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 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 and 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 yet it has happened france has analyzed yes it is that three separate analysis or coming back with the same thing there is proof that this happened. she's saying this proves three separate analyses from three key countries

there she's pretty convinced she doesn't specify the analysis though. well let's go behind the scenes if if we listen back to what the u.k. representative said they were saying that russia has had too much you know i would say going off or outlaw or whatever it is they cited georgia where they cited crimea they cited the malaysian aircraft that was downed in the ukraine and one would suspect that this has got nothing to do with any chemical attack they will prove it no matter how they might even fabricate samples we don't know or somebody might fabricate samples because we cannot rule out the possibility that someone from within the region wants to see the syrian state weakened or even toppled might stage something and what we know as well is that should the slum the army of islam the militant group that was just ousted from duma they have a position of chlorine gas they used it and they acknowledged its usage two years

ago in aleppo against kurdish militia they issued a statement saying you know we've done it somewhat so in a sense somebody could stage this yes but going back to what really this is all about it's probably the two super well the the the u.k. the united states and russia and france thinking well russia might have had too much influence now let's try and curtail these things down if you speak to people in damascus they would tell you we've got nothing to do with this most probably this has more to do with the script parties in london than to do with anything that the syrian government has or. probably my do in the future all we need to do now is to wait for christmas so to you know fall over our heads and then you know it's somebody else's business what can we do doesn't sound pretty hopeful what you're saying barrie made whatever the c.w. says if i don't appreciate what they're going to say we won't know for a few days yet but saying that if they do find traces of some chemicals it doesn't

seem like that's going to make much of a difference in stopping something terrible from happening you'll have one side saying see chemicals were used you'll have the other side saying we told you that the rebels in the militants had chemical weapons it's things that will make matters even worse. yes i mean the quarrel would go on what we can see from what has happened this year compared to what happened last year after the alleged chemical attack in the home is that russia time didn't stage for example the counter threats they were told by the united states pre were going to bomb this specific piece so basically what they were saying is that if you have any personnel over there police evacuated them lest they get hurt now russia is having powerful threats there are deployment of. russian forces we've just heard news before coming to the studio that russia has maintained. iranian approval of using iranian air bases to deploy strategic bombers and we've seen the russian fleet if getting out

of presumably into battle stations we don't know so russia is sending all the messages across that it is ready for a confrontation and you know should the west want to go on with this it's going to be probably a mr thing maybe we'll know more in the next twenty four forty eight hours for now though from again also think tank thanks very much for that. 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 outside government james mattis admitted however that washington has no real evidence that chemical weapons were actually used in dubai last weekend. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the the o.p.c. dubey this you're going to zation 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 well as we've established inspectors

from the international chemical weapons watchdog due to start work in duma on saturday donald explains were godless of their findings concerns a growing washington appears to be scrambling to find any 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 iraq 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 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 are ready to take some action military action against iraq the bottom line is that the pentagon is hardly keeping its for 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. 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. i mean the big development on syria is at the united nations of course and after the break we'll be live in new york for the latest on the current security council session underway right now.

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the united nations security council is currently holding an emergency meeting to discuss saturday's alleged chemical attack on the syrian city of do but i'll get back to new york now artie's more pain is that what we did today of angry exchanges once again at the u.n. as see bring us up to speed what's been said. well we heard at the beginning of the meeting from antonio gutierrez of the u.n. secretary general and in his remarks he emphasized the need for the o.p.c. w. to get to the bottom of what actually happened in duma where this alleged chemical attack is alleged to have taken place now from there we heard from the russian ambassador in benghazi and went to bed zia spoke he talked about how these reports and allegations of a chemical attack are essentially a pretext to justify u.s.

military action against the syrian government and from there he talked about how the extremists and the terrorists who are fighting against the syrian government are preparing for if the usa were to then attack syria they would then surge forward to launch an offensive this isn't a bed of the a representative of the russian federation. we saw a recent examples in iraq in libya they show is that the u.s. needs the u.n. security council for pragmatic reasons they used in the case of iraq with the vaio they used it to cover up the initiative of the libyan no fly zone and that's what's being done now you're showing i was an imaginary value it's empty. now from there we heard from nikki haley representing the united states as the u.n. ambassador and in her remarks you accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism and glossed over and did not mention the fact that the united states had

actually vetoed a resolution by russia which would have allowed the o.p.c. w. and mandated that they go to the site of the chemical attack that russia has provided and offered to provide military protection for the o.p.c. w. to make sure they can get to the bottom of what happened and from there we are nikki haley go into an interesting historical parallels she wanted to make history this is nikki haley speaking before the u.n. security council. chemical weapons didn't produce the most casualties and more a war won but they were the most feared in world war two chemical weapons were employed on an industrial scale against civilians resulting in the worst genocide in human history which we recall just yesterday on holocaust remembrance day. now from there we did hear from the people's republic of china and china emphasized that syria's territorial integrity and its sovereignty must be protected and we did

hear from the syrian arab republic under u.n. rules if there's a u.n. security council relating to your country even if you're not a member of the fifteen member body of the u.n. security council you're allowed to address the meeting and the syrian arab republic addressed the meeting saying that they have always opposed the use of chemical weapons that they did not carry out this attack and then they went on to basically accuse the united states of hypocrisy and go over the use of chemical weapons by the united states in vietnam and elsewhere so. it's an interesting meeting of the meeting continues all eyes are on the security council it's not clear what the united states is going to do next but there's clear do this within the u.n. security council about how the world should relate to these allegations regarding the area known as duma and we'll let you get back across what's happening in that chamber be brought by with you when the remote developments from the kind of open in new york. let me hear you also said that the united states president has not yet made a decision about how to respond to the disputed chemical attack in two months but

it seems likely that strikes would increase his popularity at home. bunny brown the flag effect and increased popular support of the president during war accompanied by reduced criticism of governmental policies and. any nuclear missile launched from cuba against any nation in the western hemisphere as an attack by the soviet union on the united states. progress is now being made towards the restoration of peace in the caribbean. the use of terrorists and its holding hostages. seek to continue along with other nations and with the. resolution of the crisis. i have therefore directed to reject the iraqi army from kuwait.

its president i can report to the nation aggression is defeated the war is over. american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger. the united states and around. have prevailed. and i ordered a targeted military strike for airfields in syria. i think. became president of the united states i think this was actually a big moment for. some of america's key partners though i'm not so keen to launch strikes against syria germany italy the netherlands and canada all say there needs to be a thorough investigation first more on that now from peter all of the. well if there

is going to be any coalition it does seem that a lot of leaders in europe as well as further afield are going to need some more convincing we've heard from angela merkel here in berlin saying this although a clear message needs to be sent that using chemical weapons will not be tolerated she isn't prepared to commit the bundeswehr to strikes in syria just yet the german military won't be involved as it stands similar message coming out of rome as well where. italy will honor. existing deals when it comes to logistics but they won't be sending any combat troops all aircraft listen to those two leaders right now or be able to we must say as we tell you and so always have that if we need a long term solution to the syrian crisis we have to lead to respond to crimes that first of all work towards peace and drama he will not like to do. it and want to make it clear again there are no decisions but we see this that everything is being

done to send a signal that this use of chemical weapons is not acceptable to say. one of the loudest voices in support of donald trump has been a money with the french president however there are voices within his own government that are saying although mr marquand claims that there is proof of a chemical attack they're going to need to see that proof before they commit to any type of military action similar words coming out of the hague the netherlands saying they want to see well they want to see concrete evidence before they commit troops to any strikes in from canada across the atlantic there we're hearing the words coming out of auto air that they're not looking to be present in syria now counted or in the past have taken part in bombing campaigns against isis in iraq but they were all stopped back in twenty fifteen when justin trudeau took over as the leader of the country there now perhaps the most go to our ally that the u.s. has is the united kingdom and we've heard on for a. a day after

a cabinet meeting in london that the british cabinet says there is a need for action after the alleged chemical attack in syria however when speaking to people on the streets in the united kingdom there certainly isn't an appetite amongst the british public to join in with donald trump. i think military strikes in syria will help solve anything no i don't know so help us at the moment one of the very end she's considering any kind of military intervention what would you choose gee i really disagree with military action against anything happening in this syria there's already enough fighting going on that. there's a real danger of war escalating way beyond what we expect the scenario and the way to target it to send it in for the signal to. push up the base to. mention that outside the i think we have that five attitude where these countries

have these problems have the civil war and we try to go to fix it but we are all when the americans had their civil war nobody went and bombed us we got the side we have now they need to go through this on their own well that we has we hear there from the united kingdom there is a lot coming out from all the european countries that if they going to be a part of a coalition they're going to need confirmation that this chemical attack did take place and at the moment there are a lot of people quite skeptical as to what the right response is at the moment peter all of our a lot of strong feelings all round and a lot of development to go you had read over the past few hours to with that in mind kevin o. will be here in just about half an hour to pull together who's been saying what in the past few hours and what the potential ramifications could be there watching r.t. international thanks for watching. so taking had to take matters into its own heads to provide his own security and

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players so. no matter that when they come back home to play for their country that they did what they had the same level of commitment. with a country so i have no doubt. and i really hope that that will be the case that african teams will be really going very far in this competition how important is it for russian sport for the host nation to have a good tournament while i think what we experienced during this. twenty seventeen. confederation. very strong and what. could be i really was fascinated by the level of. readiness and more importantly by the woman well what pleased you the most from the russian welcoming in the some of the confederations cup because i was and one of my roles i believe.

to speak honestly about. seven times now i'm not a fantastic people don't look at me differently on the street people don't treat me differently. which is against some of the stereotypes that we are presented with. so tell us what what pleasantly surprised you about the confederations cup. what you just described when i came for the first time in russia it was in july. last year. one month after my assignment and definitely like every african. person i was just feeling to be treated differently and i was ready also to. people think differently about africa and africans but i've been here for at least twenty times altogether i haven't had any issues wherever i go.