final report which was presented to its executive board we request that the a.p. c.w. explain why such information and the conclusion of the spears laboratory was emitted from the final report the lab in question is not addressed the claim in fact and simply says only the o.p.c. w can comment but he did go on to state that it supports the u.k.'s conclusions about the use of the novacek nerve agent be said which the swiss scientists allegedly found of the samples is a toxic powder that was originally developed way back nine hundred fifty s. by the americans it seems now moscow says be said is a weapon that could also be in the hands of the u.k. as well as the u.s. but stresses its never had it and doesn't have it the u.k. was quick to blame moscow of course for the attack in seoul spree claiming that nava chocks solve it origin to do with a name of more than the else is a clear indicator of russian guilt or the international chemical weapons watchdog said in the controversial report as far as russia is concerned that it supported britain's find is concerning the identity of the substance anyway more goes to

takes a closer look at the growing controversy there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgment and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible we do polls russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less the name nuvi 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 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 you know 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 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 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 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 the 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 an overt york we're dealing with it's not a real problem to synthesize that kind of nerve agent all 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 concern for such as this but there are twenty also loves 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 called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists crashing 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 doods had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing if indeed this was a new v chalk a nerve agent at work the script very fortunate. international our weekly the round of the big stories of the last seven days coming up more of them after the break hundreds of thousands of filled the city a parcel owner earlier today demanding the release of jailed separatist leaders that story runs and runs to tell you about it coming up. join me every first week on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. 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. again over three hundred thousand demonstrators marched through pass alone are calling for the release of those jailed council on leaders from the region

separatist movement. the was was. the part of history if you needed several top officials were detained after catalonia pretended dependence last october in the stories we've gone from the move came following a referendum which show went ahead despite spain were hitting the vote and madrid declaring it illegal in response the cattle parliament was sacked of course and its leaders accused of rebellion protesters have been calling for no legal proceedings no there to be taken against the breakaway regions former president carlos proved in one i'm still in exile in germany the catalan public in those backing independence of call the punishment simply 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 as well as how i feel and there are many who feel the same this is the proof i mean 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 what. else around the world this week sort of the wave of clashes between police and environmental activists near the french city of not want. tension's not every best place if you like since to the point of thousands of police officers every one of the week activists known as the saddest of protested for a decade in fact they're against the construction of a new airport in the city some with even been there so long that maybe makeshift houses literally moved in but since plans for the new transport hub were finally rejected in january when things got hard police would be trying to forcefully evict them affronts correspondent sean the devinsky has been following what's going on. but 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 diaries you can see the show 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 lounge 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 sit calls for action for people to come and support them on some day to support their attempts to stay the only son down that many people have been living on for the last ten years.

let's take a look at what happened earlier this week as the expulsion of the saga. began 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 sun in 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 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 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. for your whole board room. but as you can see behind us the c r s and the police have come into another satisfied this is a point where. a couple of dozen people were trying to hold off and you can see the police pushing the white faced tear gas in the air already to put dogs in his 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 resume. 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 the sadness 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 ruling because they are clearing this site a site that's been occupied for many many years. could be over faster than many people thought it would be the clashes are still continuing the tear gas is still being spread well here in the city of north which is about thirty kilometers south of not to the dandelions has been plenty of t.v. gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. so it

seems no less check out some sports relations between the u.k. and russia might be at an all time low right now but in the style british football fans they flee from traveling into moscow for major european much on thursday or well ahead of the game some of the major in britain though around frightening articles about what might wait and supporters he's really met with one arsenal super fan to see if the headlines were true or just maybe falls. this is so 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. in the noda there's been a lot going on between the governments waffling between 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'll be mad in an oil some of you've been to russia and i say well no i haven't won at all but i can i get advice for someone who has been there have also been concerns with regards to safety so for example hooliganism and also racism you know you've seen fings about russia and things of happened in russia that's not going to be a problem but up in qana encouraged because of a lot received e-mails from groups over there in russia saying to me that lisa ruby snot nearly as bad as what it's made out to be. on the plane about to head out to russia. looking for. someplace on the road. to

a thousand also supports his home 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 can mr already. we are rewarded about coming here to speak with censored backs of the. sort there's no taking certain bits where you can also. sponsor the pulitzer since get on with it. you know we don't want to look around moscow. will be noisy he's gay male will be known as the city's already get

a feeling that would be welcome to the goods. yeah i was hoping so and you'll get a welcome here in russia now that's the way the we check it out see so much more from us twenty four seven for now it must go it's going on so thanks for watching and enjoy the rest of the week. all. off. when nor make this manufacture consent to stick to public wells. when the room in clusters protect themselves. with the flame of merry

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the welcome to worlds apart delage chemical attack on a damascus suburb has once again the put the world on the brink of a major confrontation and not just one as russia and the united states have been ripped as being their big guns israel is the moment to strike what it called the reigning in assets in syria for so little respect for the country's sovereignty can the israel colony on its own interest being accommodated. they have to discuss that i'm now joined by. an israeli air force veteran and columnist for the jerusalem post karl it's great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for joining us on such a beautiful day thank you for having me now before we go into discussing israel's

rationale for attacking its neighbor militarily let me ask you about your own assessment of the situation in general you know the russian television package this week about what kind of foods you are supposed to stock up on in the event of a nuclear strike i wonder if we have actually come to a point globally when dot kind of knowledge may prove practical i don't think so i think this may be a bit overdoing it this far as where the region can go but certainly the possibility of a miscalculation and deterioration into a regional war that is possible remember that we're talking about a global power israel is not a global power but we do have our interests are very vital interests which we are trying to protect now there was a moment when dan merrick an attack on syria seemed not just in abbottabad but also imminent and possibly expansive involving not just syrian targets but since then

both washington and i think if the european allies have stepped back a little bit. do you take it as a tactical move or do you think there has been some reassessment about what has actually happened and do more perhaps they were assessment of what can happen as a result of the american strikes i think there's a problem in the way we perceive this something happens in this case it was the chemical attack on civilians and syria and then the public in the media are waiting for the response of course playing into this is also this very unique american president which tells us via twitter what he plans to do and so everyone is waiting for this attack remember that the last attack by the united states was also not a game changer but more a signal and also. here again is a four waiting we're sitting back and waiting for the american response it's not going to be toppling the syrian regime so it's going to be something calculated in the middle we don't know what we don't know when but of course this is the american calculation i wouldn't make

a mistake of tying israel into this and also remember that the last attack by israel on two four had nothing to do with a chemical attack israel is not a global player player as far as being the regional a policeman and we are not carrying out messages by global powers we are looking out for our own interests i personally believe that the timing here was coincidental well colonel as you said we have a very very unusual president in the white house and i personally think that flipping a coin is more reliable than predicting mr chance actions but i still wonder after everything that was written and sad and then taken back and done written and sat again do you seeing districts will still follow yes i think it will happen it's clear to me that the american administration will have to fulfill this kind of promise given to their people into the world i think president trump now has a side strategic and military considerations also the very important consideration of his word of standing by his word remember that he criticized president obama for

drawing a line in the sand or declaring a red line and then not enforcing it he even made made fun of him for this so i think it's very clear now that if president trump said that there is going to be 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 but even if it's a targeted strike it's not actually you know a tiny little trifle it's actually a military attack on a sovereign nation don't you think that the u.s. should maybe. we are overplaying the danger but don't you think that you are underestimating the significance of all of this because this is not what you're supposed to do to strike a your neighbor or another nation across the world militarily i know that these are all dotted on a regular basis but this is actually against international law ok again that's not

separate remember that russia is now inside a different country on the invitation of the legitimate u.n. recognized syrian government understood i'm not even going to argue that issue i'm just saying that certainly countries look out for their interests and like i said completely separated from the israeli case that we can discuss later that has nothing to do with this issue i think the americans for instance if they decide to take out installations that specifically have to do with chemical weapons i think all mankind would agree that that is a positive thing to do because using chemical weapons to all mankind is considered a serious violation of international law of our basic morals so again i'm that's what i'm giving recommendations to the united states i'm just saying i can certainly understand why the united states with their global responsibilities and their interest in the middle east will want to signal to the a fraud regime that these red lines are serious now colonel i take it from your comments that you fully subscribed to the version of assad's culpability in this so

horrendous attack and i wonder if you're basing your conclusions on the promise of his irrationality team being evil but still pursuing pragmatic goals or perhaps on the contrary human being totally and suicidal imad very good question trying to figure out leaders in the region is extremely complicated i'm going to say that i gave up completely but it's extremely complicated as far as president assad looking out for his own interest maintaining his regime i think this goal has in a way enabled him to use many means that many of us would consider not appropriate and crossing in violating very moral codes. and chemical weapons let's just make it very clear as an israeli i would strongly argue not to make a judgment by video clips you see in the media the media is manipulated by various factors in the region that has interests this is done

a lot to us i would not do that to others but in this case i think the world health organization's and other international institutions that time and time again go in verify and say that actually samples taken taken in the field demonstrate that chemical weapons have been used i think it's safe to say they will we see now in syria is extremely troubling to say the least i think you are slightly misrepresenting what their world health organization has actually sab expressed concern about the use of chemical weapons and i think we would all agree that using chemical weapons is absolutely inadmissible i think even the syrian government would state i'm pretty firmly but the world health organization sad that they have received reports from some of the part there again is ations in the field why massage bar there are going to include it's syrian american medical association which is indeed a fairly heated debates jaish i slammed ricci was in control of that territory so i as of now i don't think there is any single international organization that has

actually suggested what you have suggested i think it's best that every one of our viewers goes in the system is the data that's out there i said and i'll say it again we can be very careful to jump to conclusions i am certainly not an expert on using chemical weapons remember that when you say chemical weapons as a variety of of chemicals out there some are classic chemical weapons like seran gas and also there's been a use of chlorine in syria i wouldn't even address this specific attack and again remember i'm an israeli standing here in israel trying to analyze the situation. looking at the last few years of what's happening in syria seeing this regime clinging as hard as they can to the throne when. this war has taken such a devastating toll of hundreds. and thousands of people killed and missed so many displaced mainly my concern is an israeli is the instability in the suffering of my neighbors and not a calculation of what specific issues have to do with the assad regime in general

by the way most israelis would tell you know that the assad regime has proven unfit to rule but again we're talking about interests i know i understand and appreciate that russia is inside of syria now to maintain and uphold the syrian regime and quite successfully let me ask you specifically about the russian position because you yourself gave twenty five years of your life to military service i'm sure you understand that in military terms using chemical weapons in that particular situation was absolute nonsense to many liabilities to little gains especially given that the syrian army was poised to take over that suburb anyway but even if you believe that the assad government authorized tag do you think the russians now oddly being slat or willfully covering up for that government which as you sad has perpetrated such a car and this crime against its people you know israel has a lot of respect for russia we have very good cooperation cordon nation with

respect with some of what's going on and i understand and appreciate that russia is looking out for its interests also russian forces are inside of syria and have a good view of what's going on so it's very difficult and i think it would be a mistake on my part to do that kind of calculation again going to the specific attack i didn't even say and i cannot see who was it ordered by who is it approved by who knew about it and i would rather look at the broader picture even you know also i think we make a mistake them sometimes after hundreds and thousands of people killed taking one specific incident of using coreen and being shocked as if that is crossing some red line and all the rest all the other people that are you know that's that's war also that i think is a mistake i think many times the the means that are used in the internal war in. syria or means that are questionable and talking about bombing civilians or spec colonel it's not like israel has never done that itself of bombing civilian areas let's let's not get into that discussion because i seriously don't think it's

anywhere from never would we go in carpet bomb a civilian population we have a question gaza right now as we speak we're not bombing gaza well you did on many occasions before and the same happened in beirut in lebanon but i am not interested in pursuing doctrine because i think syria is more pressing issue right now let me ask you specifically what you mentioned before so that we should not draw conclusions based on our own social media videos because they could be manipulated and the al qaeda affiliates which provided those videos jaish al islam which was in control of when that attack happened which was accused by amnesty international of using gas poisonous gas against the kurds in two thousand and sixteen these group was documented rearranging children's corpses for emotional impact there are also strong indications that they have applied foam to the mouse of some of the corpses are you saying that these groups actions and potential motive.