i. moscow's envoy to the chemical weapons watchdog. says russia provided evidence that the us produced. a truck that's the chemicals used to poison. britain admits neither it nor you can confirm the exact origin of the nerve agent that's the spy claiming it was likely. also this hour a mission to establish the facts behind the alleged chemical attack in syria comes under fire as it enters the enclave. an arabic speaking youth and attacking two men in jewish. it's the latest in

a wave of anti semitic incidents that have caused outrage in germany. who are to international live from moscow i'm daniel hawkins wherever you are tonight thanks so much for being with us on the program this hour. now russia has responded to the u.k. after british representative. said they cannot identify the country or the treaty of origin of the nerve agent used in the script poisoning moscow says that it's provided evidence that they never chocked type agent was produced in the united states. in the united states the nerve agents were not just produced but also paid into it as a chemical weapon the patent is dated december one twenty fifteen 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 to 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 the dental files 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 the only brush i had the technical means. operational experience and to target the scribbles. but it made a long statement claiming to prove that what are you kate colleagues presented is a story we've out of law we use specific marks to demonstrate how our british

colleagues to put it nicely just trying to fool everyone 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 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 allies that have been circulated by the british authorities.

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 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. commentators told us they're not surprised that the probe didn't identify the exact origin of the agent. my understanding under the chemical weapons convention it wasn't deeds 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 or 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. but even if they can determine the dollar 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 level of to which this particular new region was produced so this just adds more. to the narrative that's been spun. in other headlines a team from the o.p.c. w. came under fire in syria on wednesday while trying to enter the town of duma there in the country to investigate an alleged chemical attack on april the seventh

artesia trying cause in a studio earlier more or less. 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 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 in a different state 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 and charge of providing security for that squad on the seventeenth of april will securing the u.n. reconnaissance mission in the city of duma the skirmish you could between the syrian security service and figures in the office 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 evacuees from 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 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 were some reaction now from commentators on the latest developments in the duma 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 clearly today no matter what the cause and direction of this incident has happened is that it's still not secure that naturally the west media and the western governments are 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 lick those inspectors immediately three days after the accusation of using this kind of weapons i believe there are a lot of places that. chemical weapons where you will i don't believe these races or will disappear in three days it will be definitely it will be uncivil in places that they want to accuse the cd of and that i sent over actually blocking their drop which is completely unacceptable. reports of the alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions have now been raised over this footage you can see filmed by the white helmets rescue group in a local hospital of the video apparently shows the aftermath of that chemical attack however our sister channel r.t. arabic visited that very hospital in duma and spoke with doctors and residents who

described what happened on the seventh of april i mean they saw no talks occasions 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 medical staff would also be no thanks. people poured water pads were getting that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and that when somebody from outside shouting about a chemical attack i don't know who that was we heard an explosion and somebody said it was a chemical weapon and we run to where the noise came from and the started pouring the water over the people but they seemed to be ok and then walked away without any

help on that but like confused somebody started pouring water over people saying there had been a chemical attack i was at the spots with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning. i mean while even some western media are now claiming or rather calling into question the allegations of a chemical attack and softer british journalist robert fisk visited doomer and wasn't able to find anyone who could confirm the use of chemical weapons who have 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. and that's despite much of the publicly available information on 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 and so far of course no group meant to be conducting an investigation has actually visited the site of the alleged incident and as you mentioned the o.p.c. w. has perspire on its probe planned for wednesday while the world health organization isn't on the ground there so far as your political analyst month says western powers have been using evidence from highly unreliable sources if they be. like very easy evidence nor routine but the this started to strike we vote in the navy turns when i saw a raid french narrative to justify the strikes in syria east very pool they. paris they claimed that. if you don't is looking at social media or

video or pictures. from paris they went nuts you look around and they decided from these so-called aiden's to strike because each was the good you could miss each. school's life to a professor james tall chemical weapons expert at rice university thanks for joining us a great savvy on the program today claims counterclaims britain the us are accusing russia of preventing those experts from reaching duma and they're saying they're trying to cover the attack up obviously the russians are denying that what do you make of those allegations. i don't know anything about whether russia or syria or any other group is keeping the us but i can tell you that based on the reports the use of chlorine gas as a chemical weapon from a safe state actor like syria makes no sense to me chlorine is not used

by by nation states since world war one it is a very inefficient gas to be used i've seen pictures of chlorine cylinders laying on top of buildings that makes no sense to drop a chlorine so linder out of any aircraft. any terrorist group might might a fix a bomb to a cylinder and try to blow it up but a lot more people are going to get hurt by the munition rather than by the chlorine it has to be properly dispersed so nation states don't use chlorine if they used a nerve agent there would be a whole lot more people dead than what there are and it's very easy to to find the residues of nerve agents these have phosphorus in them and. you can get not the nerve agent itself because that would dissipate but you can get the hydrolysis products of that should be all over the place if there had been

a nerve agent attack if it was a chlorine attack then then it does not look like a stay. actor to me and the chlorine will be gone i mean that the crux of the issue here is getting that evidence isn't there and that's what the o.p.c. w. t. much trying to get but there are concerns of course that russia and syria model ready of clean up the area and get rid of any of those forensic details that you quite rightly mentioned there is not a valid concern that the russians and the syrians could clean the area up before experts get there. be very hard to clean the area from any trace of the residues of a nerve agent i mean this this is if it's probably dispersed by a nation state attack on people it's going to be all over on walls and buildings and and the residues of it the active nerve agent is gone within a day but the residues of it will persist and that will be discoverable if it was

a chlorine attack the chlorine will be gone but no nation state in my view would ever use chlorine that makes absolutely no sense and it seems to me that if someone wanted to to draw in. a united states response then blow up some chlorine cylinders but that is that i can't see syria using chlorine cylinders in chlorine is not considered a mean it certainly can be used as an agent to kill people but you don't have to blow up sites like like what were blown up in order to to get it chlorine cylinders they're stored it water treatment plants so all water treatment plants have chlorine all industrial sites have chlorine gas many industrial sites so it makes no sense to me how you're going to wipe out chlorine reserves without wiping out people's ability to purify water and then you're really going to have a lot of people dying so there's a lot of questions to me just just looking at what what's been propagated you mention the blow up some chlorine cylinders to draw us from sponsor school of

thought well that's exactly what half. britain france to us they launched those strikes on syria just just last week why are you surprised this happened before they had a chance to conduct a proper investigation. i'm surprised at how quickly it happened because if they said it was a chlorine attack immediately to one who has studied the use of chemical weapons to say that a nation state like syria used chlorine on its own people makes no sense no sense at all this is not an agent that is used to kill many people at all it's very poor very hard to disperse if it were nerve agent then i would say yes i mean that is something that a nation state would do but all early reports were was that it was chlorine gas and the number of people dying does not suggest that

a nerve agent was you so so if it was a bit mysterious to me to see why there was was such an early launch of an attack without having more substantiation just going based mainly on the chlorine attack to a chemical weapons when who studies this it doesn't make sense professor james talk chemical weapons expert at rice university thanks for shedding some light giving a school take on that incident today and all to international. following the weekend bombing raids in syria a bipartisan group of u.s. senators has unveiled new legislation aiming to limit the white house's power to continue its global war on terror for too long and congress has given presidents a blank check to wage war we've let the nine eleven iraq war authorizations get stretched to justify wars against multiple terrorist groups in a very dozen countries from egypt to the philippines a proposal finally repealed those authorize ations and makes congress do its job by

weighing in on where when and with who we were. 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 does include a congressional review every four years the proposal also expands the president's authority to take action against al qaida or the taliban but not a 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. more or less is defining things slightly differently but 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 the 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's just more authority to the type of policy that we've been following and getting us into trouble. now that lines two jewish men wearing traditional kipper outfits have been attacked with a belt by an arabic speaking youth on the streets of berlin one of the victims managed to film this incident. nop was so exhausted british citizen instrument 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. 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 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'd settle 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 rabbi in berlin told us the recent wave of refugee arrivals in germany has led to a spike in anti semitic incidents. this is a new level of anti-semitism being practiced on the streets of berlin it is something which is worrying unfortunately today the numbers were released under semitic attacks and bill in the past year nine two thousand and seventeen nine hundred over nine hundred forty one thousand. and the semitic events happened that is of course worrying we don't know who all of the refugees that arrived here are many refugees most of them are probably good tolerant people but some of them we don't know who they are and we expect there to be a clear very clear approach to them yes of course they're welcome here to

germany at the same time there are responsibilities and part of those responsibilities are respect and tolerance for other minorities it should be no place in society for people to have intolerance for others there should be no place in society people who have this respect for others this should be no acceptance of anti-semitic attacks it has to be clear set from the politicians from the educational ministry and from the civil society that we live in a society where we expect people to have respect for each other. a new documentary called in the execution a shadow lifts the lid on the subject of capital punishment through three different stories and claims race is at the heart of decision making when it comes to the death penalty in the united states. my team members take. this person pretty mixed up. you had looked was

a little too who. said they were getting ready for. this good thing that i didn't give them. even do anything. you don't know because you were in my shoes. recent figures reveal black people make up around forty one percent of those on death row while accounting for only thirteen percent of the u.s. population in addition they're far more likely to be given the death penalty 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 forever 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. a self-styled i want a journalist in the u.k. claiming police of failing to take action over the death threats she has received online so they are faster english is known to have posted hateful comments such as islam is worse than cancer this is an e-mail allegedly received by john are from way to much the police and she's warned of consequences resulting from comments she's made online jeanette was also told to consider the freedom of expression of others and without that be the tales of those said to be harassing her there'd be no investigation in the end she was advised not to post anything likely to cause offense. we spoke to greater manchester police asking them for comment we received

this response investigation is under review and they hope to contact shortly we invited guests to debate the issues around the case. actually i know personally and i see our ass questioned sometimes err on constable questions sometimes their questions people don't particularly want to answer i don't know 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 should be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law so everybody has to suffer the.