i. think that. the u.s. the u.k. and france strikes against the syrian government in response chemical attack in eastern intervention came just hours before international inspectors but you did right to investigate the claims. united nations security council holds an urgent meeting on the attack in projects of russian draft resolution calling for an end to aggression against syria. and other developments the u.k.'s prime minister lourdes the joint military operation against assad's government has limited targeted and effective. insights of the breaking story russia's foreign minister claims the international chemical weapons watchdog may not have correctly identified the nerve

agent used to poison the script files in the. last month. this is r.t. international and one story dominating as maybe you'd expect the overnight events in syria and the ramifications from it american british and french forces pounded syria with 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 a u.n. watchdog is still yet to investigate.

the u.n. security council rejected a russian draft resolution this evening calling for an end to the aggression against syria it happened during an emergency session which was called by moscow in the wake of the strikes as you would be sure to do today is a said day it's a said day for the world for the u.n. for its charter that has been brutally violated and for the security council that retreated from its duties with three votes in favor eight nose and four abstentions the security council shot down russia's draft resolution now the draft resolution would have condemned the coalition's aggression as a violation of international law and it would have demanded that the west stop attacking syria it also would have urged the council to provide conditions for the work on the ground now that's the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which is in syria right now the russian ambassador slammed the u.s.

for violating international law and using the security council to further its own interests saying that western countries don't need any investigations to carry out their own will. but it would be stupid it is not we are already used to the fact that when doubtful geopolitical policies conducted countries or aggressors blame asad lately they tried 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 accuse asians verdict and punishment is this how you want international affairs to be conducted no this is wholly can is an international relations. the u.s. ambassador nikki haley deflected all criticism and defended the coalition's airstrikes as altruistic so same rhetoric we've all heard before let's take a look at exactly what healy had to say 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 haley dismissed russia's sentiments as part of a grand russian descent for mation campaign and then she moved on to the question of assad's culpability which she seemed sure of saying quote we are loaded if assad used chemical weapons once again which obviously hasn't been confirmed yet the british ambassador echoed halley statements adding that she will not take lessons international law from russia so it looks like nothing has changed those who carried out an attack based on rumors of chemical weapons use claim to have evidence but never actually present that evidence russia's military says the evacuation of the syrian city who do move from militants is now complete meantime the development means the area where saturday's alleged chemical attack took place

is now under the control of government forces the evacuation was part of a deal brokered by russia and syria which guaranteed passage out of the city for the rebels in exchange for safety for civilians there meantime other developments people into syria's largest cities damascus and aleppo of rallied together today against the u.s. led military action you can seeing screens there the flags being waved in support of the syrian government some even waving russian flags as well that is what residents in the capital had to say. this strike to does not break you shall make you stronger we are standing steadfast to syrian people feel of will in our stad that. we condemn and denounce this assault in our country we say long leave assad the line of assad. or not be sure you can get these people who were steadfast for seven years will not hear a strike from an ignorant bly of drama with on it as for donald trump in his first tweet after the attack last night he thanked the u.s.

allies and said the result couldn't have been better from call destroyed perfectly executed despite the russian and syrian military saying most of the missiles had in fact been intercepted but defense systems here are the three sites that 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 duma where the alleged chemical instance said to have taken place now next these are pictures from a video agency reportedly showing the aftermath of the strike on that research facility the syrian government says it was nothing more than a civilian scientific center here so donald trump described the pretext and the attack itself on syria. 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 the righteous power against barbarism and brutality.

and the pentagon pushed ahead with the military action despite its chief earlier admitting indeed that evidence on the alleged chemical attack was still being looked into. i am confident the cherian 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 the level of competence that we needed to conduct the attack when. 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. discuss moscow's reaction with correspondent he goes down oh well president putin has condemned in the strongest

words as to what happened 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 prohibition 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 villages 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 poe to mention the o.p.c. w. investigation there any concerns that 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

with 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 your p c w were hit or damaged now the body has issued a statement it's 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 the white house says it's confident the syrian government did use chemical weapons against its own people that believed to be based largely on media an ngo report so of. 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 some of the groups that originally made the claims in which first circulated the images show in the aftermath of the supposed attack of dubious reputations one of them is the self-styled civil defense group the white helmets although it's been widely praised in the west for its rescue work its members have repeatedly been accused of having links to extremist groups another source of the claims is the lesser known syrian american medical society or sams it's funded by usaid which works closely with the state department sams is banned in multiple countries and has been accused of interfering in domestic politics and promoting regime change as for the russian defense ministry it's analyzed one of the videos purporting to show the aftermath of the alleged chemical attack into were last week it says it managed to identify some of the people who were filmed one claims to be a medical student who was working in the hospital at the time the victims were

brought in here's what he had to say about what he says he saw blood in 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 of 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 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 the video in which the medic can be seen was picked up by

a number of news outlets and treated as evidence of a chemical attack but security analyst told us that given the lack of clarity surrounding the instance still the u.s. and its allies should have waited there for before striking syria last night we've got a situation where again with the timing of this strike. if you like from politically all of one message is first of all from the perspective of the o.p.c. deb you inspectors going in on the ground on saturday that was well signposted in advanced and again the fact that the strike has taken place just before the suspicions that america france and britain are interested in waiting for the results of that investigation which might have proved or shown that there was or was not a chemical incident this is where as people can say this is an effective strike i would have very very grave doubts that even from the western perspective this was effective in any way other than sending a message and that message is largely must be said i think in america too trumps to

mess that audience particularly the media and in britain of course has very important local elections coming up as for the u.k.'s prime minister to reserve may she praised the joint military action she called the strikes 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 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 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 with a few notes from europe correspondent shall aduba. isa rally 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 four already f. jets took part in that 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 strikes was shot down so it's 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 weapon 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 it 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 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 bench m.p.'s who potentially were getting ready to rebel against about this attack on syria she has received support from the foreign secretary johnson 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 remains 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 this morning 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 this is a major mistake for us and that is one of many mistakes we've made since two thousand and eleven we've never stopped making mistakes and into clearing in foreign countries affairs as we see today the consequences of military action in iraq where we were wise enough to warrant action and in leading this intervention without any u.n. agreement or resolution it seems to me like something there might have serious

consequences for the french people and france the french should have remained independent don't act with caution and wisdom we did why because i have this feeling that our refrain presidents want to have is almost more a. more there. 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. other news tonight the heads of the catholic and orthodox churches have been showing their concerns over the situation in syria the pope. spoke by phone apparently about the suffering of people there and the challenges facing christianity. as the details about that call. the head of russia's orthodox church has told journalists that the global christian community can really make a difference especially if all christians unite if the catholic church can work

together with the christian orthodox community that was the reason why patriarch kirill made the phone call which was about fifteen minutes long when islamic state has almost completely been kicked out of syria but with the latest events violence may well still spiral out of control there is no way the religious world can turn a blind eye on everything that is happening that was the message. that we're christians calmly ignore what's happening in syria today it is impossible to stay silent uniquely before the civil war syria had been one of the very few countries in the middle east where all kinds of believers lived together in peace christians are of course a minority there but the country used to be home to many many revered sacred sites most of them vanished with the war extremists tortured and slaughtered christians

it was outrage at these kind of horrendous things which and the first place essentially inspired the first ever summit between the heads of the roman catholic and the russian orthodox churches so as you can see they're still in touch and genuinely work together as they say to even try and sort out some of the seemingly hopeless global conflicts. the big story tonight russia's foreign minister has claimed international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. may have misidentified the type of chemical agent used against the script holes in england last month misha sethi has more details that's this get up to speed with the findings of the reports by the a.p.c. dampening hits and at their analysis on the chemical attack on the script path it happened on. march the fourth now in this reports the a.p. c.w. confirmed the composition of the navy agent was in line with the findings of the united kingdom they said that the chemical was said to be not be chock

a type of nerve 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 navy agent to four designated laboratories and russia has contacted one of these labs now a swiss in the poetry house and legibly said that there were traces of another nerve agent in the song poll they were given this talks and was called he said now attends 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. to the board. is more consistent with the use of the poisonous substance be said none of these facts and nothing it's all about 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 of the spears laboratory was emitted from the final report. now the toxin based that is extremely harmful it can cause confusion

lead to vision and a loss of motor functions as well mild if x. can occur from one hour and most a 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 taking into consideration at all even if the substance is not a child 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 nerve agent saying that the consequences could have been most of it. even though you symptoms that for those in minutes if it gets in the skin same. thems 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 small amounts should have killed. for sure but again it's very difficult to assess and evaluate these kind of question before knowing exactly how the product was delivered it's been well over a month now since healy and say found unconscious on a bench in salt brain nearly has since been discharged by her father saying a remains in a stable condition in hospital but with these new findings the russian foreign ministry is financing more answers now from the a p c w. i'm kevin owen thanks for watching this live update from moscow came across all the overnight developments and events as when they come in if they come in from syria and reaction to it run the world on our way inside out next play with me thirty five minutes time.

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