it was am am. russia is western powers to end the military aggression against syria at a un security council session on the humanitarian crisis in the city of raka. members of the european parliament voiced their anger over the bombing of syria as french president emmanuel mcclung gives a speech while the u.k.'s government is also facing a backlash over its role in the u.s. led strikes. members of this house team top last second foreign policy of this country the president. understands growth of the alleged chemical attack in syria that led to the strikes british media outlets round on academic sleep question the government's claims.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. stories of may and emanuel have come under heavy criticism from british and e.u. 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 marc klass speech several of them held up signs calling for an end to military action in syria. as the latest france's emanuel micron and the u.k. xah to raise a may are 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 and you can see that they were protesting against the action taken in syria cooperation. only three countries have been to v.

for the honor of the international community in the legitimates multilateral framework you know it's all gets amana if. the marker on speech was a monument of political cynicism. when we want without any approval. over the past months when you have we hidden the fact that the area of eastern ghouta where the alleged chemical attack took place is controlled by radical islamists not jewish islam shop or you'd be there it's been done already in iraq and libya why should we be aired 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 in to the temptation to play the role of world's policeman now over in the u.k. theresa may the u.k.'s prime minister has also faced

a group of parliamentary is led by the opposition leader jeremy corbyn that 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 as an absolute minimum in trying to in law the opportunity to ask questions before full 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 the members of this house seem to have less say in foreign policy of this country than president trump let no one in this house be in any doubt that neither i nor this government take instructions from any pressure was. the u.k. the u.s. and france decided to carry out strikes in duma in syria based on the alleged chemical weapons attack. that they did this before an investigation was completed

the only non official 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. was no day or 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 on wednesday well meanwhile many britons oppose the rush to military action a poll by the mail on sunday newspaper found more than hoff believed to resume a should not have ordered the bombing without the approval of parliament when we asked people in london for their views it was an emergency situation where there was no room for maneuver if you think that this is not allergic liberated one triggers more at least i don't think it's something she should have made

a decision on the house of general principle about going to war. i think in this particular instance it wasn't a war situation is rather than page discussing you know you're coming. back anywhere are you achieving possible consideration everyone else when it's important decisions like this everyone should have a say like i do through parliament represent everybody i know that you are actually discussing doing it then you just immediately this is not a constitutional dictatorial but certain mark received that discussed and now console everyone in power and yet i think this is the scariest reality. well the information war over syria has taken a bass a turn with dissenting voices now facing a staunch attack from the u.k.'s mainstream media. as 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 strikes

over the weekend 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 so 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 that her name is billy 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. it is really been dismissed as apologists and he went on the b.b.c. and we can have a look now at that clip of interview which has been added to a bias here 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. 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 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. when meanwhile 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 hasn't changed but as artie's turn off explains it seems there's still

room for maneuver. 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 strumpet 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 at checked us 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 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 one 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 would 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. well that's also been public condemnation in the u.s. with thousands running across the country last sunday in protest against the syria

bombings we spoke to two usually opposed to political commentators for their thoughts about u.s. military action some from supporters are disappointed i have one of the my 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 trump 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 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 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 rasmussen in his camp every other poll if you average them out he has had 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. well meanwhile u.s. state department spokesperson has been ours has questioned the need to wait for the findings of the a.p.c. doubly on the syrian chemical incident the o.p.c. of you 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 if 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 it's 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. russia's envoy to the united nations specifically now ben zia has condemned what he called acts of aggression in syria he was speaking just now to u.n. security council session on the long running humanitarian crisis in the war torn country we can now cross live to our correspondents here con in washington hi there

samir a could you tell us what was said at the security council. well russia called for this a security council meeting and at first they suggested holding it on a rock a formerly isis stronghold but now under u.s. control now russia said that the u.s. hasn't done enough to solve the humanitarian crisis in syria but the u.s. claim that russia is trying to distract the world from quote assad's atrocities the focus then shifted to the coalition's recent airstrikes last friday or saturday morning which the russian ambassador condemned and then urged the west to stop their aggression so let's check out what happened between the two. with their acts of aggression the u.s. the u.k. and france to express their solidarity with one side in the conflict operations have succeeded in rolling back the so-called isis caliphate and addressing a dire threat to our collective peace and security the coalition made these gains

while the assad regime and its backers focused their guns mostly on the syrian opposition groups that want isis terrorists russia then said that the coalition's latest actions discourage syria from participating in the geneva negotiations check out more of what happened between the u.s. and russia because of that just as they do with google but if the goal is to use bombs to force the syrian president to negotiate and then present it as a victory for him and put him in court as war criminals then this is an impossible goal russia has called us here as part of a messaging campaign to try to distract from the atrocities committed by the assad regime. now tensions have been heating up between the two countries so we'll just have to see what happens and most importantly how this affects syria. indeed michele it's american in washington many thanks thank you. experts on artificial

intelligence warning europe against granting illegal status to robots after the break. britain is going alone because it's a world country will make trade deals not tonight because i got a dramatic fashion capacity up at a factory every week because we're great britain. is american foreign policy possesses specific d.n.a. it would seem so it doesn't matter who the president is it doesn't matter which party controls the white house the neo cons are firmly in the south. but the war hawks value on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that go. to socks for the tell you

the lobby gossip the public by fell. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough to buy their products. all the hawks that we along the border with one. zero welcome back thousands of wives and children to form a islamic state fighters in iraq being sexually exploited and denied age according to a report from amnesty international. because they consider me the same as an islamic state fighter they will rape and return me they want to show everyone what they can do to me to take away my honor i can feel comfortable in my tent i just wanted door to lock and walls around me each time to say to myself tonight is the night i'm

going to die well they honestly report was based on interviews with ninety two women staying at camps in iraq they claim to have been denied access to food water and healthcare and according to the organization militia groups running the camps are preventing the women and their children from returning home we asked aid worker mohammed circle and radio host john gaunt for their views on how the family members of extremists should be treated. people should be treated fairly we need to find out if these people are associated with cherish if they are associated with terrorism then toughest far as i'm concerned we need to send a strong message out to other stupid women and stupid girls especially from our country who have gone over to fight enjoyed and marry these monsters we've got to be careful with this situation and i think iraqis are going to treat these people with respect but by the same token they've got to put the protection of the majority of citizens first we're talking about the islamic state here. this is just

an hour long for us to pay attention of what we can do in the post isis so if their ministry has this will be with us we ask for join we ask for the u.n. to to send transparent independent. organization to to look into making sure those camps regardless of the how the member of isis previously were not of how we can make sure the cycle of violence that is not continue because the last ninety two remain or the children though tomorrow they're going to take arms against the government that abuse them and become so it is not a matter i'm sorry i don't have the i and others are as a tool to their reaction interviewed ninety six people for them said they'd either been raped would seen rape you've got to be careful these people are desperate of course that i want to be in these camps i understand this but you've got to look at it in its totality and marco say i'm not condoning the way by not condone me in any way shape or form but the iraqi government have got

a first and foremost protect the rest of the citizens these people are accused of being associated with that islamic state the report stated perceived those people associated with isis this is not this is not this is not the army this is an idea this is an internal displaced camp where people have lead from isis to be safe on the counter this is not this is not being instigated or being questioned by the police this is how the been treated this is how they get treated and become and this kind of camps build again and build another isis and this is we're concerned about. the trump administration had threatened to impose new sanctions on russia for supporting syria in the wake of the alleged chemical attack yet on monday the white house said they've been put on hold artie's aneesh assess 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 place 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 that 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. the only legitimate sanctions are those 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 but 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 at

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 wasn't clear what the basis of these accusations were and 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. now a group of artificial intelligence experts has written an open letter to the european commission regarding the ethical future of robots the letter says robot should never be given legal status which would make them responsible for their own actions the rights issues some concern after a number of cases made the headlines. thank

you. thank you. thank you thank you. thank you. thank. you thank you. at the next more fundamental way going. into the future you might need them for adults like intelligent beings surely even though your mother that i or my big brother but it's election what you know about we have to. look good in a new good only and we can vote simply because we don't reach for human rights last year european lawmakers passed

a resolution to grant legal status to electronic persons that move is now being reconsidered by the european commission and politicians claim the trainer and status would make robots responsible for any damage they cause however the loss of us law warns in the robot era more attention needs to be given to the rights of humans. we should let me about how do we set a life. in each week that we can all vote if they have your money being sought out i suppose you put a dent over that time maybe we know that they have not peace we have a fact that what worries me is not that fuck you believe these are the each other somebody bucks but i will only take you to be stevie your money investing in which you have no. other bank for the latest headlines in just over half an hour meanwhile for more and more of our stories.

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