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live from moscow with me. today thanks for joining us tonight. i was told breaking news today russia's responded to the u.k. after british representatives to the w.c. said they can't identify the country or the tree of origin of the nerve agent used in the script poisoning moscow says that it's provided evidence that. was produced in the united states. 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 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 the sponsibility we believe the only brusha had 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 in. sorts of facts 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 of the 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 i just outlined this quickly for you and has outlined is that in his statement what he effectively called eight lies that have been circulated by the british authorities involved in making the case. so let's clarify to date there is no definitive independent evidence that

categorically points to the fact that russia was the source of that nerve agent all 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. the experts told us they're not surprised that they. didn't identify the. my understanding under the chemical weapons convention it was indeed the job of the o.p.c. doubly 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 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 formula if 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 only determine the look border treat from which any

new region in any given new region or substance was produced because even if we can determine who bought a tree that does not mean that the border tree in 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 leval of tree which this particular newbie did was produce so this just wore off. to the narrative that's been spun. the o.p.c. w. is also in the spotlight and when as they are on wednesday rather in syria as it came under fire while trying to enter the duma has forced the watchdogs mission to perspire on a probe into the alleged chemical attack in a city or a call the seventh. join me in the studio with more on the. 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 watchdog's 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 and 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 escorted by the syrian troops and at a different stage by russia's military police so the security staff apparently they were on this initial one hard 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 out 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 will securing the u.n. reconnaissance mission in the city of duma a skirmish you could between the syrian security service and figures along with the from the syrian security service was slightly wounded in an exchange of fire. so the syrian army was escorting 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 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 the 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 a 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 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've got reaction from commentators on the latest developments in the duma a chemical incident the first requirement of any work of this nature is that the officials the investigators the monitors are able to work in a secure environment and don't clearly today no matter what the cause in direction of this incident what's happened is that it's still not secure that naturally the western media and the western governments of course going to try and spin this to their advantage to suggest that this is russia or syria trying to keep the inspectors away but really from my perspective at least as an observer of all of this that. if the russian claims are true then of course in our syrian claims it's in our interest to get the inspectors in there as soon as they possibly can how they conceal the evidence if they licked gotten those inspectors and immediately three days after the accusation of using this kind of weapons i believe there are

a lot of places that if chemical weapons were used i don't believe these traces of them will disappear in three days it will be definitely it will be uncivil in places that they want to accuse the c. of and that i sent over actually blocking their job which is completely unacceptable. reports of the alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions have now been raised over this footage filmed by the white helmets rescue group and a local hospital video purports to show the aftermath of the chemical attack however our sister channel r.t. arabic visited that very same hospital in dumas talking with doctors and residents they describe what happened on the seventh of april claiming 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 if chemical weapons were used against those people a medical staff would have also been affected. people poured water plants thing that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and that when 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 nor'easter came from and started pouring water over the people but the seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help but locals got confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying

there had been a chemical attack and i was at the spot with my wife and daughter but none of us experience 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 i wasn't able to find anyone who could confirm the use of chemical weapons however washington and its allies still have very little doubt 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. there's this point so much of the publicly available information on the alleged attack coming from controversial activist groups such as the white helmets on the syrian american medical society both groups are thought to be funded by the west including by western government organizations so far of course group meant to be conducting an investigation has actually visited the site of the alleged incident as we noted earlier the o.p.c. w.

has postponed its probe that was planned for wednesday while the world health organization is 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 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 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 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 is 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 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 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 clue to congressional review every

four years the proposal also expands the president's or thora 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 would 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 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 kip caps have been attacked with a belt on our back speaking youthfulness streets of but in one of the victims managed to film the incident. the up was so exhausted british officials admit it just. thought. it. 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. 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 stand alone 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 set up saying that they should be burned or gassed all of these things of course fitting into the the worst descriptions of the 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 bearable 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 executioner's shadow lifts the lid on the subject of capital punishment through

three different stories claims race is at the heart of decision making when it comes to the death penalty in the united states. my team members to. this person. who. is doing that i didn't. even do anything. you don't know because you were no match you. recent figures reveal black people make up 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.

is there. now not to look so much at skin color of the perpetrator or to 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 or over 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. are now less than two months before the curtain is raised on the world cup here in russia but ornaments host cities are already preparing to welcome guests from all around the world i mean from legendary danish goalkeeper and host the volunteers coverage peter schmeichel has spent a whole winter here he's been visiting all of them this week it's the turn of some are.

rock come to some arena it looks a bit like a u.f.o. from the outside so who's going to be flying high as a kind of behind this particular 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. the walking on a frozen river walk and people are kite surfing not really kite surfing it's kites knowing some people are having a little bit of. this is the peak winter playground and it's difficult to imagine that only in a few months this is going to be

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