and 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 the brady bunch all the way 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 a better ring to it is it d.c. dana or washington white i'm undecided so you say 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 to. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the

world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. american sanctions would be damaging but i mean is this just us 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 it's very immoral. you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub even to walk into excitement it's that not knowing that's where the adrenalin rush comes from. and you can easily by definition and the

extremes of all. the violence is a part. of schizophrenia. where you can do all these things and behave badly. important people of course qualify that all. the more so for the last. one this man infirmed. war. i would rather we have a really good opposed. meaning in these music if you don't involve the constantly evolving.

welcome back to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing syria. ok let's finish up on that numbers game because we like you are saying there are some very radically different narratives but then again it's syria and that's what you get in the media very different to that of the us is that only three sites were targeted they supposedly fired one hundred five missiles which is just over double what they fired last year at many less targets russia says they fired a tard. it's and that several of those all of the missiles were knocked down the u.s. . claims that these were chemical weapon research facilities now why would why would you target these kind of facilities when they have chemical weapons if that that's already been enough to give in the noble peace prize still going to the launch of. finding them agency for the rest was on the

ground interviewing people at one of these bars in a research facility most of these targets were in greater damascus so within an urban area there was no release of any kind of chemical weapons no precursors even if they were by an area agents nothing nothing dangerous was let out now this this office there right. the o.p.c. w. the organization of prohibition of chemical weapons has inspected this site twice the last inspection was just six months ago was in the right just over half a year ago they used to have an office in this building the organization of the un's organization was going to then they use the labs and they cooperated fully with them the a.f.p. journalist asked one of the employees of this lab all right you know if they were making chemical weapons and he said if there were chemical weapons we would not be able to stand here and you wouldn't be able to ask me those questions it's

ridiculous it is certainly doing this because western media never answer questions graham and i say you installed this on the same day the prange defense ministry issued a statement that all our missiles also hit their targets and we can pride ourselves on doing this is probably the current president so i want to reinforce that is is this a marketing strategy for these are just me i don't like their patriots i don't i don't think the u.s. is doing a very good job showcasing their welfare now although the syrian observatory for human rights this make it short. it's rob me of the rodman this f.s.a. propagandist in coventry u.k. this one guy who has been quoted in numerable times by the western press to put inflate casualty numbers and everything like this he disagrees with the u.s. assessment. he says that over sixty five of the us missiles were shot down not only that but he did not agree that chemical weapons were used in do much at all he said

the people that were killed were killed in the bombing right the bombing of the jihadi headquarters there so if you can't even get rami up. to play around with with your hoax basically doing a bad job if you do that with the exception of this instance here i always think the opposite when i read what he writes ok. let's talk about something really important here again that gets no coverage in the mainstream russia hasn't reacted . very little very literally military why not well i think the reason why the russian missiles did not strike down these missiles and that was confirmed by the ministry of defense is because we didn't want to make it very clear or so for an attack against russia remember russia is the weaker side in this future conflict here russia's defense spending is twenty seven percent of what nato

is european allies spend on their defense so if we show all of our trumps now if we kind of. demonstrate all of that all russia's defense capability that will simply encourage that kind of leverage and i think i like whatever you have whenever you have a stronger they can cite a stronger aggressor and i'm interested if it is that when you are the weaker side what's going to stop you wish that you have to be smarter ok you always have to be smarter to be smarter and you have to be kind of you can't show all of your or your trumps i mean all of them said no there is an alternative they made a deal mark. and they made a deal they did they very well i think it is a deal if if you know but when you have a strike like that the military people are very nervous when they see cruise missiles when they see the planes they might not get the message from their command us that you know don't shoot at them you know during an attack like that all of us you have radio electronic fight as we call it you know you may not get all of the

messages commanded so it was it with a very dangerous situation at the same times it seems to me they don't want to make sure this they had and they avoided any kind of direct i disagree with that assessment as a military veteran whatsoever both russia and the u.s. have used both syria and other conflicts as a testing ground for their weapons and russia has tested numerous of its weapons plus if you have a deterrent like supposedly the most advanced air defense system in the world you want to make sure it's used to demonstrate its capability right and this would have been a perfect opportunity firing justin and manned unmanned cruise missiles to prove that they did not and also it would have been a great marketing tool to sell the weapon russia's eager to sell the f. four hundred they did not now so i agree a deal was struck here despite the protestations from both sides there were no fatalities there are these bombings none not one there were three injuries no fatalities all of these facilities were evacuated days before the before the

incident a deal was obviously are discussed what is a call is going to the first thing i said this is put this is a political strike he says political theater there was there was an agreement between russia not to fire a cruise missiles right and still the syrian defense supposedly managed to knock down this antiquated pants arrest ones that russia has given syrians or the short range. so. i have a problem with this there's a short term advantage it prevents at least temporary a larger strike although the next time the jihadi die a one in we'll be right back in the same situation again right so it prevents a short term strike and it prevents an immediate world war three situation there's a lot of problems with this though that i criticize the kremlin for one it sends a signal to all of russia's allies that russia is not willing to defend you from a direct us to attack even if russia has troops and base based illegally in your country second of all it maintains this ability of the us to attack you or

laterally without any risk. to square the circle here i mean three facilities empty were destroyed nobody died ok it's that it's more than the number of people that die there are precedents that are set there are long term strategic interests and precedents that are set this maintains the international legal violation that the us can attack countries like this by claiming weapons of mass destruction as without any military i want to present where i want to go to this is what i want to do because i think to me very very good biggest. the biggest fatality in all of this is watching the us britain and france the way they dance on the global stage with impunity i mean we had we had many said i mean this is prime minister may or may said that it was a move it was a quote clear message to anyone else who thinks they can use chemical weapons with impunity who who is behaving with impunity right now this is destroying

international law the united nations i mean even had a member countries say why is there even any votes on these resolutions anymore because we know that talking to go in the u.k. there was a big debate in the last year in the last week where the bottom and should or shouldn't approve it and this time if you order to make sure it didn't cause it last time because last time to improve the air. started in the majority of voices was in favor all came in the parliament decided to appoint you know in france it's it's one day after the strike that president grown informed you know the bottom and the reasons why he took the decision to strike a nice way to treat things but in general if you look at the situation in britain at least in two thousand and thirteen the parliament voted against it in the united states at least obama in the last moment to four basically because i made a deal with the russians ok it was almost all right yes with france there was never

never any problem about strike and so when they hear there's a lot of voices in russia which say oh it's the united states force in europe to behave like that poor fromm's you know it is or germany is occupied no no they don't do they would we in any case it's been seen all of them and they share the same ideology and coming back to the very important question of forward russia's reaction basically russia russia in this situation. for you know a deal why because i'm not sure it was a very widely publicized deal because there were a lot of interviews with russian military specialists right you know days before the strike and they were all afraid that the strike would be real the real strike would be going after trying to destroy him physically you know striking at the government buildings in buggered up sorry in damascus if western side had done this

then the russian the wave would be leached off in a way both sides like i agree with that has been and it was the result of that is that everything has been temporarily swept away but will resurface the next time this happens and then we have to remind everyone this happens it's a sort of what do i know you know but the interesting thing is it's because the the . and of ice is ice all is within reach here and every time we get to that point with the syrian army. you know victory is within its grasp and we get one of these but i think it's a false flag these chemical attacks here now ok and we'll see it again with others and it has to be said again this was a both against both international and domestic law international laws as the only time that you can use force is when you have a resolution by the security council authorizing force to rectify a violation of international peace and security agreed to by all five of the

permanent members or in a very limited sense of real existential self-defense and neither one is good it's also against us domestically you're right because the congress for the up teams time has willingly abrogated their their war powers where they have to declare war and this continues and this is congress when given the opportunity to do maybe that and they will not do it it's not it's not law it's thirty seconds or it's not like trump or obama was taking all the powers it's congress we only giving it away and the response at least twenty seconds to move one important detail you know when there were rumors about losing with russia you know this mythical collusion back in two thousand and sixteen what you want the election all we all know what's very concerned they said that trump was a threat to european security i'm quoting that their voices at the motor summit know that trump really did something really dangerous when he did it in the rule of

the way president and then you might say that russia should prepare for a nice smart missiles that's not a threat he's acting presidential he doesn't the support of the allies that tells you a lot about europe it's a lot about europe and in the west in general many thanks to my guests here in moscow this is the end of our broadcast segment stay with us for the extended version on our you tube channel see you next time and remember crosstalk. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers available to us but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure come out you have to put me to the

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german music industry is slammed for handing out a top award to a rap infamous for their anti semitic lyrics. time this monday the sixteenth of april welcome to r.t. international with me kevin i mean first ukraine's prime minister trees of may has been forced to justify. controversial decision to join the u.s. and france in striking syria without approval of the first the intervention against assad's government has led to a lengthy and impassioned discussion in parliament. we just it's highly likely that the syrian regime had continued to use chemical weapons it is clear that diplomatic and nonmilitary means have not been fully exhausted were we not just following orders from america we have acted because it is in our national interest to prime

minister is accountable to this parliament not to the whims of the u.s. president. so i have a simple question to ask my runnable friends given the confusion of some who are a bit uncertain about who is the greatest threat to world peace does she think that it is russia or america. or can i say to my right honorable friend this is the first session where prime minister to raise a may had to face parliament after she went ahead with the airstrikes on saturday alongside the us and france and she was grilled the opposition leader jeremy corbyn he demanded that she publish the legal basis for going to assess rights you know trey's amaze says that she had actually consulted with the attorney general and she gave this season as to why she couldn't share that evidence for the rest of parliament this was a limited targeted strike on

a legal basis that has been used before and it was a decision which required the evaluation of intelligence and information much of which was of a nature that could not be shared with parliament chemical been asked additional questions he pointed out the trees a man had said that the targets were specifically housing chemical weapons are actually he said the two of the facilities had already been inspected by the i.p.c. w. in relation to the air strikes against on him facilities the prime minister will be aware that the o.p.c. w. carried out inspections on both those facilities in two thousand and seventeen and concluded i quote that we inspect. did not observe any activities inconsistent with obligations under the chemical weapons convention jeremy corbyn also questioned theresa may saying that it was highly likely that the assad regime was behind those chemical attacks he said that the rebel group josh islam had also used

chemical weapons in the past and he called her decision and legally questionable there seem to be a lot of unhappy m.p.'s because she actually went ahead with her decision to carry out those airstrikes without consultation. the mail on sunday newspaper meantime published a poll revealing the british public was overwhelmingly opposed to the prime minister's decision to bypass parliament and there you go a survey conducted before the attack found the less than a quarter of the british public supported military action almost twice as many people are opposed to the operation as in favor of it there's been antiwar protests this monday evening outside parliament over the assault from the early reports. this protest being held outside the house of politics here in central london the numbers are reaching around five hundred people the organizers say they expect that to rise to close to two thousand by the time the protest is done and many people here show their opposition not just to the bombing of syria but also to to

resume a launching that attack without consulting parliament first and we have heard of course from the government minister a penny more than two said that the intelligence was just so sensitive that it couldn't be shared with every and he. well i think we could. just accept it tell the judge for this government after they've laid so many times they've got to be joking when i remember the baby milk factory in iraq in iraq that was bombed that they claimed was was by you biological weapons manufacturing that the baby milk production was only a cover it turned out it was a peanut factory to go to war to make that sort of decision. without presenting the evidence makes fools of a soul it is basically immoral the whole point of having it or not christine is

that they consulted over anything is serious this world and i think basically the government just covering out they don't have any attitudes and i think the majority of people in this country believe what the government is saying. let's go thought of all of the miles the former you can bust into libya a small thank you for your time so prime minister may said diplomacy didn't work she had but the question still is why did she have to act so quickly do you think why didn't she go to parliament to get approval. well i don't know the answer that question and i don't think her answers to it have been very convincing. my own but opinion is that before launching an operation of this kind you have to pass three tests the first is is it legal the second is effective or the third is what are the political consequences in this particular case because the operation seems to being carried out very cleanly and there are no

reports of serious collateral damage or many casualties i think the political consequences are acceptable. whether it was affected or not depends on what you think was the objective and we could come back to that if you like but i think it fails on the first test but i don't think it's legal i think that. what the. prime minister and the government and the other governments concerned fail to address is that the charter of the united nations is very clear that military action of this kind can only be undertaken in two circumstances either in self-defense which clearly this was not or with the orthorexic of the security council which they did not maybe she thought it was strength in numbers that it looked like france was going to go ahead with it in the same kind of way and america as well who knows. how would you assess the u.k. government's claims that there was indeed a humanitarian basis for this intervention. well of course the humanitarian situation in syria is horrible and anything that can be done to

ease the sufferings of the syrian people should be done but the chemical warfare element in this is relatively small the enormous numbers of casualties have been caused by the war very very few of those have been even alleged to be involved in chemical warfare so i think if we're going to talk about the humanitarian problem we have to take a broader view and again she was unable to provide i don't know how you would provide this any concrete evidence of why she did what she did at the weekend to parliament crucially you'd hope she could bring some rabbit out the heart on that one by now wouldn't you. well i don't think you know i there i'm sympathetic to the promises position that you of course we don't have absolute proof such as it would be to monitor the court of law or that the syrian regime were responsible for this for

a chemical attack in this particular case but you very rarely do have absolute proof in international affairs and you have to operate on something less than absolute proof and so i don't criticize the government on that score so this isn't the slippery and where do you feel like we're going to see more of this kind of thing in the future. well that's the worry of course because. the government and the other governments have stressed very rightly the importance of strengthening the the taboo on the use of comparable weapons that determined that chemical weapons shouldn't become accepted as part of of legitimate war and we will sympathize with that i'm sure everybody would agree with a legitimate objective but the trouble is that in pursuing that objective they've weakened the the inhibition the the ban on aggressive war because what has laid down the united nations charter is quite straightforward of i've already explained and it hasn't been taken into account mr miles thank you for your time oliver miles

for you can burst into libya live in art international pressure. back here next on your screen just seeing here video from the weekend of british and french fighter jets taking off and landing from their bases in the early hours of saturday as they joined the u.s. led attack on syria cruise missiles were also launched from the mediterranean. the military action is put french president emanuel mccrone under pressure in the french parliament shelagh do bensky picks up that side of the story from paris well that debate was called in the french national assembly following that decision by france to stand alongside the usa and the u.k. and order strikes in syria over the weekend well there were many voices heard in that debate many of them congratulating the military on their operation but they were fiercely critical that the operation had taken place it's all and that much corn had approved it without any.