the u.s. the u.k. and france carry out strikes against the syrian government in response to an alleged chemical attack in eastern guta the intervention came just hours before international inspectors were due to arrive to investigate the claims. the united nations security council holds an urgent meeting on the attack and rejects a russian draft resolution calling for an end to aggression against syria. ukraine's prime minister allowed the joint military operation against assad's government as limited targeted and effective. and in other news of russia's foreign minister claims that the international chemical weapons watchdog may not have the correctly identified the nerve agent used to poison this group in england last

month. our broadcast director our studios in moscow this is our two international thomas certainly glad to have you with us american british and french forces have pounded syria with a missile 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 a u.n. wash dog is still yet to investigate.

u.n. security council has rejected a russian draft resolution 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 so you wouldn't be cheered we do today is a sad day it's a sad day for the world for the u.n. for its charter that has been brutally violated and for the security council so that retreated from its duty seriously views 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 if you're stupid it is not we're 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 ations verdict and punishment is this how you want international affairs to be conducted now this is wholly can is an international relations because. the u.s. ambassador nikki haley deflected all criticism and defended the coalition's airstrikes altruist it 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 in or a full 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 of duma by militants is now complete the development means that the area where last week's alleged chemical attack took place is now under the control of government forces 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 and meanwhile people in two of syria's largest cities damascus and aleppo have rallied together against the u.s. led military action you can see flags being waved in support of the syrian government and even some russian flags as well here's what residents in the capital had to say . was the 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 is sold in our country we say long leave assad the line of assad. not be shaken to these people who were steadfast for seven years with a strike from an ignorant blind drama. well as for donald trump in his first tweet after the attack he found u.s. allies and said the result couldn't have been better trump called the strikes perfectly executed despite the syrian and russian military saying most of the missiles had been intercepted by defense systems and 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 duma where the alleged chemical incident is said to have taken place and these are pictures from our roughly a video agency reportedly showing the aftermath of the strike on the research facility the syrian government says it was nothing more than a civilian scientific center here's how it donald trump described the pretext and the attack itself on syria 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 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 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 level of competence that we needed to conduct the attack where. i believe there was a chemical attack and we're looking for the actual evidence the o.p.c. dubey 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 really my colleague tom brady discussed moscow's reaction with correspondent he got his 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 has 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 blood amir 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 the legitimate 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 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 u.s. 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 a number of countries including china and iran have condemned the strikes beijing called them a violation of international law we spoke to world affairs commentator andrew young about the operation and the reaction to it he told us that domestic factors may have played a role in the motivating president trump to launch the attack. i think that this is a limited calculated. and costly orchestrated one time attack. and warning note at the back of it all is the pushback

from the united states and the west against the increasing russian influence in syria. and of course that this comes with a convenient time for president trump as he faces the in the. elections. when the white house says it has confident information that the syrian government did use chemical weapons against its own people that belief however still appears to be based largely 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 two assessed barrel bombs from the attack and reliable information indicating coordination between syrian military officials before the attack some of the groups that originally made of the claims and which are first circulated the images showing the aftermath of the suppose that

attack have dubious reputations one of those is the self-styled civil defense group the white helmets although it has 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 a syrian american medical society or sam's it is funded by u.s. aid 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 and the russian defense ministry analyzed one of the videos purporting to show the aftermath of the alleged chemical attack in duma it says it managed to identify some of the people who were filmed one claimed to be a medical student who was working in the hospital the victims were brought to 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. then 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 all 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 charles shoebridge told us that given the lack of clarity surrounding the incident the u.s. and its allies should have waited before striking syria. we've got a situation where again with the timing of the strike. if you like from politically

all of one message is first of all from the perspective of the i.p.c.c. inspectors going in on the ground on saturday that was well signposted in advance and again the fact that the strike has taken place just before that. america france and britain are interested in waiting for the results of that investigation which might have proved shown that they have was or was not a chemical incident. 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 to trump's domestic audience particularly the media and in britain of course. very important local elections coming up we will look at the roles played by britain and france in the syria strikes plus russia says crucial details were overlooked about the nerve

agent used in the script on case both of those stories right after a short break you are watching i think. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race on the very dramatic is probably the only. disease i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to see. something happens in this case it was a chemical attack on civilians in syria the public in the media are waiting for the response i think it's very clear now that if president trump said that there is going to be a response then it will be i just think that our expectations and what this. american response will be so severe that it will be

a game changer i think this is not the case it will again be messages and very careful calculation by the americans not to deteriorate into the clash direct confrontation with russia. international the u.k.'s prime minister theresa may has praised the results of joint military action taken against syria 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 but both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so. while british and french jets could be seen taking off from and landing at their bases in the region in the early hours of this weekend with the view from europe correspondents charlotte dubinsky in paris and i saw ali 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. parts and that they launched a series of air strikes how successful those strikes have been remains to be seen we're seeing reports from the russian foreign ministry that the vast majority of those all of those strikes were 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 just regime change for the 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 corbin he's the labor party leader and he called into question how legally sound these asteroids parliament should be consulted parliament should be allowed to 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 of launch the strikes as she has the two thousand and thirteen vote in mind when david cameron wanted to also go to war with syria but last. the parliamentary vote and how she was looking to avoid the similar bars in the street

there are a number of m.p.'s not just in the labor party but there are in her own conservative policy her own. tension even getting ready to rebel against her about this attack on syria in polls in the country which show that a vast majority of people are in support of this type of military action in syria so remains to be seen exactly how damaging politically this could be for two reasons one 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. actors in accordance with our responsibility but the use of chemical weapons in syria is acceptable because it's a violation of international law and basic human rights 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 use 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 never saw her making mistakes in interfering in foreign countries affairs we see today big consequences of military actions in iraq where we were wise enough to avoid action and in libya the intervention without any. un agreement or is illusion seemed to me like something that might have serious

consequences for the french people and france itself france should have remained independent and act with caution and ways but we didn't why because i have this feeling that every french president wants to have his own small war 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. russia's foreign minister has claimed or the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. may have missed identifying the type of nerve agent used against of the screwballs in england last month initial said he has more. key information may have been a metes by the u.n. chemical watchdog for his analysis on the agent used in the poison attack against the script of the house according to moscow findings from a designated laboratory used by the a.p. c.w. allegedly show another agent

a toxin called bees that during the police investigation samples were given to four labs for an independent study and it's now claimed one in switzerland found traces of the substance the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is questioning why the presence of bass that wasn't mentioned eventually go to the border. is more consistent with the use of the poisonous substance be said 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 c.w. explain why such information and the conclusion of the spears laboratory was emitted from the final report the toxin besides extremely harmful side effects include confusion lead fission and the loss of motor function this can happen an hour after exposure with severe symptoms lasting up to forty eight hours the toxin was festival that by the u.s. army back in the fifty's and official say it was never produced in russia or the

state union instead of including these findings by the swiss up the u.n. chemical watchdog focused on confirming the u.k.'s analysis this tape has prompted many questions from russia where the foreign ministry stressing up to twenty other countries could have produced the notorious novacek chemists have also questioned the potency of now we talk saying the consequences could have been much worse for the victims but having symptoms that follows in minutes if it gets on 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 very very toxic so small amounts. should have killed. for sure but again it's very difficult to assess and evaluate this kind of question before knowing exactly how the product was delivered power has since been discharged from hospital but a father still remains that now in

a stable condition moscow has repeatedly asked landed for a joint investigation into answer a series of specific questions about the case they have been refused but with new findings beginning to surface and many questions still unanswered the case continues to unfold we've spoken to a former u.n. inspector in iraq chemical weapons specialist dr anton can he said the more details come to light about this group on best occasion the more questions are raised about london's account i believe that the u.k. made a mistake. by releasing these detailed report to the other state parties to the convention why because the more information is released the more questions will be to dukie i believe that russia saw that detailed report. from their report that celebratory.

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is this all us or would use a country like of tissue paper and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way i think it's very immoral. for a man or sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the hand. all four have different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the list did not shoot around a corner. where .

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well anyway he's a professor at columbia university teaches history and he's a director of the european institute and he had some charts that i found quite interesting and i retreated them this week the divergence of prime age labor market participation between us and other key economies is striking what is quite striking about that max do you see this this is from the blue line. as the united states says participation from twenty five to fifty four year olds in the u.s. labor market versus the united kingdom canada and germany up there you know they keep on rising their employment rate keeps on going up while the u.s. under clinton towards the late ninety's just started plummeting because all those other countries weren't plus were retired we're just picking up the rent on all these other countries slipping away particularly in britain that could be one solution and i'm going to look at a possible solutions i found a bunch of charts to go with this one chart to try to find an explanation of what

happened in the late ninety's that could possibly explain why so many twenty five to fifty four year olds just dropped out of the labor market and decided not to work in the united states despite the fact that our you know developed country competitors in germany canada the united kingdom continue to rise as participation rates so they were increasingly participating in the economic system of the globalized economic system and we were increasingly not so i want to look at i thought perhaps it could be you know the economist did bring it up is that the quantity the mass of quantity of especially black men in prison so if you're in prison you can't of participate in the official economy they do do a lot of free labor for certain corporations but that doesn't get counted participating in the. jobs market so the united states leaves incarceration rates this is.