breaking news here on r.t. international moscow's envoy to chemical weapons watchdog the p c w says russia provided evidence that the us produced and paid him to cross the chemical said to have been used to poison. and his daughter. this news comes britain admits neither it nor the o.p.c. w. can confirm the origin of the nerve agent as the supply of claims it was highly likely behind this. also this hour a mission to establish the facts behind the alleged chemical attack in syria comes under fire as it enters the enclave. oh. situation. and two men wearing jewish caps are attacked.

for their work on live from moscow with me daniel hawkins and we start with breaking news this hour russia says the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons cannot identify the country or the origin of the nerve agent used in the script poisoning let's go live now to new york for us with the latest. twists and turns in this story hasn't what do we know so far. yeah dan you say twists and turns i say a bar of accusations from both sides is getting really heated again the o.p.c. w. they conducted a closed door session at the headquarters in the hague and during that coastal

session delegates were actually tweeting their statements inside and so we got a steady trickle of what was going on there including extracts from what the u.k. representative to the o.p.c. was saying now in response to that russia has responded by releasing a rather strong statement of the back of those comments that were leaked during that meeting which prepared which were patrolled by that u.k. representative and what he was actually saying about russia now two of those points which i've got here from the russian perspective that's come out of that russian statement is that russia has answered all the u.k.'s questions with regards to solve and secondly russia has provided proof that novacek was produced and painted to peyton did in the us as a chemical weapon back in twenty fifteen from the british side and their representative to the o.p.c. derby he repeated the government's line saying that it's highly likely that moscow was behind the attack and the reasoning behind that they said was that no one else

has the means or the motive to do so so you can see what's happening there when we had a look at the full statement and from what we can decipher there appears to be confirmation from the british side that there was indeed no information about the source of where the nerve agent came from so let's have a quick listen to what was said. neither d.s.t.o. as analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report densify as to control 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 . to target the scribbles we've waited for a long time counting on our british colleagues to provide some proof any sorts of facts for their strong statements the british side continues to spread absolutely on sounded. the new and sometimes bizarre versions of what happened.

so you heard what was said a little insight into what was said by both representatives there the british and the russian representatives of the a p c w the british are sticking to their line and they're saying that they have other sources that give them the evidence they need and that's their justification russia in this statement that i've been describing have retaliated with a very strong accusation and just outline this quickly for you. has outlined is that in his statement what he effectively called eight allies that have been circulated by the british authorities involved in investigating this crippled case . some of those lies that he's outlined says he says that russia not answering questions from the u.k. to which he said they have u.k. following the. rulebook russia refusing to cooperate he said that russia has always tried to set up a joint investigation there and there's

a couple more here russia inventing versions to distract attention and russia claim to be targeting dessert is living abroad so let's clarify to date there is no definitive independent evidence that categorically points of the fact that russia was the source of that nerve agent all that the attack was ordered by the kremlin so despite the lack of that definitive evidence from the russian perspective they feel that it's being widely ignored. parties and of the shooter there it seems of course six weeks now since that event took place we're no closer to finding out what really happened in that instance from log. now experts have told us they're not surprised that the o.p.c. probe didn't identify the exact origin of the nerve agent 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 sample of to try and test it see if they can find the 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 border tree from which any any near region in any given near region or substance was produced. but even if we can determine the border to that does not mean that the border to in the country the country and which the border tree is located is responsible these nerve agents could be saw him but obviously in this case they have not been able to even determine the levada to which this particular new region was produced so this just adds more. to the narrative that's been spun. now there

is also a spotlight on wednesday in syria as it came under fire while trying to enter duma its forced watchdogs mission to postpone a probe into their alleged chemical attack in the city on april seventh and for more on the latest i'm joined live in the studio by trying to you know obviously this event to do. three predated that missile strike in syria big diplomatic fallout what's happening on the ground right now in syria well i can say that the story with this chemical watchdogs voyage to syria has been that all sides are united at least in the sense that they're saying that they want the investigators to get to the bottom of this case and no one really expected the o.p.c. w. mission to be a piece of cake and there you have it the investigators can't even reach the site of the chemical attack i'll just get a break down to you how it works first the u.n.

security squad gets to the area to try and figure out whether it's safe to work here and there has been an agreement that at a certain stage the syrian authorities are there as scorching the team to ensure that there is security there and then at another stage this job gets moved to the russian military police there so the security staff war on this so to say were her sole trip in eastern guta and according to an official o.p.c. w. statement they came under small arms fire and then also an explosive device went off so they had to retreat and go back to damascus it was their work in very tough conditions on the job is that what reaction have we had so far to this incident well first of all almost immediately after the statement was published the russian military confirmed that the incident took place and we understand from their statement that the fire exchanges happened when the syrian spits. were in charge of

helping the u.n. team out with security. on the seventeenth of april was securing the u.n. reconnaissance mission in the city of duma a school in which you could between the syrian security service and figures an officer from the syrian security service was slightly wounded in an exchange of fire so just to clarify this it was actually syrian government troops that came under attack as part of this inspection team in due around repelled that particular attack well so says moscow and after all it is one of the syrian troops that sustained injuries in this attack but there's something i want to point out previously washington and london were pointing the finger at russia and their allies syria for what they're saying what they're calling russia and syria hiding the facts and also trying to hamper the o.p.c. w. mission syrian regime has reportedly been attempting to

conceal the evidence by searching the factories from duma to ensure samples are not being smuggled from this area and the wider operation to conceal the facts of the attack is underway supported by the russians i think we've seen that the russian government and the syrian government their whole goal in this is to try to cover up their goal is to try to deflect attention so if they could put this back on us they would certainly like to do it so it's now worth asking the u.n. security team and the old p.c. w. team whether the russians and the syrians are genuinely helping them out on the ground and if the answer is yes that might put the brits and the americans in an awkward situation here indeed so many angles this isn't there hopefully that the ability perhaps by the end of the week can shed some more light on what exactly happened in do more the seventh of april lot easier to. live with us here today. reports of a alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions have now

been raised over this footage filmed by the helmet's rescue group at a local hospital if you to purport to show the aftermath of the chemical attack however our sister channel r.t. arabic visited that very hospital in dubai they spoke with doctors and local residents as well they described what happened on the seventh of april claiming they saw no toxic asian excuse their. 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 and. people poured water heads were getting 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 ran to where the noise came from and the started pouring the water over the people but the seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help on that but little confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying there had been a chemical attack but i was at the spot with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning i mean while even some western media are now calling into question the allegation of a chemical attack that's off the british journalist robert fisk visited duma and wasn't able to find anyone who could confirm the use of chemical weapons however washington and its allies still have very little doubt. well the u.s. britain and france as well chose not to wait for the official probe before

launching air raids against syria in the early hours of saturday. the spike much of publish the valuable information on the alleged attack coming from controversial activist groups such as the white helmets on the syrian american medical society both groups thought to be funded by the west including by western government organizations as well and so far no group meant to be conducting an investigation has visited the sites of the alleged incident in duma as noted the p.c. w. has now spoken and its probe planned for wednesday at the. world health organization isn't on the ground so far. there's a thing we have it's called intelligence gathering in 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 tides social media sources well this is exactly what defense secretary jim mad at said at the 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 had there 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 following the weekend bombing raids in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has now unveiled new legislation it's aimed at limiting the white house's power to continue its global war on terror. for too long congress has given presidents

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 who we were at war the proposed legislation would require the president to give congress forty eight hours notice ahead of any new military action congress would then have sixty days through review that move doesn't set any limit for military action however it includes a congressional review every four years oppose it also expands the president's authority to take action against al qaeda isis or the taliban but not an individual state of the current war powers have been in place since nine eleven they've been used in the early forty times in fourteen different countries we discussed the proposed overhaul with former u.s. congressman ron paul. it more or less is

defining things slightly differently but in 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 say that congress gives the president authority to go to war against radical violent groups like al qaida and i says and maybe taleban but they say not 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 here worse 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. and the white house economic adviser larry kudlow has apologized to saying that nikki haley was suffering from momentary confusion when the u.s. ambassador to the u.s.

was new sanctions on russia however haley had already fired back and could low saying with all due respect don't get confused because they're too joins us in some more light on the whole situation was the latest on a similar well baster haley has found herself in a bit of a right after she prematurely announced that trump would introduce another round of sanctions against russia over its alleged support to the syrian government. russian sanctions will be coming down the secretary will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel that at this point i think everyone knows that we sent a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it now hailee it promised sanctions by monday but monday passed us by and still no sanctions which forced

other officials to clarify the confusion we first heard from the state department spokeswoman heather nauert and she basically said that the administration is considering sanctions. and then actions are always under consideration that is something that the administration at the inner agency level has under consideration and that is still under consideration at this time but we have not seen that we are ready nothing that we are set to announce at this time but head of the curve is done a great job he's very effective in bessemer it might have been something momentary confusion about that but if you talk to steve mentioned the treasury and so forth he would say the same thing they're in charge of this we have sanctions additional sanctions are under consideration so we heard from the state department spokesperson and the white house chief economic adviser but beyond that though the u.s. embassy in moscow informed the russian government that sanctions wouldn't be opposed imposed any time soon so we're hearing a very different statements from every tentacle of the u.s.

government but in the strangest twists nikki haley shot back kudlow her own colleague saying quote with all due respect i don't get confused which prompted an apologetic phone call from kudlow so this debacle has raised a very important question not over a sanctions but whether or not nikki haley is accurately representing the white house's sentiments we don't use miracle now with the latest on the u.n. security council. two jews are whipped by an arabic speaking man and in the latest of a series of anti semitic attacks that story and more still to come here on alt international.

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welcome back to all teams national to jewish men wearing traditional caps have been attacked with a belt by an arabic speaking youth on the streets of one of the victims managed to film the incident. that up was so exhausted british system it is just so. i thought. it was like. what we have is an incident whereby two jewish men who were wearing the traditional kipper 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 jew them as they pursued them in response we do hear one of the. 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 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 or 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 show in a big area of the city was well over his staff were harassed at a restaurant that he'd settle saying that they should be burned or gassed all of these things of course fitting into the the worst descriptions of anti semitism war

we have right now is a lot of focus on the authorities to find the perpetrators in this particular incident as he said we do have that video footage and what we also heard from heiko masses the reasonably newly appointed for. minister of germany while he was visiting israel last month he did say that anti semitism was a shame that has become bearable on germany so you can imagine not only is there a lot of public pressure on the police to find these perpetrators there's also going to be rather a lot of political pressure as well. opposition protests in the armenian capital over the ex-president spread for the seat of the prime minister and now gathering momentum this comes a day after the country's parliament voted in favor. and support them.

clashes with police in the last few days have left dozens injured and as of monday more than eighty people have been detained though they have now been released so sarkisyan has served as the country's president since two thousand and eight stepped down this month at the end of his term as the country recently switched from a presidential system to a parliamentary one though it was nominated for prime minister the opposition claims his son is merely trying to cling to power. and other headlines a seventeen year old student in central russia has attacked people inside a classroom and try to set on fire according to investigators he stabbed one of his classmates and a teacher and doused the room in a flour bowl liquid and set it alight on the far out went off in the building in the town of mark was evacuated he's now been charged with attempted murder the attacker also stabbed himself in an apparent suicide attempt it's being reported the youth has learning difficulties the injured have been taken to hospital that

includes the perpetrator of the attack as well police have opened an investigation into the incident. a new documentary called in the execution of shadows lifts the lid on the subject of capital punishment through three different stories i mean race is at the heart of decision making when it comes to the death penalty in the united states. my team members to . get this person ready. to deal with than if. this is going good i didn't give him. he didn't do anything. you don't know because you were not much you.

well recent figures reveal black people make around forty one percent of those on death row while making up only thirteen percent of the u.s. population in addition they're far more likely to be given death sentences in cases of interracial killings we spoke to those behind the feel the racial application. is there. now not to look so much at skin color the perpetrator to skin color the victim if true 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 it 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. more black rubber

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 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 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. self-styled out with a journalist in the u.k.'s claiming police aren't doing enough over death threats few received online journal for me sir english is known to have posted hateful

comments such as islam is worse than cancer such posts are provoked an aggressive reaction according to john mayer though police haven't taken our complaints about it seriously this is an e-mail allegedly received from great of my just the police and she's warned of quote consequences resulting from comments she's made online so i was also told to consider the freedom of expression of others and without any details of those said to be addressing her they'd be no investigation in the end she was advised not to post anything likely to cause offense. i did get a comment from the police investigation is under review and hopes to contact shortly were invited guests to debate the issues surrounding the case well actually i know personally and i see your ass questioned sometimes there are questions sometimes there are questions people don't particularly want to answer and i don't i am 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 should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law so everybody has to suffer the consequences of freedom of speech means that 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's 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 heris men 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 an english values i believe in free speech including yours even though i don't agree with your opinion on the what you will. 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 except. well never if you do and are far worse than any mean word it's because words don't kill actions day and deaf rates can be carried out. now there are now less than two months before the curtain is raised on the world cup here in russia the tournament's host cities are preparing to welcome guests from all around the world legendary danish goalkeeper and host of artes coverage be.