that was. the feeling anyway deflated about the diplomacy going on right now yet again we've got the un security council meeting around the table the words are becoming ever more barbed every time they get together draft resolutions proposed them vetoed on either side do you think diplomacy is really not going to work out this time. i see that. i was monitoring about this well i'm not there is a question on the donald trump insight that is right it is coming from the storm yet but it is there might. be in some kind of international issues and if you don't directly know it was kind of the biggest that is going to be. and i don't if i'm the dog and he went and all these in china look i think that is what has no interest in turn down to the international arena so there's also this kind of

impact it's actually can probably is genuine but it will be definitely. for the international intervention and international security if heaven forbid this does scare late into more military strikes and there is a larger u.s. continued on its way over to the eastern mediterranean right now who's got more to gain from doing this because today alone we've seen the likes of the us he doesn't like to lose to his home crowd to britain who's been guarded in giving support to all this but she's very aware of the depth of feeling at home for the lack of appetite for any military action and i'm going to merkel also saying roughly the same thing we've heard from politicians in germany look they've got many many syrian refugees who really want to go back home to a peaceful country who's going to benefit from escalating this further. i forced out the big chill are beneficial actually because this is something like this you can be much better if you lay say because this now that you had it yet next is

actually to be some sort of the major joss and some sort of that tension into the middle east and. actually look like this darkness is fabricated and something like there isn't any genuine front for you to decide because it's all good if you're in his are closely linked to. the are there are days all this really situation and some sort of it is going to get out it's. not a concert on this sense kind of the. attack drama. so the mob confided militant organizations so it will be not something that it will it cannot be ruled out and. of course built. in there has been there is not because there is only one side and so much for your time on the line and the uprising and the retired march and all this is going on.

in your future actually just quickly before they let you go you're in beijing at the moment one of the four. china has been abstaining from a couple of votes at the un security council but no doubt it does have its concerns about where this is all going to head because it took could drag in any number of countries if this gets much worse what are the thoughts in beijing as far as you understand. i'm going to have stances many much peaceful all the time because china australia and china are that is the strength of the united nation i mean part of the storms the united nations. and and should be more. international also of them might. have to be the stars would be to reduce the tension and of course recently the chinese foreign minister was to russia so it was already a major gesture that the russians are just along this statement definitely there is a major. debate in this thing because it's like going to be a new member or so i but i must focus on the united nations i don't text to speech

some wires actually said that. at the core of what has back and there is a risk of the proxy war on and used to be some to get into a better you get this so of course the international. should force your students and. you know jim it is going to be no the deeply and wasn't just one billion played that is going to be played by the president maybe because he is so emotional and. actually. tony blair moves were resurrected by the russian ambassador in britain a couple of hours ago to for now the invasion political analyst thanks very much for that. well let's bring you up to date on where we are right now russia's defense ministry in the past couple of hours has released a video in which witnesses if the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in syria is doing this say there was nothing to indicate that those brought to hospital and been exposed to a chemical agent. my name is. i am

a medical student i work in the e.r. department of dumas central hospital. on april eighth a building in the city was bombed the upper floors were destroyed and the bottom floors caught fire and all the injured from that building were brought to our hospital. the residents from the upper floors were suffering from smoke inhalation and that is what we treated them for based on the symptoms they exhibited. right corresponded on hawkins was following that russian defense ministry briefing which is a couple of hours ago now i'm quite a significant change to the foreign minister had said there was evidence now we've got a bit more detail yet there's certainly a new dimension to what's been going on of course the russian side has all along denied that this chemical attack took place there or to put forward by groups on the ground in syria the white helmets and of course the u.s. u.k. and france as well just to give you

a bit of background obviously whatever happened in syria on the seventh of april in duma was described as a chemical attack which killed and injured dozens of civilians by the what how much by these western countries now considering military action missile strikes against syria denied subsequently by of course the damascus government by russia as something that did not take place effectively as a false flag operation we had earlier the foreign minister sergei lavrov obviously saying that they had proof that this was a provocation a false flag operation now let's move to the evidence about what actually happened the russian side have said their experts have visited the ground in duma that they found no traces of chemical weapons attacks on the ground on. the civilians effect allegedly affected by this and the proof that today the russian energy has come up with at least from what they're saying is this witness we've just seen who figured in one of those videos that was circulated on social media following this incident

on the seventh he was a medical student on the ground there in that hospital which received this intake of civilians allegedly off to a shelling attack on a building there he says that these people were not showing any symptoms of chemical contamination they were showing excuse me symptoms of smoke inhalation that unidentified individuals subsequently entered the room and filmed what was going on pouring water on these people providing them with masks let's take a listen to further details of what exactly this man had to say. during treatment some person came in i don't know who that was and said that it was a chemical attack. when the. people got scared a fight broke out. relatives of the victims started pouring water on one another. then others began to give inhalers for asthma the children. even though these people were not medical professionals we did not see any patients exhibiting symptoms of chemical poisoning. one incident two very different

versions and of course evidence is the crux of the issue here we've got michael the president of france earliest saying he had solid evidence refuting the evidence and facts of this incident taking place a chemical attack a massacre by the damascus government the russian side saying exactly the opposite that not only was this not damascus this is that it did not take place at all one of these versions is clearly not entirely true the o.p.c. w.t.v. is i believe in syria they're on their way to do more to take soil samples of samples of perhaps blood and urine from these victims that attended this hospital on the seventh of april it's hope they could send some light on what exactly happened if there was a chemical incident of some sort on the other hand if this was closer to the version of it the russian m.o.d.e. is saying right now with there's so many versions around that o.p.c. w. investigation will be key to finding out more lots of what exactly took place there

a lot riding on what that u.n. chemical team find over the next forty eight hours or so for now they don't know consent very much for that. a lot of developments in the past few hours from both moscow and new york the latest on syria after the break. because the swarm see the blue of them so morning. sibylla viewers who are local was before. much of those who heard the preview it was few other movies to see him with the north we were going to. move. move.

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take you had to take matters into its own heads to provide job security at securing the border radius now this is a very. agents of the goals. who are the bridge to be there. has to be the who are the british to be. developments for you now the u.s. defense secretary said on thursday that any perceived threat to american military personnel in syria would justify a preemptive strike on the assad government james mattis admitted however third washington has no real evidence that chemical weapons were actually used in duma last weekend. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the the o.p.c. dubey this your going to station for the chemical weapons convention 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 as they said inspectors from the international chemical weapons watch dog due to start working doing on saturday but as it goes down of now explains regardless of their findings concerns are growing that washington appears to be scrambling for a pretext for intervention we're looking very very seriously very closely to 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 us 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 a rock the u.s. had that infamous 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 one must keep in mind the history of un inspection teams in iraq. even as they were conducting the most intrusive system of arms control in history the inspectors missed a great deal and in my last term to enlarge the membership of all of the organization 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 is sticking to

the tried and trusted path the problem is that the united states believes and i thought 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 or union other action the goals against the united nations charter and also we are concerned about the possibility of this coalition 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. some of america's key partners are currently willing to launch strikes against syria germany italy the netherlands and canada all say that needs to be a thorough investigation first marcus from from germany's alternative for germany

party told us why he thinks his country's not too keen on military intervention against assad's government i guess determined people against conflict or to continue to conflict in syria because you cannot explain the truman mother why for example chairman soldier is dying for american interests in syria we have no interest to continue this confrontation in syria i guess until a miracle knows that they will continue to conflict in syria that would mean that a lot of refugees would continue to come to term in the. you know the people in germany just suffer because of this situation it's not easy for us to handle it but we are close to have social conflicts because of that. because from my giving me his reaction a little bit earlier and that's the r.t. news hour from now in the past few hours we've heard key countries say that they have irrefutable proof of what really happened in duma and a couple of minutes i'll tell you who's saying what the ramifications are likely to

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headline news witnesses of the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma say video released by russia's defense ministry brought to hospital not showing symptoms consistent with exposure to a chemical agent. also this hour and i had lined news we take a look at the questionable credibility of the group reporting on the alleged attack in too much including the rebel linked white helmets. and syrian rebels poised to assist in any possible u.s. strikes against syria that's according to russia's un ambassador speaking in new york in the past couple of hours.

this is r.t. international seven pm on friday here in moscow my name's called in by welcome to your news update thanks for choosing us this hour a lot of developments in syria to update you on for the past couple of hours first off russia's defense ministry has released a video in which witnesses of the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the city of duma say there was no indication that those rushed to hospital had been exposed to a chemical substance. my name is. i am a medical student i work in the e.r. department of dumas central hospital on april eighth a building in the city was bombed the upper floors were destroyed and the bottom floors caught fire and all the injured from that building were brought to our hospital. that the residents from the upper floors were suffering from smoke

inhalation and that is what we treated them for based on the symptoms they exhibited. when i came out from the russian defense ministry briefing a couple of hours ago in moscow correspondent daniel hawkins and watching across what else was said well this is a bit of a dominating headlines over the past few days that incident in duma whatever took place is attracted very different versions of events from the russian side the syrian side and the u.s. u.k. and france something did happen in do on the seventh of april with the western nations on the white helmets group on the ground in syria claiming it was a chemical attack by the damascus government on civilians killing and injuring dozens the russian side the mask is saying this was a setup now today we've got that evidence allegedly from the russian mody saying they have identified an individual in the video you can see just being played bad that video was used as part of the evidence by helmets and western nations to prove that there was a chemical attack in duma as those rebels and civilians were being evacuated you

can see the man highlighted the witness there on the video just for our viewers they claim they've identified that man as you say a witness who we just heard speaking there found him subsequently asked exactly what happened in that incident on the seventh of april in dubai let's take a listen to what exactly had to say about what took place in the hospital after that time. during treatment some person came in i don't know who that was and said that it was a chemical attack. when the. people got scared a fight broke out. relatives of the victims started pouring water on one another. then others began to give inhalers for asthma the children. even though these people were not medical professionals we did not see any patients exhibiting symptoms of chemical poisoning. now this video amongst others of course quite shocking disturbing images of civilian casualties was circulated online on social

media and cited by their formation and organizations countries as evidence of that chemical attack and evidence of course is the key word here is the real crux of the issue we've got o.p.c. w. team heading over to do more on the way that they should be there over the next twenty four forty eight hours or so believe they have arrived in syria their findings will be key to establishing what really happened in duma whether there was some sort of chemical incident by the damascus government by our side as the western nations are saying or as we heard from the russian m o d this was effectively what they describe allegedly a false flag operation as they can listen to what their mody actually had to say believe we just got a bit of coming out of information now. the russian military has gathered evidence that indicates the direct involvement of great britain in organizing the provocation in eastern. we know for a fact that london pressured the so-called white house meant to carry out their plans provocation as soon as possible they were told that from the third to the

sixth of april rebels would carry out a series of heavy showings of damascus and that this would lead to a reaction from the government forces which the white helmets should use for their provocation and to allege the use of chemical weapons. now these are obviously quite strong allegations from the russian ministry of defense or other counter allegations us to this alleged chemical incident in do something they will have to obviously provide evidence for specifically for for britain's involvement in this the key bit of evidence that as we said before is the arrival of the o.p.c. the team with the u.n. man that he would instructions on the ground to get those soil samples get those examined any victims if there are any and find out if any chemicals were used that's the key thing to prove what exactly happened and to give some credibility to either of these two versions will find that out of course in the next twenty four to forty eight hours let's hope some scientific facts can take some of the heat out of the situation for now though don hawkins thanks very much for that. those who

reported on the alleged attack and it was dan was just saying there some have question marks hanging over their credibility has more i guess they have explained . reports of a chemical attack first appeared strange enough it's almost the precise moment the battle had ended when the syrian government and rebels were negotiating on how to evacuate the latter reports first appeared on social media twitter facebook and spread like wildfire while my colleague kendall anian and i have learned today that the u.s. now has blood and a year in samples from some of the victims of this attack in syria last weekend and that those samples according to u.s. officials tested positive for chemicals sources the usuals why the helmets who service rescuers islamists and syrian rebels also the somewhat less known syrian american medical society savin's together with the white helmets they were

cited by the washington post the new york times c.n.n. virtually every western media outlets reporting on this chemical attack on saturday april seventh amidst continuous bombardment of residential neighborhoods in the city of duma more than five hundred cases the majority of whom are women and children were brought to local medical centers with symptoms indicative of exposure to a chemical agent sams itself is funded by u.s. aid six million in two thousand and fifteen usaid is widely believed to be an arm of the state department and is banned in multiple countries accused of interfering in domestic policies and promoting regime change it even has an office of transition initiatives the management at sam's also believe it or not former usaid stuff it was saddam's who reportedly provided the u.p.c. w. with samples of the alleged sarin gas that was used in hunchy whom the site of

a chemical attack last year afterward. donald trump sent fifty seven cruise missiles at the syrian airbase o.p.c. w. is on its way to duma to investigate we've contacted various groups including the world health organization they've cited saddam's but have refused to go into any details but for the u.s. there's already enough evidence we definitely have enough proof but now we just have to be thoughtful in our action the national security team is trying to give him as many options as we can and will be thoughtful about it and see what happens what comes next no one can say whether the u.s. will go ahead with a preemptive strike or whether cooler heads will prevail but live to london now is the director of the novels think tank which focuses on the middle east good to have you back on r.t.

we've got two sides both very convinced that they've got irrefutable proof of what happened in duma yet to hear what the french presidency irrefutable proof is b. says he's got it nonetheless we've now seen this video from the russian defense ministry of someone who says if they were in the duma hospital this isn't how it looked is that video going to be enough in order to change the tide here or maybe get some cooler thinking going on. no we don't think so because this particular video the you know the u.k. or the u.s. could argue this could have been any person could have been paid money and they would want to discredit the whole thing and discredit him personally so we don't expect that to happen but then there is an even more important you know the chewed up some russian military police going to investigate the scene of you know the alleged chemical attack and the personnel coming out of the russian military police car and they weren't wearing any chemical warfare suits or you know gas masks or anything they were just standing there with their they obviously had no concerns

for their personal safety you know is it upstairs ok let's just go up stairs so they clearly didn't think that anything serious has had happened over there at all and that tells you they knew they knew all along that nothing has happened otherwise one could argue they wouldn't have insisted on the c.w. coming as soon as possible to investigate that a beginner in a couple of hours ago don't have a hearing still going on but it was yet another exchange of barbs across the table with nikki haley for the u.s. saying that they the u.s. the u.k. and france of all reached the same conclusions regarding the attack will play you a few seconds of what nikki haley was saying in new york did a chemical weapons attack happened yet the u.s. has analyzed yes it has happened the u.k. has analyzed it yesterday it happened france has they analyzed yes it is that three separate analysis all coming back with the same thing there is proof that this happened. she's saying.