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the headline says the organization of prohibition of chemical weapons has no information on the origin of the. poisoning poured into the british representative to the international watchdog. become the focus. in syria today as its planned probe on the alleged chemical attack in the city of doing is spurring over security concerns however western officials say in any case they need a quote formal investigation in order to retaliate against damascus and. fellow. situation. two men wearing jewish caps are attacked by arabic speaking you.
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are welcome it's six pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.k.'s representative to the a.p.c. tasked with investigating this kid about poisoning says it cannot identify the country of origin of the nerve agent used in the incident russia has responded that it would only accept the report findings after moscow's experts have also had a chance to evaluate the evidence is there a cheetah has more. the c.w. 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 what the u.k. representative to the o.p.c. debbie has been saying at that meeting and with regards to russia a little snippet here where he said that it's been carrying out
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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 they released confirmation that there is no information about the source of the nerve agent used in the stalls the attack. neither d.s.t.o. as analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report densify as the country or lab 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 screwballs so to clarify as to date there is no definitive independent evidence that the nerve agent categorically came from russia or that
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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. well experts told us they're not surprised the o.p.c. debbi probe did not identify the origin of the agent and my understanding under the chemical weapons convention it was indeed the job of the to try and establish where these weapons come from but it's very difficult if they are claiming it came from some former soviet abara tree then they do need to allow the russian government have access to some of the thump of to try and test it to see if they can find the
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strain that it might have come from but having said that as i mentioned before. it's been established that the formulae for these agents have been out there they've been published in a book that was still available allison up until a couple of weeks ago it can determine the look laudatory from which any any near region in any given near region or substance was produced. but even if they can determine the border to that does not mean that the border to the country the country and which the border tree is located is responsible these nerve agents could be stored but obviously in this case they have not been able to even determine the level of to which this particular new region was produced so this just adds more. to the narrative that's been spun. in the meantime the c.w. says it must delay a probe into the alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma the
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investigation was due to start later on wednesday but has been postponed due to security concerns reports of the alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions being raised over this footage filmed by the white helmets rescue group in a local hospital where video purports to show the aftermath of chemical attack however our sister channel r.t. arabic visited that very hospital talking with doctors and residents they describe what happened on the seventh day proclaiming they saw no toxic agents used their. people from the white helmets told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that you know that chemical weapons were used against those people our medical staff would have also been affected if.
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people poured water it's really good thing that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and that when somebody from outside shouting about a chemical attack i don't know that we heard an explosion and somebody said it was a chemical weapon and we run to where the door is came from when this started pouring the water over the people but they seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help but little confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying there had been a chemical attack i was at the spots with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced early symptoms of chemical poisoning meanwhile even some western media are now calling into question the alligator. that chemical attack that after british journalist robert fisk visited duma and wasn't able to find anybody there who could confirm the use of chemical weapons however washington and its allies
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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 that's despite much of the publicly available information on the alleged attack coming from controversial activist groups such as the white helmets and also the syrian american medical society both groups are thought to be funded by the west including by western government organizations were so far no group meant to be conducting an investigation as actually visited the alleged site of the alleged incident as noted the o.p.c. w. plans to start its probe later on when so although that's now been postponed while the world health organization is not on the ground there so far. 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
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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 spokesperson heather now what'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. while the lack of concrete proof that the attack took place has been raised by some officials and also academics but such questions are often dismissed this interview a paid on the b.b.c.
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. if he has used chemical weapons it's absolutely right to do rafa crosses mark but i just wonder you know we have had some bad experiences on intelligence given that we're in an information war with russia on so many fronts do 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 well that was a retired senior officer the room lavey allen west questioning whether there was enough intelligence to claim that assad was using chemical weapons but the b.b.c. presenter suggested that such comments shouldn't be made publicly because they do fall into line with the official position of moscow but we requested a response on what happened there from the channel and it replied that all angles within the debate were challenge and also explored but it's not just the b.b.c. the times newspapers published an article labeling those who question the evidence
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of the attack as a sad apologists are easy to rally has been taking a closer look at. 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 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 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 ass of apology apologise that's
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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. international politics lecturer dr tara mccormick to prevail 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 the alleged chemical attack tweeting does not signify necessarily into it that's also a different thing from academic research it's a sort of bizarre our attempt to smear guilt by association piece social
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media it's ridiculous attempt simply to shut down a working group that presumably may be asking questions that the times doesn't think should be aunts it all in all its right to british journalism and threats to academic freedom and free speech in the new kerry. following the weekend bombing raids in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has unveiled new legislation aiming to limit the white house is power to continue its global war on terror. for too long congress has given president's a blank check to wage war we've let the nine eleven and iraq war authorizations get stretched to justify wars against multiple terrorist groups in over a dozen countries from egypt to the philippines our proposal finally repeals those authorizations and makes congress do its job by weighing in on where when and with
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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 doesn't set a limit for any military action however it doesn't clued a congressional review every four years the proposal also expands the president's a bit or thoresby to take action against al-qaeda isis or the taliban but not the state the current war powers have been in place since nine eleven and have been news nearly forty times in fourteen different countries we discussed the proposed overhaul with the former u.s. congressman ron paul. it more or less is defining things slightly differently but it one slow up i think the effort to go to war i don't think it really repeals their war powers resolution but it does save congress gives the present the authority to go to war against radical
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violent groups like al qaida and i says and maybe taleban but they say not i country. i really don't think it's going to pass. we'll see 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 this whole idea that you can fight radicals anyplace in the world that's what they're doing already it just gives more authority to the type of policy that we've been following and getting us into trouble. saving thanks to companies that had. been whipped by an arabic speaking man in need and the latest of a series of anti-semitic attacks will have a look at that in detail just off the break. what the pope says has to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get
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this minute. welcome back now two jewish men wearing traditional keeper caps have been attacked with a belt by an arabic speaking youth on the streets of berlin one of the victims managed to film the incident. that was so awesome it is says awesome it is just so. i thought. it. was. what we have is an incident whereby two jewish men who were wearing the traditional keypad are yarmulke on their heads were pursued down the street by a group of three people who attacked them with a belt they shouted the. arabic word for to them as they pursued them in response
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we do hear one of the. of those that was attacked who was actually filming at the same time saying whether i'm jewish or not you've got to deal with this there's a lot of focus on the police here in germany at the moment to get a result in this case the the whole incident is caught on film we have a clear view of the perpetrators for all the alleged perpetrators face. but also because this isn't the only incident this isn't a standalone moment if we look back just the last month there was a case where by a jewish primary school student on saying that she was jewish was told that well you should be beaten and killed for that there's also been incidents whereby a israeli born ballet dancer in the shona burg area of the city was well over his staff were harassed at a restaurant that he set up saying that they should be burned all gassed all of
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these things of course and fitting into the. the worst descriptions of anti semitism and what we also heard from heiko must suits the reasonably u.v. appointed foreign minister of germany while he was visiting israel last month he did say that anti semitism was a a shame that has become bearable on germany so you can imagine not only is there a lot of public pressure on the press only police to find these perpetrators there's also going to be rather a lot of political pressure as well. as for all of the reporting there now a new documentary called in the execution a shadow lifts the lid on the subject of capital punishment through three different stories claiming grace at the heart decision making when it comes to the death penalty in the u.s. . my team members to. this person.
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who. is doing that i didn't. even do anything. you don't know because you were not much you. were recent figures to reveal that black people make up around forty one percent of those on death row while only making up only around thirteen percent of the u.s. population in addition they are far more likely to be given death sentences in cases of interracial killings we spoke to those behind the. the racial application of the death penalty is there. now not to look so much at
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skin color of the perpetrator but the skin color of the victim if the if the murder victim is white. then the prosecuting attorney. 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 black white we're going to punish people who kill a white person. more severely and we are. going to do if you want or over nine executions there is one exonerations of nine inmates executed one person is found innocent i think that's the most startling in the 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 one of the things that i think
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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. of self-styled i am a journalist in the u.k. is claiming police aren't doing enough of a death threat she's received online janai finance or english is known to have posted hateful comments such as islam is worse than cancer such posts though have provoked an aggressive reaction but according to police haven't taken her complaints about it seriously well this is an email allegedly received by denial from greater manchester police in it she. warned of consequences resulting from comments she's made online john i was also told to consider the freedom of expression of others and without any details of those said to be harassing her
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there's been no investigation in the end she was advised not to post anything likely to cause offense we are the police to comment on this and it is saying investigation is under review and hopes to contact shortly we invited guests to debate the issues around the story. well actually i know 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 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 and inciting violence or hate preaching when people behave like that they
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should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law so everybody has to suffer the consequences of freedom of speech means that yes sometimes 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 so some of what you and the people in slave trade or you want to
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do i think you cross the line yes i do i think you should be prosecuted because of your opinion now why don't death threats on never acceptable never excuse your and are far worse than any mean word because words don't kill actions day and death phrase can be carried out. debate we had here earlier on r.t. so that's how things are looking so far today don't forget that you can keep yourself updated on our social media pages and you chad. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's
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candy. to say. these are the two options that can happen here and we need your vehicle out. ok and where do i fall. from that room here you would fall this way that way so that doesn't make sense it makes sense or ok you know the one is if i'm getting in the vehicle and you're turning to do what have you got to do is. yes he's all right here so that's what happened and what's going to happen you're going to follow this with like this and this is what happened this is what they said i'm not sure if i'm going to be equal. i need your vehicle and then i. i'm not sure if he felt like this for like this but he felt he felt toward you as he were to. so is this guy here getting in this wasn't this guy getting the only option if he fell
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for discover here shot it he went over it in a vehicle that's the only way if this guy was leaning forward on the street where he was given a vehicle and got shot from inside a vehicle and that's what they all say that he wasn't getting in the vehicle when the shots were fired. here but they said he did it and he said i didn't see it because i was just getting in the vehicle because he's wanted done it. this guy was a woman and given him only option that's the only person that could shot him they just they ramrodded let. this guy get into that i shot him that's. going to. shoot. it goes very fast so what happened in between and we were just broadened along. it's like get out there. i get go knock on the door nobody answers are not on the back door nobody answers because i'm getting in on the if you know it of me was a pontiac grand prix or grand am to your car if if you're sitting there or see
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someone else sit in a passionate seat and you have to lean your seat forward first for the person to get the back seat oh you liked is two shots back and where were these bullets placed in the head coach clint was sitting in the passenger seat. so he it turns out was. but here first statement he said the bullets were on the right of his head right that's why we get because he was like this months probably going to hit him here below and probably hit and there i don't know exactly where they had him i just know they had him somewhere in the journalism and they had him and left it at i could have had him on the left that's it that's in the papers. could have had a minimum that could have.

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