we needed to get the ball going left go. alone. and i'm really happy for joined out today and for the two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one come on south of. me to just read the review the aussie team's latest edition to make up as we go so i need to just say look. this is harlan kentucky. to move the employees to the boardroom street fanny's. a co money city with almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the polarizer said that there was a drive to see these people a survivor was disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i

was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happened it's happened. one else truths seem wrong. but all quotes just don't hold. me close yet to shape out this day to come to educate and gain from it equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. the u.s. defense secretary admits he has no concrete evidence of a chemical attack in the syrian city of duma but doesn't rule out a preemptive strike against him ask us. this is

a unique exceptional country russia is unique but not exceptional that's america's future top diplomat explaining exactly why washington has the right to pursue regime change in other countries. and also this hour british football fans rise above the political discord to enjoy a european championship match in moscow archie follows one prominent arsenal fans trip to russia. well. can you still ready and we're really worried about the tension that actually. sure there's no tension between the. politicians that the politicians get on with. this is art international coming to you live from moscow with me welcome to the program. the u.s.

defense secretary james mattis says america has the right to carry out a preemptive strike on the syrian government to defend its troops he also admitted though that there was no clear evidence that chemical weapons were used in an attack in the city of duma last weekend. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the 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 we will not know who did it they can only say that they found evidence or did not donald trump initially seemed determined to strike damascus but then backtracked the white house says no final decision has been reached but as eager solemn explains fears are growing over the situation in syria as a lack of evidence didn't prevent the u.s. from starting a full scale war in the past. we're looking very very seriously very closely in that whole situation and. we'll see what happens folks will see what happens if the

drum of war is beginning to bang in washington and the beat is for syria the u.s. is again accusing president assad over using chemical weapons on his own people but the basis for this conviction appears to be lacking one crucial aspect we're not engaged on in the ground on the ground there so i cannot tell you that we had evidence well something is better than nothing but right now it's just a feeling behind a possible military attack is it enough to risk ask elating into a war with syria's allies and even a nuclear standoff apparently yes 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 theater we're operating in the rocky invasion played out along suspiciously similar lines we must take the battle to the enemy we will take every step necessary to make sure our country is secure and we will prevail the iraqi regime has in fact

been very busy in answering its capabilities in the field of chemical and biological agents one difference that jumps out is that with the rug the u.s. had that info. bottle of anthrax as reason to call on its forces in hindsight it was a completely false pretext and with syria they don't even have that the o.p.c. w the un chemical watchdog the height of judgment when it comes to such cases already vouched two years ago that syria's stockpiles were no more wrong to twenty seeing and their words seems to matter a little for washington there is another similarity with the iraq invasion and one must keep in mind the history of u.n. inspection teams around. even as they were conducting the most intrusive system of arms control in history the inspectors missed a great deal in my last attempt to enlarge the membership of all of the

organisation was convincing iraq and libya for example to join in and that when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because the plans already to take some action military action against iraq the bottom line is that the pentagon is hardly keeping its lack of evidence on whether the attack even happened a big secret never mind the perpetrator behind it all that matters sticking to the tried and trusted path the problem is that the united states believes an act it would be. of any any at all they believe that they have their own rules and it is not the case the threat to use force you another action the goals against the united nations charter also we are concerned about the possibility of escalation 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. britain has also been contemplating possible military strikes against the syrian government but against expectations do you k. prime minister didn't announce any action that's after polls revealed how little appetite the british public has for war. you think military strikes in syria will help solve anything no i don't know so helpless at the moment one of this area and she's open to any kind of military intervention what would you she really disagree with military action against anything happening in this syria there's already enough fighting going on there as it is and there's a real danger of war escalating way beyond what we expect the scenario. where the

target is to send any for the signal if we. push up you know the basic military intervention that outsetting i think we have that five attitude where these countries have these problems have the civil wars and we try and go to fix it but we had our civil war when the americans had their civil war nobody went to us we got this side we have now they need to go through this on their oh the last time britain was considering getting involved in syria there was a debate in parliament and parliament voted against it. was bad news for the then prime minister cameron the idea that we should be getting involved in wars in the middle east without parliament behaving to issue and make a decision is absolutely outrageous and i think just because he knows that he's 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 were told the iraq had weapons of mass destruction the result was hundreds of miles and i think nearly a million day many of our own troops lost their lives as well and it all turned out to be based on a law i. knew picked for america's top diplomat mike pump a zero has made it clear why it's ok for washington to interfere in other country's affairs the future secretary of state was grilled by the senate on his foreign policy views and he pointed out the difference between russia and the us and that's apparently american exceptionalism. and you would agree with me if we embrace the regime change in other nations we can hardly say but this is something that only the us gets do if we say that's an acceptable foreign policy goal for us other nations concluded setting acceptable foreign policy goals for them this is a unique exceptional country russia is unique but not exceptional regime change was

discussed at my pompei as confirmation hearing for the position of secretary of state and he also said that soft policy on russia will end it once he becomes secretary of state but it's not clear what this all policy is exactly considering a tweets and recent sanctions imposed on moscow just last week and pump ale seems to be proud of this as saying 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 this policy i 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 that same mind that we're hearing from pompei we've been hearing from american leaders this is nothing new for madeleine albright secretary of state she said that

if we use force it's because we're the united states were the in this pencil nation that you had obama talking about is in the end this test of all nation hillary clinton so this is really the air that americans read i we now in a multi-polar world the united states and russia still have a couple thousand nuclear weapons pointed each other on hair trigger alert china's economy is booming and this is no longer the world in the early one nine hundred ninety s. now is standing up and asserting russia's national security interests and there is something. the united states just don't like that. the israeli gaza border is braced for another day of violence this friday palestinians launch into occupation protests at the end of march demanding the return of land they claim israel has taken the israeli defense force has deployed tanks and i've been using live ammunition and tear gas to break up the demonstrations palestinians meanwhile have

come up with some inventive ways to counter the israeli offensive they've been making masks with filled with perfume and cotton and even fruit and vegetables to help them breathe through the tear gas fired by the i.d.f. since the beginning of the standoff there have been scores of palestinian casualties. i. i. i. i. mean while an i.d.f. soldier who shot a palestinian on the gaza border protest in december has been cleared of wrongdoing by a military inquiry video emerge of him firing shots alongside other snipers who cheered and laughed at the injuries they inflicted. but there are so that we could have to move out of. every.

dollar. i did nothing i was just a demonstration i went to my friends to help them and before i reached the place they shot me the soldier knew that i was going to help them and that's why i was shot while this palestinian man recognizes himself in the video by the red jacket that he was wearing he said that this happened during clashes along the israel gaza border on the twenty second of december he was shot in the leg ups acquainted that he has been treated in hospital and he says he's been suffering ever since now the video was shot from the israeli sniper site you can actually hear on the video cheering and you can hear the snipers giving each other instructions what is particularly warring is the expressions that are being heard take a listen every. dollar. you know. already with a little for the record straight on did. what

. the law did the war really well there. now the israeli defense forces has launched an investigation into the whole incident in its initial review it has cleared the sniper but it has said that those who were cheering and those who filmed the video will face a disciplinary hearing and a statement released by the army they said that the expression of the video and the distribution of the video are not in the spirit of the idea if the reaction here in israel has been mixed on the one hand you have israeli politicians who have come out and supported the sniper in the soldiers actions saying that you cannot judge a soldier. while he is in the line of duty that these soldiers are defending the country and they're under a lot of stress but then you have for example members of parliament who are highly

critical who are calling for the soldiers to be brought to book and who say that this is simply and completely unacceptable come out how washroom the palestine solidarity campaign says israeli soldiers were active protests in a disproportionate and in three main way and absolute act of target practice effectively because the cheering from. the soldiers fellow soldiers basically was just completely inhumane and outrageous in the west i challenge them to produce evidence anywhere that this would happen. and in any case this shows you that the difference on the one side you have heavily armored. soldiers and on the other side or you have are protesters who might have a story to throw from a long.