manual mcclellan faces backlash at the e.u. parliament as the french president tries to justify saturday's bombing of syria. british m.p.'s also vent their fury at not being consulted over the u.k. french u.s. military strikes in the wake of syria's alleged chemical attack. members of this house seem top let's say in foreign policy in this country the president tried. also this hour should robots have right well as experts calling the e.u. not to grant machines legal status we debate the issue with boss first.

this is our two international coming to you live from the russian capital with the joplin logo thanks for joining us this hour. to reason may in the manual mccraw not have come under heavy criticism from british lawmakers the u.k. and french leaders were defending the decision not to consult their national parliaments before bombing syria on saturday these are members of the european parliament during president mccrone speech there a large group held signs calling to stop the military strikes on syria and india tutor has been following the key developments. francis emmanuel micron kayser theresa may a facing a pretty tough time retrospectively in trying to justify the airstrikes that they carried out in syria over the weekend here's how the european parliament members met with macross on you can see that they were protesting against the action taken in syria and they were holding up plaque cards which read stop the war and hands off syria this was done during

a speech that he was delivering in brussels and he was trying to explain the reasons why he decided to go in and one of the things that you said about the justification that it's was conducted for the honor of the international community that of only three countries are going to be for the honor of the international community in a legitimates multilateral framework you know. determine the political speech was a monumental political cynicism. without any of. you with dr stars you need to show we will spell out loud and clear in the u.k. an american attack on syria but in no way contributes to a political solution in syria the who can not ride horses because it will look even more stupid than it already looks. alleged chemical attack took place is controlled by radical islamists not jewish

shop or you'd be there it's been done already in iraq and libya why should we be serious to the list and he has faced a major backlash domestically as well when he was grilled on monday by parliamentarians for not consulting them before those airstrikes were carried out some have accused him of being undemocratic and questions were asked about the lack of evidence to. intervene without any particular goal and what happened after he has the. straighted that. demonstrate the irresponsible behavior of the three global powers yet again gave into the temptation to play the role of the world's policeman. renew clinton attacked yugoslavia blindly violating international law george bush to the same iraq war and barack obama in libya and syria it seems the evidence that made friends decide to carry out strikes against syria is partly based on information from social media. to raise

a maze the u.k.'s prime minister has also faced a group of parliamentary is led by the opposition leader jeremy corbyn. and the he has proposed changes actually a motion to a new act which is called the war powers act he said that that would ensure parliamentary approval if the u.k. did indeed want to take military action unless it was a case of self defense may of course agreed that it would be appropriate to have just the backing of parliament as and when required so there was a bit of the pool table tennis it went on for over eight hours on day one and pretty similar day to parliament should have an absolute minimum in trying to in law the opportunity to ask questions with full the government can order planned military action the elected representatives in this house should be able to debate the deployment of british military forces into combat but that does not mean it is always appropriate the executive must be the servant of parliament not the other

way round members of this house seem to have less say in foreign policy of this country than president trump that no one in this house be in any doubt oh i know this government take instructions from any pressure. i. a quick recap the u.k. the u.s. and france decided to carry out strikes in duma in syria. on the alleged chemical weapons attack that they did this before an investigation was completed the only nonofficial sources that we've seen circulating around is video footage taken by the white helmets both russia and syria have said that on inspection they have not so far found any evidence of chemical weapons there so basically that investigation is being carried out now and we will have to await those results by the. meanwhile

many britons also oppose military action a poll by the mail on sunday newspaper from most condemn me for her decision to bypass parliament. some took to the streets of london to voice their anger at the government urging it to stop bombing syria and the export of arms to the middle east anti-war rallies were also held in other cities including bristol and swanzy stop the war activists mourned democracy itself is under threat from its move. in this country democracy goes out the window when you seeing their own p.c. creating change why is it that the government is cowed. by in the house of commons why is it that i carried out his attack without a fight right now so comments so that's why it's a month before launching an operation of this kind you have to pass three tests the first is is it legal the second is effect the political culture it fails on the

first test because i don't think it's legal i think prime minister of the government on the other government failed to address. the. very clear military action of this can can only be undertaken to circumstances self-defense which clearly this was not all of this record collection which. the government and the other governments have stressed very rightly the importance of strengthening the the. use of chemical weapons but the trouble is that in pursuing that objective they've weakened the the inhibition the. aggressive war. information war over syria has taken a vicious turn with dissenting voices now facing furious attacks from u.k. mainstream media for more let's go live to our correspondent lisa alley now tell us more about what we're seeing in the press. though been accusations over the last few days that some of the mainstream media have been launching somewhat of

a mccarthyite witch hunt against those who have been questioning the overriding narrative with regard to syria there's been an article written in the times newspaper which basically targeted a number of academics and people working at the various universities in the country who've been questioning not just this latest attack on syria but the government's policy for the last seven years in supporting those rebels against the syrian government and the times article making some claims against some of these academics one in particular a man by the name of louis all day he had a tweet attributed to him which he's later going on to say he never wrote that tweet and he's since demanded an apology and a retraction from the times that tweet apparently calling into question previous chemical attacks and the narrative around them and he denied that so we've also

seen again in that article a number of guilt by association so somebody writing for the website twenty first century a wire professor to professor hayward he was a kook brought by guilt by association because the deputy editor of that website is a journalist by the name of vanessa bailey so all of these kind of associations being brought in the cure's these people who have been questioning british policy as being either apologists or or massacred deniers genocide deniers and so forth we've also seen on the b.b.c. admiral norm. westies a very senior military figure in this country somebody who's very seen as part of the establishment who could in no way be called an apologist for president assad and even he went on the b.b.c. to cost doubt over the narrative leading up to those attacks over the weekend and

we can have a look now on this at that clip of part of that b.b.c. interview. what benefit is there for his military most of the rebel fighters this disparate group of islamists. withdrawn given that we're in an information war. with russia on so many fronts isn't there a danger that you're muddying the waters. there have been many who have said that the current environment in this country is more conducive to the open debate over key issues such as the waging of war is a reporting live from london thank you for bringing us that report a fact finding mission in syria's duma by the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is 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 now the u.s. envoy to the o.p.c.

wu is quoted as saying russia might have tampered with the attack site in turn moscow's representative to the body noted that the western strikes on syria may have created created obstacles to the two probing the alleged attack. but you should really go the americans are trying to prevent of proper investigation from going ahead there's no other way to explain the joint strikes with britain france and syria at the exact moment when a group of us was in beirut preparing to head to damascus. isn't that an obstruction of the investigation of your american partners becoming worried if u.s. 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 they don't find anything to back up my claims but experts are now on their way there into mass chaos and this curious issues that need to be taken care of so soon they will be there and they will start their work. the u.s. military action in syria has left many analysts question whether an early exit of

american troops from the country is still on the table the white house insists its policy has not change but as it goes on of explains it seems there's still some 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 while the pentagon translated it 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 showdown roughly seventy percent of the missiles fired while the u.s.

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 that is our mission and 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 whether nikki haley likes it or not iran is a regional powerhouse and it won't go down easily if that is what america is after the world 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 would have stood 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 us with thousands rolling across the country on sunday in protest against the syrian 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 police any longer that was one of the issues and main points the truck 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 that is 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 and donald trump rescues that 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 administration repeatedly promised to punish syria's hour russia with new sanctions however on monday the white house said they've been put on hold and he has more on moscow's reaction to the latest developments kremlin spokesperson dimitry peskov has spoken out on the fresh set of sanctions set to be imposed on russia the president some bastard to the u.n. 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 dimitry peskov has said he's not been surprised at such measures imposed on russia but has commented saying that these foreign policy practices russia simply can't agree with. implemented by the security council the words u.n. sanctions sanctions have been announced one. twentieth century amongst its own by the us this is the practice of u.s. foreign policy which we agree. these sanctions are a third option on the last after 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 dmitri peskov also responded to this saying that it wasn't clear 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. all eighty protesters detained on the second day of anti-government rallies in armenia have been freed by police the demonstrators were denouncing what they call. a power grab by the former president who has just been appointed prime minister. surge started and became president in two thousand and eight stepping down this month at the end of his term however as the country recently switched from a presidential base system to a parliamentary one the opposition claims he is trying to cling to power by becoming minister the head of the opposition insists that people do not back parliament's domination of sark syria as a large rally against his appointment has ended but the opposition leader warns

rallies will continue on wednesday. russia's security service has broken up a cell of suspected i saw members who were said to be planning terrorist attacks in the rostov region. a statement from the f.s.b. said the cell had been acting on instructions to carry out attacks from emissaries in syria three people were arrested at the scene of the group's leader blew himself up firearms improvised bombs and electronic devices were found at the scene. 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 up behind bars go has tried to find out whether this is the case in russia. i. think.

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has moved on to how best to house and provide essential services to those already in the country if you know how to do i debate about how to handle an acute situation and the long term integration of migrants has divided and polarized our country to this day now one of chancellor merkel's own party members is facing allegations of profiteering from refugees andreea whoriskey is being scrutinized by the authorities in cologne after three reports of media that she struck a sweet deal with the local council they could see her raise as much as two and a half million euros over the next seven years renting out beds in a hotel she owns to refugees the local authorities are set to pay up to thirty five euro per night for each refugee housed in the deal apparently says that that money is paid even if those beds remain empty and fun due to multiple occupancy in the rooms and see miss he's hotel actually make over market price per room per night

the best being this particular deal can't be cancelled there's even a very convenient non-disclosure agreement written into the contract which means that the local authorities don't have to go into the ins and outs of the deal interestingly enough and her pre-election speeches emphasise the importance of refugee housing in those who have been accepted in germany as refugees should be kept in acceptable conditions but those who haven't shouldn't be given that to seek other lives no communities will be able to bear the financial burden and the news left people in the area very eager to get the hotel was recently door to graffiti saying your time is over shame on what it ski locals say it isn't right this deal was done. well. you know it's been a little i'm not happy at all about this she's a politician and is doing business on the side i mean it's

a better idea to cover the house and graffiti what about the people who have to live here they're refugees they arrived here from difficult environments as this scandal continues it's drawing the attention of local prosecutors who are investigating whether there was any legal impropriety in this politician signing a deal with the local government for its part the city of cologne is issued a statement saying that accommodation procedures for the refugees need to be looked into but there are also big questions over just how ethical it is for a politician to stand to make millions of euros of the banks of refugees peter all of. 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 concerns after a number of cases made the headlines. thank

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a new zone and we cannot simply. have the right last year european lawmakers passed a resolution to grant legal static 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 we should all likely about how we should value. the unique we interact with almost any day of human beings although it is a dent oh well. we know that they are not these we are here to say that what worries me is not that it really these or little. robots but i will tell me they will be stevie human in this day indeed.