two circumstances either of self-defense which clearly this was not all with your therapy of the security council which they did not the government and the other governments can stress very rightly the importance of strengthening the the. use of can have equal weapons but the trouble is that in pursuing that objective they've we could be the inhibition the. aggressive war a fact finding mission in syria as duma by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is set to start work on wednesday that's according to a russian defense ministry official however the watchdog says there are security issues that need to be addressed before its experts can head to the site of the alleged attack the u.s. envoy to the o.p.c. w. is quoted as saying russia might have tampered with the attack site in turn moscow's representative to the body noted that western strikes on syria may have created obstacles to probing the the alleged attack. well the americans are trying

to prevent of proper investigation from going ahead there's no other way to explain the joint strikes with britain and france again syria at the exact moment when a group of expose was in beirut preparing to head to damascus isn't that an attraction of the investigation our american partners becoming worried the us representative gave a speech accusing russia of hiding evidence and helping syrian officials at the scene the incidents that i was gay she looks like they're trying to cover their own backs in case the exposed don't find anything to back up my claims but experts are now on their way there in damascus and this curious issues that need to be taken care of soon they will be there and they will start their work. the british newspaper the times has launched a vicious attack on a group of researchers for supposedly spreading dissin from ation on the alleged chemical attack after their findings contradicted the u.k. government claims about the incident the times branded them assad apologise and cited a number of their activities from social media posts to briefing notes to suggest

they are pro president assad and pro russian. now to discuss this further i'm joined live by dr tara mccormick a member of that group that was named in the article the working group on syria propaganda and media now dr mccormick tell me is the group actually just spreading pro assad to some formation and russia promoted conspiracies as is claimed in the article. well no i mean it's been quite an astonishing and saying really. what. has not actually begun any race and yet you know we've just stepped out. one of the can be and it is professor piers morgan soon who is don't look left on chilcote's and iraq propaganda around their overall goal so the working group has actually just been set up we have and how did he receive it yet we haven't applied for any grown that the time zone was extraordinary and they did tempted. all of us you

know picking out tweets and quotes and so on so it's quite to start to she know there are those of us in the very for example my so professor up and said and you do a fair bit to me generally arguing from an empty interventionist sieve again for evidence of process called should it it's national relation that cetera and so that's where we are also the irony is that times went to town when i was group that hasn't even begun. you know a recent project yes what the articles often pointing out is when it comes to a number of posts online and what not members of the group often tally with moscow's conclusions on syria's alleged chemical attack and the war in general do you then understand why this might raise alarm for mean stream journalists what i

mean it's not ridiculous you know within the working group we have a range of different opinions. all in international relations and so you know so. clearly have tweeted various things about alleged chemical attack but really the whole. actually ludicrous you know that. sort of bizarre tempt to. guilt by association you know few social media types and the interesting thing is it doesn't seem to have been taken too seriously i think it was so ridiculous that the day that britain and america throw. strikes on syria but full. you went without them in france it mandate in the face of cooking opposition in the. times from page double page spread inside and the latest for you was attacking sort

of fortified by the budget by academics. i think i think actually the time is going to show itself in the throes of it but that is just so preposterous. that one of the things cited in the article is one of your colleagues retreated a post on the alleged chemical attack claiming quote the white helmets kidnapped and drugged children to use as props now this is mention in the article and this is hard to prove so should we be such claims not be made publicly well i would like to say but first of all there's a difference between. tweeting. you know people may link to material that they find interesting that raises questions for them it's a fairly established convention that tweeting does not signify necessarily into it but even if it down that's also a different thing from academic research that i mean people and read all sorts of

things have a number of different opinions things that academic research is specific saying and is known to have learned to tweet. so you were saying you were shocked by this article but doesn't the times also have the right to alert their readers if they feel that something isn't quite right. you know the time the times does have a right but what they want to what is a sensible journalist would do would be to have a discussion with me or my colleagues in the working group you know we'd have a proper debate and a discussion but this was not that this was an absolutely. transparent i mean clumsy attempt simply to shut down every sit king group that hasn't even probably begun its research so it was just in

hopefully a september to kind of stoke this it was in no way a kind of provocative journalistic attempt to find out about pin. you know confront us in an argumentative way so why do you say that it's where's your evidence all of which would be absolutely fair enough and good journalistic is that this was not it was a clumsy and ridiculous attempt simply to shut down the working group that presumably. they may be asking questions that the times doesn't think should be all it's it all in all it's all right to british journalism and this threat to academic freedom and free speech in the new carry dr tara mccormick a member of the working group on syria propaganda and media thank you so much for time finding time to be on the program with us tonight.

the u.s. military action in syria has left many analysts questioning whether an early exit of american troops from the country is still on the table the white house insists its policy has not changed but as it goes on of explains it seems there's still room for maneuvering. mission accomplished more than a hundred missiles rained down on syria on donald trump's orders and now his message is clear a job well done except syria is in a reno where the world's major powers including the u.s. are pitched against each other wrestling for influence so what mission exactly is trump talking about well the pentagon translated simply accuracy isn't actually impossible at this stage militarily to know whether that mission as described was accomplished last night's. operations were successful we met all of our objectives we hit all of our targets successfully russia says syria's soviet era air defense

systems should down roughly seventy percent of the missiles fired while the us military stress their success but obliterating a few sites barely touches on washington's greater game plan and syria and when tasked with spelling out what does its overwhelmingly unclear american troops entered and gained a foothold in syria under the pretext of fighting eisel and now it is indeed difficult to see where exactly the us stands on that i am proud to report that the coalition to defeat isis has liberated very close to one hundred percent of the territory just recently held by these killers in iraq and in syria and in other locations as well we are in syria fight isis and that is our mission in the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission so in a matter of a few months islamic state went from almost extinguished from the face of the earth

back to a plausible threat and defeating isaw is one of america's more concrete missions the countries you and who for example indicated that cleansing syria of terrorists per se is a start but not the only thing being pursued we want to make sure that the end. fluence of iran doesn't take over the area and they continue to cause problems throughout the region and we want to make sure that there is a hold where the nikki haley likes it or not iran is a regional powerhouse and it won't go down easily if that is what america is off to here here syria is apparently adding to the list of conflicts the us has troops bogged down in but possibly the most ironic parts the above couldn't be further away from trump's own mission statement for syria just weeks ago i want to get out i want to bring the troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation critics have been on trump's back for a lack of a coherent plan on syria but it's

a strategy that works wonders for keeping their food in the door indefinitely there's also been public condemnation in the u.s. with thousands rally across the country on sunday in protest against the syria bombings we spoke to two political commentators who are usually on the opposite sides of the debate about their thoughts on u.s. military action some from supporters are disappointed i have one of them i like the trumps position during the election but i think a lot of people on our political left and people like me on the right think we should not be the world's police any longer that was one of the issues and main points the trust made during the campaign you know nobody likes to ascribe to any president whatever their political party killing people using munitions like this just as a distraction that's said i mean you can't deny that the walls are closing in on donald trump legally from the special prosecutor moeller from the united states attorney in new york with his lawyer cohen so do i think that down trump is that

craven as to launch strikes to distract attention. no but the mere fact that it's a question that's troubling i would diminish that he has major issues as just described as a higher approval rating than did obama at this time in his presidency in some polls the economy has not credible jobs are coming back in the economy's growing great yeah well that is it is true in america right now small businesses for the first time look at the decade are excited if you look at the average of all the polls there's one poll that's been consistently in donald trump's rescues and in his camp every other poll if you average them out he is at historic lows for any president since the advent of polling in the united states of america democrats their complaint is what's the broader plan you say mission accomplished mr president what's the mission they see this as not pursuant to any particular plan and on the right it seems inconsistent with the the promises the president made during the campaign to withdraw so as a result there's just not

a big constituency in favor of what he's done mission accomplished was a popular phrase that turned very notorious with iraq and look at where we are now listen i i i find it interesting you have someone on the left and someone on the right politically in america here on r t and we sort of agree the worst case scenario is is assad gets toppled or killed and then we have another iraq for the next decade and then we really get engaged in a war because isis then overwhelms and takes over the country in the wake of the alleged chemical attack the trumpet ministration repeatedly promised to punish syria's ally russia with new sanctions however on monday the white house said they've been put on hold and he says that he has more on moscow's reaction to the latest developments. kremen spokesperson dmitri peskov has spoken out on the fresh set of sanctions set to be imposed on russia the president some bastard to the un nikki haley sent a strong message after the trumpet ministration repeatedly said it will play

sanctions on russian companies thought to be assisting syria's chemical weapons program but president trump has shifted course and rejected for now the fresh set of sanctions dmitri peskov has said has not been surprised at such measures imposed on russia but this commented saying that these foreign policy practices russia simply can't agree with most of the legitimate sanctions implemented by the security council or in other words u.n. sanctions sanctions have been announced one hundred seventy four times in the twentieth century a most of that's owned by the us this is the practice of u.s. foreign policy which we don't agree with and consider illegal the sanctions are fair the option on their stuff to the u.s. led air strike in retaliation by the u.s. to the suspected chemical attack in syria but it appears that tensions are now fair the mounting and the u.s. and the u.k. issued a joint warning on monday raised accusations that russian hackers are conducting

cyber operations allegedly targeting governments and businesses as well as well as individuals homes and offices of dimitry peskov also responded to this saying that it was unclear what the basis of these accusations were in retaliation to this statement put out by the u.k. in the u.s. he says usually accusations are easily voiced but no one is willing to present real evidence here. a group of artificial intelligence experts has written an open letter to the european commission calling for robots never to be given legal status which would make them responsible for their own actions the rights issue sparked some concern after a number of cases made public. thanks thanks.

thanks. thanks thanks thanks. thanks. we should add that more fundamental question never just escape into the easy q my knees i'm all about like intelligent beings surely even though your monday night might be better but it was new here that we had a. need that we are entering a new good day so we can both seem. to have the right. last year european lawmakers passed a resolution to grant legal status to electronic persons that move is now being considered by the european commission politicians claim the change in status would make robots responsible for any damage they cause. again warns that in the robot

era more attention needs to be given to the rights of humans and we should worry about how we should invite. you know each week into that we are almost a day out of human beings although it's close you put a dent a little time maybe we know that there is no peace we are here to say that what worries me is not that it can keep really nice or the usual stuff going to go for robots but i will tell me case we should be stevie human interest and you need to see them out of. the rising problem of jihad us around the world are increasingly being blamed on prisons a report by the international center for the study of radicalization and political violence claims many terrorist plots have been drawn out behind bars you are trying to find out whether this is also the case in russia.

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