russia's envoy to the global chemical weapons watchdog says the united states has reduced and paid since it's the know they didn't know the truck which was allegedly used to poison saturday and you use purple. for the news comes as britain admits neither it nor the i.p.c.c. confirmed the origin of the man a nerve agent despite claiming it was highly likely to be in moscow. he won a team of experts investigating the alleged chemical attack in duma comes under rebel find out what trying to enter the syrian town on. the to the world situation. and in berlin an arabic speaking you see is filmed attacking two jewish men in the latest anticipated incident to cause outrage indra.

thank you for watching the news headlines he went on to the international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge russia's ambassador to the united nations has lashed out at the u.k. over its handling of the script poisoning case the silly now ben zia traded accusations with the u.s. and u.k. representatives during the highly charged security council session in new york. russia has a proven record of conducting state sponsored assess a nation including on the territory of the united kingdom. they keep saying that russia has a proven record of assassinations proven by whom our western partners don't listen to us and don't hear us they don't need facts the united states agrees with the u.k. the assessment that russia is responsible for the chemical weapons and sells very

whether that is in their direct act or irresponsibly losing control of the agent which could be worse loaded or scored b. c w report has nothing that would help britain to incriminate russia so what is more important the c.w. has confirmed the novacek can be made in any liberal tree with the right equipment and there are such laboratories in the us in the u.k. the formula has been known since one thousand nine hundred eight if you look at google patents and search for novacek you can find more than one hundred matches in the us alone. well those discussions took place after the global chemical weapons watched all the o.p.c. w. said it was i'm able to identify the source of the nerve agent used to poison former double agent and his daughter r.t. samir khan has more on the un security council session. now the u.k. called for this security council meeting to discuss the o.p.c. w.'s latest findings but even though the o.p.c. w. didn't assign blame or specify the chemicals origin in the statement to two the

o.p.c. w. of the u.k. declared with absolute certainty that russia was behind the crime saying quote there is no plausible alternative explanation than russian state responsibility for what happened and then the open c.w. seem to implicitly parrot the british government's narrative. now the d.s. tales analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report identifies the control of the origin of the agencies in this attack. and this of explanation for what happened in seoul is breathe and russian state for sponsibility but believe the only brush i have the technical means operational experience and the mates have to talk at the script files believe it or not it didn't even end there the british representative then proceeded to accuse president putin of being personally involved in the attack president putin himself it was closely involved in the russian chemical weapons program when we knew that you would london apparently thinks the russian president has

a whole be running chemical weapons programs in his free time i don't know whether you appreciate that you've crossed all possible boundaries so it appears that the western conception that russia was the only one capable of developing the nerve agent is pretty much irrelevant at this point given that the russian ambassador mentioned that it was also patented in the us back in two thousand and fifteen but after that revelation he ended outlining the quote lies circulated by british authorities but it were made along statements aiming to prove that what are you kate colleagues presented is a story we've outs of lies we use specific facts to demonstrate how our british colleagues to put it nicely just trying to fool everyone.

so it'll be interesting to see how this develops but more importantly whether or not this will exacerbate tensions between britain and russia. well aside from the more serious accusations the russian and u.k. representatives found time for some literary references. to quote from william shakespeare's henry the sixth suspicion always haunts the guilty mind and when it gets to christmas i would like to buy my colleague the russian ambassador a subscription to an english club but as it isn't christmas allow me to return the literary favor today the russian account of u.k. behavior and what is happening on the ground in souls pre all syria is a rewrite of george orwell's one thousand nine hundred eighty four dated for the

modern day a modern russian method well in the meantime some experts told r.t. they're not surprised the n.p.c. w. probe didn't identify the origin of the nerve agent. 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 sample of to try and test it to 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 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 you can determine the look laudatory from which any new region in any given year or region or substance was produced because even if they can determine

a good ball or two that does not mean that the ball the tree 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 level of tree which this particular new region was produced so this just adds more of them to the narrative that's been spun. for me while a team from the chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. came under fire in syria on wednesday while trying to enter the town of doom or there in the country to investigate the alleged chemical attack. go join my colleague daniel hawkins in the studio earlier to discuss the developments. 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 a score to do by the syrian troops in 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 and charge of providing security for that squad. seventeenth of april will securing the u.n. reconnaissance mission in the city of duma the school in which you could between the syrian security service and figures in the office of 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 is actually. 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 to be you when in 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. well this video claims to show the aftermath of the chemical attack on

a call the seventh it was filmed by the controversial rescue group the white helmets is a local hospital but imo sister channel r.t. arabic visited the hospital to talk patients and staff they say they never saw the use of any toxic agents. from the white helmets told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that if chemical weapons were used against lazy people medical staff would also mean affected. people poured water it's really good thing that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and suddenly somebody ran up from outside shouting about the chemical attack don't know that we have been exposed and somebody said it was

a chemical weapon and we run to where the noise came from and the started pouring water over the people but they seemed to be ok didn't want to wait without any help but like confused somebody started pouring water over people states saying there had been a chemical attack but i was at the spots with my wife and daughter and none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning. when we was on western media outlets are also questioning the allegations of a chemical attack british journalist robert fisk visit duma and couldn't find anyone who could confirm the use of chemical weapons the washington and its allies have no doubts the us britain and france chose not to wait for the official probe before launching air raids against syria in the early hours of saturday. yet much of the publicly available information on the alleged. attack comes from controversial activist groups such as the white house wants and the syrian american

medical society but its groups are thought to be funded by the west including government organizations so far no investigative group has visited the site of the reported incident well the a p c w has postponed their probe that was shuttled for wednesday while the world health organization hasn't arrived there so far britain and the u.s. have accused russia of preventing un-p.c. w experts from reaching duma in their attempt to cover up the attack chemical weapons experts professor james tour says no convincing motive has been put forward to implicate the syrian government based on the reports the use of chlorine gas as a chemical weapon from a say 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 any terrorist group might might a fix a bomb to a soldier 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 if they used a nerve agent there would be a whole lot more people dead then what there are and it's very easy to to find the residues of nerve agents or chlorine attack then it does not look like a state actor to me and the chlorine will be gone for me while a group of us services from both major parties has proposed a new set of laws following the strikes in syria these 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 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 all the proposed legislation

would require the president to give congress forty eight hours notice ahead of any military action congress would then have sixty days to review it 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 will starting to take action against al qaida eisel or the taliban but not a state well the current will past have been in place since nine eleven and have been used almost forty times in fourteen different countries former u.s. congressman ron paul doesn't think the proposals will become law or improve the situation. 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 the congress gives the president authority to go to war against radical violent groups like al qaida and isis 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. a surge in anti semitic attacks is causing a lot in berlin more on that story after the break. down. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

i think obama drew a red line never fulfilled his his threats i suppose are predictions. on the other hand i also don't support trump president trump so you know you'll have a real actions either but i'm in favor of multilateral responses not unilateral action we all hope for the syrian people that we can find a good resolution to this in fact we can develop democratic processes in syria and elsewhere in the middle east as well as time goes on.

for a comeback in berlin two men wearing traditional jewish caps have been attacked with a belt on the street on arabic. one of the victims managed to film the incident on his mobile phone. no doubt superstores committee says the instrument is just. like. me i suppose but i think. what we have is an incident whereby two jewish men who were 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. well 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 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 bearable on germany so you can imagine not only is there a lot of public pressure on the pressure on the police to find these perpetrators there's also going to be rather a lot of political pressure as well. rabbi yehuda time to tell he's based in berlin says the recent wave of refugees arrivals in germany has led to a sharp rise in anti semitic incidence. 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 close to 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 should be no place in society for people that have intolerance for others who should be no place in society people who have this respect for others this should be no acceptance of anti-semitic attacks that 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.

now and hear us documentary called in the executioner shadow has shed light on the horrors of capital punishment in america the film claims race is at the heart of decision making when it comes to the death sentence. my team in which they. get this person ready mixed up. you had looked was a little. bit iffy. thing that i didn't give them. even do anything. you don't know because you want my shoes. well the latest figures show black people account for forty one percent of those on

death row in the u.s. while making up only around thirty percent of the population the film's co-producer richard stack also says black people off far more likely to be given death sentences in cases of interracial killings the racial application of the death penalty is then out. that not-a look so much of skin color the perpetrator to skin color the victim if the if the murder victim is white. them 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 can be answered is that white life is worth more than black wife we're going to punish people who kill a white person. more severely and we are. going to have their more black 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 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 is 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. now the scandal over don't the times alleged affair with a form of porn star continues to hit the headlines as stormy daniels has been speaking to the media.

the breaking developments in the stormy daniels controversy is talking about her legend counters of course where the president is talking about the harsh agreement she did sign that donald trump's lawyer paid an adult film star one hundred thirty thousand dollars the month before the election to be adult film star was apparently threatened with physical harm unless she stayed quiet about her alleged affair with donald trump. can we take a look at that if you. will go into your recollection is it is that the person that knew absolutely.

back in just over half an hour with the latest news but for more in the meantime come. on no matter that much every. day. on. that day. this american foreign policy possesses specific d.n.a. it would seem so it doesn't matter who the president is it doesn't matter which

party controls the white house the neo cons are firmly in the saddle. greetings and salutation we are celebrating the great american tax bash here in the united states this week cork watchers yes every spring in april millions upon millions of hardworking us citizens file their tax returns and celebrate the exciting ways their government is spending their ardor dollars in fact as an added bonus this year u.s. taxpayers got to see their hard earned tax dollars in action with president trump's bombing of alleged chemical weapon facilities in syria just a few short days before this year's annual tax day on april seventeenth and want to display it. truly was according to c.n.n. b.b.c. last saturday u.s.

forces fired sixty six tomahawk cruise missiles on three syrian targets early in the morning local time making for a price tag of ninety two point four million dollars for those missiles alone ninety two point four million dollars that is that is that is one the hell of an early morning bill not even bill maher celebrating his birthday at jumbos clown room in los angeles reaches that kind of proportions. jeffrey up steam birthday party you know maybe given the cost of legal themes and the stains on your soul from attending but it wasn't just the u.s. taxpayers that got nicked for this little meal liberal con morning jaunt in syria u.k. prime minister theresa may spend roughly six point three million euros on the eight storm shadow missiles or she fired into an alleged research facility near oms bend

re of common space points out quote that it costs twenty three thousand four hundred twenty pounds to resettle a syrian refugee for a year six point thirty two million pounds could therefore resettle two hundred sixty nine refugees from syria. and remember these figures are just for the missiles alone we haven't even begun thinking about the cost of fuel logistics and the man hours that went into the strike imagine how many schools hospitals are affordable housing you could buy for the cost of one friday night out on the town with the military industrial complex this is why we are always watching the hawks. at the bottom. of. the day like.