the homelessness crisis. breaking news here. goes envoy to chemical weapons watchdog. said provided evidence that the us produced. chemical said to have been used to poison. britain and neither it nor the. nerve agent despite the barrage of claims it was likely. to. do but chemical attack in syria comes under fire as it enters the enclave. two men wearing jewish caps. speaking you feel.

alive. today thanks for joining us this hour we start with breaking news today russia says the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons cannot identify the exact country of origin of the nerve agent. poisoning let's go. who's in london for us there what exactly do we know so far there's a lot. that's happened over the past six weeks. you know we've seen an awful lot of tit for tat and actually the accusations are coming from both camps now from the brits and the russians now the o.p.c. w. held a session behind closed doors at their headquarters in the hague and during that closed session what we saw were delegates tweeting their statements so actually we

got a trickle of an insight into what was going on and particular about what the u.k. representative to the o.p.c. devaney was saying russia has responded because of those leaks and by releasing a rather strong statement. and basically there are two main points that have come out from the russian perspective the first being are read them to you that russia has answered all the questions that they've been asked to by the u.k. with regards to solve and secondly russia provided proof that novacek was produced and payton to in the u. s. as a chemical weapon back in twenty fifteen so from the british side the representative to the he repeated the government's line which was that it was highly likely that moscow was behind the attack and the reason that they gave for that was that no one else had the motive or the means to do it when we look at the full statement by the

delegates and from what we can decipher from again from the british side there appears to be confirmation that there is no. information about the source from where the nerve agent came from that was used during that soulsby attack now just a quick listen to what each side said. neither d.s.t.o. as analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report the dense fires to control lab true of the origin of the agent used in this attack. the explanation for what happened in salisbury the russian state the sponsibility believe that only brushed. the technical means operational experience and the motive 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 founded accusations dripping over a new and sometimes bizarre versions of what happened. and so you had

a little insight into what both sides said there were both the british and russian representatives to the o.p.c. w. now the british are sticking to their line and they're stating that they've got other sources that give them the evidence that they need to stick to that line russia as i said have retaliated with very strong accusations and within the statement released by the russian representative to their p.c. he's outlined what he called eight lies that have been circulated by the british authorities involved in that scribble case what we'll do is i have a quick look at what that outline is.

so to clarify the situation today there is no definitive independent evidence that basically points to the fact that the fourth came from russia or indeed that the kremlin ordered that attack in the fall of three and so from the russian perspective the lack of evidence as they see it in their opinion is being widely ignored by the wider community. as the time goes on it seems of stories becoming more and more complex and convoluted doesn't add to their reporting from other. work sports told us they're not surprised that the o.p.c. the probe didn't identify the exact origin of the agent used my understanding under the chemical weapons convention it was indeed the job of the o.p.c. to try and establish where these weapons come from but it's very difficult if they

are claiming it came from some former soviet abort 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 amazon up until a couple of weeks ago determined the look laudatory from which any new region in any given region or substance. even if they can determine does not mean. country the. and which to the broader tree. is responsible these nerve agents can be sure but obviously in this case they have not been able to even determine the order to which this particular new region was produced so this just war. to the narrative.

if you see w.'s also in the spotlight on wednesday in syria as it came under fire while trying to enter duma its force the watchdogs mission to perspire in a probe into the alleged chemical attack in the city on april seventh for more on this i'm joined live by our. in the studio what more do we know about what exactly happened on the ground there in syria again while this story with the o.p.c. w mission to syria it is interesting in a sense that at least here all sides are united in a sense that they're saying they want the investigators to get to the bottom of this and really no one expected the chemical watchdogs mission to syria to be a piece of cake and there you have it the staff can't even get to the area where allegedly the chemical attack happened first i just want to break down the process for you how it works initially the u.n.

security team is meant to be sent on the ground to assess whether it's safe to work there and the agreement has been that at a certain stage they must be a squirted by the syrian troops in a different state by russia's military police so the security staff apparently they were on this initial one her trip to put it this way and according to an official statement by the o.p.c. w. they came under small arms fire and then also an explosive device was detonated and that was the reason why they had to retreat and go back to damascus what reaction we had so far to what happened up there and. i can tell you that the russian military has officially confirmed that the incident took place and also we understand from the statement from the washing army that the exchange of fire happened when it was specifically the syrian army in charge of providing security

for that squad on the seventeenth of april was securing the u.n. reconnaissance mission in the city of duma a skirmish you could between the syrian security service and figures and the officer from the syrian security service was slightly wounded in an exchange of fire so the syrian army was escorting the. team the u.n. team and they were the ones that repelled this this alleged attack well this is what moscow is saying and after all the it was the syrian soldier who got injured apparently in that attack but i just want to bring up something else here and point out that previously in washington and london were pointing the finger at russia and their allies syria for what they called trying to hide facts and also hamper the mission of the chemical watchdog in syria syrian regime has reportedly been attempting to conceal the evidence by searching the factories from juma 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 ass they would certainly like to do it. so on the other hand of course it's not up to the u.n. and the o.p.c. w. to judge who this attack came from but what it is worth asking is whether the russians and the syrians are genuinely helping them out on the ground and if the answer is yes that might put london and washington in somewhat awkward position here we'd i'm sure all parties interested in the o.p.c. that would be getting there quickly of course k.m.'s safely to shed some light on what actually went on the lipitor and crew there with the latest updates. reports of the alleged incident emerge that april the seventh meanwhile more questions have now been raised over this footage it was filmed by the helmets rescue group in

a local hospital video allegedly shows the aftermath of the chemical attack says the shuttle r.t. arabic though visited that very hospital in duma and spoke with both doctors and residents they described what exactly happened on the seventh of april i mean they saw no toxic actions used 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. 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 started pouring the water over the people but the 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 but i was at the spot with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning meanwhile even some western media are now calling into question the allegations of a chemical attack after british journalist robert fisk visited do well and was they able to find anyone who could confirm the use of chemical weapons whether washington and its allies still have no doubts the us britain and france chose not to wait for the official probe results before launching air raids against syria in the early hours of saturday. much of the publicly available information on the

alleged attack coming from controversial activist groups such as the what elements on the syrian american medical society both groups are thought to be funded by the west including by western government organizations and so far of course no group put that's meant to be conducting an investigation has actually visited the science of the alleged attack as noted the w. there has been forced to postpone a probe that was planned for wednesday the world health organization is also not on the ground 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 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 following the weekend bombing raids in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has unveiled new legislation is saying to limit 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 proposal would require the president to give congress forty eight hours notice ahead of any new military action or congress would also then have sixty days to review that move it doesn't set a limit for any military action however it does include a congressional review every four years the proposal also expires the president's authority to take action against all terrorist groups al qaeda isis or the taliban for example but not a state actor of the current war powers have been in place since nine eleven they've been used around forty times in fourteen different countries and 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 present the authority to go to war against radical violent groups like al qaida and i says and maybe taliban but they say not i 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 here worse this whole idea that you can fight radicals any place 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. too jewish men wearing traditional kippa caps have been attacked with a belt by now or a big speaking youth on the streets but in one of the victims a biased film the whole incident. no no no no no see this was your image is

situation a dish just tell me do you. want to. check on i mean i suppose but. what we have is an incident whereby two jewish men who are wearing the traditional. 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 them as they pursued them in response 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 whole into. it 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 to last month there was a case where by a jewish primary school student on saying she was jewish was told that well you should be beaten and killed for that there's also been incidents where by a israeli born ballet dancer in the show in a big area of the city was well over his stuff were harassed at a restaurant that he set up 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 foreign minister of germany while he was visiting israel last month he did say that anti semitism was

a shame that has become unbearable on germany so you can imagine not only is there a lot of public pressure on the press on the police to find these perpetrators there's also going to be rather a lot of political pressure as well. a new documentary called in the execution as shadow lifts the lid on the subject of capital punishment through three different stories claiming race is at the heart of decision making when it comes to of the death penalty in the united states. my team members to. get this person ready mix there. was a little. bit if. it's a good thing that i didn't get it. even doing the things. you don't know because you were not much use.

the recent figures reveal black people make around forty one percent of those on death row while making up only around thirteen percent of the actual 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 film the racial application of the death penalty is there. 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 a 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 forever nine executions there is one exonerations 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 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. there on are less than two months

before the curtain is raised on the world cup here in russia that's what i want so cities are already preparing to welcome guests from all over the world a legendary danish goalkeeper and the host of artes coverage peter schmeichel has spent the winter here was that they've all of them this week if that's of some araa . 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 those 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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an alleged chemical attack the little children grew into a makeshift clinic. but we're not. done. by degrading the regime's chemical weapons capability and cherish 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 to the whims of the u.s. president. he 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 stories amazing legal u.k.'s

strikes on syria one of the speakers of the demo was jeremy corbin's former emergencies minister chris happy with the way jeremy corbin appears to have replied and responded to these asked reich's from tourism am 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 studies.