just days after slamming syria's white helmets as propagandists rock legend roger waters reveals the activist group had been trying to lobby his support in the war. somebody was challenging that you have to go into the hospital blue van dam when i came in from people dropping down point what you all might have. also headlines this hour a russian t.v. channel says it's interviewed a syrian boy seen in the white helmets footage reportedly showing the aftermath of a chemical attack a child and his father give their accounts of how events unfolded in dubai that day . he said tear gas protesters in paris paralyzing transport strikes continue over president reforms. in germany refugees are increasingly turning themselves in as

terrorists in a shocking tactic to avoid deportation. and i welcome to our team to ask the live from moscow and daniel hawkins who of you are today thanks for joining us on the program the controversial syrian activist group the white helmets has tried to not be roger waters the co-founder of the rock group pink floyd a group called the syria campaign sent an e-mail to the musician invited him to a fundraising dinner on behalf of the white house affiliated organization now in the same letter the group in detail described the work it claims to be doing in syria and insists the group's mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes that help bring about peace waters was less than happy with the invitation.

i was quite suspicious after i was invited to that white helmets dinner now my worst suspicions have been confirmed on the face of it it felt posable 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. ortiz igor's died of joy in my colleague andrew farmer earlier in the studio to discuss the group's emails and waters concern over their activities it was somewhat of an indirect response to a number email he received from a different person now it was signed by a man who was described himself as a journalist and also a militant with the syrian white helmets and he apparently arsk for stage time with roger waters at his barcelona gig he wanted to join roger waters on stage and deliver a message apparently on behalf of the white helmets and sent a message or two this children of syria you're not forgotten well apparently at that said gig in barcelona roger waters did this have

a look oh man it's. great. reading propaganda if you use. 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 why do you think then that he decided to speak out publicly there well he didn't give a specific reason for this but you got to know who the white helmets are to get an idea they post videos like this marketing themselves as the civil defense group of the say their first responders they save people the show how the pulling people from under the rubble from the alleged syrian government air strikes but the videos that they are and posting online and somebody else do that for them in those videos they're seen mingling with terrorists for example this is an execution by the all nusra terrorist group and these are the white helmets volunteers clearing up the

execution site so also in other videos they are seen just cheering and generally mingling with terrorists from other groups so possibly that is why roger waters chose to do that to denounce themselves publicly you're not the first celebrity. it is easy to talk about the white house but the other ones that have taken a different style well indeed the white house the sort of boss can do a line line to glory when it comes to how western celebrities are talking about them for example he's coldplay a very very popular british band endorsing them and calling them syrian heroes there's another star ben affleck also praising the white home and send the list just of goes on really so roger waters he did not stop to just denouncing the white house it's the also he also called on his fellow celebrities to stop indorsing the white house and to stop giving praise to them now. arguably the

first person of such scale to publicly to publicly speak out against the white helmets and the e-mails that we've just seen he provided them to blumenthal and blumenthal is in the contributor so he can pick up the story from here this should be the stuff of a national scandal in the u.s. a united states government has provided at least twenty three million dollars to the state department to the white helmets while the white helmets work hand in glove with jabot illness or which is the syrian affiliate of the organization that attacked the united states on nine eleven al qaeda and that is considered a conspiracy in the united states although it's well established so you know i hope that this is that rogers broken the ice here but western media appears to be completely closed off to the facts about the white helmets that's who the white helmets really are they're the civil society wing of the turkish jihad is

mercenaries and the al qaeda affiliate in it live it it's time for western media to just admit this fact and stop denouncing it all as russian conspiracy we have of course that a response from the white helmet will bring it to just as soon as we get it now in the meantime a correspondent. russia twenty four t.v. channel claims to have found a syrian boy seen in that white helmet footage said to show the aftermath of that chemical incident in duma in an interview which cannot be independently verified at the moment the child and his father recall just how events unfolded on the seventh of april ati's morag as the of 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 fruit and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noise 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 ass 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. 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 but i didn't notice anything further my family was 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 to the hospital walked up stairs and found my wife and children i asked them what had happened and they said you go outside was shouting about some smell and told them to go to the hospital at the hospital they gave dates and cookies to the kids 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 chemical. attack.

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 our medical staff would have also been affected. we've sent a request to the white helmets to comment on this but the received no on say yet what we have seen is more and more witnesses coming forward to say there was only panic and no evidence of chemicals and we heard an explosion and somebody said it was a chemical weapon we ran to where the noise came from and started poolroom water over

the people and they seemed to be ok and walked away without any help people got so 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 and 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. the u.s. and its allies cite their own intelligence sources to justify saturday strike on syria use the syrian government of deploying a toxic agent over the area which at the time was held by rebels the u.s. british and french militaries hit syria in retaliation strikes however some question the chemical attack allegations notably mainstream british journalist

robert fisk you visited do more interviewed locals we spoke to former british counterterrorism officer child sewerage to comment on the situation journalists are got in on the ground robert fisk is a notable person i'm thinking of there he. attended by syrian government 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 already i think seeing on detecting science myself that there was 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 the port isn't particularly helpful for example it may actually find that there were no trace of chemicals of chemical warfare. police have clashed with protesters us thousands came out across france against president

micron's reforms is part of a three month long transport strikes that of power lies the coal country didn't skew was right in the thick of the clashes in paris. this is yet another day of protests to be turning into clashes between the police and the protesters who are unhappy with many of the reforms that the moc own government wants to make and they determined to make every sees heard and it seems that voices are being heard but yet again it's just clashes that what most people are speaking about. we've just come away from the crowd and that's because if you just take a look behind me might see the alot of the people have got their faces covered they're wearing black and that's because they know now as being the black box of the anti father these are the anti capitalist say in front of a don't like

a filming them close and that's because the security services might be able to identify them now it's this group of individuals who are the ones that we see clashes as you can see that are throwing project done at the police as the police are coming round and this is something that we have been seeing not just today but in all of the clashes project just being thrown to optics bricks glass bottles anything they can grow that ak at the hands of. well we're in the middle of what seems to be a standoff between some of the protesters on the police just take out a look behind me and you can see a rule of the police vans the shunt army the lot that in there roy and care blocking off this particular route and some of the protesters are told seeing them now they've also been using smoke flares to have to attention to what they doing

that lit fires to some of the bins and they've also been throwing projectiles to wards the police this protest was meant to be about reforms have. once governments it's once again turned into a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. in the southern french city of marsay thousands have taken to the streets and a stop mark wrong march denouncing the french president's reforms it was organized by left wing party leader. this was his message to the crowd. not that the bush issue should get real in a process where president merkel's radicalism this push everyone together every week the head of state seems to distract us and go further with reforms so we need to stick to we know one of those plain evil like this that should pay ninety ninety five we had to fly least their back this is not fair to and for the people i will

pass over use i will destroy you these are not ways to act the president shouldn't talk like this sorry i could not stay silent because i. told the large sectors on strike transport energy public workers health workers all these sectors and represented today warning that mankind doesn't want to change but you will see that when all the country is paralyzed he will be forced to negotiate. a number of terror related investigations in the german state of barden wurtemberg has skyrocketed recently it turns out though half of these cases are refugees turning themselves in the trial of a has been taking a look at what's behind this unusual development as the number of asylum applicants coming here to germany decreases what we have seen is an actual increase in the 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 and 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 that given the thirties and 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. . this trend isn't just consigned to germany of course so let's take a look at the situation in greece hundreds of asylum seekers recently gathered outside a police station in the city of thessaloniki for the very same reason many of you arrest as 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 follows on korea's military operation against syrian kurds giblet ago are less than consultant rayna rough first believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe we can.

reduce. our european countries is simply not here. to the challenge of. the growth of cheap prices has killed most in the past years and by end of twenty seventeen it became clear that you think german government has to employed over two thousand of the traditional act birds to deal with it in fleas in crime cases concerning. about all. terrorism also all these is absolutely the burden on the move to destroy the system it means a sharp increase also in the only costs. russia's ambassador to the uganda has lashed out at the u.k. over its handling of the script poisoning by selena benazir has had

a heated exchange with the british envoy after moscow was once again denied access to the probe. to quote from william shakespeare's henry the sixth suspicion always haunts the guilty mind and allow me to return literary flavor today the russian account u.k.b.a. is a we write of george orwell's one thousand eight hundred. eighty eight the modern day and modern russian. when i listen to some of my colleagues it seems this is no longer an alice in wonderland it's alice through the looking glass a lesson in literacy there from the envoy's britain in the meantime has released a document revealing that neither it nor the o.p.c. w. investigation was able to determine for sure the origin of the agent used in the source britax and the u.k.

still insists that russia is responsible dating only moscow could have produced the substance russia has responded with some revealing details of their own let's just take a look at some of those accounts allegations novacek type agents were in fact produced and patented over one hundred times in the u.s. that's according to moscow the u.k. continues to withhold information on the probe making it hard for russia to discuss london's conclusions. russia will not accept any national or international results of any investigation without access to full information including materials from the british without consular access to our citizens and most importantly without the obligatory participation of russian experts all actions to establish the truth that happened on march the fourth a former m i five agent and he was shot and says that even though the u.k.'s position has weakened somewhat london is unlikely to backtrack on its celebrations against russia they sort of back and selves 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 that actually 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 with back that new thing 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 theory category for anyone who questions this very thread their official narrative that britain has pulled together. united states is piling the pressure on turkey warning of sanctions if it buys russian defense systems the purchase could also affect u.s. sales of f. thirty five fighter jets to encourage that's according to washington the u.s. turkey should be mindful of making strategic concessions to moscow during korea's

interventions in syria. nato appears to take a contrary start saying this is a decision for turkey alone to me we discussed the issue with the dean of the political science is faculty at turkey's marmar university so tom are you thinks that washington's attempts to disrupt s four hundred deal or designed to divide moscow and turkey. because of russia and turkey relationships better relationships are americans try to you know pause and try to. take turkey from. russia using economic. problems of turkey and this is should be really difficult for turkey i think americans trying to you know. to take this government from the power in turkey to make an outer you know government easier to. call or

a to be united states i think as far as this government government is on is no way you know to conclude something between united states and turkey i think you know the main. main aim of the united states to take out of this government from power. clashes with police have broken out on a six day of mass and to government rallies in the armenian capital of get of on demonstrators angered at the former president's bid to become prime minister. i. fear it's a year in the city's been tightened thousands of demonstrators tried to block key streets and also reach government buildings as you can see there police arresting dozens of protesters the heaviest clashes so far took place on monday reports

around fourteen people were injured around eighty were also detained though some have now been released according to reports cited you see on stepped down as president this month at the end of his term part of what they will prove his candidacy for prime minister on tuesday has already started appointing his cabinet look to have kept their posts from the previous term the opposition claims try. to cling to power. and other headlines for adult movie star stormy daniels has found herself in the middle of a media storm over allegations she had an affair with donald trump years before he took office now though the story has a new twist she's released the picture of a man she claims was hired to throw back in twenty eleven to keep quiet. can we take a look at that it can't. be out. until your recollection is it

is that the person is the best friend you absolutely.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic to follow through the only move really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome to worlds apart twenty years after the broad vision of chemical weapons was

introduced as an international norm sara and cloran are back as a means of war for actual warfare on the battlefield if you believe the west or the warfare of this information and skimming if you believe what is a force well to discuss that i'm now 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. 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 they allowed to use their of chemical weapons but also using those chemical weapons itself you know the whole the whole current situation is very troubling exxon and i have been

working on chemical weapons in their nonproliferation and their safe and sound an 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 quote i know blessed this is back in one thousand nine hundred four we've all worked for universal laws the chemical weapons convention we haven't nine hundred ninety two countries who have joined today the chemical weapons convention with only four 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 i'm sure rico 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 and twelve the syria was using chemical weapons but then syria joined the convention of course under

pressure from the you know bilateral sides from russia and 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 were. 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 very active in russia enormous things in this country for for the environment then you have in this new east west standoff you side fully unquestionably with a western narrative why did you choose die.