disorientation. it is not for to have ever been manufactured in either russia or back in the soviet union days the u.k. though was quick to blame russia for the attack on the former spy and his daughter pointing out the banaba child nerve agent was first developed in the soviet union the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. then said that it supported britain's findings concerning the identity of the substance it didn't specifically name the nerve agent more i guess you have next takes a closer look at the controversy 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 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 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 know the chemicals any more russian then self 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 one in twenty zero seven the us or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity

the author inverted 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 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 sympathise a few grams of know each other and the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on me truck 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 weapon potential they must immediately according to the convention fragile it with the open c.w. but no country does so. 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 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 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 lab 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 as quote the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists scratching 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 nuvi chalks

a single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the hailed even more units whimpering we can hail symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and birth 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 uls were very fortunate. because the u.k. and russia are a low good heads on a number of issues at the moment and it's having a knock on effect with high profile figures of the british royal family boycotting the twenty eighteen world cup in russia for that didn't deter a dedicated found the possible fans from traveling to moscow this week for a crucial european championship match after the break we'll meet up with one of them.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. something happens in this case it was the chemical attack on civilians in syria and then 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 in a way that 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 a clash a direct confrontation with russia.

back a development from today to tell you about more than three hundred thousand demonstrators have marched through barcelona calling for the release of jailed catalan leaders from the region separatist movement. i. i. several top officials were detained after catalonia proclaimed independence last october the move came following a referendum which went ahead despite spain prohibiting the vote and the dread declared illegal and response the catalan parliament was sacked and its leaders accused of rebellion testers have been calling for no legal proceedings to be taken against the breakaway regions former president. who is now in exile in germany

catalan public and those backing independence of called the punishment too harsh. the most serious problem is the price paid by these politicians who are elected by the people we cannot allow it not for anything in the world that's how i feel and there are many who feel the same this is the proof i'm here to. because i am outraged by everything that's going on just as all the people here today are i want freedom for our compatriots. this week saw another wave of clashes between police and environmental activists near the french city of known. tensions in the area have escalated since the deployment of thousands of police officers and here in the week activists known as the saddest have protested for a decade against the construction of a new airport near the city some even built makeshift houses and moved in there but since plans for the new transport hub were finally rejected in january police have

been trying to forcefully a pick off from correspondent charlotte to bed he's been following events. the standoff continues on the sunday between the police and saturday so if you just look behind me this is just one of the many areas you can see the shell dummy just here but they're also in the fields behind us as we're trying to come through this field just rooms and rows and rows of police even coming into the area of not too dumb to land on sunday they will police cordons around the entire area checking i.d.'s people will come into the site and that's because is that just said call for action for people to come and support the own someday to support their attempts to stay on this land land that many people have been living on for the last ten years .

let's take a look at what happened this week as the expulsion of the scientists began what's happening now is this is the battle between the police the c.r.'s of the government and the protest is the saddest to say that this is their land and they. will do anything they can to defend it they've been 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 sun the sky was raining with tear gas here and a colleague's artie's video agency will caught up in that take us right here.

because you. ready for your i don't want you to see well as you can see now the zionists have let fly to one of these a barrier case the police are just about one hundred meters down in the distance ready waiting for when are 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 a inot to down the line and if you look behind me there is a follow up in that in the background it is incredibly difficult to breathe we keep being moved on by that gas is actually chlorine to my skin because it hurt so much . for your group. or board room. but as you can see behind us the c r s and the police have come into another that

is 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 white faced tear gas in the air already they've brought dogs in as well they are absolutely determined that they will move the saddest away from this camp we saw one man with a pack of cards 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 right getting rid of all of this. that is all of the activists they can then bring the bulldozers in to get rid of these buildings this is sheer brute force by the state i mean he's working because they are clearing this site a site that's being occupied for many many years is sad could be over faster than many people thought it would be in class she's also still continuing to

tear gas is still being spared but we're here in the city of now until it is about thirty kilometers south of not to down the land has been plenty of tear gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. relations between the u.k. and russia might but that didn't stop british football fans from traveling to moscow for a major european match on thursday head of the game some of the media in britain ran some threatening articles about what might have awaited supporters so with one arsenal super fan to see if the headlines were true. just on my way to consider you a very prominent hostile fan going to be asking him when he travels to moscow does he have any fears regarding the political tension between the u.k. and russia is he worried about things like hooliganism. follow him throughout his trip how do you feel travelling there in this context you know what. i mean i know

there's been a lot going on between the governments were 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 i can i get advice for someone who has been there have also been concerns with regard to 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 popping corn i encouraged because of a lot received e-mails from groups over there rochelle saying to me to be nice not nearly as bad as what it's made out to be. this on the plane about to head out to russia for

a song. with the fords which. is a place on never before. to a thousand also supports is come over to watch the game many of them have been advised by the foreign and commonwealth office as well saying they 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 i'm not in moscow already. and we're being worried about coming here for little things or actually so it's all right there's no taking certain bits where you can also. explain it to the politicians get on with it. you know we

don't want to look around moscow ceremonies will be noisy he's game how will they know is the series all right if you know what it will come to be good. bye they had a good trip that's it for me your next edition of the weekly is with kevin i wouldn't just have a half an hour to get into that. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is a fair business how. would use a country like addition and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just costs the way i think it's very immoral. four man are sitting in a car when the feds get shot in the head. all

four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way you get it done there's no possible way because all this do not shoot around a corner. oh no there. oh yeah. oh oh oh oh oh oh oh now. that fire there i love i have it. while the two thousand any financial crash drives america into recession and

unemployment will listen a small town in north dakota experiences a genuine black gold rush. thanks to a drug crack into case boyle is discovered in this tiny town in fact it turns out the williston is sitting atop one of largest shale oil fields in the nation company's rest to exploit this new energy resource period thirty two miles below the first surface oil soon flows freely and news spreads the wildfire for the ones left behind by the crisis of two thousand and eight relisted seems like their last chance for human life with an unemployment rate of zero percent and wages it three or four times more than the national average the promise of prosperity in desperate times is too great to ignore cured by a common hope thousands of men and women throw themselves once again into a desperate rush towards the mythical american tree and at any cost. history repeats itself in the midst of his new album no doubt the most impressive in u.s. history. they need there's more work out here than

they got people to do it. don't believe. they still believe there's a dream there's a way yes i can still believe. it's like a gold rush it is very very similar to a gold rush. now there is fresh out of cincinnati in two thousand and twelve after being unemployed for months he hears about the boom happening in with us to. think. at first he works for an oil company but soon his desire for independence takes over and he sets up his own service company. bought the company and we had

a sweeper truck and the situation williston went from a manageable situation where i would get like some sleep at night and i could like keep up with like daily activities like taking showers every day to like an all out sprint trying to like keep up with so much work it was amazing go from one job to the next to the next to the next to the next as it is now i have not right now i have not taken a full day off in over nine months and i'm very thankful i'm here i'm not complaining one bit very thankful for the money an opportunity for those like someone who had been starving for years for like money to like all of a sudden there's like. all you can eat like a buff a day and all you have to do is go out there and get the work done and people give you money to do it was. easy this year i'm probably going to be making around two hundred fifty thousand dollars there's a lot of work involved a lot of work it's twenty four hours a day seven days

a week. well i guess i should get back to work. we're in an inhospitable land full of contrasts before the boom willison was a small conservative agricultural town and in many ways this aspect seems untouched everything has its own place including florida emptiness and silence the streets are practically deserted it's a town that is mission this with in its history and past. then you have another town the one that needs to welcome this new wave of residence oil company settling down a large numbers with the goal of extracting at least a million barrels of oil a day. this is the one we unpacked like a raft gift and a real without so growing up with a kind of uniformity copy and paste prefabricated never cost me. investors are right in that everything based upon a population that should be multiplied by four. our first came up

and this rang of two thousand ford saying i work there are neighbors they did a hydraulic fracturing and i was looking at how much it will not cost me to stay somewhere you know is going to stand a whole tail it was like a hundred dollars and i was an ok hundred dollars a day seven days a week seven hundred dollars on a course of a whole week and so i just can't in a conclusion you know what i get me a van fix it up so that you know i can be comfortable in it it makes financial sense because i get to keep the majority of my money versus just just or away on housing and stuff like that. is my first and then. it works. and that's the biggest. jerry cannot survive very long in his van. winter temperatures sometimes drop of the minus twenty. for the time being he is ready everything has happened so quickly it's very

hard to find a place to. make shift housing and his men camps mine up by the hundreds on the edge of town are close to drilling sites. these dormitory towns built by necessity and empty lots of free speech week one hundred and one hundred fifty dollars a night to meals including. a two thousand and twelve the population living in these men camps was estimated to be over ten thousand guys from. florida nevada. cleveland you name it i've seen the license plate. every week you know this is the best thing for single men you know that's what i mean it's fun wages and. so the everything you know the whole country should be this way.

because. this place will put like a stress on you know put away that you'll be carrying around on you and you're really realizing and when i went home i came back i noticed that weight pressure whatever you want to call it builds up over time for me and. you you wouldn't come up here and there some reason for you to come up here you know nobody was moving up here into two thousand and one i was moving up here in two thousand and one or two thousand and so it wasn't until i can gain something financially and i can improve my situation i can better my status my situation or all the. level that i met in life now and that's that's what the all fill up here really brought so a lot of people who were smart about it and save their money. because i'm telling

you man i was asking a lot of. there's not much help here to do to keep you busy focused on something you know you know keep your time occupied you know it's really allowed me to save my money and i'm in a position where you know i can go back home and your house. i just like the sound of it back and go back home about your house pay cash for a house not a car not a car but a house. all around with just in the lease it's footprints on the landscape the fast as it please her coverage for good by these forces for as far as the eye can see sweeney slowly to extract the by calls from the subterranean temps. it became urgent

to build four lane highways all around town in order to accommodate the lines of trucks transporting all kinds of pipes deaves sand and water used to track it. nothing was planted in fence everything was done in a hurry because of the immediacy of the work and the enormous influx of workers investors and the unemployed rushed in chasing neutrino graphic pieces of. german gun austrian gun italian american and my rifles just in case i need to kill someone. most americans have guns in their house. and at the foot of my bed is a bible. most of my adult life is spent in universities doing teaching or research i went to the university of maine and got several degrees there in agricultural engineering information systems then i worked for mit on the human

genome project. there came a time when there was a recession there was high unemployment i spent a lot of time reading the news on the internet and i kept reading about the williston the oil boom the bokken shale. i wasn't doing anything i was going into debt so i decided to go from an area that had almost ten percent unemployment to an area that had less than one percent unemployment so. i came looking for work but i didn't know what kind of work to take. so i fell into wireline it was very difficult at the beginning i had. accidents while pulling a trailer i could have been killed there were explosives in the trailer and it's fun three hundred sixty degrees and the explosives came out the back. but my boss didn't fire me they gave me another chance. after the first year i was very pliable

i had a marketable skill. it pleases me that i had to hand a small hand but nevertheless i changed my career late in life and involved myself in american energy independence and in weaning this country of our foreign oil dependency. you know america would sell its own mother for energy. i live in st george utah. and my family's down there i needed to come up here to make some money to pay off debt and stuff we're getting there. i went to school and became an teach school elementary school i could make twenty

five thousand dollars as a teacher or i could make fifty thousand dollars a year and drive a truck so i chose to drive truck. and i were usually twelve to fourteen hours to get my truck around eight o'clock in the morning and i work till eight o'clock at night you know somewhere between me and i . it's mentally. not only my physically fit. but it's mental fatigue also. this is the moment that i like the best. reached down enough to see

everything stops vibrating all the noise goes away it's. i live in company housing here it's provided by the company i have to share. thirty five foot r.v. trailer with a three hundred fifty pound guy. gets . done. if. you. remember.