to demonstrate against what they see as stories 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 in responded to these airstrikes from terrorism am the french government of the united states government very much so jeremy is wonderful antidote to the saber rattling warmongers 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 study 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 honest people i'm a seller for the former commander of the armed forces in iraq has also question as trucks amongst other people if you find the reports during the aftermath of the airstrikes credible that is limited to maybe isis jayashri linked or al-qaeda linked groups are using the area 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 minister is saying in their pockets leave the government says indulging in it seems to me the evidence that they're relying upon all social media posts here. 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 is responsible for it and i think one of things that we need to ask ourselves as a number of other experts have asked is why would the us say that regime merge come the weapons attack at this stage of the civil war when they'd all but won the battle for. most m.p.'s in that building over there don't seem to share your opinion there was jaring of your leader jeremy corbin to speak i had to intervene in a lot of my role in for the prime minister when he countenance the idea that british policy was somehow rented out to the white house but i think illustrates just how out of touch the m.p. so many of the m.p.'s of in the house of commons certainly the government it seems to me on very much out of touch and according to some of the opinion polls that i've seen of the overwhelming majority by margin around two to one actually support

the position that has been taken by jeremy corbyn on this issue we need to calm heads in situations like this not hot heads and afraid that this government is being led by a bunch of hot heads who are actually putting the national interests in jeopardy far from actually protecting as they claiming the journalist peter oborne has been on this show over the daily mail road a piece opposing the war quoting what is on robin cook's grave stone that in effect may not have stopped the iraq war of twenty three but he did make it mandatory for a political vote on military action what do you think of what was read on robin cook before we label foreign secretaries grave well in the in the light of what's happened well will clearly trace most as a structure of the the legacy that was left by robin cook and certainly the legacy did hold true up until this weekend when theresa may decided to you know. actually

. launch a missile attack basically dancing to the tune of donald trump that's why we need a war powers act that swatch arabic organ is calling for that that's why we hope that we'll have a debate on this issue and certainly when we get a labor government this will be a high priority for a legislative program. and i welcome back to out international sergeant program there you will of course be able to catch up on line not a bit later let's go live now listen to the russian envoy to the you just on those . issues. the duma cases of chemical incidents let's go live to that right now the thing that. we need to do is to. go there because he's. head of the center of the status of a c.w.c. and the measurement for additional biological weapons under the needs of industry

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there they gave me more than enough evil. because i was the russian envoy to the. bringing some of russia's take on the script poisoning controversy is one of that chemical incident. got a bit of a delayed translation so we're going to get a summary to highlight that for you for the next hour bring exactly what you had to say now back to our breaking news obviously story this hour russia has responded to the u.k. that softer british representatives to the o.p.c. they can't identify the exact country or indeed the laboratory of origin of the nerve agent used in the script poisoning we're expecting a summary of what moscow's envoy to the only to say from that news conference you saw briefly just there meanwhile it has this report just until we can. for you. 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 that their

representative to the a.p.c. there be 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 have 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 the dense fires to control lab of the origin of the agent used in this attack. the explanation for what happened in salisbury the russian state the sponsibility we believe that only russia had the technical means operational experience and the motive to target the screwballs we've waited for a long time counting on our british colleagues to provide some proof in. sorts of

acts for this strong statements the british side continues to spread absolutely. new and sometimes bizarre versions of what happened so you heard what with a little insight into what was said by both representatives the british and the russian representatives. 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 the statement that i've been describing have retaliated with a very strong accusation and i'll just outline this quickly for you and has outlined is that in his statement what he effectively called eight allies that have been circulated by the british authorities involved in estimating the case.

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. we got feedback from a few commentators who told us they're not surprised that the probe didn't identify the exact origin of the agent used i understanding under the chemical weapons convention it was indeed the job. to try and establish where these weapons come from but it's very difficult if they are claiming it came from some former soviet bora tree then they do need to allow the. russian government had access to some of

the thump 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 if any see any near region in any given near region or substance was produced but it can be even if they can determine the border too 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 stored and but obviously in this case they have not been able to even determine the level of to which this particular an individual was produced so this just adds more of them 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 the

sound of duma forced the watchdogs mission to postpone a probe into the alleged chemical attack in the area on the seventh of april. jordan earlier when this year with more of this 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 a score to 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 space tories 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 was actually syrian government troops that came under attack as part of this inspection team and do advert poled 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 ass 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. reports of the alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions have been raised now over this footage filmed by the white helmets rescue group in a local hospital of the video apparently shows the aftermath of the chemical attack . since the shallow water arabic visited that very same hospital in doom where they spoke with doctors and residents at the same they told us what happened on the seventh of april planning they saw no. toxic agents used the.

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. confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying they had been a chemical attack 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 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 at its ally still have no doubts the us britain and france chose not to wait for the official probe as before launching air raids against syria in the early hours of saturday. well despite much of the public city available publicly available information rather on the alleged attack coming from controversial activist groups such as the white helmets and the syrian american medical society both groups saw thought to be funded by the west including by western government organizations and so far of course move group that's meant to be conducting any investigations into the incident have actually visited the site of the alleged

incidents of the. earlier. probe that was planned for wednesday while the world health organization isn't on the ground there so far the u.s. state department spokesperson though have a no it has defended washington 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 on is 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 mattis said at a briefing several days ago where he didn't have solid intelligence on any chemical

attack in duma 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. following the weekend bombing raids in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has unveiled new legislation aimed 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 proposed legislation would require the president to give congress forty eight hours notice ahead of any new military action congress would

then have to wait or rather it would give sixty days to review that move to the president it doesn't set the limit for any military action however it doesn't include a congressional review every four years the proposal also expands the president's authority to take action against al qaeda isis or the taliban but not an individual state of the current war powers have been in place since nine eleven they've been used nearly 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 taliban 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 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. so bad lines to jewish men wearing traditional caps have been attacked with a belt spine arabic speaking youthfulness streets of berlin one of the victims managed to film the incident. nope it was so exhausted british officials didn't is just so. i thought. she was. right she was like. what we have is an incident

whereby two jewish men who were wearing the traditional kip 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. 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 show in a big area of the city was well over his staff were harassed at a restaurant that he settled 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. 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 as the headlines this hour here on r.t. international do join us in just a few moments for the latest global update. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man found his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing in order to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not

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broke the news here all the international envoy to the chemical weapons what. says russia has provided evidence that the u.s. produced. a chemical said to have been used to poison the scripts well. the news comes as britain to the written piece can confirm the exact origin of the nerve agents that spun the planes it was. also this hour mission sent to establish the facts behind me and do much chemical attack in syria comes under fire as it has been playing. monopoly. since it was jim a dish and two men wearing jewish.