sort of the quibbling to christmas so it's quite barbaric the way the americans and the british carried this out so and also when we look at history if it's president assad who i think has far more legitimacy than trump or all or the british regime or the print regime if if chemical weapons are so evil i myself survived to chemical attacks carried out by the saddam hussein regime supported by the british government the people who gave saddam hussein those weapons in the british government in european government and in the massing of a thing are still in government and they are also in major corporations so these are animals people carry out attacks and all these people should be arrested the reality is though it's it has nothing to do with chemical weapons the british the french the americans the canadians they're all giving tens of billions of dollars to the saudi regime to destroy yemen to create suffering to create mass hunger and the americans and their allies the turks unfortunately the saudi regime they've

been and the israeli regime did been supporting extremist groups in syria for seven years now so i personally believe it's quite obvious that this attack was carried out in revenge for the successes of the syrian government in recapturing these from go to. moscow in syria in the aftermath of these strikes a calling for an emergency u.n. security council meeting citing american aggression what could come of that i mean given how syria and russia are both equally demonized if you like what was the best we can hope for out of this u.n. security council meeting. nothing will come out of it the western media and i think one thing that we now know is that the western media has nothing there's no democracy in the west the corporate media in the state run media they will tow the line you saw the british prime minister after she spoke the the

time time newspaper and the times newspaper as well as the b.b.c. what sort of soft ball questions they were getting and over the past few weeks over the past week think tanks and the western media have been basically mimicking their regimes in advocating an illegal strike the un security council of course is meaningless because the united states will carry out attacks whether they have permission from the un security council or not western think tanks the western media will mimic the government line so there's there's no hope in re storing. international law when we have rogue regimes or an axis of evil let us let us say that is basically behaving in such an extraordinary manner they have carried out crimes against humanity but of course this is nothing new for them and i think another important but i think something that import the something important will

come out of this and that is that countries like russia china iran and other countries that are independent or seek independence they will move further away from the united states and and western countries because they see that these countries are behaving more and more irrationally and more and more dangerously and the stakes of the security of the international community i think is at risk these are truly barbaric acts and i think they should be universally condemned despite the fact that the western media think tanks and those who are being funded by the powers that be so for their regimes no matter what they do that kind of like the timing. these strikes they came just hours before the o.p.c. w. is due in dumas on a fact finding mission into these alleged chemical attacks that took place in syria do you think that these strikes are going to jeopardize this investigation.

yes i think that now they will be it will be very difficult for them to say the truth anymore because they will be under extraordinary pressure from western governments it would be a huge humiliation for the united states if the truth were to come out but it is very interesting that they they could not wait until this investigation took place and it just shows how dishonest they are just like last year they they were not willing to have an investigation and they carried out an airstrike on an airbase last year and if there were chemical weapons there then we should have had a catastrophe the chemical weapons for the. spread throughout the whole region and contaminated the villages nearby in that last night when people were asleep and suddenly woke up through these these terrorists attacks these acts of terror then we should have files of chemical weapons being spread across the region the reeses

the reality is that they did not strike chemical weapons this is just like two thousand and three it takes. the lies about iraq's nuclear weapons to iraq the chemical weapons iraq's links to al qaeda those were just lies that were fabricated in the western media back then mimicked what their governments wanted them to mimic and now they're doing the same the only difference is that back and then they accused saddam hussein of working with al qaida but now it is they who have been funding al qaeda and other extremist groups al qaeda affiliates and isis as we know from the defense intelligence agency document of the united states from two thousand and twelve it is a must read for all people a lot of material is out there for those who want to know the facts about the chemical attacks gareth porter has written extensively on this more recently sharon mean any wrote an article when she went to solve the chemical installations there that the western media people ignored those installations that were held by the

extremists. we know we know cy the work of science hersh the mit report. the materials there are the only point is that the western media repeats these accusations until it's believed by them more than the simple minded and educated. parts of the population or those people who want to believe many people want to believe because they want to trust their government but the reality is on the ground is that this was a far far spying operation r.t. itself pointed out weeks earlier that your government was saying that there were there was a plan for spying operation but that was nothing that was not something that you would hear in the western media and the predictions that we all had have been fulfilled this fall spying operation was carried out and the western governments broke international law and murdered innocent syrians. as

as people in countries around the world wake up to the news of the strike we're seeing a divided reaction really in a wrong meanwhile iran has warned of regional consequences following those airstrikes and also the supreme leader of the country has called the transom a crown and may criminals strong words coming out of iran that do you think that we might see a response from iran. i think without a doubt that iran will be even more determined to defeat the extremists in this region that have been supported by the united states and its allies whether it's israel or saudi arabia or or unfortunately turkey but it's not only iran i think the iraqi people are also looking at syria and looking at the behavior of the united states they know better than anyone else how the united states ally do you

how it treats indigenous population and i think the people of lebanon and across the board i think this is not going to help the united states china will be from more concerned about how the united states and itself in anything because after all the us behavior in west asia is i think shows the sort of behavior that they will use when it conducts itself in east asia or any other part of the world. the international the u.n. security council is meaningless so the chinese and the russians know that international law no longer means anything so people so countries will have to move closer to each other in order to prevent the united states as a rogue regime from causing further damage but i think it's also important to note that how weak the european regimes are no matter who is in power in the united states if the united states decides to carry out an attack even though there's no

evidence even though an investigation has been carried out even though it only works for the benefit of the extremists the europeans ultimately even if it's trump they will hop on board and their media will basically mimic the government mind they they are like. the western countries are becoming more and more open about their non democratic nature until now we've always had this facade of democracy in the west but when we watch the media and how they do not question their regimes when they support extremists when they help create i created isis when they funded extremist groups alongside saudi arabia turkey israel and others when they did all this they were not questioning now when they want to carry out attacks against international law in violation of international law they are not questioning even when the british prime minister speaks to the b.b.c. and the times they are not questioning they basically the times reporter was asked

actually saying we are in a propaganda. when we are engaging with propaganda warfare with the russians why don't your myth ministers come out and explain more in other words the newspaper is basically telling the government that you should be doing more propaganda so that's the state of the media in the west. side mohammad marandi politics professor at the university of toronto thank you for sharing your expertise with us on our key international we appreciate it. well number of republican senators have lashed out at trump's decision to launch strikes saying he should have consulted congress first i haven't read france's or britain's constitution but i wrote i was nowhere in it is presidential authority to strike syria the president needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the constitution. strikes are an act of war atrocities in syria cannot justify departure from constitution which

vests in congress power to commence war well trungpa may seem to have rushed in but it wasn't always like that back in two thousand and thirteen he was highly critical of then president barack obama's approach on syria saying bad things will happen if washington launches an attack after becoming president however trump dropped tomahawk missiles on syria but that could be a possible explanation for the sea change. bunny brown the flag effect and increased popular support of the president during war accompanied by reduced criticism of governmental policies. 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. political demands. to continue along with other nations and with the official. 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. united states and around. have prevailed. that night i ordered a target. airfield in syria.

i think from became president of the united states i think this was actually a big moment. the bombing raids on syria come before the international chemical watchdog start their probe into the alleged attack in duma last week and the i.p.c. w.x. but saw due to arrive at the scene on saturday later today we requested a comment from the organization and we'll be bringing you that as soon as we get it . well meanwhile washington says it's confident that the syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people according to a white house statement that confidence and that is based not on intelligence but on media and n.g.o.s reports this conclusion is based on descriptions of the attack in multiple media sources the reported symptoms experienced by victims videos and

images showing to assess to barrel bombs from the attack and reliable information indicating coordination between syrian military officials before the attack however questions hang over the west's narrative due to the dubious reputations of the groups behind the allegations where it goes the other explains. 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 and sources the usuals white helmets who

serve as rescuers for islamists and syrian rebels also the somewhat less known syrian american medical society sounds 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 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 that self 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 sams also believe it or not former usaid stuff was 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 after which. donald trump sent fifty seven cruise missiles at the syrian air base o.p.c. w. it's on its way to duma to investigate we've contacted the various groups including the world health organization they've cited sabs but have refused to go into any details well what's remarkable is that this group the syrian american medical society is cited by a who's who of western media organizations as a credible source when it's anything but this organization which is funded to the tune of some close to six million dollars or more by usa id a wing of the state department which actually emerged out of the cia to encourage

regime change and what the u.s. considers enemy states this organization is directed by operatives name sahar so little is actually a lobbyist who's been lobbying the u.s. government since the obama administration for a war of regime change and this organization operates hospitals exclusively in territory controlled by al qaeda syrian affiliate and its allies so this is a you know to me to see it should be a national scandal that u.s. taxpayers are basically paying for the civil society wing of al qaeda and its soil if you just jihadi allies and we're simply talking in us media about this organization as if they're just a bunch of syrian feel doctors this is an international law being an influence organization dedicated to stimulating regime change and so we absolutely have to be skeptical when they make these allegations of a chemical attack because that advances their agenda and they have every motive to

deceive the west about it. the russian defense ministry says it has analyzed the video of the often mouth of the alleged chemical attack in duma released by a militant group and has even managed to identify some of the people that were felled one of them is a medical student who treated patients in a hospital where people were taken here's what he had to say about the incident. 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 during treatment some person came in i don't know who that was and said that it was a chemical attack people got scared

a fight broke out the relatives of the victims started pouring water on one another 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 while despite that the video featuring the medic we just heard from has been picked up by a number of media outlets we spoke to rick sterling investigative journalist and a member of the serious solidarity movement what could be behind the latest strikes on syria. well they may not they may not want to find out the results of the investigation because the indications from on the ground in duma is that either there was no there was no chemical weapon incident or it's extremely vague in which case there would be no justification for an attack there is no justification for three countries taking upon itself to become the judge jury and executioner of

whether or not chemical weapons have been used there is a process that should be followed and the attacks on syria the missile attacks from the united states over one hundred as i understand it. are primarily an attack on international law. but it appears the lack of evidence on the alleged chemical attack is a concern for a number of journalists and one of those is split from belgian who travel to syria to judge it over himself. but growing two years ago i started to discover that i wasn't really told the truth about the war in syria and i started to learn more and more. disciplined me to decide that i want to go see for myself no it's people should. journalists should if you travel to syria it's so it should be different picture and then what has been binned in the media unfortunately yes we have a long way to go but. with the rise of internet you know it's the reason i like.

the control is slipping away from from those sort of mass media so for those of you just joining us you're watching r.t. international we're bringing you breaking news this hour the u.s. france and the u.k. have bombed targets in syria president trump announced the military action in a white house address late on friday as he spoke explosions that rocked damascus the air and missile strikes were launched in response to an alleged chemical attack in syria's town of duma last saturday washington says its confidence the assad government used chemical weapons against civilians however in a statement the white house they admit the evidence they have is based on media and n.-g. o. report russia's foreign ministry has in the meantime has slammed the strike saying they came when the war ravaged country finally had the chance for a peaceful future the strikes also take place before investigators from the

international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w start their probe into the alleged poison gas attack in duma so far the experts are still expected at the scene later in the day. and here are the latest pictures from the syrian capital damascus where people have there have taken to the streets to denounce the u.s. led military action as you can see some people there waving flags in support of the syrian government with. a local journalist. who's in damascus he describes the events that. think that. the russians started at four am. lasted about fifteen minutes but we kept hearing the launching of the messiah and the aircraft near the center that was hit in. his then. we kept hearing until five fifteen the launching of. rockets but the atmosphere is

it's quite normal life is is again normal this has been going on for seven years in a way people are used to. mistreat of war to sarcastic that the americans the french and the british didn't really need to prove the weight of this. action they had then wait for evidence wait for you know for the usual procedure to happen which had back up from the anti war coalition says that was no reason for the u.s. and its allies to hit as the country didn't threaten their security we have to say that the actions taken by the us britain and france constitute war crimes by definition they are war crimes that syria did not threaten the united states or britain or france nor could it and so a war of aggression is called technically a crime against peace an aggressive war is that is considered the highest form of war crime were the worst type of war crimes and you know the syrians have

a right to resist that the russian forces are in the country at the invitation do we constitute a government of syria and you know that the idea that they can just be attacked with impunity i think is one that is highly dangerous and the possibilities of a crack climbing and escalation letter are very real regardless of what matters and dunford said tonight. we're going to continue our breaking news coverage in just a few minutes do stay with us if you can. this is harlan kentucky. all of this group the employees the people going street by music only. a co money since he was almost no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal

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explained the case of. russia slams america and its allies over the strikes against syria saying they have violated the un charter mosco is also calling for an emergency security council meeting over the aggression. president trump ordered the strikes in response to an alleged chemical attack last week the allies that struck just hours before experts from the international chemical weapons watchdog would due to arrive at the scene of the poison attack. britain's prime minister justifies the attack on syria as a limited targeted and effective leader of the u.k. opposition denounces the operation saying the bombing wouldn't save the lives of people.