but. just days after slamming syria's white helmets as propagandists rock legend roger waters reveals the activist group has been trying to lobby his supporters in the syrian civil war. somebody was challenging because we had to go to the hospital. when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water on my had a russian t.v. channel says it's interviewed a syrian boy 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 the day. that least tear gas protesters in paris paralyzing transport strikes continue over

president reforms and. many refugees are increasingly turning themselves in as terrorists in a shocking tactic to avoid deportation. welcome to our teams national life from moscow on day. to day thanks so much for joining us on the program this hour now the controversial activist group they want helmets has tried to lobby roger waters the co-founder of the rock group pink floyd a group called the syria campaign sent an email to the musician inviting him to a fundraising dinner on behalf of the helmets affiliated organization now in the same letter of the group described in detail the work it claims to be doing in the country. the group's mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and help bring about peace in the country as well roger waters those seem 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 because of all 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 or your staff join my colleague andrew farmer to discuss the group's emails and waters concern over their activities. it was somewhat of an indirect response to a number of e-mail he received from a different person now it was signed by a man who described himself as a journalist and also a militant with the syrian white helmets and he apparently asked 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 send a message or two this children of syria you're not forgotten well apparently

a third said gig in barcelona roger waters did this have a look wait a minute it's. really a problem. 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 other

nusra a terrorist group and these are the white helmets volunteers clearing up the execution site so also in other videos they are seeing 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 to talk about the white helmet but the other ones that have have taken a different stance well indeed the white helmets the sort of by our skin the 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 roger waters is 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. the 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 each other don't miss 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 a russian conspiracy. and we've asked for a response from the white house and we'll bring it to you of course as soon as we get it. and in the meantime a correspondent from the russian twenty four t.v. channel claims to have found a syrian boy seen in the white helmets footage said to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in this interview which cannot be independently verified the child and his father recalled just that orbits unfolded in duma on april seventh one of the 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 noises outside somebody was shouting that we had to go to the hospital so we went there when i came in some people grabbed me and started pouring water on my had eleven year old ass and dia 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 a 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 la. 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 think.

of 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 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 and we had an explosion and somebody said it was

a chemical work we ran to where the noise came from and started poolroom water over the people at least seem 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 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 and the u.s. and its ally cite their own intelligence sources to justify saturday's strike on syria accuse 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 military has hit syria in retaliation for the airstrikes however some now question the chemical attack allegations notably mainstream british journalist robert fisk who visited duma and interviewed locals we spoke to former british counter terror officer charles schumer bridge to comment on the situation. journey to get in on the ground robert fisk is a notable person i'm thinking of there he said and 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 we're already i think saying i'm 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. in

other news of riot police have clashed with protesters as thousands came out across france against president micron's reforms is part of three month long transport strikes that of paralyzed the country are you shot at doing ski was in the midst 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 moscow government wants to make and they determined to make it he says 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 alert of the people have got their faces covered they wearing black and that's because they known 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. that in there roy it 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 cool. macaroons government it's once again turned into a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. the police also made a number of arrests during the violent confrontations the latest video shows officers in helmets and protective gear holding demonstrators that are on the ground as you can see there while others are hauled into custody in the southern french city of mass safe thousands of taken to the streets in a stock market march denounce the french president's reforms it was organized by left wing party leaders wrong luke a medal sean this was his message to the crowds. get real in the process where president radicalism has pushed everyone together every week the head

of state seems to distract us and go further with reforms so we need to step forward to we know one of those plain evil like this. in one thousand nine hundred five he had to fly leaf step back this is not fair to announce to the people i will pass over you i will destroy you these are not ways to act the president shouldn't talk like this sorry i could not stay silent and that. all the large sectors on strike transport energy public workers health workers all these sectors are represented today warning that megatron doesn't want to change but he will see when all the countries paralyzed he will be forced to negotiate. the number of terror related investigations in the german state of barden has skyrocketed recently it turns out though that half the cases are refugees turning

themselves in it whatever has been taking a look at what's behind the 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 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 almost always allege 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 the german authorities are 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. . was trend is not just consigned to germany let's take a look at the situation in greece now hundreds of asylum seekers recently gathered outside a police station in the city of first salon a key for the very same reason many of you arrest there's an opportunity to stay in

the european union the fastest way to get. necessary paperwork started a large waiting line reportedly formed for days after a surge in illegal border crossings from turkey it follows on korea's military operation against syrian kurds as your political analyst and consultant trainer office believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe. we can see there. are the european countries is simply not here. to the challenge and. the refugee crisis is almost in the past years by and twenty seven became. the german government lloyd over to with. the traditional experts deal with increasing. concerning. about all. terrorism also all

these is absolutely the. traditional system means a sharp increase in costs. russia's ambassador to the u.n. has lashed out at the u.k. over its handling of the script poisoning mostly in a benz or had a heated exchange with the british envoy after moscow was once again that access to the probe. room to quote from william shakespeare's henry the sixth suspicion always haunts the guilty mind allow me to return the literary flavor today the russian account if you kate behavior is a rewrite of george orwell's one thousand nine hundred eighty four dated to the modern day and modern russian mecca. when i listened to some of my colleagues it

seems this is no longer alice in wonderland it's alice through the looking glass. and britain has released a document revealing that neither it nor the o.p.c. w. investigation was able to determine the exact origin of the agent used in the salzburg attack at the u.k. still insists that russia is responsible claiming that only moscow could have produced the substance. russia's responded with some of its own revealing evidence let's take a look at some of what moscow has been saying. according to them not the chalk type patients were in fact produced and even paid intented over one hundred times in the united states and the u.k. continues to withhold information on the probe making it hard for russia to discuss london's conclusions that. russia will not accept any national or international results of any investigation without access to full information including materials from the british probe without consular access to our citizens and most importantly

without the obligatory participation of russian experts in all actions to establish the truth is all that happened in solsbury on march the fourth. former m i five agent i mean the short answer is that even though the u.k.'s position has weakened somewhat london is unlikely to backtrack on its allegations against russia this sort of back and thousand to a corner and 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 the 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 looking for 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 has piled the pressure on turkey warning of sanctions if it buys russian defense systems the purchase could also affect u.s. sales of a thirty five fighter jets to anchorage that's according to washington the u.s. also adds turkey should be mindful of making strategic concessions to moscow during its interventions in syria however made to appear to take a bit of a contrary starts they say this is a decision for turkey alone to make we discuss the issue with the dean of the political sciences faculty at turkey's mamoru university fingers tom are you says washington's attempts to disrupt s four hundred deal or designed to divide moscow and korea. because of russian and turkey relationships and relationships are americans try to you know cause and try to. take turkey from out of russia using economic. problems of turkey

and this is the should be really difficult for turkey i think americans try to you know. to take this government from the power in turkey to make an art of you know government easier to. color it to be united states i think it as far as this government government is on is no way you know to conclude something between the states and turkey i think you know the main. main aim of the united states to take out of this government from power. in other headlines or ron has announced it's dumping the dollar in favor of the euro for official financial reporting that will make it the latest nation to limit use of u.s. currency last year china set up a ruble you want payment system for transactions with russia pakistan then

announced plans to ditch the greenback for its trade with beijing as well which are on based economists say any share our glu thinks these moves in the right direction . is a good start that means that the policy makers on moving towards this could set up the infrastructure the financial reporting infrastructure the banking infrastructure to move towards dealing with international dealings in europe which is a positive step because in my opinion the more of us dollar right now has the. reserve currency as you know about sixty three percent of global reserve currency is in u.s. dollars so if you want to move away from that money into a more on or multi-polar global currencies this is a positive. reduce you worse on influence in mingling in government economies such as iran. clashes with police have broken out on

a six day of mass anti-government rallies in the armenian capital get evonne demonstrators angered at the former president spread to become prime minister. i. was. i. the security in the city has been tightened as thousands of demonstrators tried to block key streets and reach government buildings as well police can be seen arrests in protesters the heaviest clashes so far took place on monday when fourteen people were injured around eighty were also detained though some have now been released according to reports. you see on stepped down as president this month at the end of his term parliament though approved his candidacy for prime minister on tuesday he's already started appointing his cabinet all of whom have kept their posts from the previous term the opposition claims you see i was trying to cling on to power.

before my 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 the story has a new twist she's released the picture of a man she claims was hired to threaten her back in twenty eleven to keep it quiet. can we take a look at the camp. itself. and to your recollection is it is that the person the best friend knew absolutely.

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