obviously. delayed because. just days after slamming syria's white house as propagandists rock legend roger waters reveals the activist group has been trying to lobby his supporters in the war. somebody was shot in that you have to go to the hospital. when i came in some people grabbed me stanley coren watch me all my hands also this russian t.v. channel says this interview the syrian boy seen in the white helmets footage reportedly showing the aftermath of a chemical attack a child and his father give their account of how events did unfold in doing that day and in germany rescue crews are increasingly turning themselves in and terrorists in the shock tactic to avoid deportation.

for the welcome is just gone four pm here in moscow he watching the international now we start this hour with revelations on how controversial syrian activists greet the white helmets to try to lobby roger waters the co-founder of the legendary rock group pink floyd a lot be group called the syria campaign sent an e-mail to the musician inviting him to a fund raising dinner on behalf of the white helmets affiliated organization in the same letter though the group in detail described the work it claims to be doing in syria it does insist the group's mission is to elevate the voices of serious peaceful heroes and help to bring peace but waters was less than delighted with the invitation. i was quite suspicious after i was invited to that white helmets dinner now my worst suspicions have been confirmed i don't blame them for having bought into it on the face of it it felt possible that the white helmets were just good

people doing good things but now we know they're trying to encourage the west to drop bombs or missiles illegally in syria ok well his gas is a bit further we're joined now by a correspondent you go to dan of the eagle we're hearing there from mr waters but it's not the first time is it that he's been approached by the white helmet well indeed it was only one of the e-mails the lobbyists for the white helmets groups have sent to mr waters another e-mail that he received was from a french journalist who openly stated in that e-mail that he was working with the white helmets and that he in fact as you can see ask for stage time he wanted to take stage with roger waters and make a case for the white helmets and for the children of syria as he's put it and gent generally just to call on the audience on the fans of roger waters was pursuing a solo career right now of course to support the white helmets well instead roger waters he in a way he did respond to all of those e-mails just not in the way that those who

wrote them may be anticipated and have a listen. i mean. this is really complicated. with this to the propaganda of the point home it's in others we would be encouraged to encourage our governments to go and start dropping bombs on syria. i mean listening to that you can see you know he is clearly against the white house isn't it well indeed and there's a reason for that so to speak because apparently the roof you do the research on the white helmets they themselves brand they self mark it as a civil defense group they say they save lives they post videos like these where they pull people from under the rubble of what they say syrian government strikes but if you look at some other videos online there are there is footage of their volunteers being almost imbedded with the terrorists with the people from the front

for example an internationally designated terrorist group or for example there is video of them this is the video so this is the execution by the all nusra front apparently and then moments later we can see the white helmets volunteers clearing up the execution site so there you have that so this is this is probably why roger waters is so against this group so outspoken and he's not the only celebrity there is the two spoken about the white house no but he's really one of the few to publicly denounce them instead of like promoting this group because so far celebrities of such scale they have been praising the white house as for example we have a british band coldplay advocating for them and endorsing them we have celebrities like george clooney and ben affleck and even bar grills the reality you sort of reality show star bear grylls also all advocating for them this is these are the tweets of course of the said celebrities promoting the ideas the white helmets are

promoting now these revelations that i've been talking about. and you've been talking about we've learned from them from the e-mails about those the ascent to roach waters and roger waters in his turn provided to an r.t. contributor max blumenthal and he has you can pick up the story from this point. for the first time a mainstream figure on an international stage on the eve of war has validated what we've been reporting how this western funded organization funded by western and gulf governments has basically been an instrument of encouraging regime change and it's not just a group of average volunteer rescue workers it's an international influence organization whose representatives show up in congress to lobby for no fly zones and just sanctions on syria as well as parliaments across europe while they're operating on the ground alongside al qaida and their allies of this was an enormously rousing speech by roger waters that has legitimized the

journalism that we've been so mercilessly attacked for publishing and it's forced those who have attacked us and accuse us of being conspiracist to actually look at what we've reported look at the facts and they really have nothing to say back to us they can't simply dismiss it as a kremlin conspiracy anymore when roger waters is saying this however roger waters is now under attack particularly by israeli and qatari media israel wants regime change in syria and qatar does as well and has been a funder of the white helmets so the question is can he hold strong and will there be public support will people support roger waters in what he said and i suspect he's under enormous pressure right now to walk back his remarks in a very dangerously mccarthyite atmosphere. well we have contacted the white house wants to comment on this story although so far we haven't received

a reply now meanwhile a correspondent from the russia twenty four t.v. channel claims to have found a syrian boy seen in white helmets footage said to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in an interview which cannot be independently verified the child and his father recall how events unfolded in duma on april the seventh artie's murdered breaks down the new accounts. these harrowing scenes panic fear terror soaked trembling children screaming adults and strange as it may seem many of them had no idea about what was going on. we were in the basement my mother told me that we had run out of food and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noises outside somebody was shot in that we had to go to the hospital so we went there when i came in some people grabbed me started pouring water on my had. eleven year old has

and was one of the apparent victims in the white helmets video here he is after being drenched and sprayed he was found in duma and interviewed by a russian war correspondent. he's fine if a little confused and that's me in the video that's me most of the. yes as were many other kids any child would be terrified ergo the panic which the white helmets were there to film he was eventually found though by his father who was none the wiser this is the police i didn't hear anything about a chemical attack i was outside britain not say anything further my family is in the hospital. it does make sense poisonous gas would be invisible you'd

imagine everybody would want to take precautions especially when you're hungry and they give out food for thought spittle. i went upstairs to find my wife and children i asked them what had happened and they said you want some shouting about some smell and you told them to go to the posts of the hospital and he gave dates and cookies to. one of the. doctors who was reportedly on shift at the time seemed surprised by the sudden influx some people come to. people in what. they said. we wouldn't see. the symptoms here the doctor and others did however say that some people came in complaining about difficulty breathing which is common when an explosion destroys

a building for example there's a lot of dust makes it difficult to breathe and especially affects people with asthma. 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 a medical staff would have also been affected. we've sent a request to the white helmets to comment on this but received no answer yet what we have seen is more and more witnesses coming forward to say there was only panic and no evidence of chemicals. we heard an explosion and somebody said it was a chemical weapon we ran into where the noise came from and started pouring water over the people but the seemed to be ok. walked away without any help. somebody started pouring water people say it's so been

a chemical attack i was at the spot with my wife and daughter but none of the six any so. it's remarkable how these scenes convinced three countries to launch cruise missiles at syria especially remarkable when you realize that so many of the people here had no idea about what was going on only that someone shouted about chemicals well the u.s. and the majority of european countries say a chemical attack did happen in the town of tumour citing their own intelligence sources they accuse the syrian government of deploying a toxic agent over the area which at the time was held by rebels american british and french militaries hit syria with an airstrike in retaliation targeting a number of facilities which they claimed were related to chemical weapons production and also development meanwhile allegations of a chemical attack and now being questioned even by some in the western media

british journalist robert fisk visited duma and wasn't able to find any witnesses former counterterrorism officer charles to bridge says he's also seeing signs of backtracking on the accusations journalists who got him on the ground robert fisk is a notable person i'm thinking of there he says and attended by syrian govern. employees and so on he spoke to ordinary residents and to medical staff who none of whom confirmed the idea that there was a chemical attack we're already i think seeing on detecting science myself that there is a slight backtracking amongst government statements rowing back slightly saying well actually we weren't completely clear that's why we we were relying on social media we were lying on activists on the ground and that's why we only carried out a limited strike so they're already i think preparing the ground for the possibility at least that is so p c w a port isn't particularly helpful for example it may actually find that there were no trace of chemicals of chemical warfare.

russia's ambassador to the u.k. has lashed out sorry to rush to the un i should say is lashed out at the u.k. over its handling of this cliff out poisoning case to be seen and then zia exchanged her aid with the british am voice in a highly charged session after moscow was once again denied access to the price up . this is a quote from william shakespeare's henry said mission always haunted a guilty mind allow me to return a literary flavor today a rational account of u.k.b.a. the right of george orwell's one thousand eight. day to the modern day and modern russian method. when i listen to some of my colleagues it seems this is no longer an alice in wonderland alice is that. what britain has released

a document revealing that neither it nor the investigation was able to determine the origin of the agent used in the soldier pre attack but the u.k. still insists that russia is responsible claiming that only moscow could have produced the sentence however russia has responded with some rather revealing details which we can have a look at here not be chocked type agents were in fact produced and painted over one hundred times in the u.s. the u.k. continues to withhold information on the probe making it hard for russia to discuss london's conclusions but. russia will not accept any national or international results of any investigation without uses to full information including materials from the british use without consular access to our citizens and most importantly without the obligatory participation of russian experts all actions to establish the truth that happened in saul's on march the fourth former m

i five agent and a man and he says that even though the u.k.'s position has weakened somewhat london is unlikely to backtrack on its allegations against russia. they've sort of backed themselves into a corner i can't see how they can they can rescind what they've already said because particularly not only did they expel twenty three russian diplomats virtually immediately before the o.p.c. w. had even had a chance to examine this so-called evidence but they encouraged a lot of their nato partners to do the same thing so they can for diplomatically to row back from this position particularly a very vulnerable diplomatic time for britain looming so i'm not quite sure what they can do apart from to keep scapegoating russia but i suspect rather sadly this is going to sort of languish in the conspiracy theories category for anyone who questions this very thread their official narrative that britain has pulled together your tonight international still ahead for you this hour

a mysterious picture has reignited the scandal surrounding a former movie star who claims she had a relationship with donald trump that's among the stories just after the break. it's. a play for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the funnel school it's about the

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number coming here saying that they were part of a terrorist outfit and it has politicians absolutely baffled i can't understand why someone would accuse himself of a serious crime in the hope of gaining an advantage in his asylum claim to particular reasons in the southwest of the country jump out because it's there that one hundred fifty nine people have declared themselves as members of a terrorist organization already in twenty eighteen if we jump back to twenty seventeen while three hundred people saying exactly the same thing why would anybody claim to be a member of a foreign terrorist group well because maybe that investigation could be solved tomorrow but most likely never investigations are proving to be very time consuming because they are almost always alleged foreign acts for example in syria iraq afghanistan or somalia if we look at countries like afghanistan which germany and

all the e.u. nations have already referred to as a safe country to return to then you can see why people would come forward and say that they have information and would rather face a trial than deportation but you haven't authorities aren't suggesting this is the easy way out anyone who makes a false confession must understand that he is going to face criminal consequences all of which has its roots way back in the summer of twenty fifteen when angela merkel opened germany up to refugees peter all of r.t. berlin well this trend isn't just consigned to germany edith let's take a look now at the situation in greece also because hundreds of asylum seekers there recently gathered outside a police station in the city of thessaloniki for the very same reason many of you arrest is an opportunity to stay in the e.u. and the fastest way. to get the necessary paperwork started a large waiting line reportedly formed for days after

a surge in illegal border crossings from turkey it follows an korea's military operation against syrian kurds geo political analyst and consultant run rough first believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe. we continually see that the judicial system of the european countries is simply not yaps to the challenges that the refugee crisis is the most in the past years and by and of twenty seven became. the german government asked lloyds over two thousand of their traditional experts to deal with the increase in crime traces concerning. about all. terrorism there's also all these is exactly that on the german traditional system it means a sharp increase also or in employment costs. in other

news this afternoon clashes with police have broken out on the sixth day of mass anti-government rallies in the armenian capital of yet a van demonstrators are angered at the former president's bid to become prime minister. was. i. was security in the city has been tightened as thousands of demonstrators try to block streets to reach government buildings police can be seen arresting protesters here the heaviest clashes so far took place on monday when fourteen people were injured around eighteen were also detained though some have now been released and c.m. stepped down as president this month at the end of his term but parliament approved this candidacy for prime minister on tuesday he's already started appointing pointing his cabinet all of whom have kept their posts from the previous term the

opposition claims that r.c.m. is trying to cling on to power. right. now the former adult movie star stormy than yours is found herself in the middle of a media storm over allegations she had an affair with donald trump before he took office but now the story has a new twist because she has released a picture of a man she claims was hired to threaten her back in twenty eleven to keep quiet. can we take a look at that if you. would go and see your recollection is it is that the person that knew absolutely.

the news is looking so far today here in our city will be back with more news for you and thirty five minutes. in july twenty seventh team hunted all set up a freelance journalist watching the resulting militant shelling in syria. on it is such a vile scotti has established a holiday all such a memorial they will recognize war reporters who often risked their lives for the sake of the truth and through the use you can submit to you all published works in a video or written for you have to do a little naughty dog come in to know. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you worry yourself in taking your last

bang turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for me i could so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was again still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never again like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one differs i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to the claim that mainstream media has met its maker.

her daughter. barbara. welcome to worlds apart twenty years after the probyn of chemical weapons was introduced as an international norm sara and cloran are back as a means of warfare actual warfare on the battlefield if you believe the west or the warfare of this information and duty skimming if you believe russia what is it worth while to discuss that i'm now a joined by paul walker director of green cross international environmental security and sustainability program dr walker it's great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time yeah nice to be here oksana to thank you for the invitation now you've been leading this program since its very inception i assume

you care a lot about the nonproliferation of chemical weapons how would you describe this moment in time when we have a number of western countries accusing russia of not only shielding the alleged user of chemical weapons but also using those chemical weapons itself you know the whole the whole current situation is very troubling exxon or and i have been working on chemical weapons and there are nonproliferation and they're safe and sound and irreversible destruction for twenty five years since i first did. one of the very first western american inspections in russia in a place called shoot in the cauldron oboist this is back in one thousand nine hundred four we've all worked for universal laws the chemical weapons convention we have been not one hundred ninety two countries who have joined today the chemical weapons convention was only for outstanding and and we haven't had any chemical weapons used really except you know back in the eighty's when saddam hussein attacked iran and we had in the mid ninety's when the terrorist group in japan.

tried to use sarin nerve agent in the tokyo subway was and so this this these latest occurrences in syria number one since since really two thousand and twelve accusations were made originally in late two thousand. twelve the syria was using chemical weapons but then syria joined the convention of course under pressure from the you know bilateral sods from russia or in the united states and now this whole scriptural assassination attempt in in england is just very troubling their weekly meetings of the executive council in the o.p stubby trying to figure out what to do and what's true and who's to blame and course we all know that there have been a number of recent meetings just a couple days ago the last one of the u.n. security council as well now are you just mentioned that you worked a lot in russia you visited i heard you say that you visited every single russian

chemical weapons stockpile until it was destroyed last year the green cross has been a very active in russia he'd done enormous things in this country for for the environment then you get in this new east west standoff you side fully and unquestionably with the west and narrative why did you choose dot position as opposed to let's say trying to be neutral as we would i argue expect from a representative of an international organization we we have been neutral we've been very neutral i think be bend over backwards to be as neutral as we can but when the fact finding mission of the chemical weapons question was established in in just four years ago in april may of two thousand and fourteen we waited and went through all the reports i've met with the opi study inspectors you know that's a multilateral inspection group includes russian inspectors includes american included kluges i don't know fifteen or twenty different nationalities in the in

the inspectorate and then when the joint investigative mechanism was set up a year later in two thousand and fifteen to try to look at accountability in other words try to find out who was to blame for these different attacks it was clear to me after the fact finding mission reports in the gym reports the joint investigated . i can as i'm from the united nations that these were very accurate very storrow reports and i was convinced i still read them very thoroughly i meet with the inspectors i'm a skeptic i'm for i mean the non-governmental community in green cross is trying to maintain objectivity here but we want these attacks to to stop wherever they if it's britain or whether it's syria or iraq and we and we also want full proof can i just say that because you say you want a full proof you you say that you subscribe to critical thinking but you know very well that most fact finding the sense unlike probably the delayed us one relied on evidence that was submitted by other parties.