u.s. defense secretary admits that his country has no concrete evidence there was a chemical attack in the syrian city of duma but might strike preemptively to defend american troops there. after a lengthy cabinet meeting theresa may fail to shed much light on london's course of action on syria merely stressing the need to coordinate with allies meanwhile the german chancellor gives a firm no to military airstrikes against damascus. and even to. do this on my. media the smarts in the title. and the u.k. foreign secretary is in no doubt russia was behind screwball poisoning after u.n. watchdog confirms the substance used in the attack and that is despite investigations not confirming russia as the source of the nerve agent. also might

bump a zero nominee to be u.s. secretary of state promises to get tougher on russia saying the country is not exceptional like united states. are broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. and turned. to the u.s. defense secretary james mattis has said america has the right to preemptively strike the syrian government in order to defend its troops that came after he admitted there is no clear evidence that chemical weapons were used in the city of duma on saturday and alleged attack triggered calls for intervention against assad's forces. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the o.p.c. w this your going to station for the chemical weapons convention and 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

secretary of defense james mattis is saying essentially that the usa does not have any evidence about the chemical attack in dubai they can't confirm necessarily that it took place he personally believes it took place but they cannot confirm it and furthermore when inspectors and experts are on the scene they may be able to confirm that it happened but they won't be able to attribute blame they won't be able to say who did it now that's quite an mission given that there's been so much assigning of blame in the media over the last few days and also the o.p.c. w. inspectors are now on their way to syria they will begin their work in syria on saturday getting the bottom of what exactly happened so without any evidence how is it that the u.s. leaders have been going about assigning blame for the attack and talking about a military strike well madison explained the procedure let's take a listen there have been a number of these attacks in many cases you know we don't have troops were not engaged on 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 sharon were used so u.s. leaders are getting on social media twitter facebook and seeing pictures and that is the basis for threatening a country with military strike very very interesting now that congressional committee i wanted to know under what specific legal authority james madison would carry out the attack if ordered to do so and this is how you explain the justification for attack protection of our forces i don't think we have to wait until they're under chemical attack when the weapons are used in the same fear. there were operating and at this point donald trump has not yet taken a decision but he is considering all options with his generals and advisers but we're looking very very closely at the whole situation. we'll see what happens folks see what happens in. the world puts us in a position like. this is donald trump's

a tweet earlier about possible strikes against the syrian government the president says military action that would come from washington very soon or not very soon at all meanwhile friday has seen another u.n. security council meeting on the use of chemical weapons it was called by the bolivian ambassador who caught up with journalists afterwards. maybe i would send him a link of the u.n. charter for him to read it. and let me look for it i don't have any idea because. we spoke to mr learned on our program as well he says the u.s. threatens to undermine the very principles on which the united nations is based. the problem is that the united states believes an act it would be. of any any little they believe that they have their own rules and it is not the case the threat to use force through action the goals against the united nations charter

and also we are concerned about the possibility of us coalition does that this could go out of control and we might end up with why there a conflict that done the one that's already been suffer in syria it will not be an attack against syria but also an attack against the whole united nations system. or the claims of a chemical attack on the syrian city of duma were made by the self-styled celt civil defense group known as the white helmets russian experts have been to the area and say that they have found no evidence that a toxic substance was used the first group of inspectors from the international chemical weapons watchdog are due to arrive soon and will start work on saturday and syria's representative to the un security council has said his country will do everything possible to aid the investigation. the syrian government is ready. to grant a visa. for the second team we are ready to escort them to when we want wherever

they want anytime they want. all right meanwhile our news agency has obtained an interview with a man held in captivity by the militant a group josh al islam in duma he was freed from their custody on monday he recounted how militants allegedly forced him to participate in a staged a chemical weapons attack they filmed in duma back in two thousand and fifteen and we should mention that so far we have been unable to verify the man's story. doesn't it only clinical militants gathered us and forced us to take our shirts off and said that the syrian army was about to use chemical weapons they also said we should pretend as if chemical weapons were used against us and we couldn't breathe and there was also a kidnapped doctor with us he was forced to fill syringes pretending that he was injecting us to revive us militants poured water on us and forced us to pretend we were unconscious then they brought a camera and filmed us. or other former captive in duma

a girl taken prisoner together with her family said that the militant group was spreading the false atrocity story in advance and of the terrorists were telling us that the government is going to use chemical weapons to kill us but we saw nothing now could we hear a smile and he said. an emergency cabinet meeting in london called by the british prime minister wrapped up late thursday theresa may and her advisors have been contemplating possible military strikes against the syrian government parties no dear tutor has more on the meeting and its outcome. well there was a lot of anticipation as we waited for the results of that cabinet meeting we were expecting a major decision to be made of the possibility of military action. but

actually what we've ended up is quite a vague statement so after some key points here she's condemned the act calling it shocking and barbaric and that the use of chemical weapons should not go unchallenged the cabinet agreed that they should take action to alleviate through monetary and distress and that they should continue to work with their allies the u.s. and france so no mention of military action at all but that was the big debate obviously was whether to resume needed alimentary approval and it would have proved unpopular because a lot of people from our own party and other parties have spoken out about the fact that she shouldn't be able to do that including telling clarke he said that there should be parliamentary approval also the leader of the labor party jeremy corbyn he explains why that should be the case russia america europe. neighboring

countries iran saudi arabia they've got to be in there ensuring there is a real strong on the political pressure that's good hope to people. like you just take. and we've also heard from france micron he said that he has the proof that is needed to confirm that it was indeed the assad regime response. before that chemical attack let's have a quick listen to what he had to say we have proof that last week chemical weapons were used at the very least chlorine by the regime of bashar assad and we've heard from germany chancellor angela merkel has said that she definitely won't go ahead with military action mrs merkel in which way would you support a possible missile strike in syria and would look to an even to.

military aggression or to unleash detail even so a quick recap as to the outcome of that cabinet meeting in the u.k. there was no mention of military action she condemned the chemical attack in duma in syria she said that there was a need to take action but did not specify what that action should be and they agreed that they should continue to work with their allies the u.s. and france earlier we spoke to the former mayor of london ken livingstone he told us that theresa may knows the british public is unlikely to support a new military action in the middle east. last time britain was considering getting involved in syria it was a day by kim parliament and parliament voted against it back was great bad news for them prime minister cameron but the idea that we should be getting involved in wallace in the middle east without palm and behaved by issue and make

a decision is absolutely outrageous and i think it's because she knows there is very little public support for getting involved in the middle east again we all remember everyone in britain unless we were lied to by our government and the american government when we're told the iraq had weapons of mass destruction the result was hundreds of thousands i think nearly a million day many of them i am troops lost their lives as well and they all turned down sweet based on my lawn global chemical weapons watchdog says it has confirmed the nerve agent used to poison former russian spy sergei screwball and his daughter the full story coming up for you after a break stay with. the a.

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back this is our t. international now the international chemical weapons watchdog has backed britain's findings regarding the type of nerve agent used against sergei and yulia screwball 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 behind the attack given the purity of the substance of this is despite the fact that the organization itself is not in a position to assign blame on his political and report. 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 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 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 deep parts of five 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 russia is of course a member already confirmed that it's received its core 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 coltan down has also said that he can't be where the nerve agent came from the u.k. has already called for a u.n.

security council meeting following the 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 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 establish that it is not a chalk and that is by definition of the translation of the name which means new comma 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 know 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 there's just one good book 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 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 the exit to our 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 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 pure nerve agents. and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the lab has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment and the chemist themselves have

to be educated not every lead can synthesize this but there are twenty or so labs that counter. the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russia has made nuvi chalk's sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation is called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists scratching their heads over each other 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 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 chocks a single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the hailed even more units on the putting it we can hail the symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets on the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to hours. 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 a little but it's when witnesses found them they said serug a scrip all 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 real. port's there are many questions. if indeed this was a nuvi chalk a nerve agent at work the script bells 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. donald trump's new pick for america's top diplomat might pump a zero has gone through a required senate grilling while outlining his view of u.s. foreign policy here's how he explained the difference between russia and the u.s. and their roles on the world stage this is a unique exceptional country russia is unique but not exceptional wired

teens as american is in washington and has been following the nearly five hour long hearing for. regime change was discussed at my palm pairs confirmation hearing for the position of secretary of state and he was asked why it would be ok for the u.s. to adopt a regime which is official policy but not russia for example and apparently it's because the u.s. is quote exceptional and russia is it and he also said that soft policy on russia will and once he becomes secretary of state but it's not clear what this policy is exactly considering a tweet sent recent sanctions imposed on moscow just last week and pompei all seems to be proud of this to say that the u.s. has expelled the most diplomats at any time since the cold war and he also said that he would make sure that the administration continues its policy but take a backseat to no one with my views of the threat that is presented to america from

russia and if i am confirmed as the secretary of state i can assure you this administration will continue as it has for the past fifteen months to take real actions to push back to re set the deterrence relationship with respect to russia and on other issues pompei repeated the establishment line. and you still agree that far from being a great public service wiki leaks is more like a non-state actor hostile to the interests of the national interest and security of the united states so really i do believe that. and i think you still agree that but i'm sure putin's government actively interfered in our presidential elections and the reflections at large and twenty sixteen at the center that's correct i. think. the phony democracy is in the vital national interests of the united states yes indeed center

in the effect of this doing that is an important tool of american forces. but looking at his nomination through a wider lens a trump also appointed a bush era neo con john bolton as his national security adviser so it won't be too surprising if we see a more hawkish foreign policy from the u.s. in the future and that does it for me i'll be back in just under thirty five minutes with a full look to stay with us. max geysers financial survival guide liquid assets not those that you can convert into nasa quite easily. to keep in mind no assets need to place an. order.

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constantly evolving and. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race based on a sunday school very dramatic day followed only mostly and dangerous disease i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. greetings and salutation ever since u.s. president donald trump's wednesday morning tweet heard around the world warning russia not to stand in the way of his impending airstrikes in syria the volume in the march to war has been turned up to eleven if you tuned in the most u.s.

cable news channels or read the new york times the washington post over the last few days you may have suddenly thought to yourself that you're on a bad acid trip bringing you all the way back to the spring and winter of two thousand and three in the run up to the iraq war well you know if you thought that you you would be absolutely right salute lee right except this time there is no acid in syria's the new iraq since the most convenient of alleged chemical weapons attacks of all time and do most serious centrally reversing course on president trump's murmurings of pulling u.s. forces out of syria the washington d.c. war hawks about out in full force both behind the scenes. and on prime time from republicans like senator lindsey graham proclaiming quote i would destroy their force to democrats like senator richard blumenthal declaring some kind of military spot response ought to be considered it has to be robust and unmistakable.

but in the midst of all the political war hawking punkin squawking and red white and blue graphics packages there's been a stunning silence throughout the land that silence is the sound of peace or more to the point the voices for peace those pundits journalists are politicians who seek an alternative to violence and the dropping of bombs on syrian potentially russian soldiers or hardware nowhere with these voices heard are truly represented not on c.n.n. m s n b c or flop. wait sorry actually fox news of all places featured voices of peace in tucker carlson and glenn greenwald they were on tuesday night discussing peace before bombs in syria. you know it's so weird day when tucker carlson glenn greenwald and tyrell been terra actually all agree on something together when that day comes you know it's time to start watching the

hawks. you. want to. get the feel like real that this would be the last to leave the bottom if you. like you know what i got. this. week so. welcome everyone to watch the world and on top of the lala and sara did you ever think that he would be right in line. agreeing politically. with tucker carlson of fox news no no no no but you know a weird this last year he's actually there's been through things i've actually you

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