because. russia slams america and its allies over the strikes against syria saying they have violated the un charter moscow 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 were due to arrive at the scene of the poison attack. britain's prime minister just defines the attack on syria as a limited targeted and effective leader of the u.k. opposition denounces the the operation saying the bombing wouldn't save the lives of people.

a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron we're continuing to bring you live updates on our breaking news story russia has slammed america the u.k. and france over the strikes on syria calling their actions a violation of the u.n. charter moscow has also called for an emergency un security council president putin has issued a statement on the attack let's find out more about that now from our correspondent . who joins me in the studio ego wants has president putin said well first and foremost he has condemned in the strongest terms these strikes delivered by the united states and the u.k. and france he said the group of countries while the carried out the strikes they violated all international norms and the targeted and far more just military but civilian. as well so you also said. as pretext they used

the stage chemical attack you made a point of saying that he does not believe you but he thinks that it was a fake a fake incident that the incident was a fake saying that when the russian military in fact and to the city of doom of the alleged site of the attack they couldn't find any traces of any chemical or nerve agents and they couldn't find in fact even any witnesses of those horrific events described by those making the accusations he's also condemned the u.s. the u.k. and france for ignoring the fact that the o.p.c. w the un the un organization the un chemical body they were going to start their mission on the ground in syria their investigation later on saturday so in fact the launch strikes was before the mission and so we as of now do not

know if those missiles don't any damage to the areas and facilities that were going to be inspected by the obesogenic curiously about something that the british prime minister when she was a direct addressing the media last hour she didn't comment on that she didn't even mention the o.p.c. w investigation and the importance of the investigation she merely gave details as to why kind of it explains the reasons why the u.k. decided to go ahead with this attack and of course the o.p.c. w. themselves we are waiting for a response from them all we as to whether they are concerned as to whether these strikes have a will affect their investigation so we're interested to hear from them yes yes of course because the big question is right now as to when this whole military action leaves the o.p.c. w. rishon in syria like where their investigation. stands now is it possible at all

has it been or is it not how but told by the explosions and the devastation. going back to what president putin had to say. you pointed out that by these strikes the united states and. these have aggravate and aggravating exacerbating the communitarian disaster in syria in fact. terrorists because there have been numerous reports that the if if the military action was to take place then various jihadi groups would as their activities as well would launch offensives throughout syria and throughout the effective area affected areas so of course that report is also said that this is basically. all international and diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis in syria and he said that the. that russia will be calling an emergency u.n.

security council meeting later today is that it is that much strong rhetoric being flying around a lot of fingers pointing at russia but still you know the comments we've heard from russia in the aftermath of these strikes has just been really quite calm calling you know if consideration for the humanitarian issue also for the effect that this could have an international relations you know the other countries not being so calm with their rhetoric a wrong for example. discussing you know regional consequences calling the leaders of the u.s. and france criminals even so quite a collective in congress from russia and in response do you think indeed and lattimer putin wasn't the only russian official certainly the most senior one but not the only russian official commenting on the situation i mean the russian defense ministry did not issue any and the you know war mongering comments as well they did. say that they might reconsider and very well may reconsider their

previous decision not to supply syria with the yes thirty missile defense systems one of the some of the more advanced systems rather than those in syria has and also we've heard from the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry maria her of i have a list. this summer in state that for many years has been trying to survive terrorist aggression has suffered a series of strikes behind this are the people who claim to be moral leaders of the world and talk about their exceptionalism well you must be really exceptional to conduct strikes in syria finally got the chance for a peaceful future so even here you see that the focus is really on the people in syria on the civilians on the on how the nation is trying is struggling to get back to peaceful life or made a civil war so really while it looks like russia is sticking to diplomatic channels of saloon solving this problem we'll see what if anything is going to come out of

out of this security council emergency session later on saturday ok ghost on our thanks for bringing us up to speed on the response from president putin there and everything else we appreciate it. the american british and french forces pounded syria with mistah and in the early hours of sunday morning president trump announced the military action in a t.v. address both explosions rocked the capital damascus it comes in response to an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of duma a week ago that more people are poor. but we heard an announcement from u.s. president donald trump about the pending strike against the syrian government in coordination with the u.k. and france now he used the phrase strong deterrence to describe his motivation said he wanted to deter the syrian government from carrying out future chemical attacks he called out iran and russia saying what kind of nation would want to be aligned

with a mass murderer and from there he used some rather inflammatory language that's kind of almost trademark language of us president donald trump very terrible regime these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster instead so today the nations of britain france and the united states of america have marshaled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality now after that we got a military update our we heard from general joseph dunford as well as u.s. secretary of defense james mattis they spoke to the u.s. media and to the world basically giving the lowdown on what had happened now at that point the striking had already stopped they said it was fifteen minutes of sustained airstrikes against the syrian government furthermore it's important to note that when james mattis was speaking not only after the attacks but also

earlier in the week he wasn't willing to go into detail about the attack and was rather vague about the kind of information that he actually had but i am confident the syrian regime conducted a chemical attack on innocent people. we are very confident that chlorine was used we are not ruling out sharon right now we have the intelligence level of competence that we needed to conduct the attack. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the o.p.c. w this your goodness ration 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 broader in the international community there is simply not consensus about what actually happened in the syrian town of duma we've seen the u.n. security council meetings and we've seen

a big disagreement between countries russia's representative has come forward before the u.n. security council and said that they have sent russian experts and russia chemical experts to do and in duma they have not found any traces of chemicals they have not found any vick. who have come forward and said they witnessed or that they themselves were victims of chemical attacks no one in hospitals being treated and we then heard nikki haley the representative of the united states before the u.n. security council we heard her coming out and saying in the aftermath of this this allegation of an attack without any investigation having been done saying what she believed had taken place did a chemical weapons attack happened yes the u.s. has analyzed he yes it has happened to you kay has analyzed you guessed it it's happened france has analyzed yes it has happened three separate analysis all coming back with the same thing there is proof that this happened so we're still waiting for

a broader reaction to this this airstrike people are waiting to see what will happen next i know people were anticipating this strike because of donald trump's tweet saying telling russia to get ready for the missiles you know insulting the syrian president with certain language or as of now we understood that there were there was fifty minutes of airstrikes against the syrian arab republic by the united states we're waiting to see what the next move is and what will happen next in the international community kind of starting from the hamilton coalition to stop the war says the information the west used to prove a thongs role in the chemical attack came from dubious through with the. i think that that was a purposeful act by the united states britain and france these rogue countries to create and sue preventives if you like the investigation by the o.p.c. w. investigators if britain france and the u.s. had any credible information about chemical attack in ghouta in the town of duma

last week they would have welcomed the presence and the investigation of the old p.c. w. investigators but by taking this action now they are showing that they don't want this investigation to go on and the only reasonable conclusion one can draw are is that they have no and they have no information they made it all up they got it from the white how much the way how much are a propaganda arm of al qaida and those who are in syria and these people are funded by the way the us the dutch government many other governments and their job is to is to promote wealth of the fabricated incidents of chemical weapons so all that has to create of creature acts towards our western military intervention in syria and this is going on for a long time now the bombing raids on syria come before the international chemical

watchdog start their probe into the alleged attack in duma last weekend their p.c. w. experts are due to arrive at the scene later today saturday we've requested a comment from the organization and we'll bring 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 geo 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 narrative due to the dubious reputations of the groups behind the allegations where i doubt 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 that 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 rescue is 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 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 sams also believe it or not former usaid stuff was was saddam's who reportedly provided the u.p.c. dead but you would solve pools of the alleged sarin gas that was used that hunchy the site of

a chemical attack last year after we. donald trump said fifty seven who's missing at the syrian airbase 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 satins 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 affiliates and its allies so this is a you know to me this state 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 and british prime minister terrorism a has praised the strikes on syria as limits have targeted and effective. a significant body of information including intelligence indicates the syrian regime is responsible for

this latest attack i cannot tell you everything but let me give an example of some of the evidence that leads us to this conclusion open source accounts allege that a barrel bomb was used to deliver the chemicals multiple open source reports claim that a regime helicopter was observed above the city of duma on the evening of the seventh of april and reliable intelligence indicates that syrian military officials coordinated what appears to be the use of chlorine in duma on the seventh of april . let's not cross live to our correspondent east to ali in london to find out more about the reaction coming out from the u.k. we've just heard from to reason met a strong rhetoric that what the kind of feeling in the media in the newspapers on the t.v. is today and how are people feeling waking up to the news that the strikes. but we've been hearing from to reason made this morning she's been holding a press conference in st and confirming what we know overnight which is that four

already took part in the attack against syria and joined the u.s. and france in that reason may saying that she said there was no practical alternative to the use of force and that being clear however that this was about in her words deterring future use of alleged use of chemical weapons and not about regime change we have heard reaction of it from other political figures including the leader of the opposition the labor party's jeremy corbyn who called those airstrikes legally questionable. bombs won't save lives or bring about peace britain should be playing a leadership role to bring about a cease fire in the conflict not taken instructions from washington and putting british military personnel in harm's way to resume a should have sought parliamentary approval not trailed after donald trump.

now corbin's comments about parliamentary approval coming to the fore really because of course these strikes were launched without seeking the parliamentary approval this was brought up to to reason me this morning and she said she would be bringing the issue in front of the house of commons on monday so two days off the carrying out the attack and if we go back to two thousand and thirteen we remember that when david cameron wanted to join military action against syria parliament voted against action perhaps some reason may have worried about a potential defeats in parliament and even against rebels in her own party her own backbenchers were not happy with this military action from the foreign secretary boris johnson he's gone on twitter and said that he welcomed the use of u.k.

military strikes against what he says were major chemical weapon facilities within syria and saying that the world is united in the discussed. use of these types of weapons we have also heard however from david miliband he's the former. he's the former foreign secretary and he's condemned in saying that the use of force is not a replacement for diplomacy and that the syrian people are going through a humanitarian crisis and that that is where the focus of the world's attention should be. it's only that with the latest from london thanks for that isa on why that's a reason they know donald trump thought approval from lawmakers before launching strikes on syria a number of republican senators have his house at trump decision saying he should have consulted congress.

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 truck 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 trump and dropped tomahawk missiles on syria there could be a possible explanation for the sea change. but he ran 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 terrorism and its holding of hostages. political demands. or 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. is 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. and i ordered a target new jersey. for airfield. i think from became president of the united states i think this was actually a big moment. ok we've heard the response from london let's go live to paris now and our correspondent shallow dubai the ski saw that france was also part of this operation know what's being said that was the feeling in paris this morning. well on sunday morning the french government released it took human which outlines

their case for this military action in syria and why it's gone into that action with the usa and the u.k. now that documents says that elements gathered by france and its allies constitute what they say is a bundle of evidence sufficient to call into question the responsibility of the assad government that document then goes on to say that french french services have analyzed testimonials photos and videos and they have a high degree of confidence that these are true they were not manufactured and they say that some of the sources that they've used considered to be reliable sources and they say that the symptoms from those testimonials those videos and those photos all they say characteristics of a chemical attack that document then goes on further to state the case as to why france believes assad government was behind that alleged attack just over a week ago it says in particular because the situation in eastern guta around april

the seventh and i'm quoting here from the document they feel that there is again a high degree of confidence that assad's government was capable for this alleged attack let's take a listen now to what the french foreign minister has had to say on saturday morning . acted in accordance with our responsibilities the use of chemical weapons in syria is an acceptable because it's a violation of international law and basic human rights. so again the french case outlines highly believes that this was something that had taken place this alleged chemical attack in their opinion with high confidence it took place and with high confidence that assad's government was behind it we've also been hearing from some opposition politicians in france today. penn the head of the national front here in france she said on twitter this morning that she

denounced that action that france taken part in going on to say that the engages france in unpredictable and potentially dramatic consequences then goes on to say that france loses an opportunity and i quote to appear on the international stage as an independent and balanced power in the world there's also been some reaction elsewhere in the european union on saturday morning new to plea from luxembourg their officials have stated that strikes can only be conducted based on the u.n. security council resolution which clearly this strike did not have. the latest from france there thank you for that update for you watching r.c. international will be continuing our breaking news coverage at the top of the hour do stay with us for all the latest if you can.

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