the evening of the seventh of april and reliable intelligence indicates that syrian military officials coordinated what appears to be the use of chlorine in duma on the seventh of april we judge it highly likely both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so. she could have come to parliament on monday to discuss the whole situation instead of launch these strikes she claims there is a legal basis for it i've asked her in a letter i've just sent to this morning to publish in full the legal basis and justification for it what we spoke to a number of experts who say the u.k. prime minister didn't ask parliament because she feared she would have lost the vote on taking military action. this passing strange that a parliamentary democracy wants to bypass parliament and go to war only twenty two percent of british people as a whole were in favor of getting involved in the war in syria and if you look at

the data beneath a concern a very significant sector of conservative opinion was very unsure so it may be what it about substantial defections from her own side no war in history will have started with so little support not even a quarter of the population supporting it before a shot is fired there's always been a vote in all of them. and their leaders that needed to buy. the evidence if there is any problems are. discussed in parliament openly and transparently not. a little below why with your reasoning there is no evidence of truth in my original starting with what she calls open sources we know who is open source is odds on law and. white always so they couldn't actually take a vote and publish that evidence because it would have looked absolutely ridiculous

. and italian journalist is living in fear for his life over his work to expose an infamous matthew plan he spoke exclusively to r.t. . first i received warnings then letters containing bullets and then anonymous phone calls then one day i was attacked i was assaulted by two hooded men since then i've had an injured shoulder. i've now been living under the protection of the caribbean the ery for four years i have launched fourteen criminal cases against almost thirty mafia bosses these mafia bosses tried to kill me anyway i managed to save myself from an attack thanks to the skill of the carabineers. i know the moment there are five mafia clans the woman i live with five men five caribou near you follow me day and night i live far from my family from my loved ones these five carabineers the first people i see in the morning and

the last night before i'm left alone with my conscience paula baron messi has been investigating details of the clans illegal activity local police recently leaked a recording where they discussed a plot to kill the journalist. in the. name of fighting terrorism out here bosses many of my colleagues do not want a phone as a request. names and surnames i publish photos and above all i try to follow their business schemes their money for this is a business with billions not millions and we are talking about billions of euros so the journalist has a fundamental role of telling the truth talking to people and doing investigative journalism yet we thought the mafia was defeated we thought this because the bombings were over because arrests were made we did not understand the math here was radically changing its infiltrated the state and public bodies something that

the mafia is just an italian problem but unfortunately that's not true the mafia has spread from italy to europe in the world. but it's less than two months now till the two thousand and eighteen world cup kicks off in russia and preparations are almost complete in the host cities and anticipation is growing at twenty eighteen feet the world cup is also going to see the first russian referee to oversee games in twelve years for gay a carousel spoke to us about his excitement of being part of the competition. even more so those people i can't even describe my emotions because the shortlist process started four years ago and it's been a long wait for us so when we found out our brigade had been chosen it was just tiredness and relief how you would feel after finishing a very difficult task with a. thank you for your as a rule at tournaments like this one your second wind kicks in and there are no

thoughts that millions of people are watching and if you're thinking about it then you will definitely fail our work is to walk out and get into the zone. searches for using it all starts when you get inside football and life as a referee or should players start to probe you especially young ones checking how you behave in certain tense moments if you position yourself in the right way you won't have any problems during the game or the infection which seems well we have our own star studded lineup for the football extravaganza a marine ers stan collymore and pay to schmeichel on the r.t.t. paisa has already been out to check out the host cities for you and his last stop was about seven hundred kilometers east of moscow here's his report.

the timing of. this morning's. salute to. this is where it was from. and my son plays for the. this is for the world cup starts. thanks for joining us on r.t. international this morning we're going to be back with more stories often is a very short break stay with us. local wal-mart is selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles based on. the new sox credit tell you that the beach gossip and tabloid lifestyles little to put. them off the bad guys and telling you on the cool enough to fight their product. all the hawks that we along with all those watching. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean day is this justice is a threat is this all of us should would use a country like a tissue paper book and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just cost the way i think it's very immoral.

welcome back now protests have erupted in the u.s. town of philadelphia after the after the arrest of two black men in a starbucks demonstrators gathered near the cafe demanding its manager was fired by it the two men were handcuffed and removed from the premises after refusing to leave the building the arrest was captured on video the manager called the police after they attempted to use the bathroom but didn't order anything they say they were waiting for friends there. well starbucks c.e.o. kevin johnson issued an apology over the situation he also was sure that starbucks stands against discrimination and found to meet the men personally to offer an apology the incident how sponsor outrage on the internet with some saying an

apology it's not enough sorry apology not accepted until you fire all that stuff and make the person apologize and person to them you ain't getting me one step in your place so the c.e.o. of starbucks apologized to these men but the real question is why hasn't the employee who called the cops been fired yet never in my life have i fear of being arrested for sitting in any restaurant especially if i say i'm waiting for someone when people have to worry about driving walking talking or sitting while black things need to drastically change starbucks fix this. i think all of us white folks should go to a starbucks today and sit at all other tables without ordering anything there were other patrons of the starbucks there were just sitting there who hadn't ordered anything you know they were engaged in the identical conduct and they were about

arrested and forced to face the indignity of being dragged out of a place in handcuffs the idea that they would even hold these men for eight hours when it was quite obvious that they had done nothing wrong you know i'm really speaks to something important the police have a responsibility not just to do whatever a manager says for them to do they have a responsibility to do an independent investigation of their own and they clearly didn't do that they walked in they found two men who were sitting at a table doing nothing disturbing whatsoever and they. chose to run anyway. idea of german rappers have sparked outrage in the country after using anti-semitic lyrics in their songs and winning an award for it. or despite comparing themselves to auschwitz prisoners and hinting at another holocaust to the rappers manage to escape the best hip hop album price in germany's

top music awards last week i thought of their latest work sold more than two hundred thousand copies in the country well after initially defending that decision organizers of the award have now backtracked they say they will now review the prize mechanisms germany's foreign minister blasted the industry calling the award repugnant while many prominent germans including. allotted to the condemnation ahead of the awards a group of holocaust survivors that they felt like they had been slapped in the face political commentator i mean oren says artists shouldn't use freedom of expression as a free pass. of course freedom of expression is a blessing and think we shouldn't restrict the freedom of the artist or dick creator to break any mold because this is how men kind of progress us but having said this there are

a few sacrifices things we should be kept as such and of course for israelis or for jews all over and for people of conscience regardless of their faith or nationality the holocaust shouldn't be broached in such. a cheap manner. r.t. continues its romanov one hundred project thousands of photos of russia's last royal family will be available to take you back to the last decades of imperial russia is available on all social media top form july seventeenth the hundredth anniversary of the romanov execution well it's now dive into the family's life as we recreate a moment in one of the photographs. thank you were trying to thank you thank you thank you thank you

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not shoot around a corner. in the philippine city of angeles when the us military moved out the six tourists moved in. and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up here. hey dad. my big day is a gem like you i. i know young. son . it isn't the first time in the t.v. crew fuse you ordered and takes you were in won't answer is thrown back now and that if. that's it that i do what my god if.

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supporting terrorism. bad and what will that mean for america afghan war while i ask member of pakistan's national assembly and the leader of pakistan. for justice. and american security. for help. from the war against the taliban. iran khan member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for just as welcome to the show it's really great to have you with us today. mr han pakistani prime minister abbas he has just paid a visit to kabul now that of afghans like former afghan intelligence chief. are

saying that pakistan views of ghana's stand as a weaker state and its relations with afghanistan are driven by shared great americans. how can you strike deals with couple if they view pakistan this way. this is very unfortunate the remarks of the of one intelligence chief to. define pakistan's relationship with an over honest on these terms is actually very unfortunate because one is the needs budgets done and pakistan needs peace stability to afghanistan otherwise biased and gets affected especially along the border the what is called the tribal areas on the border of lot of stun so if you have problems and of blunders than instability which sadly that has been for sixty vias by just on gets affected so it's in pakistan's interest that this piece of honest on the as

a problem the unfortunately that the american policy of using a one dimensional. military solution to problems in afghanistan. has led to not only the longest war but it does go immense problems. because the drug the the the border with afghanistan. is very porous it's this free movement or there was free movement of people and so what happens and of understand affects pakistan so we need peace there and i don't i find these very sad i hear you talking about american policy back in january donald trump ordered billions of dollars in security aid to pakistan to be frozen accusing it of inaction in the war on terror former head of i.s.i. asaad around a tell me pakistan's dependence on american aid and dave a long time ago so why then is your country's defense minister calling on the

united states to reconsider the cut my point of view this american it has been very costly for pakistan. for for getting whatever aid we we did get in these. fifteen years the damage done to parks and participating in the u.s. war on terror has led to almost seventy thousand people dead it has devastated our tribal areas the border areas where half of the population we are talking about three to four million people were internally displaced and the loss to the economy is over one hundred billion dollars so this small aid has been very costly and the lesson learned from pakistan point of view is never never fight someone else's war . and people like us always opposed it. and donald trump does not understand he does not understand the history of honest than one is done as

a history with the do not accept foreigners they have always resisted foreign invasions. and if if you had even drawn any lessons from the soviet invasion of understand before that the british in the nineteenth century there of invasion of understand he would know that this military solution which donald trump also has dried is going to fail the only solution the only way to bring peace and afghanistan is all the neighbors to sit together and then come up with a political solution there is no other solution apart from that so his government is saying that anywhere from fifty to seventy percent of the eight cents to pakistan was misspent wasted on kickbacks rives even stolen meanwhile the pakistani foreign minister says that the country is ready to account for every

single penny in your opinion once again should there be more to this spat i mean should americans put forth proof of corruption should pakistan follow up and show actual accounting. given a proportion to the damage done in pakistan by participating in the us war there is no comparison the war this is about twenty billion dollars maybe twenty five billion dollars by just on his lost over one hundred billion dollars. economy suffered investment suffer. the damage done to terrorism meant that foreign investment investors one come into pakistan the tourism collapsed in this country even today of foreign cricket teams do not come and play in pakistan sports teams so this country took a heavy punishment by participating in the war and the money as i said the money coming from it is britain's compared to what it cost the people of pakistan so you

have said that trump is briefed by and working for the agenda of pakistan's anime who's edge and that would that be. awarded by. the things that donald trump asserts he's actually applauded india's role in the war on terror and he's actually blamed pakistan for the u.s. not winning in afghanistan no to blame and that he's blamed pakistan for terrorism this is exactly what india says about pakistan and so therefore it was extremely hurtful for people of this country that participated in a war that was not pakistan's war. there were no pakistanis and waldron nine eleven there was a nevada song there were no militant taliban in pakistan how did we end up in a war where seventy thousand pakistanis have died we still have their ism in this

country we're still having the effects of the war on terror mr hussar blame the is do you think that american who has a friend in the way decision i don't know war. where he's come up with but it's quite clear that the things he has is saying is praising india whereas india don't give any second fison the war what what role does india play in this war it's pakistan that took the battery the suffering and so to raise india it's shocking for all of us what has india contributed to this war on terror and to give india a role in afghanistan india does not have a border with of what is the. pakistan's foreign minister says that united states has turned islamabad into a whipping boy to destruct from its failures in afghanistan do you agree is washington looking to single out pakistan to deter criticism. agree with it

not just look at the facts of one point there were one hundred fifty thousand nato troops on of honest on. and then the of an army is anything between two hundred fifty thousand to three hundred thousand so you're talking about almost a half a million forces and of honest on board the u.s. blimps pakistan is that three thousand insurgents coming from pakistan to afghanistan are the reason why afghanistan could not win the war in afghanistan can the drop in american aid be countered by deals with pakistan's newest friends like china or saudi arabia or expecting their influence to rise now that the united states is on a collision course with pakistan. what firstly what would the u.s. do to be on a collision course with pakistan the maximum leverage the us has is to stop the aid

. by to stanch to try everything to. keep the us happy but the problem is when the u.s. expects pakistan to win it's the message has made in afghanistan it expects pakistan to somehow win the war which they're they're badly lost and of honest and when i say look the last i mean they haven't won all the taliban have to do to win the war is not to lose so what the u.s. expects pakistan to do is what it has not been able to. succeed in afghanistan and clearly pakistan has limitations. and if pakistan what they want to do is to take action against these taliban groups. supposedly operating from pakistan well then they should tell us where are these groups they're talking about the hakani network at the at its peak the haqqani network would have maximum two

thousand two and a half thousand men in pakistan that surely cannot be the reason why they've lost they have not been able to win in sixty years what i feel is that the american policy of military actions collateral damage i don't know whether you have seen and can do the bond madrasa killed one hundred children not that one hundred children killed by american bomb means that this will. raise hatred and of understand and hatred means more recruits and so it's an ongoing circle could actual damage hatred more recruits and an ongoing war so the answer is that the u.s. has to change its strategy and that's going towards dialogue political solution so the last. of u.s. a may not be a catastrophe for your country but now americans are considering provisionally putting pakistan on the international terrorism sponsor list the so-called gray

list you may think it is not fair to pakistan but how damaging would that be for the country and dangerous i think it's very unfair on pakistan. you know a country that disappeared in the u.s. war and i repeat a country that had nothing to do with nine eleven and a country that lost move people than any other country i mean by just on the last war human beings almost seventy thousand dead the last number of them handicapped because a bomb blasts of helping the american for joining the american war board the heaviest cost and in the end for the americans to then blame bug and put sanctions on it i think this is the greatest travesty of justice i think. you know it is something which is inconceivable that the u.s.

for its failure no one has done. but how damaging would it be though how damaging well it will be done i mean for pakistan unfortunately i cannot make situation as. strong right now. the country is actually going through an economic crisis so american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this justice is it fair is this. country. and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just the way i think it's very immoral right mr han we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll continue talking to member of pakistan's national assembly and leader of pakistan movement for justice discussing tensions where that can stand and how this affects to power balance in the region stay with us.