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tv   Worlds Apart  RT  April 15, 2018 2:30am-3:00am EDT

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beautiful story ended with pollution and devastation a lot of people have left here i don't know too many people here anymore just slow down too much they lost their jobs got laid off the american dream has changed that's not what it used to be. and it's a tough reality to deal with. american sanctions would be dumb is it but i mean is this justice is a threat 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.
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america the u.k. and france launch an assault on syria comes in response to an alleged chemical attack in eastern kusa the strikes were carried out without un approval and just hours before international investigators arrived at the sea. russia's foreign minister says the kind of noise that the surrogate script and his
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daughter were exposed to in the u.k. may have been misidentified after a new report from an independent lab in switzerland. and tensions run high near the french city of north west squatters and police have clashed throughout the week over forced evictions. as you can see behind us to see all ranks and the police have come into another sad this point this is a point where. a couple of dozen people are trying to hold up as you can see the police are pushing the like. a very. well welcome you're watching the week here on r.t. international all the latest world headlines and the stories that have shaped the week good to have you with us this hour we start with the early hours of saturday morning when american british and french forces pounded syria with misfile and air
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strikes the attack came in response to allegations that the syrian government had used chemical weapons against civilians claims which an international watchdog is still to investigate. thanks. lass for donald trump in his first tweet after the attack he thanked the u.s. allies and said the results could not have been better trump called the strikes perfectly executed despite syrian and russian military saying most of the missiles had been intercepted by defense systems. a perfectly executed strike if we've learned one thing from trump's tenure so far it's that he feels he can do as he
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pleases this week strikes on syria are a textbook example of how far this can go to batter a sovereign country with over a hundred retaliate three missiles in response to a chemical attack you have to be a hundred percent sure that that attack happened instead america's conviction was built basically on online video and sources 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 talks in samples very fied witness and victim accounts provided by a un backed chemical organisation would have served as rock solid proof but trump
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apparently figured why bother launching the strikes just hours before the your p.c. w. probe on the ground was should yield to start experts abound to proceed with the investigation anyway but in the face of the strikes they are presented with an additional challenge now holding up the very relevance of the probe another obligation for an attack of this kind un approval but that's not a chapter of international law for trump just a nuisance the cold war is back with a vengeance but with a difference the mechanisms and the safeguards to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present. but even with the un brushed aside the us congress has to give the green light for the attack on paper it turns out the defense secretary's promise to run the decision with the lawmakers was empty it is hard to find a legal justification for that military strike in syria absent congressional
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approval so whatever you decide to do i would hope you would include the legislative branch we will be reporting to congress none of the formal boxes checked but the mission is accomplished and ignoring all the legalities and almost deliberately rushing headlong into war trump has once again shown the only right way is his way. but it is senator richard black told us that congress is all sgt would never have approved a strike on syria congress would not want once the people had an opportunity to to have a voice there is no way that they would have approved an attack on syria if you tried to prosecute syria for this in a legitimate court of law you could never get a conviction i will tell you i'm a prosecutor we do not know whether chemicals were used or whether this was just a fabrication and if they were used we have no earthly idea who used them. but we
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do know just logically there was no motive what for syria to do it first of all they had conquered jaish al islam in duma they were leaving they were finished the war with the battle for doing what was over and so the idea that at that precise point. gas would be fired as is is childishly absurd. well russia has a slams the u.s. led strikes on syria as an act of aggression and called a un security council meeting at the meeting moscow 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 that aggression against syria and provide conditions for an. investigation but off the hatred and counter the draft was quashed. you have
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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 united states and its allies continue to demonstrate 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 distinguish permanent representative for the us says that the us is ready to shoot looks and loaded and of course listening to her words with much concern and sadness we know that they have aircraft satellites smart missiles a nuclear weapons arsenal and we also know that they have disdain for international
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law we are prepared to sustain this pressure if the syrian regime is foolish enough to test our well that you do easterners know 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 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 but we heard from the director of the ron paul institute daniel mcadams who questions the logics had no tick for conducting the strikes. well it's really a matter of simple logic if it can be that was the case why not wait for an investigative body to convert the u.s. has known it for a long time this was a chemical weapons facility why not notify your piece you have in the first place and most of all if this was a factory producing chemical weapons and you want to punish assad for allegedly
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using chemical weapons why would you hit a chemical weapons factory and dispersed all of this air and gas or whatever they have manufactured there along to the civilian population are you not it was just you were 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 missed identified so a lover of cited the recent findings of an independence whistler bar a tree that analyzed samples from the sea. in the bushes. 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 a p c w report which was presented to its executive board we requested the a p c w explain why such information and the conclusion the spears laboratory was emitted from the final report and the bees that a nerve agent is an incapacitating toxin developed by the u.s.
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military back in the one nine hundred fifty s. the substance is a harmful crystalline powder which may cause confusion difficulty seeing disorientation the bees that has never been manufactured in russia all the soviet union u.k. however was quick to blame russia for the attack on the square pals naming the navi chalk known as agent initially developed in the soviet union the international chemical weapons watchdog the p.c. w confirmed those findings to mark garcia of takes a closer look now at the allegations being 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 the juveniles russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less than a movie chock sounds russian means russia did it but established that it is not
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a chalk a matter is by definition of the translation of the name which means newcomer 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 eggs birds and military specialists and hear their biggest gripes. the new nerve agents a new she crit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies and mailable to the public neither the formula know the chemicals any more russian than itself for years now researchers have published studies and theses on the nuvi chocks which there are dozens and dozens of many
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developed in different countries there's just one good tool in twenty zero seven the us or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity we all thought united them under the system there are more than sixty compounds here and they've all been indexed since then these formulas or some of them have appeared in various publications constantly you simply cannot say they are secret. 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 so i'm not surprised that in france in a new king in the united states you have this kind of information that could
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explain this speed in which the product was identified and there's a whole lot of nerve agents to go around with more being discovered undeclared nerve agents. in four months and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of a new chemical structure it's that city a chemical weapons potential they must immediately according to the convention fragile and with the o.p.c. w. but no country does so. and it really isn't as difficult as it may sound if it's really an overt choke 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 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
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a 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 every can synthesize this but there are twenty or thirty labs that counter. the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russia has made new each ox fails. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation as called the room and mail running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists graduate in their heads the interesting thing with nova drugs is that there are so.

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