i thought in a million years i would see that. germany gives a firm no to any involvement in u.s. led military action against syria as other leaders continue to weigh up their options. in which way would you support. a possible strike in syria would the sea even to end its. british foreign secretary seizes on the un chemical weapons walk confirmation that . saying it indicates the russian state was responsible. and saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed wins over the french president in his whirlwind tour of europe with president now asking critics of the saudi yet to give him a chance. thursday

afternoon at five here in moscow welcome to world news from the international first this hour i'm going to merkel 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 their course of action this is donald trump's latest tweet on possible strikes against the syrian government the president says they could happen very soon or possibly. also went on to complain that the united states isn't getting enough thanks for defeating islamic state he's honest to say a check has been following the reactions of european leaders to the current crisis . but 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 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 involvement militarily at all and be 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 the european. neighboring

countries. it's got to be. sure you get these keystrokes and that is a good place for those people hope the people you see the. woman. who looks like we just. use 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 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 mrs merkel in which way would you support a possible missile strike in syria. and even to it in its.

own community of us not to need to tighten and so clearly very big and important decisions are being considered and made as we speak with a lots of more developments to calm while when those decisions are finally made and certainly we'll be watching what happens and updating our viewers as that happens as the u.s. and its allies consider striking syria the tension between america and russia is continuing to grow president moscow should get ready and following his tweets on wednesday the white house press secretary attempted to clarify washington's position. we're maintaining that we have a number of options and all those options are still on the table but it 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 of options other options options and all of those options remain on the table once again the president has a number of options we're considering all of those options. certainly

like. cities around the table trying promise that a new and small cells will be fired at syria in their response to an alleged chemical attack in the city of duma within an hour of his first tweet president trump posted another message in which he called on all nations to work together and avoid an arms race he goes down of now looks at the difficult choice the u.s. president is now faced with. 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 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 not

simply reversing on a promise but also getting soft on russia as the critics would put it after all trump sold ready being called out over of numerous major inconsistency is in his syria approach fifteen months and the trumpet ministration has no serious strategy threats tweets one of strikes are not a strategy baiting 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 the 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 down any missiles but i did get ready russia because they'll be coming and new smart. western

trumpets also club and so get ready for serious missiles a military strike against syria is on a hot boil with the white house now he's put himself in a trap or he's got in the liver 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 the impact of the diplomacy . on. our guys that we've got. a 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 has cooled by the great and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the democrat loyalists people who were. just threatened 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. 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 almost second that was third russia vows says i'll 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 restive 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 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 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 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 mopp and r.t. new york the claims of a chemical attack on the syrian city two mobile made by the instant response group known as the white helmet russian experts have been to the area inside they found no evidence of the nerve agent was used moscow's invited investigators to visit the area inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog i due to arrive

that by the end of the week is what some local into my been telling us. 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 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. international chemical weapons was told his back britain's findings regarding the type of nerve agent used against you in your script the u.k. foreign office in turn has seized on the o.p.c. w.'s report claiming it leaves no doubt that the russian state was to blame given the purity of the substance that's despite the fact that the organization itself is not in a position to apportion blame police reports. but it said that it team can confirm the findings of the u.k. relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in souls the summary doesn't actually name the specific nerve agent used but the u.k. government lab porton down had identified it as know of a child very soon off to the script files were taken ill five weeks ago novacek

originally 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 independent laboratories around the world they all came to the same results and they also know that the nerve agent was of high purity and what we've got to see is just this executive summary there is a deep are supplied reports where it's said that the nerve agent is a and that's been sent to countries that a party to the chemical weapons convention rusher is of course a member already confirmed that it received its coffee of it what the summary doesn't mention is where the law of the child came from and by the way the head of that u.k. in the forestry holton 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 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 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 facts that we already had about the specific. weapon used but where it came from is still very much the source of debate throughout the scandal over the spread powell 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 murat 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 the juveniles 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 a 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 quit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies and valuable to the public neither the formula nor the chemical of 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 they said one good will in twenty zero seven the us or the published of 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 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 potential they must immediately according to the convention fragile it would be obviously w. but the 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 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 lab has to be well

equipped with ventilation the talks of acacia 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 trucks sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation of school to 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 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 and putting it with inhaled symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to you. 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 the little 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 sims 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 the nuvi chalke nerve agent at work the scripts were very fortunate and i guess you have reported france's president mccomas urging the world to give saudi arabia's crown prince a chance it's part of the criticism of the gulf states human rights abuses the details after the break.

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an increase in. could be about to put a visa free entry for georgian citizens in jeopardy germany considers scrapping the eastern european countries open access to the tourist twenty seventeen ga ukrainian nationals were given ninety days free travel without a visa in the european union but germany and france people looking to emigrate according to germany's federal migration office three and a half thousand georgians applied for asylum over the last year is asking georgia to fix the problem or face the visa free entry of being. with me now is international relations professor. at university in germany welcome to the program how do you just about germany trying to get its house in order or is there a wider issue here about not having any appetite for even more immigrants.

i think it's a problem it's a problem for european members. responses from the swedish government. is a shift in the migration. movements. they are not coming anymore from india from the arab countries coming from africa africa and of calls from central and east european countries especially from. on armenia and. this is not acceptable of calls because very few people who are coming from georgia or media have reasons to flee the country because the these countries are considered safe and democratic at least in substance and the acceptance rates for saddam's in germany is very very low i think it is below two percent acceptance that is the ones from north africa but is this just

about georgia they would have a very small country in the great scheme of things isn't it. and of course i mean the moment you have. to travel and then of course it can be used not only for visiting on holidays or business trips but israel for criminal gangs i mean and we have seen after the break the cotton sort of trends coming from romania we'll rumanian getting through basically mushrooming and roaming through it germany and doing terminal activities and all we have in a somewhat of a situation where basically the free travel or arrangement with georgia misuse by. i mean this is the effect of which is considered to. be my no but it would steer up of course populist opposition and resentment and. move

people. further to right to being all populist organisations in germany and we all afraid to face. it was a privilege that was also extended to ukraine and that's how to type in a few days itself when couldn't these problems have been. well see. if you will train i think it's a different situation very very few are craniums and. moving to west european countries they are basically operating for finding work in poland the figure is nearly one million. located and working and poland in germany. and britain before this it was a minor figure and i think maybe the ukrainian are in the works. which are using the free travel to arrangement with the european union not so much

organized interim of activities but of cause and this is a guess but to the officer it's that these things do not point to specifically grain in gangs in. german cities it's about small problem chechens for it some both who are controlling the. red light districts in frankfurt and. very much in an organized crime and they calls as well. in syria and iraq in base gangs who have a broking into the hands in the big cities but this is a phenomenon which came out of. asylum seekers which are not accepted only in the last two years and i think the issue is to milk the social system in germany or in sweden or in other countries of the euro of the european union it is not the asylum they are not on the political threat they are not on the political repression and we have to act against this ok we'll see how that pans out now that

professor peter shilton from getting in university thanks for joining us. right now the u.n. security council is holding a meeting called by bolivia officially on the nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction but it comes after a number of fiery tweets from donald trump of coal so the south american country can say. of possible violations of international law also says it seems a consistency to the u.s. leaders threats let's join that session now the united kingdom's ambassador is coming and of course the and the invitation from this council to keep members that dated we have requested a security council meeting next week where we would like to brief on the outcome of the p c w findings and it is a worrisome pattern the state use of w m d and the clearly undermines our collective efforts to determine eradicate the use of these weapons by state and non-state actors alike we very strongly support the work to increase state's

capacity and wearing carriage that there are now only thirteen norm reporting states any norm reporting is traveling but it is good that the number is going down and as i say we were delighted to be paired with equitorial guinea and provide support but it's clear that we stand on the cusp of a nightmare where weapons of mass destruction they used with impunity where our citizens live in real fear of an indiscriminate attack at any time and without warning it's not enough just to condemn this we need to find a way to take meaningful action and ensure that there are meaningful consequences for perpetrators we have all benefited from the international order that has kept us safe since the end of world war two it behoves all of us mr president to make every effort to uphold this international architecture it's clear that not all countries share this view and we have talked about that.