lib oratory was a method from the final report where the laboratory in question has not addressed the claim and says only the o.p.c. can comment but it did state that it supports the u.k.'s conclusions about of the use of another choke nerve agent now be easy which of these were 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 easily be in the hands of the u.k. or the united states but one that russia does not have in its arsenal and u.k. was quick to blame moscow for the attack in salisbury 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 but i have had commentary on the growing controversy there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof

there was only judgement and punishment it's highly likely that russia was responsible the two poles 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 new comma 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 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 one in twenty zero seven the us or the published a paper on numerous chemical compounds we were interested because of the toxicity of 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

sympathize a few grams of know each other and the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on of each other so i'm not surprised that in france in a new kid in the united states you have these kind of information that could explain 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 conventions 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 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 sure nerve agent it was a myth and 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 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 called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the

scientists graduate in their heads the interesting thing with nova talks 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 one and putting it within hail the symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets on the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to hours. at first one might think that the script could only have survived because the dude's had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing if

indeed this was a new recherche nerve agent at work the script bulbs were very fortunate. over three hundred thousand demonstrators have marched through barcelona calling for the release of jailed leaders from the color line separatist movement. and several top officials were detained after covering the plane with them and well over the move came following a referendum which went ahead despite spain prohibiting the vote and declaring the result illegal in response to catalan parliament was dissolved and its leaders accused of rebellion testers have been calling for charges to be dropped against the breakaway regions former president carlos put him on to is now in exile in germany a couple on public and those backing independence have called the measures too hard . and 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 as well that's how i feel and there are many who feel the same this is the proof i'm here today because i'm 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 not. tensions in the area have escalated since the deployment of thousands of police officers earlier in the week activists known as it was obvious to 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 his plans for the new transport hub were finally rejected and genuine police have been trying to forcefully a victim our friends correspondent from a different ski is following a bench for us but the standoff continues on the sunday between the police and the

saturday so if you just look behind me this is just one of the many diaries you can see the show dummy just here but there are 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 calls 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. but.

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. will the government and. protest is 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 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 a 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 work. over growth. 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 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 pocket watch 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 die. whether you choice by getting rid of all of the sadness all 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 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 north which is about thirty kilometers south of not too dumb to launch 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 but that did not stop british football fans from traveling to moscow for a major european match on thursday ahead of the game some media in the u.k. around articles warning of the suppose of threats awaiting british supporters. met up 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 offering him when he travels and goes 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 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. 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 fings 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. immediately some release not nearly as bad as it's made out to be. on the plane about to head out to russia. and we're looking forward to it. it's a place. 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 already. oh we're very worried about coming here because it was censored by actually so it's all right there's no taking certain bits where you can also. put it to the pulitzer . so you know what when i look around mosco sailboat a new c.e.o.

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the u.s. led attack on syria is a gross violation of international law furthermore western public still have not been presented with evidence the syrian government used any chemical weapons a new phase of the syrian proxy war has needlessly been opened up another war of choice.

across talking the west's attack on syria i'm joined by my usual suspects mark he's an international affairs and security analyst and of course we have dimitri he is a political analyst with international gentlemen cross-talk was in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it let's do a post-mortem here mark and deem ok it's only been a day or so since the u.s. along with britain and france. attacked syria the usual suspects the usual suspects illegally under international law there was no mandate from the united nations security council to do this but you know it's described in the mainstream as a military attack i think was a political attack i think it was theater this is what they really wanted to break it up we've seen this show before i mean we were in varying degrees different conflicts we saw the show a year ago when donald trump made another cosmetic attack again under the pretext of chemical weapon use and later. more than nine months after that incident

the secretary u.s. secretary of defense mad dog mattis admittedly actually we have no real. evidence that assad ever used and several months ago we had a russian men ministry of defense come out and tell us that they were expecting their spectating another another pretext a staged chemical weapons attack and the one thing that the western media will never tell you is who was in control of duma this is the saudi backed. literally head shopping woud be jihadists of joey all islam literally they call themselves the army of islam this was in who is in control of doing right and there were eight there is no western journalists on the ground with them of course there is a couple of local gong goes paid by the us government and the white helmet on why helmets syrian american matter is an oracle of information isn't always the brotherhood

right there had been well who had jumped in and there is an interesting detail that i would like to add to all of the syrian war several western journalists were kidnapped and they were never kidnapped by us forces they were always kidnapped by the so-called position fighters more their ads and the moderates. photographer and american photographer basically it was was torture when he was held hostage they can recall an italian journalist was taken hostage by the group that the west supported and he had to go through enormous humiliations before they let him go so the same story with why are there no western drawn this there because these are not ideas it's not safe not just see it save that they're going to do something bad to you you know why are there western journalists in beirut in damascus you know in beirut under this terrible his blog which is so dangerous you know killing people

a terrorist organization which happens. israel you know so you know hypocrisy is absolute here but coming back to your question i think it was a media tack and it was absolutely senseless but very risky why was it senseless there was no grown troops backup for this action so it was just senseless you know gets down to something must be done something that i wouldn't say ali is. ok german who gamed out of this. so there are several reasons this attack was carried through right the first one is that the organization of prohibition of chemical weapons inspectors were supposed to arrive in duma to investigate the site and check whether chemical weapons were used and if they were used who use them right because it's very possible that these rebels who rebels quote a jihadi who have a history of using chemical weapons before you know stage this thing themselves the

attack seemingly before any investigation by international inspectors was to take place seemingly it was designed to curtail that supposedly they're still going to go ahead with that now so if that was the goal they haven't done it the second of all one of it is national prestige drawing drawing red lines right nikki haley the said when our president meaning not obama draws a red line he enforces a red line however we've got a tweet a year a couple years ago the only reason president obama wants to attack syria is to save face over his very dumb red line statement do not attack syria fix us in a way that was donald trump you know not be sitting here talking with me if you know if it's almost nothing to do with syria it has everything to do with donald trump looking for people to adore him it's remarkable but it's is the only issue he seems

to be able to get support across the political spectrum and is being going on the international stage like him are looking for nails here ok he was praised across the board for this also also there always is the element of diversion ok there's a lot of things going on with the investigation of his campaign of himself of his family this is a distraction we can say to resume has done exactly the same things in the u.k. and mccrone i guess he just as. poleon going to lead europe or something micro on its face and of on the big strikes in french history so he probably has the only real reason to deflect attention because i don't believe in collusion with russia and i don't believe that the reason me is you know is is really absolutely clean on screen fair which is simply for the never part right but anyway coming back to

their use this this or this action the western nation has no replacement for us it be in two thousand and thirteen if obama ok they won't do it what does this mean this is mean that they can't accept defeat in syria so is this what this is all about not only that i thought it was i agree with you i've stayed repeatedly for years on this program what do you want a black flag flying over damascus no no no no that's not what world nobody tells you what they want in two thousand and thirteen vault the syrian troops then and there was a very big chance of that happening you know then the state which was declared a few weeks off to war which had all the infrastructure all the fight us all the arms deployed the slavic state would have replaced it they would have taken all the chemical weapons which were not yet destroyed you know which was left intact and then our today's problems would seem meaner school you know to us compared to what we would have seen. it taken. but there still is no

american slash western syria policy even after this there is a policy and i disagree this was not because the west can't accept that they haven't succeeded in regime changing syria the partition and military occupation of eastern syria and by northern syria by turkey is about that there is another reason that this occurred this maintains the policy and the acceptance by the. world that the u.s. has the ability to scream weapons of mass destruction right whether it's iraq you know we've had similar occurrences in libya there they cry in genocide in the use of these weapons in the u.k. as a pretext right the u.k. is another example they have the they believe they have the ability to screen weapons of mass destruction and then you are allowed early outside the bounds of international law attack everyone they want with this existential situation created

by these supposed. is that it encourages groups in syria and around the world presumably you can use these weapons and you can look for an american reaction you know it's wag the dog here i mean if there is numerous cases where these rebel groups jihadi groups have used chemical well hammad or lose the head of joey shows the group that was in charge of duma when this suppose that attack occurred he called the attack a farce he's very unhappy with the scale of the attack that he dialed into washington he's he's he's extremely upset and luckily though nikki haley said in her it's a good speech the u.s. is locked and loaded if assad uses poison gas again so sending a signal that malvo. you know when the syrian army comes to liberate it live from the jihadi or dada or homs all you've got to do is you send out this thing is to

say that i allowed to wear a helmet dial in another attack and it will happen again there's not a it's only a question of when how soon yet we'll be right back where we are today then well or worse about going to world war three so it was thinking about this situation is that it is so easy to provoke another strike i mean you just need a few days no there ledge chemical attack in two thousand and thirteen it took them a few weeks to put. right. there that was very dangerous because the russians could have responded from the caspian sea by. you know deployed on submarines and wessels there were several russian free gates nearby which could response respond by the craft you know. there was asked for hundreds inside syria so we're not used yes they would not use the

russian defense ministry specifically said that they were not used all of that means so i was that they were struck down there is a big debate how many of them you know the syrian side says seventy three out of one hundred three maybe less but they were all started down by all saw and i'm going to say is that the syrian government or the brits you hearing were because you have so ok so there's there's two different versions of this attack coming out . from washington we hear that they fired one hundred five cruise missiles of various sorts right some of them their most advanced health ones and so on they say they've used and that all of them hit their targets this is this is what we've heard all of them all of them very much although we have a new baghdad bob her name is dana white she's the pentagon spokeswoman i'm just tell me guys what it what it what does it better ring to it is it d.c. dana or washington.