hotties headline news this hour the u.s. defense secretary says that his country has no evidence that was a chemical attack in the syrian city of duma on saturday. germany gives a firm no to any involvement in a u.s. led military action against syria as other leaders continue to weigh up their options. but even to. this on my. own. and the british foreign secretary seizes on the u.n. chemical weapons watchdog confirmation that's ok and you describe the poison. saying it indicates the russian state was responsible. it is thursday april twelfth at seven pm here in moscow the money is called in by

welcome to the news is our first to update you on the breaking development we brought you about forty minutes ago now the u.s. defense secretary james mattis has said that his country has no actual evidence that a chemical attack took place in the syrian city of doomer at the weekend i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the the o.p.c. do this you're going to station 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. say more on that development in the past hour now calum opens with a sigh that again took us through what we've learned from these comment. yes that was secretary of defense james mattis and he was speaking before the u.s. armed services committee before the congress now it's unclear exactly how they can talk of military action if they at this point do not yet have evidence to confirm

that a chemical attack took place now it is common for western politicians to say that that because there's been a history of allegations against the syrian government that somehow this proves it but it's interesting maddest explained where these conclusions come from as well this is matters before the congress. there have been a number of these attacks in many cases you know we don't have troops were not engaged in the ground on the ground there so i cannot tell you that we had evidence even though we certainly had a lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or share and reused . now furthermore he seems to indicate that that he does not need and the department of defense does not need the permission of the u.s. congress in order to carry out these strikes he said that essentially they can carry them out and then they will report to congress after they carry them out if if they do indeed carry out strikes now it's interesting he said it's not simply

the use of chemical weapons that would be a justification for a strike but it's the threat that perhaps u.s. personnel that are on the ground could be possibly hit with chemical weapons that in itself is a justification for a strike. it's very very furthermore he seemed to indicate as if russia were somehow trying to block the o.p.c. w. from reaching syria inspecting the site when in reality russia has works to facilitate the chemical experts of inspectors in the country they've offered to provide military protection and the syrian government has been totally open and willing to allow the inspectors to go wherever they need to go in order to do their work so that's kind of a distortion of the situation now at this point trump is sending a variety of different messages we saw him tweeting out get ready russia but now we see him saying that they're there the possibility of attack could come very soon or

not soon at all so trump is sending out a lot of different messages now we took to the streets of new york and asked new yorkers how they interpret donald trump's various tweets regarding syria and russia in the last few days and this is what new yorkers said about how they interpret the different messages from donald trump. tribe's twitter page grabs the attention of the world but when trump tells russia to get ready for american missiles and 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 should. show what order do you think they came out in. bottom one first. top one secondly middle one last actually it was that one was first in that home a 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 babbling . 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 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 scrutinized and it does seem inconsistent deals 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 the 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 kaleb oppen r.t. new york. 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. president trump also crebbin so get ready for syria missiles a military strike against syria is not a hot boil at the white house now he's put himself in a trap where he's got a deliver on something he has to deliver on his tough talk this is sending this sort of message clearly alerting all of those forces in syria. a

war declination over twitter. the perfect example of impeccable diplomacy. how did. 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. it 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 fake 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. but if the u.s. and its allies consider. striking syria in retaliation for the alleged chemical attack in duma the tension between america and russia is continuing to grow president trump earlier said that moscow should get ready and 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 of 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 since there are options options and all of those are control made on the tape once again the president has a number of options we're considering all of those options. because certainly

like that scenario that is run the table from promise that nice new and smart missiles will be fired at syria and when in an hour of that first tweet president trump posted another message in which he called on all nations to work together and avoid an arms race it goes down of looks now at the u.s. president's dilemma 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 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 air strike turned out to be a waste of time a nother potential option for trump this time is to go for a long. 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 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 is in his syria approach fifteen months and the trumpet ministration has no serious strategy threats tweets one off strikes are not a strategy baiting russia is not a strategy this is why congress 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 it goes down a busy time for the a p c w of course it's also released its findings into the script poisoning last month the details of that when we come back. that was w on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that. you start spreading tell you that because of

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the international chemical weapons watchdog has backed britain's findings regarding the type of nerve agent used to get so gay and your script the u.k. foreign office in turn has seized on the open sea w.'s report claiming it leaves no doubt 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 the report has said that its team can confirm the findings of the u.k. relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in cells three the summary doesn't actually name the specific nerve agent used but the u.k. government lab have porton down had identified it as novacek very soon off to this script files were taken 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 are and they also know that the nerve agent was a 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 nay and that's been sent to all the countries that a party to the chemical weapons convention russia is of course a member and moscow has already confirmed that it's received its coffee of it what the summary doesn't mention is where the novacek came from and by the way the head of that ukraine 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 un 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 script file 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 a guest if explains fear of the questions surrounding the case have been answered there was no trial no discussion no evidence new proof there was

a judgement and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible we do hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less the nie movie chalk sounds russian means russia did it establish that it is not virtual command is by definition of of the. translation of the name this 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 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 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 one in twenty zero seven the us or the publish to people numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity the author inverted them under the system there are more than sixty compounds here and they've all been indexed that means someone somewhere synthesize them and shared the information since then these formulas or some of them have appeared in various publications constantly you simply cannot 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 they have this kind of information that could explain the speed in which their product was i don't if 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 vegeta it with the obvious e.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 pure nerve agent. of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the lab has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment and the chemist themselves have to be educated not every lead can synthesize this but there are twenty or so labs

that counter. the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russia has made new rich ox sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation as called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists crashing their heads is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already very very toxic so 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 an inhaled even more influence on them but as we can tell you symptoms appear follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to. 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're 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 bulbs were very fortunate. saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed has just wrapped up a three day visit to paris and it seems he's made quite an impression on the french president emanuel mccrone is now asking critics of the saudi air to give him a chance a shot to do better 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 from hamad bin salman he's even joked about having asked special bond with the french president.

that's despite the fact that bin selman is the leader of an absolute monarchy considered to be one of the world's most oppressive regimes yet on his visit to france saudi arabia's new tourist reputation for human rights offenses seem to have been swept under the carpet. to sort out your legitimate questions from civil society and from journalists about human rights and various sensitive issues concerning your country we have the choice to stick to our traditional positions and we can decide that the first act of modernization of this society will be cosmetic as the prince was winded and dined to protest his struggle to draw attention to the saudi offensive in yemen and we've been calling on france to stop

the use of these weapons and so of this weapons and equipment to south 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. or yemen france has taken a clear position. since the beginning of the conflict in this war it is obvious that we won't tolerate any ballistic activities that threaten saudi arabia and its citizens and matt 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 with one hundred and forty million dollars was branded britain's national disgrace by critics next on the agenda in spain where the prince is set to work his diplomatic cash field magic once again this time he's expected to beef up a surge 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.

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the un making him piles of money wednesday morning opened up a whole new social media door opening salvos of world war three fired from the complete confines of twitter as the world was put on notice wednesday morning when president donald trump tweeted out russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at syria get ready russia because they will be coming nice and new and smart you shouldn't be partners with a gas killing animal who kills his people and enjoys it given the tensions and multiple state parties involved in the syrian situation many are now fearful that this kind of rhetoric can escalate very quickly into a. united states versus russia conflict by way of syria for example what happens if syria and russia shoot down present troubles missiles before they hit a target like they said they would how in the brand name chief react more bombs more soldiers what happens of trumps missiles kill russian soldiers these are

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