western country you want me to produce your war no war it's a project we need a theme song some visuals we need to know it's a pageant well to ask how the media affects troops decisions as to how water affects of fish truck lives and breathes by media ratings approval there is a long tradition of presidents in domestic political trouble using international crises to distract the public and certainly the minimum you have to think of the side of military action so in terms of the attack on the syria that we saw over the weekend it does seem it's a distraction that gives the president something to talk about other than stormy daniels and the other issues that he's contending with after the rifling of his personal lawyers offices of british prime minister to resign may is set to face him pays in the house of commons later to explain why she ordered the strikes without

parliamentary approval british and french fighter jets could be seen taking off and landing from their bases in the region on saturday as they join the u.s. led operation french cruise missiles were also seen being launched from the mediterranean an associate reports now in the upcoming debate on the u.k. prime minister's decision to join the attack on syria. we are certainly expecting a day of heated debate here in westminster at the house of commons as in fact m.p.'s will be gathering to debate to rescind may's decision to go ahead and strike against syria along with the us and france this weekend without getting parliamentary approval first despite there having been quite a handful of calls not just within the opposition but also inside the conservative party to allow parliament to be able to vote and weigh in on these potential strikes at the time first and of course that didn't happen and we did see theresa may go ahead an act seeing it as justified and necessary talking again about

evidence and using the word that seems to have become quite popular over here in britain highly likely i cannot tell you everything but let me give an example of some of the evidence that leads us to this conclusion open source accounts allege the ruble was used to deliver the chemicals. multiple open source reports claim that a regime helicopter was observed above the city of duma on 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 is highly likely both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so well we have heard from the leader of the scottish scottish national party she has tweeted saying that the u.k. foreign policy should be shaped by parliament instead of the us president we have of course of course heard from the leader of the opposition labor party leader jeremy corbyn who believes that parliament should have been consulted on issues

like this there's even been some talk inside the labor party of potentially reforming the laws when it comes to this this is what corbett had to say she could have come to parliament on monday to discuss the whole situation instead it will strikes she claims there is a legal basis for it. in the letter i've just sent to this morning to publish in full the legal basis and justification for it well let's keep in mind that back in twenty thirteen we saw then prime minister david cameron set up a vote in parliament on similar kinds of strikes in syria and that was voted down this was of course because largely people were not convinced that it was a necessary step to take especially following all of the if you can put it that way running the iraq war that kick started in two thousand and three under false pretenses so it is widely understood here in westminster that that kind of repeat vote against these strikes could have taken place as well and possibly that's why

a vote on this was avoided by the british prime minister and it has to be made clear that she's not under legal obligation to have to put in this kind of vote against parliament however this has been common practice exactly following the iraq war. and this was understood to be sort of traditional after the years that followed however this did not happen this time around so we're certainly expecting lots of questions raised here in westminster later on today meanwhile british foreign secretary boris johnson has welcomed international indorsement of the attack on syria despite massive rallies in several countries very great for most people the strong international support to speak to what the p. three u.k. france and america have done. this is passing strange that a parliamentary democracy wants to bypass parliament and go to war only twenty two

percent or 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 very significant sector of conservative opinion was very unsure indeed it may be. substantial defections from her own side the war in history will have kids. with so little support not even a quarter of the population supporting it before a shot is filed a top german music award has been handed to rappers best known for their anti semitic lyrics it's among all stories still ahead when we come back. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.

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 is needle sleeping opened up another war of choice. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this just us is it fair is this. would use a country like a tissue paper and when it thinks it doesn't need it anymore it just go away i think it's very immoral.

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by two hooded men since then i've had an injured shoulder. i've now been living under the protection of a caribbean area 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 that at the moment there are five mafia clans the woman i live with five men five carabineers you follow me day and night i live far from my family for my loved ones these five carabineers at the first people i see in the morning and the last night before i'm left alone with my conscience. has been investigating details of the clans illegal activities and publishing them online he believes mafia influence is spreading across the globe. many journalists do not publish names or photos of mafia bosses many of my colleagues do

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following welcome to cross talk or 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. crosstalk in the west 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 it means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate it let's do a post-mortem here mark. 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 . we've seen this show before i mean we are 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 admitted really we have no real evidence that assad ever used and several months ago we had a russian ministry of defense come out and tell us that they were expecting there spectating another vacation 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 the 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 their own 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 and why are you helmet syrian american matter is that information isn't always the brotherhood right to have 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 opposition fighters more their ads and the moderates. photographer an american photographer basically was was tortured when he was held hostage they chirico 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 this is an idea 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 hezbollah which is so dangerous you know killing people a terrorist organization which happens to oppose israel you know so you know

hypocrisy is absolute here but coming back to your question i think it was an immediate attack 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 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 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 today and for 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 the only issue he seems to be able to get support across the political spectrum is be going on the

international stage like him are looking for nails here ok he was praised across the board for this also will 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 that were in the u.k. and mccrone i guess he just as. going to lead europe or something my growing is facing of all know the biggest strikes in french history so he probably have 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 you know is is really clean fair which is simply for another 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 is this what this is all about not only can i thought because i agree with you i've said repeatedly for years on this program what do you want a black flag flying over damascus no no no no that's not what 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 they slunk state which was declared a few weeks off 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. that taken democracy 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 and genocide 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 scream 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 two points is what does what this is as though 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 how may i lose the head of joey shows the group that was in charge of doing when this supposed 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 send these i know them all but. 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 that oil or worse back in a world war three said during the last thing about this situation is that it is so easy to provoke another strike i mean you just need a few days no off the ledge chemical attack in two thousand and thirteen it took them a few weeks to put. right but 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 gates nearby which could response respond by the anti-aircraft. missiles. there was asked for hundreds inside syria so if i were not used yes they would not use the russian defense ministry specifically said that they were not used all of that missiles

that 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 were 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 that they say they've used and that all of them hit their targets this is this is what we've heard all of them have all of them right which 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 white i'm on the side it seems that all the u.s. missiles were intercepted and all hit their targets meanwhile the russian side is

saying that the u.s. fired one hundred three missiles and that seventy one of those were intercepted hold that thought we're going to go to a hard break here after that short break we'll continue our discussion on syria stay with our. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean that is this justice is a failed 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.