the u.s. the u.k. and france carry out strikes against the syrian government in response to an alleged chemical attack in eastern intervention came just hours before international inspectors were due to arrive to investigate the claims. united nations security council still holding an emergency meeting right now to discuss the attack which moscow says was a clear violation of the organization's charter. the u.k.'s prime minister lourdes the joint military operation against assad's government has limited targeted and effective. and in other news tonight russia's foreign minister claims the international chemical weapons watchdog may not have correctly identified the nerve agent used to poison the script pals in england last month.

pm saturday night here in moscow i'm kevin zero in this is r t international warm welcome to one story then dominating the overnight events in syria and the ramifications from it american british and french forces pounded syria last night with missiles and air strikes the attack took place in the early hours of saturday morning and came in response to allegations that the syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians claims which the u.n. watchdog is still yet to investigate.

in security council to say currently holding an emergency meeting still on the joint attack against the syrian government russia's drafting a resolution condemning those strikes let's get the latest on how that went what's been said samir cannes across a summer tennis is the situation at that debate then today played out for us well the russian ambassador was the first to speak at this meeting that was called upon by russia now she slammed the u.s. for a by leading international law and using the security council to further its own interests and he also said that western countries don't need any investigations to carry out their own we'll take a look at those though the bodies are still privileged that says we're already used to the fact that when doubt was geopolitical policies conducted countries or aggressors blame asad lately they trying to shift responsibility onto russia because according to their interpretation it cannot control the dictator all of this has been based on the scheme of what's been tried and tested provocation

deceitful accusations verdict and punishment is this how you want international affairs to be conducted now this is wholly can is an international relations. now prior to the meeting russia came up with a draft resolution that would designate the coalition's aggression as a violation of international law and it would demand that the west stop attacking syria and it would also urge the council to provide conditions for the o.p.c. fieldwork now that's the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which is in duma right now to investigate the most recent chemical attacks now the u.s. ambassador spoke right after and as expected she defended the coalition's airstrikes as humanitarian intervention so it's the same rhetoric we've all heard before. a large body of information indicates that the syrian regime

used chemical weapons in duma on april seventh there is clear information demonstrating assad's culpability the pictures of dead children were not fake news they were the result of the syrian regime's barbaric inhumanity now nikki haley dismissed russia's sentiments as part of a grand russian descent from ation campaign and then she moved on to assad's culpability which she seemed sure of saying quote we are loaded if assad to use this chemical weapons once again which obviously hasn't been confirmed as yet but haley also bragged about decimating the facility that he claims is the heart of syria's chemical weapons enterprise but the inspected that facility twice the latest being last november and they found we no trace of banned chemicals and they didn't observe any suspicious activity again this is a verified by the o p c w the same international body that the us claims versus back to him and this was noted by the russian ambassador but of course really

ignored it completely then the british ambassador echoed hiley statements adding that she will not take lessons in international law from russia so it looks like nothing has changed those who carried out the attack based on rumors of chemical weapons use claim to have evidence but never actually present that evidence seems. so that meeting still just about. just to winding up i gather from all meantime people in syria's largest cities damascus and aleppo have rallied together against the u.s. led military action last night you can see flags being waved in support of the syrian government even some russian flags as well is what residents of the capital had to say. the strike to does not break you shall make you stronger we are standing so that fast to syrian people if you know of will in our staff that . only we can then and renounce this assault in our country we say you long leave

aside the line of asylum or not be sure you can not the third of these people who were steadfast for seven years in a minority here strike from an ignorant lie of a drama in with on it as for donald trump in his first tweet after the attack he thanked the u.s. allies and said the result couldn't have been better called destroyers perfectly executed despite the syrian russian military saying that most of the missile and in fact been intercepted by defense systems well here are the three sites washington claims it targeted in syria and which it believes were capable of producing chemical weapons among them is a research facility located between the capital damascus and the city of doomer where the alleged chemical instance said to have taken place now these are pictures my video agency reportedly showing the aftermath of a strike on the research facility the syrian government says it was nothing more than a civilian scientific center is how donald trump described the pretext on the attack itself on syria and very terrible regime these are not the

actions of a man. they are crying of a monster instead so today the nations of britain france and the united states of america have martial their righteous power against barbarism and brutality and the pentagon pushed ahead with the military action despite its chief earlier admitting that evidence on the alleged chemical attack was still being looked into . 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 and right now we have the intelligence level of competence that we needed to conduct the attack but. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the o.p.c. do 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. break discuss moscow's reaction with our correspondent he goes down off well president putin has condemned in the strongest words as to what happened to these strikes conducted by the u.s. the u.k. and france he said that they targeted not just to the military facilities but also civilian infrastructure as well as saying that this goes against and in violation of all international norms and in fact it wasn't sanctioned by the u.n. security council is also said that as pretext for the strikes the u.s. and its allies used a fake used a staged chemical attack he said that in a statement he said that he did not believe that the chemical attack took place that in fact the russian military that entered the city of doom of the sites of the chemical incident could not find any traces of the of any toxic agents or anything

of the sort not even any eyewitnesses of the attack could be found apparently so here's what how vladimir putin described the situation right now the organization for the proof of chemical weapons has deployed its specialist on a fact finding mission. but a group of western countries cynically ignored this launching a military attack without waiting for the results of the investigation russia emphatically condemns this attack on syria where russian servicemen are helping de-legitimized government fight terrorists with its actions the united states only exacerbates the humanitarian disaster in syria bringing suffering to civilians essentially abetting terrorists who have been tormenting the syrian people for seven years and provoking a new wave of refugees from this country and the region in general mr putin mention

the o.p.c. w. investigation there any concerns the that might be in jeopardy now yes of course because the o.p.c. w was supposed to begin its mission in syria on the ground in syria its investigation on saturday at the us launched its strikes literally hours before the that investigation was supposed to kick off so obviously a lot of questions were raised by whether or not that mission is jeopardized whether or not any objects of infrastructure that were supposed to be examined by the experts over the o.p.c. w. were hit or damaged now the body has issued a statement it's a rather brief one literally just two sentences outlining the current state of events and they are saying that they will be going forward with their mission in syria no details as to whether or not they feel affected in any way by the strikes back to the reaction from moscow then anything more wider than the kremlin well yes

the russia's foreign ministry has laid out its view of the situation right now they've said that basically the u.n. security council has to hold accountable the u.s. and u.k. and france for what they did in syria they've also addressed something that france had to say while justifying its participation in the strikes france had said that basically it had been. teligent information that since twenty thirteen the syrian government were pursuing the secret chemical weapons program despite the your p c w n twenty sixteen vouching that the stockpile had been destroyed something a process overseen by russia and the un as well as a however the spokeswoman for the russian foreign ministry she said that basically if france knew that all along four years why hold back the information why come forward with it only now so many years later when to more reaction the u.k.'s prime minister tourism a praised the joint military action she called destroyed

a limited targeted and effective measure and outlined why britain believes assad's government used chemical weapons i cannot tell you everything but let me give an example of some of the evidence that leads us to this conclusion open source the council ledge 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 we judge it highly likely both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so british and french jets could be seen taking off from landing at their bases in the region in the early hours of saturday morning with a view from europe next to correspondent sheila do bensky in paris and these are

early in london. we've heard from to reason made this morning she's been holding a press conference here in london at downing street and confirming that for jets. they launched a series of air strikes how successful those airstrikes have been remains to be seen we're seeing reports from the russian foreign ministry that the vast majority of those all of those as stripes was shot down the reason may not speaking to the success of them but very clear to make it to make the point that this is not an attempt at regime change but merely in her words trying to deter any future use of alleged chemical weapons we've also been hearing from the opposition the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn he's the labor party leader and he called into question how legally sound these asteroids parliament should be consulted problem it should take

a view on this but instead the strikes were launched last night parliament is in session on monday she could have come to parliament on monday to discuss the whole situation instead it strikes haps she has about two thousand and thirteen votes in mind when david cameron wanted to also go to war with syria but lost the parliamentary vote and perhaps she was looking to avoid a similar embarrassing defeat there are a number of m.p.'s not just in the labor party but even in her own conservative policy her own french m.p.'s who potentially were getting ready to rebel against about this attack on syria she has received support from the foreign secretary some however he's been on twitter saying that he welcomes the news of u.k. military strikes against what he says all major chemical weapons facilities in syria and saying that the world is united in its discussed of the use of these

weapons against. civilians polls in the country which show that a vast majority of people are not in support of this military action in syria so remote to be seen exactly how damaging politically this could be for two reasons what we've actually been hearing from the french foreign ministry on saturday morning let's listen in directly to what he had to say about france taking part in this coordinated action by the u.s. france the u.k. acted in accordance with our responsibility but the use of chemical weapons in syria is unacceptable because it's a violation of international law and basic human rights smalling france also released a document outlining its case for why it believes that a chemical attack took place and why it believes that the assad government was behind that attack it says it unless it has had analysts of the photos of

testimonies and videos from do you know where the alleged attack took place and it says that after analyzing it has a high degree of confidence that this was not money fact should all recycled and it says that the symptoms they believe all characteristics of chemical weapons there's also been criticism here in france from some opposition leaders including marine le pen she's the leader of the national front here in france she took to twitter on saturday morning to say this she said that this action in gauges of france in an unpredictable and potentially dramatic consequences and she said that france loses an opportunity to appear on the international stage as being an independent and balance of power also some reaction from neighboring country luxembourg this morning suggesting the strikes can only be conducted based on a u.n. security council resolution which clearly they do not have. a view

now. from former u.s. diplomat ted se joining us on the line hey that. what you think treason may went ahead with the strikes with seeking the approval of parliament was never on the cards froze she was concerned she didn't come back to some amount of trouble over this issue. i think she will actually kevin i think she went ahead because she knew she didn't have firm support in parliament and rather than have an embarrassingly close vote or even worse defeat she went ahead with what she clearly has been planning on doing for some time. part of the softening going to be laying out the legal guidance they got to try and head off any comeback from parliament. why is the u.s. so willing to disclose all of the evidence it says it has that implicates the assad government and that alleged chemical attack again nothing's been made public is it why. the french foreign ministry in the clip you just ran mentioned international law and because all of the countries mentioned are

signatories to the chemical weapons convention that means that all of those countries must defer to the o p c w a which is the sole competent authority to judge whether a chemical weapons attack has take place and so to be going ahead with diplomatic action or worse military action ahead of any determination by the o.p.c. w. in the syria case that there was even chemical weapons use is not only premature it's forty those o.p.c. devil you guys literally have only got to work today they only arrived a day or two ago so washington therefore it must reason if it thinks it can go it alone like this along with fronts the u.k. must have super strong intelligence or an absolutely. set of proofs no. well you know we might have thought that fifteen or twenty years ago but unfortunately history since then has proven to us that

a national set of intelligence characteristics is insufficient to both a determine that something like this has taken place and b. be seen to be objective in that determination the history of the gulf wars indicates rather that there are assertions made and there are strong claims that there is solid intelligence behind all of it and then when the time comes to show the intelligence it's vapor so again the o.p.c. w were beaten to the punch by a matter of hours in syria and why is the timing of that not suspicious i'm curious to examine the day that the u.s. defense secretary said that his country was still indeed looking for the evidence that cast on evidence old isn't it i mean is there anything that could have happened overnight that now could have damaged the crime scene if you like the alleged crime scene the it could those missiles drugs in any way compromise the o.p.c. w. investigation. of course it's made it more difficult there's wreckage now where

before there were facilities that may or may not have contained traces that would lead the o.p.c. w. to make its professional judgment and and draw sound conclusions and again they're the only competent body here. ted thank you for your thoughts ted see for me was diplomat making time for us on the line from oxford to not to believe have a good evening so thank you. thank you no next now the big stories come out russia's foreign minister has claimed the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. may have misidentified the type of nerve agent used against the script files in eglinton soulsby last month and he says he's got the latest on this breaking story that. that's this get up to speed with the findings of the reports by the a.p.c. . of analysis on the chemical attack on the script pulse that happens on march the fourth now in this report it's the a p c w confirm the composition of the native agent was in line with the findings of the united kingdom they said that the

chemical was said to be no type of native agent produced in the safe union they were unable to specify the origin of the source but during the analysis the a.p.c. w. gave samples of the nerve agent to four designated laboratories and russia has contacted one of these labs now a swiss house allegedly said that there were traces of another native agent in the song poll they would given this talks and was called he says now it tends out that these findings were excluded from the report published by the a p c w the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov has been speaking only findings. it is more consistent with the use of the poisonous substance. none of these facts and nothing at all about it was mentioned in the final report which was presented to its executive board we request that the a p c w explain why such information and the conclusion the speirs laboratory was emitted from the final report which now

the toxin be sad is extremely harmful it can cause confusion blared vision and a loss of motor functions as well mull defects can occur from one hour and most are very facts lasting up to forty eight hours now this toxin was never produced by russia or in the savior union the be said nerve agent was developed instead by the us army in the one nine hundred fifty s. now the swiss celebratory findings were excluded from the report published by the a.p.c. perhaps not even taken into consideration at all even if the substance is not be chocked the russian foreign ministry has said about twenty countries can produce this type of never agent now some chemists have even questioned the potency of the never agent saying that the consequences could have been more severe. symptoms that follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and can take from minutes. to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x.

which is already a very very toxic so a small amount should have killed. for sure but again it's very difficult to assess and evaluate discounting the question before knowing exactly how the product was delivered it's been well over a month now since healy and say case kapow were found unconscious on a bench in salt brain has since been discharged to her father saying a remains in a stable condition in hospital but with these new findings the russian foreign ministry is announcing more answers now from the a.p. c.w. . yeah we'll keep across that new story and then i'm kevin allen thanks for watching this live update from moscow keep cross all the overnight developments from syria and reaction to it is still coming in from around the world on a site. that should live update from me here at all to see h.q. in just but how often i was talking.

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to president obama although a technical point here the trump administration withdrew from t.p. before the negotiations were actually concluded will follow this important story as it goes forward. and russia is retaliating against recently announced u.s. economic sanctions with sanctions of their own the biggest head turner amongst the measures on the table is a ban on titanium sales a key input for a u.s. based aircraft manufacturer boeing and purchases of rare earth metals the russian countermeasures reportedly could also include limits on imports of u.s. alcohol tobacco pharmaceutical and agricultural products restrictions on you and visas and jobs for americans plus bans on governmental use of u.s. software and technology the full list is in a proposal be considered by the russian duma and would require the presidential order to require a presidential order to take effect legislative activities expected to be swift and

in the u.s. labor news leaders of the oklahoma education association or a have hauled in official end to their nine day strike and declared victory even though the legislature deny their main demand of ten thousand dollars and pay increases financed by an increase in capital gains taxes the unions decision to pocket a six thousand dollars raise was criticized by some teachers including the group the oklahoma teachers united and arizona governor doug doocy went from refusing to actually meet with any teachers on tuesday to offering a package on thursday that he says meets their demand for a twenty percent raise teachers say they were checking his math good for teachers and want to see more details put into legislation before they decide whether or not to walk out and in kentucky thousands of teachers parents and students rallied today at the state capitol to press their demands for greater investment in education and defend teacher pensions and climate news the united states department

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