oh. just days after slamming syria's white helmets as propagandists rock legend roger waters reveals the activist groups have been trying to lobby his support in the war . somebody was charging that we had to go to the hospital. when i came in some people grabbed me standpoint want to pull my had another headlines 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 the child and his father give their accounts of how some folded in duma that day. police tear gas protesters in paris paralyzing transport strikes continue over

president micron's reforms. and in germany refugees are increasingly turning themselves into the terrorists in a shocking tactic to avoid deportation. to r.t. international live from moscow with me daniel hawkins. thanks for joining us this hour we start with our top headline the controversial syrian activist group the white helmets has tried to lobby roger waters that's the co-founder of the rock group pink floyd a group called the syria campaign sent an e-mail to the musician inviting him to were fundraising dinner on behalf of the white helmet affiliated organization and in the same letter the group described in detail the work it claims to be doing in syria insists the group's mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and also help bring about peace in the country waters though seemed 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 horrible 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 artie's are you going to 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 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 send 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 of medicine 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 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 asking the line lying 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 house and the list just of goes on really so roger waters he did not stop just denouncing the white house wants 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 i've known roger waters for several several years he said that he had just grown so frustrated watching the white helmets footage and duma being cited by the u.s. government and the u.k. government pretty much as their only source as their only source of intelligence to justify bombing a sovereign country that he decided to criticize this organization publicly to warn against its all teary or sectarian agenda this should be the stuff of a national scandal in the us 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 it allness 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. we have asked for a response from the white aliment so we'll bring you that as soon as we get it and in the meantime a correspondent from the russia twenty four t.v. shuttle claims to found a syrian boy seen in the white helmets footage said to show the aftermath of the one alleged chemical attack in an interview which cannot be independently verified to the child and his father recall how events unfolded in do more on april the seventh. day of 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 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 drained and sprayed he was found in duma and interviewed by a russian war correspondent. he's five 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 upstairs 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 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 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 seem to be ok and walked away without any help people got so confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying there 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's strike on

syria the syrian government of deploying a toxic agent over the area which at the time was held by rebels u.s. british and french militaries hit syria in retaliation for the airstrikes over some question a chemical attack on occasions notably mainstream british journalist robert fisk who visited duma interviewed locals we spoke to former british counter terror officer charles schumer to comment on the situation journalists who got 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. and other headlines of riot police have clashed with protesters as thousands came out across france against the president micron's reforms it's part of a three month long transport strike that has paralyzed the country doing ski's 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 protestors unhappy with many of the reforms that the malcolm government wants to make and they determined to make good choices heard and it seems that voices are being heard but yet again it's just clashes that what most people are speaking about. the process that he doesn't care about our movement but if he wasn't afraid at all he would not send so many national police officers here. and happy with the government because the poorest

classes are always the ones who are forced to give and there we just are always the ones who are being given today fighting for public services from medical services without good hospitals and the. i don't like the attitude of micron's government towards the movements and the problems work is a facing a somewhat so to stick head of state seems to be judging by his speech at the problem destroy his book he thinks that he's in a position of power. we've just come away from the crowd and that's because if you just take a look behind me might see the old look 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 it in front of a don't like as a filming them close and that's because the security services might be able to

identify them now it's this group of individuals that are the ones that we see clashes as you can see that are throwing project downs 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 through x. bricks glass bottles anything they can grow that at the hands of. that. well we're in the middle of what seems to be a standoff between some of the protesters and the police just take out a look behind me and you you can see a row of the police vans army they're all out there in their riot gear blocking off this particular route and some of the protesters are torn thing though they've also been using as smoke flares to wear to attention to what they're doing the fires at some of the bins and they've also been throwing projectiles to wards the police

this protest was meant to be about reforms of macaroons government it's once again tuned into a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. the ones they chorus hit back at everyone criticizing his proposals even adding opponents should stop holding the country hostage police made a number of arrests during the violent confrontations the latest video shows officers in helmets on protective gear holding demonstrators down on the ground some are being hauled into custody in the southern french city of moore so you can see there thousands have taken to the streets and i stopped my crime march denouncing the president's reforms it was organized by left wing party leaders on local but i'm sure this was his message to the crowd. to get real in a process where president michael's brother colusa 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 finally 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 a president shouldn't like this story i could not stay silent on that. all the large sectors on strike transport energy public workers health workers all these sectors are represented today on the rise 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 bardhan has skyrocketed in recent times it turns out that half the cases are actually refugees turning themselves in each one of has been taking a look at what's behind this unusual development. 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 two 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 the 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 you have a death or a cheese on 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. germany is not alone in this trend let's take a quick look at the situation in greece now hundreds of asylum seekers recently gathered outside a police station in the city of firsts a lot of heat for the exact same reason many of you arrest as an opportunity to stay in the european union and also the fastest way to get. necessary paperwork

started a large waiting line reportedly formed for several days after a surge in illegal border crossings from turkey and that of course follows ankara's military operation against syrian kurds geopolitical analyst and consultant writer office believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe we continually see the judicial system of the european countries is simply not here not to the challenge of. the refugee crisis is in the past years and by and twenty seventeen it became clear that the german government has to employ over two thousand. traditional experts to deal with increasing crime traces concerning. about all. terrorism but there's also all the pieces that's legal on the german traditional

system it means a sharp increase also in employment costs. russia's ambassador to the u.n. has lashed out at the u.k. over its handling of the script poisoning vassili bens your has a 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 the literary flavor today the rational account if you keep behavior is a we write of george orwell's one thousand eight hundred. eighty eight and 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 through the looking glass.

seems endless that back and fro will britain's of course released the document recently revealing that neither it nor the o.p.c. w. first occasion team was able to determine the exact origin of the agent used in the salzburg attack of the u.k. still insist that russia is responsible though claiming that only moscow could have produced the substance russia that was responded with some of its own revealing details as take a look at some of the shock type agents were allegedly produced then even payton did in the united states over one hundred times that's what moscow is saying and the u.k. continues to withhold information on the probe that makes 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 probe without consular access to our citizens and most importantly without the obligatory participation of russian experts in all

actions to establish the truth all that happened in salzburg on march the fourth a former am i five asian tiny mashad said that even though the u.k.'s position has weakened somewhat learns the one likely to backtrack on its allegations against russia. they sort of back and selves into 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 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't 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. of us has piled the pressure on turkey warning of sanctions if it

buys any more russian defense systems the purchase could also affect u.s. sales of thirty five fighter jets to one korea washington insists that you should be mindful of making strategic concessions to moscow that's a jury and who is interventions in syria and no to whoever appears to take a slightly different stance they say this is a decision for turkey alone to make we discussed the issue with the dean of the political sciences faculty at marmara university tom are things that washington's attempts to disrupt four hundred deal are designed to divide moscow and i'm. because of russian and turkey relationships better relationships are americans try to you know pause and try to. take turkey from out of russia using economic. problems of turkey and this is 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 out of you know government easier to. color it to be united states i think it as far as this government government is on power 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 is to take out of this government from power. iran has announced it's dumping the dollar in favor of the euro for official financial reporting they'll make it the latest nation to limit the use of u.s. currency just last year china set up a ruble you want payment system for transactions with russia pakistan that are out to ditch the greenback as well for its trade with beijing tehran based economist i

mean massone sure are blue thinks these are moves in the right direction. is a good start that means that the policy makers on moving towards you know 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. u.s. 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 or global reserve currencies this is a positive. that would 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 yet of on

demonstrators their anger at the former president spread to become prime minister. i. was. security's been tightened as thousands of demonstrators tried to block the streets and even reach government buildings police can be seen there arresting protesters the heaviest clashes so far took place on monday when forty people were injured around eighty were also detained though some have now been released according to reports. stepped down as president this month at the end of his term a parliament no approved his candidacy for prime minister on tuesday is already started appointing his cabinet all of whom so far have kept their posts from previous times the opposition claims sort of dishonest trying to cling on to power . and finally for more 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 and now the story has a new twist though she's released the picture of a man is she claims was hired to threaten her back in twenty eleven to keep quiet. can we take a look at the fact that can't. tell. until your recollection is it is that the person that knew absolutely.

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