we. will watch. 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. even to a. detailing. the british foreign secretary seizes on the un chemical weapons watchdog confirmation that. saying it indicates that 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 bush now asking critics of the saudi had to give him a chance. either

thursday evening at six here at r.t. international money or a welcome to the program. says 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 a tweet from donald trump from a few hours ago on possible strikes against the syrian government the president says they could happen very soon or possibly not trump also went on to complain that the u.s. isn't getting enough thanks for defeating islamic state correspondent and us to see it has been following the high level reaction in europe. but while 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 involved 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. america the european. neighboring countries. are going to be all you sure you see the real key stroke and that is a good place for those people hope the people you see the woman. who looks

like we just. use school and the war goes 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. 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. even to in this. community of tightly can and so clearly very big and important decisions are being considered and made as we speak with 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 what does the u.s. and its allies consider striking syria the tension between america and russia is continuing to grow president trump said that moscow should get ready following his tweets on wednesday the white house press secretary attempted to clarify washington's position. 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 as other options options other options options for those who remain on the tape once again the president has a number of options we're considering all of those options. certainly like. cities around the table promised the nice new and smart missiles will be fired at syria in response to an alleged chemical attack in the city of duma within an hour but first tweet though president trump posted another

message in which he called on all nations to work together and avoid an arms race he 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 trump could backtrack on the threat and take more of a co-operative stance like the one indicated by his second to eat by some say this would be as good as committing reputational suicide for trump this would be not simply reversing on a promise but also getting soft on russia as the critics would put it after all trump sold ready being called out over 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 he was kind of there while 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. the real get ready russia because they'll be coming and new. president trump also question so get ready for a series of 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 to 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. 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. 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 people that work

obama. 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. 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 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 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 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 the claims of a chemical attack on the syrian city of duma were made by the incident response group known as the white helmets russian experts have been to the area and say they found no evidence that a toxic substance was used moscow's invited investigators to the area in fact speaking in the past half hour in new york at the u.n. security council syria's envoy said the first group of international chemical weapons experts should arrive before the end of thursday here's what some of the locals in duma about to tell us. is i'm only duma i haven't seen any chemical weapons here i don't believe it because i haven't seen it. i haven't seen anyone

suffering from exposure to chemical weapons i haven't seen it and haven't even heard about it nothing at all and 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. the big story this hour also involving the international chemical weapons watchdog which is back britain's findings regarding the type of nerve agent used against your script the u.k. foreign office in turn has seized on the o.p.c. doublings 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 his police. 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 novacek 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 four 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 full decursive by 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's received its coffee of it what the summary doesn't mention is where the came from and by the way the head of that ukraine the borat three cooled 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 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 on said there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgement 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 but 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 agent a new she grid they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies available to the public neither the formula know the chemicals

any more russian than itself for years now researchers have published studies in the she's 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 u.s. or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity we all thought you know to the system there are more than sixty compounds here and they've all been indexed that means someone somewhere synthesize them and share the information since these formulas or some of them have a. i'm going to cut into that return you to the u.n. security council the emergency hearing on the syria where the russian representatives speaking right now including terrorists the value of resolution fifteen forty also lies in the fact that it constitutes

a tool for cooperation not for a cold worsen nor for the imposition of services or what was adopted following the review process the new resolution twenty three twenty five reinforces the fifteen forty nonproliferation capacity it fosters an exchange of best practices and its implementation helps it to bo's the effectiveness of a system still live or two states in need whilst at the same time accounting for their specific needs our view is that responsibility for implementation of the resolution is borne by states international and regional organizations or industry business academic scientific circles as well as other groups in civil society play an important a subsidiary role by assisting states. in the implementation of the specific provisions of this important security council resolution the institutional framework of the resolution is aligned with the goals set forth we believe that

this assessment of the operation of the security council subsidiary body or the group of experts should be approached in a realistic manner the creation of additional bureaucratic structure is around the issues of fifteen forty limitations on the duration of contacts of experts or artificial advancement of radical ill advised proposals are liable to create additional obstacles and this will not improve effectiveness in the work of the committee their body is important to be guided by the cooperate and do no harm principle in the light of the persistent activity of the islamic state in syria and the activity of other terrorist groups there they have mastered the technology of chemical weapons production and they're actively using this technology in the light of this the importance of cooperation to suppress this heinous phenomenon of chemical terrorism only rises moreover it is important to operate in

a concerted way bearing in mind that. the situation in syria develops terrorists including terrorists who have gained practical experience in chemical weapons use they will attempt to take cover in third countries mr president for our part we are eager to strengthen. the nonproliferation regime including through the implementation of the city council resolution fifteen forty we stand ready to constructively engage with the chairmanship of the committee and with our partners. now turning to the references voice to day into the incident of in seoul's very i will be brief we are awaiting information from the investigation and responses to the questions we posed i would not to be mistaken if i stress that all procedures are nests everything that was

said was substantiated and the same applies to eastern ghouta eastern good to which we hope will soon see civilian and peaceful life restored all c.w. experts are investigating allegations and assertions and we hope we trust that to they will be allowed to do this thank you mr president. i think the representative of the russian federation for his statement and you get the full two percent. ok that was the right one of the russian representatives of the united nations security council there covering a couple of issues again more about the housekeeping of stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction the so-called fifteen forty committee a lot to do with that again but he did point out we are eager to strengthen the nonproliferation measures and will constructively engage with our partners he brought up the posing of surrogate scripts of course earlier from the o.p.c. doubly regarding that backing up the u.k.'s. findings that it was an overtrick

nerve agent was used but he said we're waiting on says to our questions everything that's been said is unsubstantiated just as it is with eastern guta that's all from that hearing for now we'll stay across it in case any of the other envoys have anything else to say. next though saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed has just wrapped up a three day visit to paris sad it seems he's made quite an impression on the french president emanuel mccrone is now asking critics of the saudi air to give him a chance to charlotte do bensky explained. the saudis a crown prince is being on a global charm offensive of the west for the past three days here in france it seems like it's being all hugs and handshakes for mohammed bin salman he's even joked about having asked special bond with the french president.

that 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. what are 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 first acts of modernization of the 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 and 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 not condit to address that is promised a conference on yemen's humanitarian suffering and even then he took the time to reassure the saudi prince. 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 much corn made sure his guest didn't leave without some lucrative deals between french and saudi companies with some eighteen billion dollars the pair also discussed a strategic partnership with france and plans to create an opera 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 is spain where the prince is set to work his diplomatic cash fuelled 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. france and police an environmental activists again clash near the city of

nod on wednesday officers were met with a barrage of stones bottles when they attempted to pick squatters from a camp or. the therapist responded with tear gas and have been demolishing the protesters makeshift houses one by one the activists known as zetas have been defending the site for almost a decade and here's the story. the

breaking news is that we've been running at the bottom of the screen that the u.s. defense secretary james mattis has said that his country has no evidence that a chemical attack actually took place in the syrian city of duma on saturday as you can get more on this now a correspondent caleb maupin in new york hi that someone to explain what donald trump's been doing a bit of an about face on twitter over the past twenty four i was just talking through what's been said well secretary of defense james mattis was speaking before the house armed services committee of the u.s. congress and he was speaking about the possibility of an upcoming strike against syria and in his remarks made before the u.s. congress body the armed services committee he said these interesting words take

a listen. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the o.p.c. done this you're going to zation for the chemical weapons convention we're trying to get those inspectors in if we get them and if the regime will let them in we will not know who did it they can only say that they found evidence or did not. so he is himself saying that while he personally believes that there was a chemical attack he has no evidence to confirm that they don't have any evidence that an attack took place now these words are somewhat similar to words that were made by heather nauert heather nauert of the u.s. state department the spokesperson she made comments saying that the usa did not know what chemical was used they said they they seem to know there was an attack but they did not know what chemical was used now russian experts have been on the

ground and they have not found any traces of chemicals they have not found any eyewitnesses and they have not found any bodies so at this point it's rather interesting we're hearing u.s. leaders say they don't have evidence now it is also important to note he did blame russia for somehow hindering the o.p.c. w. mission in syria when in reality russia is offering military protection to the o.p.c. w. inspectors and the syrian government has been fully open and fully willing to cooperate with the o.p.c. inspectors so this is quite quite a bombshell admission from the secretary of defense james mattis so we'll be bringing you updates as this story develops so convinced there was a chemical attack but no evidence although the french president seems to think he has solid evidence though i think for keeping a. kind of open in new york. because right now number ten the british cabinet is meeting to decide its response to what happened over the claims of what happened in syria where across that for you next news update and often i'll say

that. so to take you had to take matters into its own heads to provide its own security and securing the border it is now this is a very very an agent of a close however who are the french to be there who are the americans to be there who are the british to be. mostly just. from listening.