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 while my colleague kendall laney and i have learned today that the u.s. now has blood and urine samples from some of the victims of this attack in syria last weekend and that those samples according to u.s. officials tested positive for chemicals toxin samples verified witness and victim accounts provided by a u.n. backed chemical organization would have served as rock solid proof but trump apparently figured why bother launching the strikes just hours before the your p.c. w. probe on the ground was shot jule 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 u.n. approval but that's not a chapter of international law for trump just a nuisance does my duty to remind member states that there is an obligation particularly when dealing with methods of peace and security to act consistently with the charge that of the united nations and with international law in general. the u.n. charter is very clear on these issues. 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 is promised 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 approval so whatever you decide to do i would hope you would include the legislative branch we will be reporting to congress and finally in ideal

circumstances they'd be rallying on mars beside washington unleashing their joint on the enemy this time most u.s. partners while giving their verbal support have sought to avoid complicity the ability it we must say as we tell you and so always have that if we need a long term solution to the syrian crisis we not only need to respond to crimes but first of all work towards peace good stunt drama you will not even want to. and want to make it clear again that there are no decision is just between c. and c. word this that everything is being done to send a signal that this use of chemical weapons is not acceptable so 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 which it is senator richard black told is that congress if

asked it would never have approved a strike on syria. the 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 am 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 do know just logic away there was no motive what ever for syria to do it first of all they had conquered jaish al islam in duma they were leaving they were finished the war where the battle for dumont was over and so the idea that at that precise point. gas would be fired as is is

childishly absurd. russia has 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 their aggression against syria and provide conditions for an. investigation but to hate it and council the draft was quashed. washington and london but chose to ignore all calls for sanity you have nothing but disdain for the u.n. charter on the security council which you're using and your illicit aims the un charter wasn't conceived to protect criminals our action absolutely corresponds to the goals and values proclaiming the charter of the us and its allies continue to show the slate's and neglect of international law i will take no lessons mr

president in international law from russia you don't treat the security council seriously you don't work to its guidelines don't talk to us and you don't consult the time for talk and did last time the united states is locked and loaded. when our president draws a red line and our president enforces the red line the us sends and it is ready to shoot it and it's locked and loaded with sand and can stand to hear we're going to have aircraft several hours old smartly sorrows and a nuclear weapons arsenal now we also know that this is done for the national we are prepared to sustain this pressure if the syrian regime is foolish enough to test our well if it did receive his medal just this how you want to incent actual affairs to be conducted took them this is hooliganism and not minor hooliganism total since we're talking about the major nuclear powers. while people around the

world have express their anger at the actions of the u.s. and its allies hundreds marched in france germany and america to did now and the strikes against syria. the united states has no right to send these airstrikes over to syria and no right to do so if you can you just can't just say that after the airstrikes. i couldn't bear the pain i was feeling and i couldn't just sit silently in mind knowing all that was happening and we can and must stop micron what else should we do in parliament he doesn't listen to anybody we only have this way to intervene. but we've heard from the director of the ron paul institute's daniel mcadams who questions the logic for conducting the airstrikes well it's really a matter of simple logic if if indeed that was the case why not wait for an investigative body to calm the u.s. has known it for a long time this was

a chemical weapons facility why not notify the o.p.'s you know be 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 disperse all of the stair and gas or whatever they have manufactured there along to the civilian population are you not it was just the start of doing. russia's foreign minister says the type of poison a formidable agent and his daughter wakes posed to in the u.k. last month may have been mis identified so de la brive cited the recent findings of an independence whistler bora tree that analyzed samples from the sea and the recent developments the swiss lab says it's down to the o.p.c. w. to have the final say. eventually it got to the bushes the analysis 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 a p c w explain why such information and the conclusion the speirs laboratory was emitted from the final report all the bs as nerve agent is an incapacitating toxin developed by the us military back in the one nine hundred fifty s. it's a harmful crystal unpowered which may cause confusion difficulty seeing and disorientation now believes that it has never been manufactured in russia or those of the union however the u.k. was quick to blame russia for the attack naming the navi chalke nerve agent which was initially developed in the soviet union the international chemical weapons watchdog the p.c. confirmed those findings to our correspondent 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 to hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less than a movie chalk sounds russian means russia did it establish that it is not a chaka 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 experts and military specialists and hear their biggest gripes. the new rich nerve agents a new she crit they haven't been so in decades here they are exerts from the books and studies available to the public neither the formula nor the chemicals any

more russian than itself for years now researchers have published studies and the she's 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 their toxicity the author inverted them on 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 see 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 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 texas it's a chemical weapons potential they must immediately according to the convention register it 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 a movie choke we're dealing with it's not a real problem to synthesize that kind of nerve agent or the mystery 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 pure nerve agent it was a mere of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the love has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment every 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 rich ox 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 graduate in their heads 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 nova chucks a single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the haled even more units on putting it we can hail symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets on the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to hours. at first one might think that the script could only have survived because the dude's had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they're simply missing if indeed this was a new rich org nerve agent at work the script bulbs were very fortunate british

medics must have realized quickly what was at work here or else have a miracle cure for a no nerve agents there's no other explanation. well as we heard the u.k. and russia are head to head on a number of issues at the moment not least the script pallet case and it's having a knock on effect with high profile figures like the british royal family boycotting the twenty eighteen world cup in russia but even that hasn't deterred a dedicated fan of also fans from traveling to moscow this week for a crucial european championship match after the break we meet up with one of them.

american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this just us is a threat is this all. would use a country like it to shoot their book and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore just go away i think it's very immoral.