from tom. so. the headlines for this hour an international u.n. security team arrives in the syrian town of duma ahead of the official probe into alleged chemical attack i mean while i witnessed a medical staff on the ground he spoke to claimed they saw no sign of toxic agents being. members of the european parliament voiced their anger at the french president over the action taken against damascus while the u.k. government faces a backlash from m p's over its role in the strong. members of this house team thomas saying foreign policy in this country the president. and we talked to the producers of a documentary called in the execution of shadows and claimed the us death penalty has a racial undertone. it's

just after eight o'clock on wednesday morning here in moscow you are watching on t.v. international for me will receive the entire news team here thanks for joining. a united nations security team has visited the syrian town of duma with the aim of preparing the ground for the long awaited. chemical weapons probe that is planned for wednesday. you know if the u.n. security team decides that the situation is safe in duma then the fact finding mission will begin its will. of the experts will be investigating the alleged chemical attack on the area on april seventh however the u.s. britain and france chose not to wait for the official probe before launching air raids against syria in the early hours of saturday a u.s.

state department spokesperson had the now it said washington's decision not to wait was justified in the o.p.c. view is something that we've 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 months this is you know actually scandalous that the u.s. has launched a strike based on insurgent tide social media sources that it funds people saying stuff on the internet and who are those people there the syrian white helmets which has been funded to the tune of at least twenty three million dollars by the state department so basically the state department's intelligence and the trump administration's intelligence is coming from sources that it funds sources

who happen to function as to civil society arm of jaish al islam the sellafield jihadi insurgent group that was operating in dumanis. meanwhile our sister channel r.t. arabic visited the hospital and do know where white helmets activists filmed what vase said was the aftermath of a chemical attack doctors and locals describe what happened on the seventh of april claiming they saw no toxic agents use the. status of what had to be it was regular day in the hospital the patients were coming in the standard medical complaints suddenly some people ran out shouting that our patients had chemical poisoning they started pouring water at the patients from the everything and then left we also. people from the white helmets told us

about the use of chemical weapons but we saw no sign of that if chemical weapons were used against those people our medical staff would have also been affected. people who are underwater it's repeating that we had a dinner with chemical weapons somebody around our farm outside sound to me about a chemical attack we don't know who that was the jewels were heard in the explosion and somebody says give mikel weapons were around to where the noise came from and started who were in mortar. but they seemed to be ok and walked away without saying help. but love upset help but as people got so confused somebody started power and water over people's heads up to see him that had been a chemical attack i was at the spot with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced and i seems to me i don't recall poisoning the. british prime minister

to resign and french president emmanuel macron have come under heavy criticism from u.k. and e.u. lawmakers after their decision to strike syria without consulting their national parliaments for example these members of the european parliament during president micron's speech that many of them held up signs calling for an end to military action in syria. and there are a today reports about the backlash that leaders have received so far. what a sort of only three countries have been to be for the honor of the international community in the legitimates multilateral framework you know it's our gets a. least a marker and speech was a monument of political cynicism. and when we want without any approval. of the past month why 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 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 but there has been a backlash for him for emanuel on the fact that he didn't offer palmas permission either so you know people have not necessarily backing that decision that you can call it but he was actually grilled in parliament on monday 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. theresa may the u.k.'s prime minister has also faced a group of parliamentary is led by the opposition leader jeremy corbyn there was a bit of the pool table tennis it went on for over eight hours on day one and pretty similar day to the parliament should have as an absolute minimum age trying to in law the opportunity to ask questions before 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 the 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 that neither i nor this government take instructions from any press was despite terrorism as fiery remarks and her defense we go to reaction on the streets of london where people that seem to think parliament should have been consulted. it was an emergency situation where there was no room for maneuver. but this is not an urgent it could've waited one two days more at least i don't think it's something she should have made a decision on how general principle going into war. i think in this

particular instance it wasn't a war situation. discuss it and now you're coming you know pick anywhere. much more consideration than everyone else when it's important decisions like this everyone should have a say like how do you think represent everybody that you actually discussing doing it. to me this is not a constitutional. democracy. and so i want to. think she's experienced to be honest meanwhile the maypole so spoken out against his city allowing a u.s. nuclear powered submarine to dock it was later used to fire cruise missiles on syria. several days ago we received a note on the plot of storage lots of it it will not hold since the american nuclear power something which we passed a resolution in twenty fifteen which we designated the port of naples as

a denuclearized area so vessels of nuclear power to carry nuclear weapons have no rights. we receive peace we are against nuclear weapons we want to mediterranean sea and a state of peace not war in. the information war over syria is raging with dissenting voices facing staunch attacks from the u.k.'s mainstream media. you saw a lead has details there have been some in the u.k. who have said that the discussion around the u.k. policy to syria 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 one of the people pointed out or singled out in the times article is louis all day 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 that 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 vanessa beanies so all of these kind of examples showing that to stray from the dominant narrative of the war in syria will lead you to being accused of being an asset. 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. west nile he's an individual who is part of the military establishment not

somebody who could perhaps easily be dismissed and i thought apologise and he went on the b.b.c. if he has used chemical weapons it's absolutely right to wrap across his knuckles but i just wonder you know we've had some bad experiences on intelligence given that we're in an information war. with russia on so many from still you think perhaps it's inadvisable to be stating this so publicly given your your position and your profile isn't there a danger that you're muddying the waters and there are those who say that this current environment 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. international politics

lecturer dr tara mccormick revealed what it's like to be one of the academics on the receiving end of an attack. well i mean it's not ridiculous you know within the working group we have a range of different opinions. on international relations and so you know so. clearly i have tweeted various things about the alleged chemical attack and really the. fact that i. actually do to you know that this sort of bizarre all attempts to. kill by say cia should you know people social media types it was so ridiculous that the day that americans throw. strikes on syria oh. why did without them. in the face of popular opposition in the u.k.

the fact that the times from page to right page spread inside and that they did it for you was attacking the sort of forward followed by the bunch of i mean. i think i think actually the times and it's just itself in the it that it's just the poster . following the weekend bombing raids in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has unveiled new legislation aiming to limit the white house's politic our help in the war on terror. for too long congress has given presidents a blank check to wage war we've let the nine eleven iraq war authorizations get stretched to justify was against multiple terrorist groups and over a dozen countries from nigeria to the philippines a proposal finally repeals those authorizations inmates congress do its job by weighing in on where when and with who we are at war the proposed legislation requires the president to report to congress when deciding to start any new

military action within forty eight hours congress would then have sixty days to remove that authority if it doesn't agree it doesn't set a limit for any military action however it includes a congressional review every four years the proposal also expands the president's authority to take action against al qaeda isis or the taliban but not a state of the current war powers have been in place since nine eleven have been used nearly forty times in fourteen countries we discussed the proposed over a hole with former u.s. congressman ron paul. i've been very negligent for a long long time ever since world war two we've gone to war so many times i would have never done it properly but i don't think this resolution as proposed is the answer to it because it more or less is defining things slightly differently but one slow up i think the effort to go to war i don't think it really repeals their war powers resolution i don't think it will pass if it does pass it's not going to

accomplish a whole lot if a conference is anything it's more likely to make things worse for us who would like to stay out of war and to protect our liberties here at home so i can't get too excited about this other than the fact that we do need for these days with. a new documentary cold in the execution as shadow pulls back the curtain on the subject of capital punishment through three different stories claiming that race is at the heart of decision making when it comes to the death penalty in america. my team members take. this person. was a woman who. said he would be there for. the thing that i didn't. even do anything. you don't know because you would not choose.

recent figures reveal black people make up around forty two percent of those on death row but comprise only around thirteen percent of the entire u.s. population in addition they are far more likely to be given death sentences in cases of interracial murders and we spoke to those behind the film the racial application. is there not. now not to look so much at skin color of the perpetrator but the skin color of the victim if the if the murder victim is white. then the prosecuting attorney is four to eleven times more likely to seek the death penalty and if the victim were black and so what message is the justice system send to society. one way that can be interpreted is

that white life is worth more than plaque white we're going to punish people who kill a white person who. were severely and we are. going to do it in one black for over nine executions there is one exoneration so for every nine one inmates executed one person was found to be innocent i think that's the most startling in in the context of innocence and how egregious this could be and as our executioner. the jury givens are the former executioner of the state of virginia states and one of the things that i think is really. something that she expresses so well in at the armands is this idea that it's possible to find its own imperfect system works human we make errors and there are errors being made in the criminal justice system and as long as that straight we should not be executing

people. a self styled amato drama a journalist in the u.k. is claiming the police are not doing enough over the death threats she's received for her controversial comments but i often ask that english even claims she's felt threatened by officers themselves of her opinions on sensitive subjects particularly islam the first time i was asked these threats nothing happened and the second time i was with these the threats was not more successful than the first as a second time was actually worse because i thought that since the prince emden straight up refused to give a. because she signed on she used this phrase inciting racial hatred and she said she threatened me in the very first message. and said. what you want to see. this is an e-mail allegedly received by june i have from greater manchester police in issues one of consequences resulting from comments she's made online in general

i was also told to consider the freedom of expression of others and without any details of those said harassing her there'd be no investigation in the end she was advised not to post anything likely to cause offense. we are greater manchester police to comment in an investigation is under review and hopes to contact shortly so we put the issue of whether internet users have become too sensitive to debate certain topics or here it is. well actually i know you personally and i see your ass questioned sometimes iran contra ball questions sometimes they're questions people don't particularly want to answer and i don't know i'm an atheist i criticize christianity critize judaism i criticize islam criticize any faith but it's only when islam is criticized suddenly it's hate speech we have rules about freedom of expression freedom of belief and freedom of conscience however there are limits to those rules and it's very dangerous to draw some kind of moral

equivalence between people who are fascists or near nazis are spreading inciting violence or hate preaching people behave like that they should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law so everybody has to suffer the consequences of freedom of speech means yes some time somebody might say something that could offend you she has a right to an opinion nobody and i mean nobody has the right to put a death threat on anybody for any reason because an offended because they were offended by an opinion do you agree if somebody speech tell you bear with me if you agree that do you agree that if somebody speech crosses the line into hatred inciting hatred or harrison or is racist or sexist or anti semitic do you agree that these people should be do you agree that these people should be prosecuted to the absolute maximum extent of the law and is against british and

english values i believe in free speech including yours even though i don't agree with your opinion some of what you're willing. to trade or you want to do i think you cross the line yes i do i think you should be prosecuted because of your opinion now i don't death threats are never acceptable never if you do and are far worse than any mean we're because words don't kill actions and death phrase can be carried out. there are now less than two months before the curtain is raised on the world cup here in russia the first says it's expecting every match to be a sellout we spoke to its head of ticketing about expectations for one of the world's biggest sporting events. we have no reason to assume that the mets that are not so close and obviously very happy about it because we love football stadiums and that's what the teams also want to see so we're very excited by that the

tournaments host cities are already preparing to welcome guests from all over the world the legendary danish goalkeeper and host of artes world cup twenty eighteen coverage peter schmeichel has been to one of them the city of simyra on the volga river. come to some arena it looks a bit like a u.f.o. from the outside so who's going to be flying high is a kind of behind this part of the case when he takes columbia here all very hungry i assume lose two hours who returns to world cup action but what else is going on. on peter schmeichel and i'm here to find out.

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on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one different person i speak to now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. join me every thursday on me all excited i'm sure i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . my. all the voltage owners are. jr's to

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