executive board we request that the a p c w explain why such information and the conclusion the spears laboratory was emitted from the final report the laboratory in question has not addressed of the claim and says only the o.p.c. w. can comment by state invented supports the u.k.'s conclusions about the use of another choke nerve agent now b.z. which the swiss and scientists allegedly found in the samples is a toxic powder that was developed by the united states military back in the one nine hundred fifty s. now moscow says b.z. is a weapon that could be in the hands of the u.k. or the u.s. but one that russia does not have in its arsenal and the u.k. was quick to blame moscow for the attack and solsbury claiming that nobody talks soviet origin is a clear indicator of russia's guilt and the international chemical weapons watchdog said in that now controversial report that it supported britain's findings concerning the identity of the substance which is what i have comments about the growing controversy there was no trial no discussion no evidence no

proof there was only judgement and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible we do russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less the name nuvi chalk sounds russian means russia did it but establish that it is not a chalk and that 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 and mailable to the public neither the formula nor the chemical of any more russian then 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 tool 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 me chart 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 that city a chemical weapons potential they must immediately according to the convention veges 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 a 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 or so large 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 an inhaled even more units one but as 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 the nuvi chalk a nerve agent at work the script very fortunate. for hundreds of thousands have filled the city of barcelona demanding the release of a jailed separatist leaders the full story and much more after a short break this is the week we are not international. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports 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. and what about his the weekly here on our t.v. international now more than three hundred thousand demonstrators have marched through barcelona calling for the release of jailed leaders from the couple on separatist movement. i was. 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 declaring the result illegal in response to cattle on parliament was dissolved and its leaders accused of rebellion protesters have been calling for charges to be dropped against the breakaway regions former president credits preacher monks who is now in exile in germany and become a lot in public and those backing independents have called the measures too harsh. the most serious problem is the price paid by these politicians who were elected by the people's will we cannot allow it not for anything in the world as well that's how i feel and there are many who feel the same this is the proof we just can't 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 week saw another wave of clashes between police and environmental activists in

near the french city of not. tensions in the area have escalated since the deployment of thousands of police officers earlier in the week activists known as zobrist have protested for a decade against the construction of a new airport near the city some even built makeshift houses and moved in their beds and plans for the new transport hub were finally rejected in january and police have been trying to force only a victim or friends correspondent trying to escape following events where. 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 heads 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 the saddest sit called for action for people to come and support them on some day to support their attempts to stay on this land land that many people have been living on for the last ten years . feel. 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. all the government and the protesters the saddest who 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 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 right here. because you. ready for your i don't you see well as you can see now the scientists have let fly to 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

a done deal and if you look behind me there's 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. over growth. but as you can see behind us the c r s and the police have come into another saddest part 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 placard 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 and are

trying to push everybody. no way a tactic that we've seen earlier in the day whether you choice 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 wreaking 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 also still continuing the tear gas is still being spread well here in the city of new york which is about thirty kilometers south of not too dumb to land has been plenty of chilly gas and people are saying they are incredibly angry. relations between the u.k. and russia might be at an all time low but that did not stop british football fans from traveling to moscow for a major european match on thursday ahead of the games media and the u.k.

ran articles warning of supposedly threats of waiting british supporters. met up with one arsenal super fan to see if the headlines were in fact true. this is so my way to consider you a very prominent hostile fan going to be asking him when he travels from 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 there's been a lot going on between the governments watching that's 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'd be mad in an oil some of you've 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 but up in qana encouraged because of a lot received emails from groups over there in russia saying to me to listen release not nearly as bad as what it's made out to be. on the plane about to head out to russia. looking forward to it. it's 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 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 like in moscow already . so we're very 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 pulitzer since get on with it. you know we don't want to look around most go see our motor new c.e.o. will be noisy he's gay male will be known as the series are really good if you didn't would it woke up so we could. read that doesn't mean i will be back in a little bit more then thirty three minutes with a full look at your news and the weekly stay with us because our two international .

american sanctions would be damaging but i mean this is this justice is a fair business all of us 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.

yes. los. 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 or 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 an oil is all pumped out of the ground they will come back here and level it all out and turn it back into farmland but that's you know like i say it's going to be out of most of our lifetimes it will be out of mind for sure. have nothing to say about where. well i should say i have nothing to say you can suggest but they don't have to listen to you don't i mean you have no legal say in it put it that way so yeah they can put a wherever they want they don't need any your permission for all industry follows a proper practice is i don't think we'll 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 to ground water as i see it when we live out here 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 a lot of fracturing job that's where they pump the sand the fluid and you know the chemicals they use s. it is one they use a chemical called bio bio it kills all biological elements so so when they pumped out that often to ground any kind of bacteria is going to kill any kind of living organism of any kind and it kills it because of one of our guy has he. he has some of it on his hands and i and i just. just swallow his hand and we will because that's what my old bio bio kills biological. anything. i'm pretty sure is is wrong in the water. for this really is as is the nobody

drinks the lank so bottled water you know drop water on the out of the faucet night is that it's pretty nasty when we're fracking no oil or grease 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 restate safety measures was tracking. down how tipping is

advocating this notion in attempt to avoid all risk of polluting groundwater it seems to success is very unlikely either this question is being raised as grass the attention of anti-fashion groups. one thing is certain the practice of hydraulic fracking to be as large quantities of drinking water. can young is the owner of eclipse services a company that facilitates the shipping of water for fracking through pipelines and provides water storage and its huge tanks as well. these things are used to hold water for the fracking the whole thirty five thousand barrels and so they'll pump water for. to the other until eventually it's over to the frac and down the hole. it's fresh water all the water that's run in tears coming out of the city water line so it's all clean water. spend millions of dollars on water for

one is one of the biggest expenses one of these wells. on the water after the frack they just blow up 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. comes out of the pump jacks goes underground to the treaters in there it separates the oil the water in the gas this site you're produces more water than what they can pipeline out here so i have to come in with a truck intricate out take it to disposal facilities. 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 roads oil fields. at night some of these trucks to drive along gravel roads and they don't poison. rocking 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 creeks went into our stock pond. this is not in the water but it is they're not telling the truth. i have twin. nine grandchildren i want them to enjoy this river where i do don't want them to walk in the water one can do kitchen fish if you can eat you don't want to grow garden did you would have to worry about poison in the planet i want to have

a planet with better medicine if not before and now because of the things that are in the water. oil workers are best suited to judge the eventual pollution risk 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 back to the surface is a major risk for workers and the environment some companies clearly are not concerned do not hesitate to suppose of these toxic materials into wild dumps. especially teams are left to ship them back to suitable treatment sites. 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 obvious 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 it in and the moment of euphoria the us rise and the first producers of crude oil based the shale oil. and. we can feel the concern brought by the price 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 they 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 bach and in other areas they want to put these companies out of business. even if circumstances are worrisome these days i fear that he has not stopped after ten thousand wells 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 worked with he calmly and he said managers laid everybody off. he's in and told everybody to go to a room get all my stuff in get out and there's a two o'clock in the morning and night in february in the winter. man cans emptied out enclosed from one day to the next. these dilapidated barracks will probably continue to landscape for eight years to come. construction sites were abandoned by the dozen and left to

rest and to keep. house in construction began at the peak of the williston boom is now nearly complete. occupied in part by survivors of the boom the neighborhood seems sadly empty. here and were the downturn in the economy for oil prices. i can still bring more money than i care back all. just. not as much they're used to.