so. i was. told that the correct robert for. the headlines this hour the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons is no information on the origin of the nerve agent used in the recent going to power poisoning according to the british representative to the international watchdog meanwhile the focus is also on the p c w in syria on wednesday it's due to start a probe on the alleged chemical attack in the city of duma however western officials say they didn't need a quote formal investigation in order to retaliate against damascus and. oh what was your british situation that is. two men wearing jewish caps are

attacked by an arab speaking used in berlin the incident comes amid a rise in anti semitic crimes across germany. but i welcome you watching r.t. international good to have you companies just going for clock in the afternoon here in moscow now our top story the u.k.'s representative to the. organization tasked with investigating this clip poisoning case says they cannot identify the country. of origin of the nerve agent used in the attack we can get more details now from the cheetah he joins us from our london studios good afternoon just to run through then some more details of what was said this afternoon. well the o.p.c. wu they've been conducting a closed door meeting at their headquarters in the hague but many delegates have been tweeting what's been going on behind closed doors so we've been getting

a steady stream of information coming through and obviously there are extracts from the u.k. representative to the o.p.c. doubly has been saying at that meeting and with regards to russia a little snippet here where he said that it's been carrying out a brazen this information campaign and attacked the reputation and expertise of the o.p.c. very very strong words there indeed now we've managed to get a full copy of the statement there made by the delegations and from what we can decipher from the british side it appears that there is confirmation that there is no information about the source of the nerve agent used in these told the attack what we can do now is take a quick listen to what the british representative to the o.p.c. set. neither d.s. tells analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report densify is to control

a lab true of the origin of the agent used in this attack. the explanation for what happened in salisbury the russian state response ability to believe that only russia had the technical means operational experience and the motive to target the scruples. so to clarify as to date there is no definitive independent evidence that the nerve agent categorically came from russia or that indeed that an attack there in sol's bre was ordered from the kremlin what we are hearing at the moment is that the british delegation there is repeating the government's line that it was highly likely we've heard that so many times that moscow was behind the attack and that the reasoning behind that is that no one else has the means or the motive for doing that so despite the lack of evidence it seems that that evidence or lack of is being widely ignored. ok thanks certainly do

that was our season due to their force in london let's bring in john white now he's a political commentator is following this story closely too good afternoon to you john just on today's news in the a.p. c.w. saying look we can't identify the source of this nerve agent does that really damage the u.k.'s argument. given the fact that this is what we've heard before from the porton down scientists that you know we can't identify the nerve agent but we believe still it's highly likely that russia is behind this attack. well the official narrative that's been proved forward by the british government and the mainstream media in the u.k. without exception has been discredited there already in fact there are getting involved in the british government's narrative a narrative that seems to change by that day was to go out to the script opioids inning and how it happened or where it happened and the nerve agent used and so the cold war which has been declared against russia in all but name has been done on

the basis of highly likely the formulation used by british prime minister to resign me in her statement to the commons a few days after the poisoning to place and it's highly likely formulation has just been used to justify miso strikes against syria based on the howly contained his allegation that sitting government forces were responsible for carrying out a chemical weapons attack and duma saw nothing has changed the only thing that has changed is that your p.c. w. has confirmed what the porton down scientists in england confirm which he cannot they cannot identify the provenance of this substance where it came from and who was responsible for this crime. they also don't decide and that is part of the argument that we believe russia had the means experience and native to carry out this attack but when you look at the mains we understand twenty other countries could parties not be helped. well indeed i mean again this is something else that

has been explored has been entirely false start we were told by british foreign secretary orders johnson and defense secretary. that only russia could have produced this near region indeed boris johnson went further and actually lied to german television when he said that he had spoken to the guy and his words at porton don't use confirmed that so this has been a scandal of immense proportions but you wouldn't think should judging by the mainstream media coverage because it means the media in the u.k. is part of the scandal and its coverage this is not an objective media we have we have an ideologically driven media which in large part has been driving the government attacks on russia and driving u.k. foreign policy overall ok john look we have to leave it there were not a time but it was good to get your thoughts there was a political commentator for us there john white thank you. now the organization for

the prohibition of chemical weapons is in the spotlight on wednesday as it is due to start a probe on the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of doing the investigation will begin if there are no security concerns on the ground reports of the alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions have been raised over this footage filmed by the white helmets rescue group in a local hospital there the video does purport to show the aftermath of the chemical attack however our sister channel r.t. arabic visited that very hospital in doing or talking with doctors and residents and they described what happened on the seventh of april claiming they saw no tops occasions to use their. signal from the white helmets told us about. the use of chemical weapons we saw no

sign of that but if chemical weapons were used against those people our medical staff would have also been affected. people poured water it's good thing that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and somebody from outside shouting about a chemical attack don't know who that was we heard an explosion and somebody said it was a chemical weapon we run to where the noise came from and the started pouring the water over the people but they just seemed to be ok and walked away without any help but a little confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying they had been a chemical attack but i was at the spot with my words from the daughter but none of us experienced early symptoms of chemical poisoning meanwhile even some western media now calling into question the allegations of a chemical attack that after

a british journalist robert fisk visited i wasn't able to find anybody there can do who could confirm the use of chemical weapons however washington and its allies still have no doubts about it 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 well that's despite most information on the alleged attack coming from controversial activist groups such as the white helmets and the syrian american medical society both groups are thought to be funded by the west including by western governmental organizations so far no group meant to be conducting investigation has visited the site of the alleged incident as noted the a.b.c. w. does plan to start its probe later on wednesday while the world health organization is not on the ground there so far but u.s. state department spokes person haven't you it has defended washington's decision not to wait for the results of an official investigation. there's

a thing we have it's called intelligence gathering the united states has excellent intelligence gathering other countries do as well 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 tied social media sources well this is exactly what defense secretary jim maddest said at a briefing several days ago where he didn't have solid intelligence on any chemical attack and do know 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 spokes person how they are now or 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. for the lack of concrete proof that the attack actually took place has been raised by some officials and academics to such questions are often dismissed take a look at this b.b.c. interview if he has used chemical weapons it's absolutely right to do rough 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 fronts to 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 water well that was retired senior officer at the wrong navy allen west questioning whether there was enough intelligence to claim that assad was using chemical weapons but the b.b.c. present suggested that such comments shouldn't be made publicly because they fall into line with the official position of moscow we've requested a comment from the channel and we'll bring you and your response we get. and it's

not just the b.b.c. the times newspaper has published an article labeling the youssif question the evidence of the attack as a sad apologists. has been taking a close look at that one of the people pointed out or singled out in the times article is 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 her name is billy 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 ass that apology apologise that's been the criticism of some here in the u.k. 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 an 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 but international politics lecturer dr tara mccormack revealed to us what it's like to be 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 on international relations and so clearly i have tweeted various things about that chemical attack tweeting to snopes signifie

necessarily into it that's also a different thing from academic research that it's a sort of bizarro my attempts to smear guilt by association piece social media hypes ridiculous attempt simply to shut down the working group that presumably may be asking questions that the times doesn't think should be all its it all in all its right to british journalism and threat to academic freedom and free speech in the u.k. well following the weekend boming writes in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senate says has unveiled legislation aiming to limit the white house's power to continue its global war on terror for too long and congress has given presidents a blank check to wage war we've let the nine eleven iraq war authorizations get stretched to justify wars against multiple terrorist groups and over a dozen countries for me jed to the philippines

a proposal finally repeals those authorizations and makes congress do its job by weighing in on where when and with who we were at war. the proposed legislation that would require the president to give congress forty eight hours notice ahead of any new military action congress would then have sixty days to review that move it doesn't say anything 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 qaida or the taliban but not a state because war powers have been in place since nine eleven and have been used nearly forty times in fourteen different countries we discussed the proposed overhaul with former u.s. congressman ron paul. more or less is defining things slightly differently but one swallow up i think the effort to go to war i don't think it really repeals the war powers resolution but it does say

congress gives the person the authority to go to war against radical violent groups like al qaida and isis and maybe taliban but they say not country. i really don't think it's going to pass. we'll see oh i only welcome the debate but i think they'll wake up and find out it's not doing anything and that when they pass these resolutions most of the time things hit worse so this whole idea that you can fight radicals any place in the world that's what they're doing already it's just more authority to the type of policy that we've been following and getting us into trouble. with r.t. thanks for watching us this afternoon still ahead this hour two jewish men have been set upon by an arab speaking youth in berlin it's one of a series of attacks that happened recently will have a look at the details just after the break.

seemed wrong oh well just don't call. me if you get to shape out of this thing comes to educate and gain from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. on. what holds his hands to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be rich. but you'd like to

be close to see what before three in the morning can people get. interested in the waters of. the ship. again not to jewish men wearing the traditional keep caps of being attacked with a bow spine speaking you so mistreats of the german capital one of the victims managed to film the incident. oh so this was from british officials shouldn't it just tell me do you. want to fight i was shocked when i. was like oh. ok well let's bring in peter all of a correspondent peter we were looking at the footage there of what happened but what further details have come out since. well the video that you've just seen it

on folded in the prince district of berlin a quite well to do area of the city too well to bring you up to speed on what else happened in the video we hear the perpetrator of the attack. multiple times. the are arabic word for jew that are being attacked we also hear a response saying they were jewish or not you have to deal with it that's the limit in german a lot of eyes are on law enforcement here at the moment they have this video they have the clear image of the alleged perpetrator a lot of people are looking to law enforcement right now to get a rest in the results on this because it comes not as a stand alone incident if we look back just the last month we had a primary school student who won apparently saying to her class that she was jewish she was told that she should be beaten and killed there's also other stories of

over the last twelve months of school children of actually left the school at their in because they feel that they're under a new semitic attack and of a israeli born ballet dancer who moved here to berlin and set of a restaurant who said that his. his staff you read employed it being told they should be gassed and killed but when you look at the actual statistics that the city of berlin has if we go back to twenty thirteen they say there was one hundred forty nine incidents that were labeled within anti semitic motive if we go forward then to twenty seven thousand two hundred and eighty eight the vast majority of those though it is pointed out have a right wing motive to it not a. jewish middle eastern motive to it it certainly is the case that there's a lot of pressure on the police right now to find

a solution. in to this we've seen we've seen the video just now the police have seen that they have a lot to go on and we also heard heiko mass the new german foreign minister just last month he was in israel and he described semitic attacks in germany as a shame that is bearable so there's a lot of pressure on the government and the authorities here right now to get a result in this case we'll be keeping an eye on it sure ok thanks peter that was peter or their forests in berlin thank you. now a seventeen year old student in central russia has attacked people inside a classroom and tried to set fire to it according to investigators he stabbed one of his classmates and a teacher before dousing the room in a flammable liquid and setting it to light the fire alarm alarm went off and the building in the town of the mac was evacuated he's been charged with attempted murder the attacker also stabbed himself an apparent suicide it has been reported

the youth has learning difficulties the injured have been taken to hospital including the perpetrator police have opened an investigation. a new documentary called in the execution is shadow cliffs the lead on the subject of capital punishment through three different stories claiming grace is at the heart of decision making when it comes to the death penalty in the us. my team members. didn't. even do anything. you don't know because you were not much you.

were recent figures to reveal black people make up around forty one percent of those on death row at the moment are making up only around thirteen percent of the us population in addition they are far more likely to to be given a death sentence in cases of interracial killings we spoke to the people behind the film. the racial application of the death penalty is there out. like that 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 views four to eleven times more likely to seek a death penalty and if the victim were black and so what message is the justice system send to society. one way that can be answered is that white life is worth more than black wife we're going to punish people who kill

a white person. more severely and we are. going to do it in more black forever nine executions there is one exoneration so for every nine inmates executed one person is found innocent i think that's the most startling in the in the context of the innocence and how green just this could be and as our executioner. the jury givens are the former executioner of the state of virginia states one of the things that i think it's really. something that he expresses so well in the film and is this idea that it's it's an 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. so that's how the news is looking so far today here and i say we're back with the headlines more feet at the top of.

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upon. it could be done. by degrading the regime's chemical weapons capability and chairing its use of these weapons it would also send a clear message to anyone who believes they can use chemical weapons with impunity mr speaker this statement serves as a reminder that the prime minister is accountable to this parliament not just to the whims of the u.s. president. isn't that say. they didn't take long for britain's stop the war movement to come out in force outside the u.k. parliament to demonstrate against what they see as tories amazing legal u.k. air strikes on syria one of the speakers of the demos jeremy corbin's former emergencies minister chris happy with the way jeremy corbin appears to have replied and responded to these air strikes from theresa may in the french government of the

united states government very much so jeremy is wonderful antidote to the saber rattling war mongers who are looking for any excuse it seems to me to launch these airstrikes and to characterize them as the prime minister has tried to do as humanitarian illustrates the grotesque hypocrisy of this government because while says suggesting the airstrikes are in some way humanitarian they've actually done everything they can to stop providing support and assistance to the refugees from syria indeed it was this government sought to minimize the impact of the e.u.'s program to provide assistance for the syrian refugee actually very much speak with with forked tongue there's a lot of questions that the that the government need to answer in terms of you know why they undertaken these strikes what the evidence was and there is plenty of people who are incredibly skeptical going to people on a self the the former commander of the armed forces in iraq has also questioned

these strikes amongst other people did you find the reports during the aftermath of the airstrikes credible that is limited to maybe isis jayashri linked or al-qaeda linked groups were using. bombs as cover for them what i would always stress is that we need independent verifiable sources before we take any action and i think we've had precipitous action from this government as actually not serve the national interest contrary to what the prime. mr is saying in there go test apocryphally of the government says indulging in it seems to me the evidence that they're relying upon of social media posts hearsay and no real proper intelligence that would demonstrate as it were from an independent source that the chemical weapons attack did take place and who was responsible for it and i think one of things that we need to ask ourselves as a number of other experts.