america the u.k. and france launch an assault on syria the response to an alleged chemical attack in eastern guta destroying what carried out without un approval and hours before international investigators arrived at the scene. russia's foreign minister says the kind of poison surrogates were powell and his daughter works close to in the u.k. may have been misidentified as not there are new reports from an independent lab in switzerland. and tensions run high near the french city of norms where squatters and police have clashed throughout the weekend over the school's depiction. but you

can see behind us to see our acts and the police have come into another that this point this is a point where a couple of dozen people were trying to hold up as you can see the police are pushing. a very warm welcome in the carriage and you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international well the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that shape the week but first in the early hours of saturday morning american british and french forces pounded syria with missile and airstrikes the attack came in response to allegations that the syrian government used chemical weapons against civilians claims which an international watchdog is still to investigate.

when i asked donald trump in his first tweet after the attack he thanked the u.s. allies and that the result could not have been best trunk called the strike that perfectly executed despite syrian and russian military saying most of the missiles had been intercepted by him to fence with them 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 it's kind

of almost trademark language of u.s. 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 martial their right to use power against barbarism and brutality now after that we got a military update 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 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 cherian 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 a law and in duma they have not found any traces of chemicals they have not found any. who've come forward and said they witnessed or that they themselves are victims of chemical attacks no one in hospitals being treated and we then heard. 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 happen yes the u.s. has analyzed yes it has happened to u.k. has analyzed yes it has happened france has analyzed yes it has happened three separate analysis all coming back with the same thing there is proof that this happened russia slammed the u.s. led strikes on syria as an act of aggression and called a u.n. security council meeting at the meeting most proposed a draft resolution calling for members to condemn the attack as

a violation of international law it also demanded the u.s. and its allies cease their aggression against syrian and provide conditions for an o.p.c. w. investigation but after a hated and counter the draft was quashed. you have nothing but disdain for the u.n. charter and the security council. which you aren't unjustifiably trying to use for your illicit aims the un charter wasn't conceived to protect criminals our action absolutely corresponds to the goals and values proclaimed in the charter of united states and its allies continue to demonstrate the blatant disregard for international law i will take no lessons mr president in international law from russia the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line in our president and forces the red line to be distinguished permanent

representative for the us says that the us is ready to shoot looks and loaded and of course we listen to her words with much concern and sadness we know that they have aircraft satellites smart missile it was a nuclear weapons arsenal and we also know that they have this day for the international law we are prepared to sustain this pressure if the syrian regime is foolish enough to test our will to do the steamer's no this is how you want international affairs to be conducted now. this is hooliganism in international relations and not minor league in it given that we're talking about major nuclear powers well people around the world have expressed that anger at the actions of the u.s. and its allies hundreds marched in france germany and america to denounce the strikes against syria. well we heard from the director of the ron paul institute daniel mcadams who says that trump's reasons for conducting the astronauts are illogical

well it's really a matter of simple logic if if indeed that was the case why not wait for an investigative body to come if the u.s. has known it for a long time this was a chemical weapons facility why not notify the your piece you go in the first place and most of all if this was a factory producing chemical weapons and you want to punish assad for allegedly using chemical weapons why would you hit a chemical weapons factory and dispersed all of the sarah gas or whatever they have manufactured there along to the first of all your population are you not doing just the thought of doing. russia's foreign minister says the type of poison a former double agent and his daughter were exposed to in the u.k. last month may have been misidentified like a laughter of science at the recent findings of an independence with celebratory that analyzed the samples from the sea. lynch liquidity in the bushes. is more consistent with the use of the poisonous substance be said none of these facts and

nothing at all about what 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 spears laboratory was emitted from the final report well the bees that the nerve agent is an incapacitating talks and developed by the us military back in the one nine hundred fifty s. the substance is a harmful crystalline power which may cause confusion difficulty seeing disorientation the base that has never been manufactured in russia or those thought the union the u.k. was quick to blame russia for the attack naming the navi chalk nerve agent initially developed in the soviet union the international chemical weapons watchdog the a.p.c. w. confirmed those findings to artie's more advanced you have takes a closer look now at the allegations leveled at russia there was no trial no

discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgement and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible to hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less the name nuvi chalk sounds russian means russia did it but established that it is not a chaka matter is by definition of the translation of the name which means new comma part of a program in a soviet union in the late seventy's and eighty's the points made there are a lot of questions to ask of this whole mess but over the last few weeks we've interviewed dozens of chemists experts and military specialists and hear their biggest gripes. the new nerve agents a new she quit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the

books and studies and mailable to the public neither the formula nor the chemicals any more russian then itself for years now researchers have published studies and theses on the nuvi chocks which there are dozens and dozens of many developed in different countries there's just one good book in twenty zero seven the us or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity the author invited them under the system there are more than sixty compounds here and they've all been indexed that means someone somewhere synthesize them and shared the information since then these formulas or some of them have appeared in various publications constantly you simply cannot say they are secret and. there's more to it if you suspect a potential adverse arena has made

a new discovery you have to do the same in order to study the new substance and make antidotes it's true to say that russia is not the only country being able to sympathize a few grams of no beach up in the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on chart because there were these rumors about a new military chemical agent produced in russia so so i'm not surprised that in france in a new king in the united states you have this kind of information that could explain this speed in which the product was identified that's the purpose and that's the job of this kind of laboratories and there's a whole lot of nerve agents to go around with more being discovered undeclared nerve agents. and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of a new chemical structure it's that city are chemical weapons potentially they must

immediately according to the convention fragile it would be obviously w. but no country does so despite having created many such chemicals. and it really isn't as difficult as it may sound if it's really an overture we're dealing with it's not a real problem to synthesize that kind of nerve agent or the necessary components are easily available on the open market the synthesis does not require sophisticated procedures any specialist in organic chemistry would be able to make it though every expert we talked to said that you need serious expertise and substantial funding to make pure nerve agent. and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the lab has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment and the chemists themselves have to be educated not every lead can synthesize this but there are twenty or so labs

that counter. the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russia has made new v trucks sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation is called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists scratching their heads over each other is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic a small amount should have killed mr keep out for sure the interesting thing with nova chalks is that there are so many of them and they come in so many different forms they can come in a powered as solid as a crystal and even as a liquid but just to give you some reference if this was a variety of the nuvi chocks

a single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the hailed even more units on putting it we can tell you are symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to hours. at first one might think that the script owls could only have survived because the dude's had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing if indeed this was a new recherche nerve agent at work the script ulcers were very fortunate british medics must have realized quickly what was at work here or else have a miracle cure for a new nerve agents there's no other explanation. coming up after the break we go beyond politics to meet a british super fund who travel to moscow for

a crucial european football championship match. with nor make its manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes project themselves. in the final merry go round listen to the one percent. nor middle of the room. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this just us is a fair is this all us or would use a country like a tissue paper and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way

i think it's very immoral. welcome back well this week saw one another wave of clashes between police and environmental activists in the french city of no. this is some of the latest pictures from the tensions in the area have as belated since the deployments of over two thousand five hundred police officers earlier in the week activists known as scientists have long protested a project to build one of the largest airports in france near the city some even

building a makeshift someone even building makeshift houses but since plans for the airport were finally called off in january at least being trying to forcefully evict. well our correspondents all depend ski has been following events that is clashes came to a head at the beginning of the week. her world will you think if you feel the. god this land was scheduled to be part of an airport development many people are against that people moved into the land they took over they built a commune over many years many people say that this is now their family land they they farm here and they want to protect it the government said they had to be out by the end of the winter they were given until last week to leave they've been

given an extra week's grace and what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.'s or the government and the protesters the saddest who say that this is their land and they will do anything they can to defend it if in throwing bottles they've been throwing fire at the place and the police have been responding in kind with tear gas at times it felt like the sky was raining with tear gas here and a colleague's artie's video agency will caught up in that take us. inside. because you. already feel very fortunate to see well as you can see now the scientists have lit fire to one of these a very case the police are just about one hundred meters down in the distance ready and waiting for whether they going to charge forward and i just want you to just look around me and you can see all of the smoke and that is because it literally has been raining down with tear gas here in not to dumville and if you look behind

me there's a fire up in that in the background it is incredibly difficult to breathe we keep being moved on by that gas is actually chlorine at my skin because it hurt so much . real world. prefer. to just. to take you to have a look at this down this is one of the rocks that they've been throwing at the police and gendarmerie and there's understand that one of the c.r.s. offices has been injured by one of this project as has been taken to hospital one person who was attempting to throw a moment of cocktail at the police but it didn't go squat so well. thank you. but as you can see behind us the c.r.s. and the police have come into another czar this point this is a point where a couple of dozen people were trying to hold off as you can see the police are

pushing the way they steer gas in the air already they've brought dogs in his well there are absolutely determined that they will move the saddest away from this camp we saw one man with a package saying no violence he was taken away by the police as he was trying to peacefully resist what's happening here what we can see is the police are now trying to push everybody away a tactic that we've seen earlier in the day whether you choice by getting rid of all of this artist or the activists they can then bring the bulldozers in to get rid of these buildings this is sheer brute force by the state and it is working because they are clearing this site assortments been occupied for many many years ziad could peel back faster than many people thought it would be because she's also still continuing to tear gas is still being spread well here in the city of nohant

which is about thirty kilometers south of not too dumb to land where those clashes were taking place today as the police were going in and raised the ring the scientists homes and structures and we've also you see those clashes from today come back out into the streets tonight there's been plenty of to gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. well relations between the u.k. and russia might be at an all time low but that hasn't stopped british football fans from traveling to moscow for the u.a.e. for you or the police instead of be ahead of b.c.s. game mosco also game on thursday media outlets run threatening all ticals about what lay ahead for english support it is. a message with one also super fun to see if the headlines were true. this on my way to consider you a very prominent hostile fan going to be offering him when he travels the most goes does he have any fear is regarding the political tension between the u.k.

and russia is he worried about things like hooliganism. follow him throughout history how do you feel in there in this context you know. there's been a lot going on between the governments we're offering between the governments i'm a person this is football we're going for football you know if you listen to people around you in the u.k. lots of people are coming up to me and say robbie don't go there you'd be mad in an oil some of you been to russia and i say well no i haven't come out are can i get advice for someone who has been there have also been concerns with regards to find safety so for example hooliganism and also racism you know you've seen things about russia and things of happened in russia that's not going to be a problem in qana encouraged because of a lot received e-mails from groups over there in russia saying to me that lisa ruby is not nearly as bad as what it's made out to be.

those on the plane about to head out to russia. and really looking forward to it. it's a place i'm never before. two thousand also. supporters come over to watch the game many of them have been advised by the foreign and commonwealth office as well saying there could be an uptake of anti british sentiment amongst some russians due to the heightened tension between the two countries at the moment well i mean already. we're very worried about coming here little things are actually so it's all right

there's no tension between us. as politicians or politicians go. you know we don't want to look around moscow ceremonies will be noisy use this game how will organize the city's already get a feeling that would the world cup so we could say we love the russia we love the russian people. friendship that we create here on the relations and yes i'm really good at the politics the politicians i like it still going to life i was a bit skeptical when i first come because of all that what was going on and what not but when you commit yourself when you see it that is no problem haven't seen any. sentiment russia's been at moscow's been incredible it's just incredible city and everyone is friendly enough the russians are lovely i mean to say what happens between governments a lot happens between people are totally different. well thank you for being with us this news hour will be back with the latest in about thirty minutes so do join

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