on the table. promised quote nice a new and small missiles will be fired at syria in response to the alleged chemical attack in the city of duma and within that hour of the first tweet president trump posted another message this time calling for all nations to work together and for disarmament 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 corporative 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 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 he's in his syria approach for ten 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 himself into something of a corner and those conflicting signals from the american president have left many confused. militarily i don't like to say where i'm going and what i'm doing.

to shoot. the real get ready russia because they'll be coming and new smart. preston trumpets 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 got and 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. with. 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.

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 freak and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the democrat loyalists or people that work for obama. you 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 and. bottom one first. top one sack in the middle one last actually it was that one was first of that moment second that was the 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 russia is worse now and then much of the ok got it i'm thinking one two three was sort of actually it's one two three if you were in russia purely in the russian foreign ministry how would you react to this what 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 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 would lives hang 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 mop and r.t. new york ok well which way he pointed at the moment this is the tweet from donald trump from a couple of hours ago now when possible strikes on syria the u.s. president saying military action could follow soon or not so soon at all he also

asked was america's thanks for the mineta eisel now that tweet comes ahead of an emergency cabinet meeting called by the british prime minister to resign may discuss the country's response to the situation in syria and potentially greenlight an attack against damascus while russia's presidents expressed hope that common sense would prevail. just today. the world affairs invokes 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 enter a constructive course the entire world system will become more stable and predictable tensions reached breaking point following claims by the controversial white helmet group of a chemical weapons attack on the town duma in syria russian experts have been to the area and found no evidence that a nerve agent attack and taken place in a moscow is invited investigators to visit the area the international chemical weapons watchdog is due to arrive there by the end of the week. 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 is now asking critics of the saudia to give him a chance shot a diabetic explains. the saudis a 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 solomon he's even joked about having 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 some of 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 in 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 who have 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. all matt corn 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 hugo's your yemen francis 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 mark or make 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 cursed 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. today thanks very much for watching i'll be back with the next hour international world news and half an hour here.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm far chilton and coming up today will be talking boil markets with energy expert right corner of simpler trading and former pentagon official michael maloof analyzes the risks of escalating conflict in syria plus the toughness week continues our ongoing series on the u.s. infrastructure deficit with a closer look at u.s. ports now let's get to the stories topping today's headlines u.s. house speaker paul ryan the republican from wisconsin and former vice presidential candidate in two thousand and twelve said today he would not seek another term in congress the move places a republican controlled house in somewhat uncertain footing amidst the ups and downs of the trump administration in his remarks the speaker noted his efforts at completing the tax reform law and acted late last year as one of his key legacy policy accomplishments listen to a little about what he had to say about why he was stepping down you know my story

my dad died when i was sixteen the daughter the age my daughter is and i just don't want to be one of those people looking back on my life thinking i spend more time with my kids when i know if i see one another term they will only know me as that we can father good for him although it is a loss for the nation is a good guy at boom bust we try not to focus on politics or we do so primarily as politics impact finance business and economics and that's certainly the case with regard to speaker ryan has had an important impact on all of those things. the managing director of the international monetary fund christine lagarde is warning of the risk involved in any escalation of global tensions over trade what card told an audience in a hong kong that tariffs raise prices and limit scheuer says and warned against protectionism in all its forms the guard also suggested the united states could offset the effects of trade deficit by cutting spending.