even the first to get to him there was there were other reporters from the russian t.v. who managed to talk to him before us and we've we've reached out to the white house that's the group the organization that came forward with the first video and just asking them for a comment so far we haven't received any reply or i know there was other footage from the alleged scene of the attack wasn't there well yes there was actual footage from the very scene of attack from one of the apartment buildings where the chemical project apparently landed now we went to that very building and our crew. managed to film that very shell the alleged shell that or that was also featured featured in one of the white helmets video so to the left you can see our video and to the right is the original video. posted by the white

helmets the activists in the video claimed that the canister that you were seeing or was still poisonous at the moment when they filmed it therefore they had to wear gas masks and just just to protect themselves but chemical experts we've heard from the kind of the raises doubts about this claim because they've told us that it's a simple gas mask it would just wouldn't be enough to protect oneself from from an exposure to a highly toxic substance have a listen. if that were a nerve agent whether he's got a base covered or not it's going to go right through his skin the only protection that he could have. were in a chemical control suit if there were chlorine gas that would protect him from from some small leaking of the korean gas for a while and it doesn't make any any any sense i could see. going through

a roof and never even breaking it's a silly way and even if it did great the dispersal of the chlorine might only kill the people in the room not even people outside the room to get out it is a rather confusing to actually understand exactly what happened here but i do understand that an international chemical watchdog is now carrying out his investigation into murders and indeed o.p.c. w. the are in damascus and they've even managed to enter this in the town of duma once but the came under fire while being accompanied by the russian military police they came under small arms fire so they had to withdraw from the site but you know everything that we're talking about heat and has been sort of somewhat rendered irrelevant to a certain degree because retaliation has already been carried out by the u.s. the u.k. and france i mean just on april the fourteenth the fired more than a hundred missiles at syria aiming had basically targeting one of the research

facilities where there's a the alleged chemical weapons were were produced also an airfield and just the number of targets so really the chemical experts are still there to find out whether or not the attack happened and to attribute the blame but the retaliation has already you know been there. thank you. it's not just the white helmets videos that are raising questions the group's also come under fire from the pink floyd co-founder roger waters for trying to lobby his support in the syrian war some time ago the so-called syria campaign which is linked to the white helmets sent the musician an e-mail inviting him into a fund raising dinner in the same message he was also encouraged to watch a documentary about the group however mr waters had his doubts. i was quite

suspicious off to i was invited to that white helmets dinner now my worst suspicions have been confirmed on the face of it it felt possible that the white helmets were just good people doing good things but now we know they're trying to encourage the west to drop bombs or missiles illegally in syria and just last week a day before he was due to give a show in barcelona waters was contacted by a french journalist working for the white helmets the reporter asked for a few moments on stage to deliver a message to the children of syria waters declined that request as well and instead a hit out at the white helmets during his concert. in. nice asian. green propaganda victory. this week with this to the proper congress the point summits and others we would be encouraged to encourage other governments to go and stop dropping. syria. we have contacted the white helmets for calm and in the meantime we've spoken to

join liston r.t. contributor max blumenthal he's the one roger waters handed his e-mails to. 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 us government in the u.k. government pretty much is 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 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 helmet. the white helmets footage is what prompted a joint strike on syria led by the u.s. but it came not long after president had been promising to pull american troops out of the country the french president's been noting trying to change his mind however there are now reports of a new arab for speeding assembled in case of a u.s. withdrawal an explanation now here's what i've got to have to leave or to stay it's a tough one. i want to get out i want to bring our troops back home i want to start rebuilding our nation we are in syria fight isis that is our mission and the mission isn't over and we're going to complete that mission america says it wants out of syria but not before its goals are accomplished which could take a while and get real dirty what do you do well that's what friends are

for we have asked our partners to take greater responsibility for securing their home region saudi arabia it seems has volunteered for the difficult task of sending troops to sit on oil fields in eastern syria apparently saudi arabia has been volunteering pretty hard and pretty long we're in discussions with the us and have been since the beginning of the syrian crisis about sending forces into syria now here's the thing those arab troops would have to be trained the u.s. could do it but no not off that what happened last time all the last times iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered by in fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight they

withdrew from the site we have an issue with the will of the iraqis to fight i saw and defend themselves so if the pentagon doesn't want to get involved there's conveniently eighth option erik prince mercenaries and soldier of fortune extraordinaire the founder of blackwater yes the blackwater the infamous private military company who is operations in iraq resulted in it being banned from the country only to really. and a new name but i never heard that. they were dead bodies everywhere in the city college but it's going to be ending

with t.v. from inside among the dead bodies lying on the street that's. the middle of seven years old. prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing under trump whom he donated a quarter of a million dollars to prince says officials in the middle east have already contacted him about assembling a force for syria and with john bolton as the new national security advisor one of the most radically militant talks in washington no one's going to care about

princes shady past john bolton is here we just had a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert and a country that doesn't want you there well privatized it give your buddies a chance to make a quick buck after all isn't that what friends are for and we addressed this issue with brian becker for me and the war on so coalition. the american government is telling the american people look we're going to go to war in syria it's imperative that we do so it's imperative that we occupy or our proxies under our guidance occupy these other countries but don't worry americans won't do any believing the suffering the bleeding will be done by others the real function of us troops in northern and eastern syria or if they are replaced by a nato arabs of military force the saudis so to speak organized by erik prince they

will be nothing other than a trip wire allowing the u.s. to bomb either through bombs or missiles against any force including the sovereign syrian arab army that seemed to interfere with the american zone of influence in the northern and eastern part of syria the trumpet ministrations decided to drop some restrictions on sales making more american military drones available to its allies there are concerns the policy puts money above human rights as americans explains the trump administration says that the these new reforms are intended to strengthen the american economy now the policy will cut back the time it takes to approve arms deals as well as ease limits on drone exports to name a few but it's not the only reason why trump is trying to make it easier for other countries to buy american weapons to reduce their reliance on weapons from china

and russia but if we look at trump's time in office so far this really isn't anything new he kicked off his presidency a signing an arms deal with a saudi arabia so it's certainly possible that the saudis could possess even more american weapons which human rights organizations say or be used to carry out their military operation in yemen which has been described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis by the u.n. over the past few years a many american politicians have recognized the saudi threat and they've been pushing to and all assistance to saudi arabia it is u.s. made in transfer ordinance that is carried on these planes and are dropped. on civilian infrastructure targets inside yemen but why don't we check out how u.s. officials explain the reforms baden's who procure american weaponry a more capable of fighting alongside us an ultimate the more capable of protecting themselves with fewer american boots on the ground this is

a balanced policy with absolutely look at human rights as one of a set of considerations that palooka so the question is if this new policy does indeed boost the economy will americans be ok with it even if it leads to further destabilization in the middle east. activist and author david swanson has concerns about what he calls an uncontrolled sales around the world the united states for a while now has been number one in providing weapons to the world to dictatorships most of the places on earth that we think of as violent where we see wars underway don't manufacture any weapons at all so this is a handful of big wealthy countries dealing weaponry to the rest of the world and thinking of it as economics as a way to make a buck oh well the effects are inclusive of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent history are still to come on the program here on our facebook moves as users

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