members of the european parliament voiced their anger over the bombing of syria as the french president gives a speech and in the u.k. the government is also facing a backlash over its role in the u.s. led strikes. members of this house seem top let's say in foreign policy in this country the president. and those doubts grow over the alleged chemical attack in syria that led to the strikes the british media runs on academics to question the government's claims. also this hour artificial intelligence experts call in the e.u. not to grant legal status to robots we debate the issue with last first. warm

welcome to the program for me and all of the crew here at r t international thanks for joining us this hour. trees in may and the manual necron have come under heavy criticism from british and lawmakers the u.k. and french leaders were defending their decision not to consult their national parliaments before bombing syria on saturday these are members of the european parliament during president mccrone speech several of them held signs calling for an end to the military action in syria the dear tutor has the latest. prances 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 cooperation or touch of any three countries having to be for the honor of the international community in the legitimates multilateral framework you know.

least the marker and speech was a monument of political cynicism. when we want without any approval. over the past months where you have we had in the area of eastern ghouta where the alleged chemical attack took place is controlled by radical islamists not jewish. or you'd be there it's been done already in iraq and libya why should we be and in syria 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 these strikes demonstrate the irresponsible behavior of the three global powers that yet again gave into the temptation to play the role of world's policeman now over in the u.k. to raise them in may the u.k.'s prime minister has also faced a group of parliamentary is led by the opposition leader jeremy corbyn and there was a bit of table tennis it went on for over eight hours on day one and pretty similar

day to parliament should have as an absolute minimum in trying to in law the opportunity to ask questions with all the government can order planned military action 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 in this country than press. in this house any. government take instructions for any pressure. the u.k. the u.s. and france decided to carry out as strikes in duma in syria based on the alleged chemical weapons attack that they did this before an investigation was completed the only known official sources that we've seen circulating around is video footage

taken by the white helmets both russia and syria have said that inspection they have not so fall found any evidence of chemical weapons that. are mentioned no probe into the chemical weapons incident has yet been carried out according to the russian military a team from the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w will start work in the syrian town of duma on wednesday meanwhile many britons oppose the rush to military action a poll by the mail on sunday newspaper found more than half believe theresa may should not have ordered the bombing without the approval of parliament we asked people in london for their views. it was an emergency situation where there was no room for maneuver if you think this is not an urgent it could have waited one two days more at least i don't think it's something she should have made a decision based on how general principle going into war should be. i think in this particular instance it wasn't

a war situation then please discuss it paul you've been you know you're coming you know pick anywhere you. consideration let everyone else know when it's important decisions like this everyone should have a say like how do you think represent everybody that you ought to be discussing doing it. to me this is not a constitutional. democracy as it used to stand still everyone in power and yet thinks she's experienced to be honest the information war over syria has taken a vicious turn with dissenting voices now facing furious attacks from u.k. mainstream media. has the details. there have been some in the u.k. who have said that the discussion around the u.k. policy to syria in particularly in particular with regard to the recent air strikes over the weekend have resembled something of a mccarthyite witch hunt in the mainstream media and the most prominent example has

been an article written in the times newspaper which has targeted a number of leading academics in the u.k. and accuse them of being apologists and other unfavorable epithets and one of the people pointed out or singled out in the times article is louis all day he works out some us university and during the course of that article the times said that he had written a tweet calling into question the account of previous chemical attacks mr all day has since gone on twitter and shown that he never sent the tweet and has demanded an apology from the times another example is tim hayward he's another academic here in the u.k. and he's been seen as being guilty of association because he's written for. publication called twenty first century wire whose deputy editor has also come in

for criticism by the times her name is vanessa beatty so all of these kind of examples showing that to stray from the dominant narrative all of the war in syria will lead you to being accused of being an ass of apology apologise that's been the criticism of some here in the u.k. and it's not just the print media we've seen an interview on the b.b.c. with lord west now he's an individual who is part of the military establishment not somebody who could perhaps easily be dismissed as an asset apologist and he went on the b.b.c. and we can have a look now at that clip obvious interview which has been added to the. r.t. to shorten it down but we can see the kind of tone of the discussion which has been going on what benefit is there for his military most of the rebel fighters this disparate group of islamists. withdraw 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 and there are those who say that this current environment again resembling somewhat of a witch hunt isn't conducive to free speech and to free investigation and inquiry over the events of not just the weekend but the past seven years of the u.k.'s policy towards syria and its support of the opposition groups there and that is leading many to question whether the u.k. will continue to make the same mistakes in the future dr tara mccormick a lecturer in international politics at the u.k.'s leicester university told us what it was like to be one of the academics on the receiving end of the times' attack. well 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 i have tweeted very sayings about the. chemical attack and really the. fact that i. actually do to you know that sort of bizarre all attempt to. guilt by association you know. it was so ridiculous that the day that britain and america throw. strikes on syria but. without them. in the face of cooking or opposition in the. back of the times front page double write page spread inside and the latest for you was attacking the sort of forward followed by the bunch of academics. i think i think actually the time was going to show itself in the pacific but that it's just proposed for the us 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 he goes down 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 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 show down 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 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. 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 after the world hear hear series 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 us with thousands rolling 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 the 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 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 it's a distraction that's 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 you have well that is it is true in america right now small business is 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 rest recent 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. meanwhile the u.s. state department spokesperson has questioned the need to wait for the findings from the o.p.c. w on the syrian chemical incident but we have our own intelligence and we have our own talent as the o.p.c. view is something that we back strongly but it can also take quite a bit of time for the o.p.c. of you to gather its information and compile the report so i would ask you should the united states and her allies wait around for bashar al assad to use more

chemical substances honest people should we wait around for that formal investigation that could take months and my secretary jim maddest said at a briefing several days ago where he didn't have solid intelligence on any chemical attack in duma what he did have were social media reports people saying stuff on the internet and who were those people the same people that state department spokesperson heather now we're referring to there the syrian white helmets which has been funded to the tune of at least twenty three million dollars by the state department and the trumpet ministrations intelligence is coming from sources that it funds so this is you know actually scandalous that the u.s. has launched a strike based on insurgent tide social media sources that it funds rather than actual concrete evidence of course congress isn't going to debate this but it should be the stuff of a national scandal experts on artificial intelligence are warning europe against

granting legal status to robots star and more still to come. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express interest. or some want to be rich. but you'd like to be close to see what the fuck are you the more people. interested

always in the logs of. their city mayor. welcome back to the program in the wake of the alleged chemical incident in syria the trumpet ministration threaten to impose new sanctions on russia for supporting to mass chaos however on monday the white house said they had been put on hold and he has more 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 dimitri peskov has said that he's not been surprised at such measures imposed on russia but this commented saying that these foreign policy practices russia simply can't agree with. the only legitimate sanctions implemented by the security council or in other words un 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 these sanctions are a third 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 to be true prescott 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. russia's security service has broke about a soul of suspected are still members were said to be planning terrorist attacks in the rostov region a statement from the office speak of the cell had been acting on instructions to carry out attacks from a mysterious 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 street. now 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 try to find

out whether this is the case in russia.

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a regular small mosque doesn't feel like we're in prison and the people are very friendly oh you need to deal with really just a problem most will i visit because it's the goofus because a lot of the two hundred some assurance that constance was not with us for those not just another series from that's going to slip i didn't have these well i mean like you. in this prison mosque they've been trying to convince me that any radicalized muslim who ends up behind bars here gets rehabilitated very quickly. but if you would you mind. well that's your commission colonia what the problem with states. was well known because they were. not

to. be true to its beauty reported i beseech you to think through the school of truth me feeling. under the hood. i didn't. get a chance to. do that and showed some world i don't claim to the english name and be sure that you need to click on talk to you did not change in the. future until over the next twenty years bigot most efficient enough to know him in your day into the day with him sometimes of c.b. is a story needed and we should just ensure that once the mystery pops i just. between usual which with. a group of artificial intelligence experts has written an open letter to the

european commission it says that robots should never be given legal status which should make them responsible for their own actions the rights issue sparked some concern after a number of cases made headlines. just. to. thank you we've. we've. we should at the best most fundamental question never just escape into these easy q. my knees i'm almost like intelligent beings surely even your mother that i might be

but it is election what's new here that we have and that is. that we are entering a new good day zone and we cannot simply because. you 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 once that in the robot era more attention needs to be given to the rights of humans we should go lightly about how we survive. the unique we interact with it almost any day out of human beings although it is a vent a little. 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 go home ok we

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