headlining this hour on our t.j. money gives a firm no to any involvement in u.s. led military action against syria as other leaders continue to weigh up their options. germany will not take part in any possible operation though there is no decision on that yet. the international chemical weapons. was used to poison. but doesn't name the nerve agents country of origin. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed wins over the french president and his whirlwind tour of europe with president now asking critics of the saudis to give him a chance. to

live worldwide this is the news from r.t. international with me calling this thursday afternoon at four pm i want to update you on the past couple of hours first off. says the germany will not be involved in any military strike in syria if the operation does go ahead the german chancellor made position clear as other countries continue to consider the course of action this is donald trump's latest on possible strikes against the syrian government the president said they could happen very soon or possibly. also went on to complain that the u.s. isn't getting enough thanks for defeating islamic state. correspondent across all this is an associate london either what's the prospect of america's other european allies joining forces for a military strike on syria. well colin what we're seeing donald trump stirring up suspense with yet more tweets we're seeing his allies across the atlantic trying to figure out exactly what they themselves are going to be doing next and here in the

u.k. we know that british prime minister theresa may is meeting with her cabinet ministers this afternoon to figure out if there's going to be any military action involving the situation in syria and clearly we don't have to look far to understand that the questions that are going to be discussed as a whether or not they're going to get involved militarily militarily at all and b. whether or not there is going to be a vote put in front of parliament on this issue and all of this is happening while we're seeing the british media discuss reports of typhoons torpedoes submarines being pretty much on standby and ready to go if that decision is made and it has to be clear that technically theresa may does have the capability of going ahead with any military action in this particular case without parliament's involvement however there are many voices here in westminster not just within the tory party but also in the opposition that are calling for the opportunity for parliament to be given to weigh in and here's why. russia america

europe. neighboring countries iran saudi arabia we've got to be. sure you get is real she's strong on the political question that's keep hope for the people to see. more clearly more. like we just take more lives and school in the war. well meanwhile across the channel in france the french president emanuel has talked about having proof about chemical weapon use in the latest developments in syria let's take a listen to what he said on that. we have proof that last week chemical weapons were used at the very least chlorine by the regime of bashar assad. and in germany we have heard angela merkel talk about expressing support to our european allies however making it clear that germany is not getting involved in any kind of

military adventure in this case. with germany and will not take part in any possible operation though there is no decision on that yet. and so clearly very big and important decisions are being considered made as we speak with lots of more developments to come while when those decisions are finally made and certainly we'll be watching what happens and updating our viewers as that happens and keeping an eye on number ten just a few hundred metres from where you are from now though honestly in westminster thanks very much for that. is the u.s. and its allies consider striking syria the tension between america and russia is continuing to grow president from moscow should get ready and following his tweets on wednesday the white house press secretary attempted to clarify washington's position. our maintaining that we have a number of options and all of those options are still on the table but it

certainly means that i think there's a lot there that you can read from that 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 and all those options remain on the table once again the president has a number of options we're considering all of those options as you say options because certainly like senator thompson they all options are on the table promise that nice a new and smart missiles will be fired at syria in response to an alleged chemical attack in the city of duma that within an hour of the first tweet president from posted another message in which he called on all nations to work together and avoid an arms race he goes down the looks of the difficult choice the u.s. president is now faced with. 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 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 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 so aside 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 drum solo 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 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 well 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. get ready russia because they'll be coming and new smart. western 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 gotten the liver on something he asked him 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 them packing the diplomacy. with god. a 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 climbs down. and. much of the bad blood with russia was caused by the great 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 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. short order do you think they came out in. bottom one first. top one sack in 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 babbler. 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 you really 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 scrutinised 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 kaleb oppen r.t.

new york the claims of a chemical attack on the syrian city of due mobil made by the u.s. in response group known as the white helmets russian experts have been to the area and say they found no evidence that in the agent was used moscow's invited investigators to visit the area inspectors from the international chemical weapons watch tokai due to arrive there by the end of the week we've been speaking to some of the locals in duma. is among 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 but we've got some expert opinion on how the situation might now play out 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 meanwhile the russian military says syrian government forces have taken complete control of the eastern ghouta region close to damascus syrian troops have raised the country's flag and duma it was the final militant stronghold in the area the area was first captured by rebels in late twenty twelve and since then has been under siege by the syrian most of the given free passage from eastern due to this part of the deal brokered by russia. takes the international chemical weapons watchdog has released the results of its

investigation into the poisoning of so gay and your script last month in the south of england their p c w says it backs the u.k.'s findings regarding the type of agent used let's go live to london now and catch up with our correspondent polly boyko i guess take us through what the o.p.c. w. saying. well it said that its team can confirm the findings of the u.k. relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in souls now the summary doesn't actually name the specific nerve agent used but the u.k. government lab here porton down had identified it as nova chuck very soon after this cripples were taken ill five weeks ago not to choke regionally developed in the soviet union by soviet scientists in the late eighty's so the summary that we've got confirms the u.k. labs identification it also says that its conclusion is based on the work of four independent laboratories around the world they all came to the same results and

they also know that the nerve agent was a high purity and what we want to see is just an executive summary there is a full the current the five reports where it said that the nerve agent is named and that's been sent to all the countries that are party to the chemical weapons convention rusher is of course a member and moscow is already confirmed that it received a copy of it what the summary doesn't mention is where the nova chuck came from and by the way the head of that u.k. the forestry schools in down has also said that he can't confirm where the nerve agent came from the u.k. has already called for a u.n. security council meeting following the o.p.c. w. report that's expected to be held next week and we've also had a line from the foreign secretary here boris johnson he's already said that there can be no doubt that russia was behind the attack although there's nothing to that

effect in this o.p.c. w. summary at least in fact the information that we have isn't particularly new nor is it sensational it's simply independent verification of the fact that. we already had about the specific weapon used but where it came from is still very much the source of debate back when to reason may pointed the finger of blame at moscow she said that the only plausible explanation was that it was developed in russia and therefore it's highly likely that moscow is behind the attack the foreign office here has put out a statement off the back of this o.p.c. w. report where it talks about being open and transparent that unlike the russians we have nothing to hide which is why we've put out this summary for everyone to see but throughout the scandal over this square pile attack the british government hasn't revealed many details about why it's come to this conclusion that the blame

should be laid at moscow's door certainly we haven't seen anything to confirm that in this document today and as has the if explains fear of the questions surrounding the case have been answered there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgement and punishment it's 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 amat 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 nerve agents a new she crit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies and valuable to the public neither the formula do the chemicals 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 this is 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 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 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 that city a chemical weapons potentially 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 cure nerve agent. and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the left 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 trucks 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 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 nobody 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 hild even more units one putting it we can have 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're simply missing but of all of it 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. now the

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 manual necron is now asking critics of the saudi to give him a chance to shout adieu bensky explains. saudi's crown prince's been on a global cholo my friends to the west for the post 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 passed special bond with the french president. thank you. that's despite the fact that bin solomon 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. 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 your 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 been calling on france to stop the use of these weapons 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 hugo in 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 next on the agenda is 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 boeing will ships and despite protests to schools still prince solomon to be given the cold shoulder it looks like those deep pockets a set to keep governments in the west on friendly terms with saudi arabia. aussie paris and now you're up to date that's if the aussie news this hour the next world updates in just over thirty minutes you know. apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't

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algorithm who's in charge of the algorithm or the head of google who's running the show. cloned welcome to worlds apart while people in the west still question if the cold war is back for many in russia it's a foregone conclusion that the confrontation between east and west has not only resumed it's far more risky and that's current flows than it used to be the only question is whether mounting tensions could be managed without another major war breaking out well to discuss that i'm now joined by gad man got

a professor of political science at the university ensberg professor man god it's good to talk to you thank you very much for your time. thank you as well now your country austria has been in to have a lot lately given the decision of its political leadership not to yield to the u.k. pressure and not to sound the russian diplomats over this crippled case i wonder if the if the question of who did it even matter do you think austria would stay true to its neutrality regardless of who they believe to be behind the poisoning well actually i need to say that australia has shown solidarity if the united kingdom and if the other members of the european union when declaring the official british position that most likely are russian perpetrator has committed a crime but it has decided not to expel any diplomats and disposed. based on the decision not to further of aid to tensions between the european union and the russian federation not going down anymore on.