it comes in the form of a white crystalline powder it can cause confusion sight problems and disorientation besides not thought to have ever been manufactured here in russia or in the soviet union before it now the u.k. was quick of course to blame russia for the attack on a former spy and his daughter pointing out that the novacek nerve agent was first developed in the soviet union the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. said it supported britain's findings concerning the identity of the substance but it didn't specifically name the nerve agent takes a closer look at this whole 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 two poles 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 eggs birds 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 nor 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 developed in different countries they she said mom google in twenty zero seven the

us or the published of people numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity the author invited 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 but you simply cannot save your secrets i mean there's more to it if you suspect a potential adverse read has made a new discovery you have to do the same in order to study the new substance and make and to do so it's true to say that russia is not the only country being able to sympathize a few grams of not be chock the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on so i'm not surprised that in france in. 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. and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of a new chemical structure it's the city a chemical weapons that anshul they must immediately according to the convention fragile certainly with the obviously w. but no country does so. and it really isn't as difficult as it may sound if it's really a 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 cure nerve agent.

and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the left has to be well equipped with ventilation the talks of acacia equipment built every lead can synthesize this but there are twenty also loves that with the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russians made newbie chalk's sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation is called the room and mail 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 nova chucks. single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the haled even more units on the part of the. symptoms that follows in minutes if it gets on the skin symptoms and can take for minutes. at first one might think that the script could only have survived because the doods had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing if indeed this was the nuvi chalk a nerve agent at work the script balls were very fortunate the. the u.k. and russia head to head over a number of issues at the moment 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 that didn't deter a dedicated band of arsenal fans from traveling to moscow this week for

a crucial european championship match after the break then we meet up with one of them. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race often spearing dramatic development only. exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. 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. i get over three hundred thousand demonstrators of march through barcelona calling for the release of jailed cattle and leaders from the region separatist movement. several top officials were detained after catalonia for claims independence last october the move came following a referendum which went ahead despite spain prohibiting the vote declaring it illegal in response the cattle parliament was sacked and its leaders accused of rebellion protesters have been calling for no legal proceedings to be taken after

the break we're regions of former president colors put them on there is no next in germany the cattle public in those backing independence of call the punishment to be. the most serious problem is the price paid by these politicians who are elected by the people we cannot allow it or not for anything in the world well that's how i feel and there are many who feel the same this is the proof i'm here today 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 last week so another wave of clashes between police and environmental activists near the city of normed. tensions in the terror have escalated since the fall of the files into police officers earlier in the week activists known as scientists of protested for a decade now against the construction of a new airport in the city some even built makeshift houses and moved in there but

since plans for the new terms for the pub were finally rejected in january things been really holding up police have been trying to forcefully a victim fronts correspondent show the tube and skis been following what's going on at. the standoff continues on the sunday between the police and the saddest if you just look behind me this is just one of the many areas you can see the shell dummy just here but there 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 an 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. well 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 this side of 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 are. ready for a fury and they want you to see well as you can see now the scientists have let fly into one of these a very case the police are just about one hundred meters down in the distance ready 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 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 . real world. for a whole board room. but

you can see behind us the c r s and the police have come into another satisfying 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 his well they 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 attempt. that we've seen earlier in the day whether utilized by getting rid of all of the sadness 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 and it is working because they are clearing this site

a site that's been occupied for many many years is sad could be over faster than many people thought it would be the clashes are still continuing a tear gas is still being sprayed while we're here in the city of no aren't which is about thirty kilometers south of not to the dandelions there's been plenty of tear gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. relations between the u.k. and russia might be at an all time low right now but that didn't stop british football fans from traveling in moscow for a major european much on thursday a head of the game some of the media in britain run threatening articles about what might have awaited supporters didn't come to pass easterly met up with one arsenal super fan to see if the headlines were true or not. just on my way to consider you a very prominent hostile fan going to be offering him when he travels to moscow 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 this context you know what. i know i know to there's been a lot going on between the governments watching the governments and 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. a lot some people are coming up to me and say robbie don't go there you'd be mad in an oil some of you've been to russia and i say well no i have i'm not all that i 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 up in qana encouraged because of a lot received e-mails from groups over there in russia saying to meet at least

a release not nearly as bad as what it's made out to be. on the plane about to head out to russia. and really looking forward to it. as a place on never before. two 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 here not take over anti british sentiment amongst some russians due to the heightened tension between the two countries at the moment well i mean look you must go already. so we're very worried about coming here political tension baxley so it's all right

there's no tension between us. as politicians and the politicians get on with it. you know we don't want to look around most ceremonies will be noisy these peace game how will organize the seas are really if you know would be welcome so we could see. ever so good so welcome here certainly well that's the way that we check it out so much more from us twenty four seven from now here moscow though it's kevin i would say fans watching and enjoy the rest of you we care. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our

coach. guys i know you are nervous is a huge tournaments and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the power with you and do a great big bridge you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down there we have to go. alone. and i'm really happy to join that for the two thousand in the world cup in russia meet the special one come on top of. me to just read the review the artie team's latest edition the bigger certainly better jersey but. there was the. you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce autocratic tell you that what we gossip the public by file for the most important news today. off the bad

guys and tell you on the whole and on and let's not buy their product. all the hawks that we along with all those watching. american sanctions would be damaging 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 cost a way i think it's very immoral.

well. this is the pat on the land. five years ago it was all grass. like that over there now and this is pumper going day in day out we didn't have any choice really we could have put it over that way a ways i mean we could have moved it a little bit. but we have to let the people who own the mineral rights get to those minorities and they compensated us for what they took here but the company built it and we have it now for no next forty years i'm guessing i don't own. my house up there and there we have we used to have a beautiful view. now we have this to look at brings in a little bit of money very little if they took us out of here and get back all the money i made off of it's. going to happen.

someday. you know on oil is all pumped out of the ground they will come back here and level it out and turn it back into farmland but that's you know like i said it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes to be out of mind for sure. i. have nothing to say about where. i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest but they don't have to listen to you don't mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission foreign oil industry

follows a proper practices i don't think will have a problem but there's always that if me if they don't then we could have an issue in the biggest issue would be to do ground water as i see it when we live are in rural areas most of us depend on wells for our our drinking water and all the water we use in our homes so if that would happen it would be a very bad thing. as all that fraction job that's where they pump the sand the fluid in the other chemicals because they use as it is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pumped out that off in a ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill it any kind of living organism of

any kind it kills it because one of our guy has. got some of it on his hands and light and i disturb just swallow his hand and we will buy it because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is its is run in the water. for history it is as a nobody drinks the water out of the father from north dakota i think everybody drank so bottled water you know it just it's just like you ever. drop water on the out of the night isn't this it is is pretty nasty when we're fracking no oil org. reese is allowed to be spilled on the ground if you make an a mistake and you drop one cup you have to clean it up and take it away with you it's not polluting north dakota the air is clean the water is clean. this is

privately own land this is not government land any less the environmental protection agency finds scientific proof that there is real pollution going on they won't be able to shut this down. and so far there is no proof. there's just. propaganda. is it possible to respect safety measures tracking. down how deep it is advocating this notion in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely. the question is me raised as grass the intention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice of hydraulic fracking to be as large quantities of drinking water. ten young is the owner of eclipse services a company of the facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines

and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these thanks for that used to hold water for the fracking the whole thirty five thousand barrels and so they'll pump water from one to the other until eventually it's over to the frac and down the hole. it's fresh water all that water thrown in here is coming out of the city water line so it's all clean water. you know that spend millions of dollars on water for one frack is one of the biggest expenses or one of these wells the fresh . one the water after the frac they just log back out of the ground and they all went off to a disposal facility. right here this is called a flare natural gas comes up with the oil and so they have to get rid of it so they just burn it off right here well comes out of the pump jacks goes underground

to the treaters and there it separates the oil the water in the guess this site your produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck in truck it out take it to a disposal facility. keep their lives sixty miles out of the list and on fort berthold reservation for black gold flows freely and accounts for one quarter north dakota's production. this oil field isn't all that good for everybody we have secured land and we have virgin land here and now there's oil role of oil fields. at night time some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. trucking water it's all water and all these things into the ditch. because

they're too lazy to drive to the dump station and that is going into our river going into our cricks it's going into our stock pond. this is not in the water but it is you know they're not telling the truth. i have twenty nine grandchildren i want them to enjoy this river where i do don't want them to walk in the water one can to catch a fish you can eat no one to grow a garden and to do and have to worry about poisoning the planet i want to have plants with better medicine that's not before and now because of the things that are in this water. oil workers are best suited to judge the eventual clues. this caused by fracking. unfortunately this problem is not a priority they are in survival mode first and foremost they are in need of work. during the drilling phase radioactive debris brought back to the surface is a major risk for workers and the environment some companies clearly are not

concerned and do not hesitate to suppose of these toxic materials into wild dumps. specially teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment states. in north dakota no one with an oil rich piece of land will tell you that fracking could be an environmental hazard. doing so could jeopardize one of the best ways to get rich quick. of course all beautiful stories have been in rhetoric christmas two thousand and fourteen all science turned red thanks to saudi arabia the staggering fall of the price per barrel of oil will put an end to the moment of euphoria the sun the us rise of the first producers of crude oil based the shale. and. we can feel the concern brought by the price cut everywhere and will is to now

shows the science of a boom town going bust. people in this town are very very suspicious of oil booms because that almost always comes with a large bust and the bust to be rather difficult and now that i'm a part of this town i'm a little bit worried because we're seeing gas prices start to drop down and i'm wondering what's going to happen to my business because we have a message here. january two thousand and fifteen the price per barrel fell below the crucial fifty dollars mark. in this little town here west and is a major major reason why the price of oil around the world is. coming down because the opec countries saudi arabia leading them there out there they're very scared by the. developments in hydraulic fracturing they know that the united states in the past five years went from importing something like sixty percent of the oil that we

use down to thirty percent and that is a direct result of the hydraulic fracturing that's taken place like here and williston in the box and in other areas they want to put these companies out of business. even if circumstances a reason these days i think he has not stopped after ten thousand the well as we still need to extract the millions of barrels lying beneath the bakken. this situation brings happiness to the ones for him for serious companies but it is devastating to the oil workers who are no longer needed they are thrown out into the streets without pity they must decide whether to go back home or stay liston looking for new jobs. in february twenty fifteen want one of my coworkers i work with economy and he said managers laid everybody off. these and i told everybody to go to a room get on a stove and get out and this was two o'clock in the morning at night in february in

the winter. a man can say emptied out enclosed for one day to the next. these dilapidated barracks will probably pollute the landscape for eight years to come. construction sites for abandoned by the dozen and left to rest and to keep. housing construction began at the peak of the willis tomb is now nearly complete. occupied in part by survivors of the group the neighborhood seems sadly empty.