join 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 un 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 done enormous things in this country you for for the environment then you get in this new east west standoff you side fully and unquestionably with the west a 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 bent over backwards to be as neutral as we can but when the fact finding mission of the chemical weapons convention 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 and the gym reports the joint investigative mechanism 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'm in the non-governmental community and 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 for proof can i just seize on that because you say you want to full proof you you say that you subscribe to critical thinking but you know very well that most fact finding missions unlike probably the belay this one relied on evidence that was submitted by other parties in the most case the opposition parties or state actors affiliated with the opposition like turkey so the chain of custody has never been fully established the gym mechanism they jim probed at the you mentioned it has never visited the actual sides in syria and we all know that you know there is a lot of politics involved in the syrian the war let's not pretend that it is just

the syrian government fighting the opposition there there are many foreign actors present there who have a very clear interest in manipulating the public narrative i you discounting all of that no we're not discounting i don't think any of that. you know i would i would question about the chain of command that what i was about to say earlier though is remember we're in a war zone here and the opi study inspectorate which has existed since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven has inspected you know the the safe and sound destruction of over sixty nine thousand metric tons of live agent you know the majority of it in russia a lodge amount in the united states and in in six other countries. you know they've been very accurate they're very experienced very well trained but the entrance into syria in two thousand and thirteen after syria signed the chemical weapons convention was the very first time that they had to measure themselves for bullet proof vests and actually for. face potential life and death situation so we're

dealing with a very difficult inspection situation nobody can get on site to any of these alleged chemical weapons attacks the days afterward. sometimes weeks afterward this also is of all options opportunities for these for the data for the the photographs for the videos for the evidence to be manipulated or staged i totally agree with that but if you read the f.m. reports in the jim reports that have operated in full cooperation with the syrian government full cooperation with whatever forces they were they were fighting in that in those regions that the and the including the intelligence from a wide variety of sources forensic evidence blood samples urine samples interviews with the medical doctors you find that these these the few that we know about we only know about a few of the couple hundred alleged attacks the few we know about pretty much i think certainly prove beyond

a reasonable doubt i think one hundred percent would be stretching it but beyond a reasonable doubt that the syrians have undertaken at least five attacks syrian government and the isis islamic state has undertaken at least two attacks well mr walker you mentioned the victim's blood and urine samples before and we already hearing similar reports from western particularly american media that the victim's blood and urine samples tested positive for cloran and spoken to a number of experts in argon a chemistry and they all say that molecular chlorine could simply not be found in the biological materials it reacts to quickly it can vary its to chlorate which is a natural component of blood and urine i have here a printout from the u.s. department of health and human services guide for cloran i'd also states that there are no biomarkers that can be used to quantify exposure to chlorine gas how is it possible that the. austin scientist would so quickly discover something for which

a scientific task does not even exist you know i i don't know exxon or if chlorine samples can be taken i'm not a physician i'm not a chemist you mentioned the blood then you're into something else or earlier i did and what they have found is sorry any of you any of your nerve agents leave leave residue. markers in the blood on the bodies in the soil chlorine is very you know is very volatile evaporates very quickly green disassociates very quickly if you but nerve agents do not for the most part it all depends on the weather in the rain and everything else going on at the scene but what i was referring to was blood samples with signs of sara age an attack in it and we've found that over and over again in the country to last year tom and that's when we heard the same claim following behind and i'm sure you heard that the u.s.

defense secretary mr mattis just the other day just recently now the other day but i think it was in february stated that the united states till this day does not have forensic evidence for the use of sarin in ha ha when he was referring specifically to that attack i suppose he had access to the same report that you mentioned by jim or perhaps by the fact finding mission how is it possible that the united states of it's all be intelligence with all the forces it has on the ground cannot secure the very same samples that you know opposition groups or turkey could provide to the o.p.c. w investigators. well the opi study tries to maintain chain of custody you mentioned earlier you want you know every inspector that goes in the team wants to maintain one hundred percent chain of custody in other words the sampling they have ideally taken by them and under their control until they get to the opi stub you designate a laboratory and if you don't have full chain of command which you know is very

likely in most if not all of these cases due to the fact that you can't get to the sites and you can't get to the victims or the medical personnel for probably a week later i mean here and here in duma we're dealing with you know over a week later with it where they are now you have to read the read the f.m. in the gym reports very carefully look at the the sampling techniques on the whole i would continue to say all evidence points towards the syrian government it's not just you know videos it's not just blood samples either it's i witness reports. and also intelligence on aircraft decorating helicopters most of these bombs except in the case of the isis two strikes came from the air came from barrel bombs or weapons dropped from the air and there's only one one fighting force in this in syria today that has helicopters and aircraft and we know that this well dr walker let me stop you here just for a second to need to take every shot big but we will be back in just

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international is environmental security and sustainability program mr walker just before the break you mentioned barrel bombs as supposedly the most typical weapon the weapon of choice for the syrian army and the pentagon just released its assessment suggesting that it believes a barrel bombs were used in the case of the duma attack to deliver the chemicals one of barrel bombs was filmed in the bathroom of the building where that attack supposedly took place and it supposedly came through a small opening in the roof flew across the room around five or seven meters landed on the bag without damaging the bad or even the blanket underneath it. without having any visible scratches or dons on the shell itself with its fins still being in tagged out supposedly after crashing through the reinforced concrete of the ceiling does this all look straightforward to you that's another news story oksana

i'm not sure that's at all truthful i never heard that story before but i have heard. syrian and russian diplomats again and again and tell these extraordinary stories about how these weapons could not go straight down a smokestack or a straight through you know room or whatever none of that or in the f.m. of the gym reports i've not seen any of that before and i know all the reports indicate where the bombs landed with a with a likely bombs landed there were craters in the roads or in the house of the rule. never it is. you know i i'm very loathe to believe these reports about bouncing off beds and coming straight down smokestacks it just is so unbelievable and i would urge everyone to look at all the evidence oksana but you know i i'm the first to say because this is in a war zone and we cannot have inspectors there perhaps even in many cases ever on

site so we'll never know you know where eighty or ninety percent of these attacks have come from you have to put it in the whole context of the war and the syrian government is the only one with helicopters and aircraft the syrian government as far as we know is the only country there which has just recently given up a very large stockpile and the the declaration assessment team a group we called the debt the da to haiti uses acronyms but. the declaration assessment team which which assesses the initial declaration from a new state party a new member state of the o.p.'s w has gone to the masses now at least fifteen times maybe more and still cannot find all the evidence that it's asked syria for so there's a whole series of questions that syria has been either unwilling or unable to answer it's hardly surprising that there is a lot of mistrust on the syrian side when you you have one attack after another

which has also lots of unanswered questions which has lots of fat flags and yet all of the blame is put on the syrian government because i just gave you an example of a video where about a bomb placed positioned at a place where it could not. be positioned if you actually take physics and velocity and all of that seriously that is just impossible i mean you need to take physics one on the one to understand that it's not possible for a barrel bulb to fly through the roof and this that's video was provided by the same activists who submitted the videos all of the of the video don't believe those i don't believe those reports i know i know russia i know russia and some others in the syrians certainly and maybe at times the iranians are trying to push some of these stories these stories are really not very credible at all and i i'm a scientist i'm that i'm the first one to look for all the evidence and i've been critical of all governments there we all want the war to stop we want no chemical weapons use we want no violence period and i think the part of the reason is

because we cannot get a diplomatic solution either in the geneva process or in the stand up process in kazakhstan so i'm all in favor of a you know a diplomatic solution to stopping the violence and all of this i'm also for finding whoever is using illegal in you main globally banned chemical weapons bringing them before the international criminal court and imprisoning them and i think in the end all of this will go before the court but i'm willing to bet if we both went to the court if there were a trial of bashar al assad today he would be found guilty before the international commitment mr walker if your country or the united states why we're not allowed to manipulate the court. the composition of the court i'm actually not sure how the verdict would be out but you said about the evidence i won that preceded that group because i think it's very very important you very critical of the syrian government you made it very clear that you called it responsible so let's talk about the other

side and the other side the leaders that the both the french intelligence and you know the american government based its findings on its conclusions on base out it outloud in their official statements that they base that conclude. since on social media reports on public source information and one of such videos includes children corpses being moved around clearly rearranged in different positions apparently for emotional impact in several cases we can see the same bodies with the foam on that mouth in other cases there is no film we send you pictures before over a phone trail which really looks pretty i'm not sure but i think most people would agree that it looks as if it was applied with the help of a dispenser. i wonder what is he what are your thoughts on that do you at the very least question the motives and the actions of the side that would be also very very interested in finding a in the international community agreeing that it was assad who was behind it but

at the end of the day it wasn't their fault soldiers who were carrying children's corpses around and putting them in all those many positions. well first of all i guess we all i saw those photos and thank you for sending to me on i you know these photos are horrible it's one of the things i think that moves a lot of viewers towards becoming very concerned and worried about the whole civil war in syria today i can't judge whether these and i don't think opie seven inspectors judge either whether these photos are. extremely accurate or could have been manipulated i would assume some of them clearly could have been easily manipulated manipulated foam coming from the mouth you just don't know sometimes foam is extreme in us like dilated pupils two or constricted pupils as well the eyes and you just don't know when the photos were taken how long the body was the poor child of the individual is dead it's very difficult and that's why i say we

can't make any judgments on these attacks based on photos of that nature we we clearly know at some point somebody was hit with some sort of a chemical they look like they were victims of chemical warfare no other wounds on the body at all but we can even tell that because they're fully clothed it could be they could have been requote so i'm just saying we need multiple sources of information to prove these cases and in the in the dozen a so cases that the gym in the a fact finding. mechanism from a mission from the o.p.'s w used i'm quite convinced that what they've concluded is correct that syria has been found guilty of probably the syrian government about five i think it's five maybe it's up to six cases now what if whatever we see from duma this week from the fact finding mission and the isis islamic state has been found guilty of at least two uses of mustard we don't know where this these chemicals are coming from except now apparently you know according to police the

americans the british the french and others who supported them maybe the you know scientific research facility was still doing work but the. inspections that have gone on by the o.p.'s w. in syria over the last five years you know have not proven any major production of chemicals any hidden stockpile or anything so that that's still remains an open question but dr walker riyadh talking here about the upholding of a major global norm on the prohibition of the use of chemical weapons on their clearest signs here that one of the parties jaish al islam and al qaeda affiliates reach was accused by amnesty international off using chemical weapons against the kurds in two thousand and sixteen these parties clearly involved in manipulating the evidence to create the impression that chemical weapons were used if it's ok for them to use children's corpses like dad do you think they would really think twice about using chlorine for real given how easily available it is you know

chlorine is very sensible it's not banned necessary it's not banned at all in the chemical weapons convention but it is banned any chemicals banned of it's used as a weapon and no matter what it is. you know talk and he talks and he talks a chemical. of these pictures your question and i. say again i think they can be manipulated but i think it's still useful to see some of these these victims look like in fact they were hit with some sort of chemical and the other question is if it was dropped with barrel bombs or aerial bombs which is many times the case from helicopters and aircraft and if syrian aircraft and helicopters were vectoring over that very site at the same time where all this happened it's pretty clear to me that the syrian government is to blame for this i don't see any other explanation the al qaeda groups islamic state they have no aircraft no helicopter they could easily have brought some some barrel bombs also some

destroyed shells to that very site as i think happened in do my i mentioned you the case of these huge cylinder cylinder lying of bad you know without damaging bad or . even the blanket underneath it how much how much really how much physics does it take to figure out that this would be highly unlikely i think you know the o.p.'s the inspectors have looked at all of that exxon and i i can't answer every single instance you know i've i've never been to syria i know the access of the opi study inspectors has been limited to a week or two after all or later after these incidents i think you just have to read the reports well and you'll find that on the whole there are obviously further questions many of which you've raised which i think a very fair on the whole these fact finding mission and jim reports have been very accurate what bothers me most right now is we need the gym the joint investigative mechanism under the united nations auspices to continue and russia has vetoed the extension of the gym even after personnel have been changed in the gym several

times and these are all multilateral operations including russian inspectors and officials as well but mr walker i'm sure you know that russia has all for its own composition of how the they the joint investigative mechanism could be structured i mean i don't believe that the you know a person who is so involved in the subject like you wouldn't know about that you know that russia also submitted its own draft and the united states we did it so please don't that don't make it they don't deprive our viewers of the context here because there are actually three resolutions that were put on the draft resolutions put on the table i'm sure russian was vetoed and they had them eric and was vetoed well it'll be important for some sort of invest independent investigative mechanism that everyone finds fair including multilateral inspectors from a dozen countries we don't want to rush an inspection we don't want american inspection we don't want you know our iraqi inspection or syrian inspection one of

multilateral inspectorate which is what the fact finding mission is all about what the gym was all about and i don't understand having read the russian proposals. why russia cannot agree on a fully independent multilateral international inspector going forward to try to find a club that i can tell you that i think it believes that the united states the united states tries to manipulate. mechanism through structuring it in a way that is most beneficial for its aims i can i can but rather the debating about it because i think we made our views pretty clear can i ask you one more thing because you know you the. explanation to everything that we've discussed today in russia is that what we're witnessing in syria goes back to barack obama's august two thousand and twelve statement on the red lines and the intensified efforts on the part of various state and non-state actors to make sure that the

united states is drawn into the conflict that it stays in syria for as long as it takes and hopefully take the side of not only the militants or their problems but also the end tyranny inside that it would be of these really interest for example do you find these explanation plausible at all. you know i think i think i wish the peace process the geneva diplomatic peace process would have taken hold much earlier i think obama drew a red line and never fulfilled his his threats i suppose are predictions. on the other hand i also don't support trump president trumps you know unilateral actions either but those of us who've worked on this crisis for the last five or more years a very frustrated and more long frustrated long before. when the rebel groups in syria had to resort to violence to try to oppose bashar assad's really in you

main cruel long time tactics of torture and an ugly behavior as a dictator in syria and. i think. everyone has a little bit to blame i agree not sure what the united states could have done more you know we haven't done military action directly as we have the last year with president trump maybe we should have done that earlier but i'm in favor of multilateral responses not unilateral action and i must say were also very critical of russia's support for such a horrible dictator in damascus 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. dr walker may have to leave it there the only thing i can say that from my experience of talking to many syrians both on the process side and the opposition side they certainly don't want any help from the

united states when it comes to democracy building. please please supply those efforts elsewhere for example in saudi arabia and i think it would also help turning some of your attention to the treatment of humanity that is human beings there but anyway is dr walter you've been very gracious and very patient with me thank you very much for the. abating in this conversation i also encourage our viewers to keep it going on our social media pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here on worlds apart.

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and. just days after slamming syria's what helmets propagandists rock legend roger waters reveals the activist group has been trying to lobby his supporters in the syrian civil war. somebody was challenging that we had to go to the hospital so we went there when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water over my had a russian t.v. channel says it's interview the syrian boys seen in the white helmets footage purportedly showing the aftermath of a chemical attack the child and his father give their account of how events unfolded in duma on that day. please tear gas protesters in paris paralyzing transport strikes continue.