syria and lebanon syria and jordan the sense in the center of the country has been retaken because of the russian intervention in two thousand and fifteen and now we go back to the huge intervention without russia intervening we wouldn't have the situation be at eight and the us only acting out of envy because they want to be in russia's position you know russia today russia so over the previous weeks has brokered a number of agreements for rebels to leave areas around damascus and call the moon while the u.s. is looking on woods striking one of two military targets in a very very good topic which which ultimately didn't really do there how to chemicals weapons chemical weapons ability the strike would not have affected it because they essentially gave them a week's notice by posting it on twitter so this is the way the u.s. is running its war these days and this is from his tweets and this is something he said he would never ever do one of his first press conferences he said i will never tell you what i'm going to do and then he telegraphs it but gareth he did that on

purpose because he knows he's painted himself into a corner and his advisors are making sure that he doesn't have any maneuver room so that's why you throw these these missiles out there i've heard a dozen different versions about how many of them made their target how many were shot down how many them didn't work ok i don't know ok but the american version doesn't stand up to much scrutiny from what i can tell go ahead gareth it was just political theater it wasn't actually a military strike it was political theater garrett. i couldn't i couldn't agree more on that point and you know if you actually read the the the morning briefing that was given at the pentagon after the night that the strikes took place it was an amazing performance in the sense that you know the people doing the briefing absolutely would not answer

a question that's you know that had to do with for example you know with you know did did you actually do any air sampling to find out if you know when you hit this supposedly a place where they were making chemical weapons there was any pot problem of affecting the the air or of the people surrounding it and it's clear that they hadn't done it and that they couldn't basically say what the consequences were of the target they hit and i think that what that means is that they really didn't have any information of course was always the case where the right producer and this i mean to me here let me let me jump in here we've got to go to a hard break in after out hard break we'll continue our discussion on syria staying with our theme.

we'll willingly accepted the risk of being shot winded taken prisoner but not signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people i've seen stuff that was leaked or biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate. every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the burn pits would read literally send to be a broke and they don't want to pay it so the way to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay a. call for help and get the middle finger to the movies and finally.

delayed and i hope you die. in july twenty seventh seen on and i'll set up a freelance journalist working with our team to militant shelling in syria. so on it is sacrifice quality has established a hundred all sorts of memorial awards they will recognize war reporters who often risk then the sort to say because the truth comes through that these you can submit to your published works in a video or in britain format go to a war and don't on t.v. don't come into it now. we are still living with a lot of conflicting when you're seeing the situation in syria to the rest of the middle east to the problem between so they're beyond iran now the american president is that i and you know to withdraw and some obstacle data we heard that the saudis are a bit to go down. on their guy on so with can be in the end the will to fail and the reason is the situation is very very dangerous.

welcome back across iraq where all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the situation in syria. ok let me go back to mohamed in doha nikki haley she says she's not confuse i think she's confused all of the time she made it very clear that the u.s. presidents. in syria is aimed at iran she was very clear about that of course people in the white house didn't like her saying it but she said she's not confused ok. is this really what it's really all about is that. because of the political situation the status quo in syria where other actors are creating political facts and the u.s.

is just occupying is are they really turning in a different direction is this really what it's all about is focusing in on iran. while i think that nikki haley is not the only or it's official in the nation who is going to fuel. doesn't know how to put off the intentions of drama and i think now with the situation that is a combination of per format of politics from prism if we can see it that way and also a piecemeal tactics when they have a trump runs into problems he has to figure out this through asterix of politics in front of cameras yet the difference between what is said in front of cameras and what is done or is it clear that in the field in particular in syria is a huge and i think now we have been talking about the rise of. them i think that we have to pay attention to something new is the way nene comb for them in washington

by in their lives and now it becomes like this group that has lost its focus and that has lost its focus and also probably has put so much on his plate that he can handle now we have the future is next month with iran and the nuclear there we have the upcoming summit with the north korean leader there so so much to deal with and i think now trump has. probably a lot of his the expectations of the public in this region of the world by embrace in so many adventures and then he can not deliver much what are you remain concerned about is if trump and the kremlin loses their grip on both the iranians on the one hand and the israelis on the other it does when it's

going to be a messy joke and i don't think the poor to be able to figure out what to do next you know danny that's brought up a really good point because there's so many festering issues particularly in the middle east but and on a broader broader scale with north korea the u.s. doesn't have a grasp on the situation i mean one of the things i have noticed with this administration is that it's there's so many war hawks so many military people and then you have pompei all coming in not exactly a man of great tack ok in diplomacy and what we really need now and i mean this for all players because my primary issue issue is peace and having peace settlements ok you're going to need a lot of finast you're going to need a lot of patience and to date this it ministration doesn't exhibit any of the above go ahead danny well i would just like to bring you back to the moment where. the

initial disagreement between the russians and started in trying issued the tweet and the response of the russian foreign ministry was that we don't we don't participate in twitter diplomacy now you can bring this fact here because because the main problem is the policy it's not just the people you need finesse you need you need that clause of managing to find agreement obama managed to do it with the iranians for sure but the americans don't have a policy that's the problem you've got trump who's just discussing leaving theory or then within the next couple of days he sets another red line and then. he begins . to make threats of attacking syria after an alleged chemical weapons attack which wasn't verified internationally and he chose to strike syria on the same day that the u.n. chemical weapons inspectors arrived to investigate the scene and so from that perspective you've got a leader who is acting in a very confusing way who's misleading himself in that ministration and his allies who essentially doesn't know what to do in syria longer than this week so what what

syria needs at the moment is an international agreement to be engaged but is the person to deliver that agreement that consensus absolutely no followed in moskos position no i would be very wary of having to negotiate or deal with trump on any matter not to syria for that matter because because because in trump you are dealing with an individual who is someone predictable who has such a lack of understanding of the situation that all you have to do is bring up these tweets from two thousand and thirteen ridiculing obama who didn't in syria to understand that the guy has completely gone against every one of his statements i mean one of the commentators said you know there's a trump tweet for every occasion so if you look at the situation oh i wish and i wish that weren't funny but it is ok i should laugh because it's such a situations of great gravity here you know let me go to gareth here we can see you know both muhammad and danny bring up really good points here i mean next month i

guess we're all going to roll into dissipating it that it is going to withdraw from the iran deal ok in the same time maybe he wants to make a deal with the north koreans i mean and then the u.s. is stubborn and it will actually it works as a negative force in syria that doesn't allow a peace process to move forward any time peace could possibly break out in syria while ash carter comes around and bombs ok or or just women a major city is of liberated from terrorists supported by foreigners oh we. chemical weapons attack here so i mean i own every single scale there's no reason to be optimistic and one does influence the other these situations are interconnected go ahead gary well of course they are interconnected in the sense that the north koreans are constantly looking at what the united states is doing elsewhere in the world to assess you know how to how to deal with them in terms of

trying to negotiate a settlement which they've been trying to do for three generations of the kim family and so that that is entirely that's centrally important to their to their calculations and i think that it's very important to understand that that kim kim jong un does indeed intend to bring about a comprehensive solution with trump if it's at all possible and i think that this has happened primarily i would argue because of president moon of south korea's patient diplomacy with the north and with trump and clearly trump moon has been very clever in appealing to trump's sense of vanity you know making it possible for trump to say i am the one who has made this possible and it couldn't have happened without me as long as the moon is able to carry on that diplomacy with trump i do have some hope for these talks really succeeding but of course we have john bolton

whispering in trouble you're going to convince him to do something different and that is the fly in the ointment to say the least but but definitely i think that trump is now moving in the direction that is hopeful on peace with north korea and that is quite an astonishing turn of events even more astonishing i must say than nixon going to china yes let me go to that back to doha mohamed one of the things i think is very. interesting i mean we had the north korean leader visit beijing recently we had pompei o. actually state department designate had a meeting with the leadership of north korea i get this strong feeling and i don't see western analysts looking at it this way the trip to china wasn't begging it was i've got an idea and you back it and i think it's going to be and this is going to

be the true test of leadership is that denuclearization yes america must withdraw its military completely from the peninsula that is actually a good idea with chinese and russian guarantees ok the american state the blob will never ever under any circumstances buy that deal though it would be a good deal go ahead mom. month ago i was very optimistic about the next summit to between the north and kim jong un on they thought they would achieve a breakthrough but having reflected on trump conflict analysts from my perspective i am kind of confused because when i consider him a pragmatist or a realist he is not good at waging war and this is the second. and said may go back and use the chemical weapon once again so there is no

programmatic ism in the way trump handled his decision of go into war at the same time when i considered him a deal maker i don't see haim innovative leader who can engage in deal making and so he is everything but being a pragmatist so now my fear is that we will witness. kind of media event the votes around the off ramp on the one hand and kim on the other and because of this inflated politics we may not see or we may not witness what we are looking for a little major or a little significance in advance in the agenda so i think now the ball will go back to the court of the chinese i think if there is any balance in power between north korea and the united states is what the region can do otherwise if it is left to trump and i don't see any i would regard as kind of going to finish with danny and

i'm going to give you a situation danny you know with the with the situation with iran deal with north korea that this is how it's going to be trump comes out and says we want a deal and sitting right next to me is john bolton and he says to the iranians the north koreans all you have to do is surrender and everything will be fine ok that's how it's that's how it's going to play out again the second for danny finisher. it's more likely that it will cry about weight but but in essence what the fundamental flaw in trump's syria action was which will lead to huge problems now in the future while setting a precedent and saying that he was going to stick by it because now i mean any any with of of an idea that chemical weapons might have been used and he will be on the immense pressure internally to strike syria again and if he doesn't like syria again who knows the next time what kind of response will be from the russians from the iranians from the syrians and you've got to remember there are u.s. troops on the ground in syria who for the short parley thirty arabian troops are

going to go in now and replace them so you've got this policy which is up in the air but trying to set a very dangerous precedent now in syria ok on that point gentlemen we've run out of time many thanks to my guests in washington london and in doha and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember cross talk rules. well past two nights there was a healthy person and then to plant the seeds another before see of the european soldier dog. in the zoo montana plays a song called pass by step back and. you'll think three years or does

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the top headlines for this hour. as more. videos show the off the mouth of an alleged chemical attack in syria and crew visits places seen in the footage speaks to eyewitness news. the infamous blackwater security group has reportedly been contacted by gulf officials to help create a force in syria to replace u.s. troops. and facebook moves one point

five. out of the. blocks about to enforce new data protection. on the hour every hour international and a very warm welcome to your. video footage that was seen around the world at the start of the month claiming to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in syria is now being called into question a team from our sister channel r.t. arabic visited the town and earlier in the program i discussed what they saw there with artie's eco standoff where did the crew go and what did they see where they've actually managed to and to the very town of duma it's just outside damascus the syrian capital and it is the site of the alleged chemical attack and what we've

seen so far from this place was and much mostly it's been a video released by the white helmets activist group you're looking at right now it's shot in a hospital and it's shows some truly heartbreaking pictures these scenes of chaos of panic confused children being hosed down with water everything pointing at a potential chemical attack but are to rob a crew managed to talk to a boy who was featured in this video of the white house and he gave his account of events in that hospital have a listen and then we were outside and they told all of us to go into the hospital i was immediately taken up stairs and they started pouring water on me do you remember where it happened. here with the hose there is it here it is. and then they

poured water on me they put me here and then took me out serious to my mother where exactly upstairs the second floor. up stairs over there by lowery. sorry the doctor started filming us here they were pouring water and taking videos and then my father came and found me someone had told him we were here so he came and took me away. again i went up stairs and saw my wife and children i was very surprised and asked what had happened when my son's eyes were red i found out that it was water but it was cold and he could have got sick he was undressed when i took my son first told me that they still needed him but i still took him away from the. the boy is clearly in shock still to have to go through something like this or to go through such terror at his age is unthinkable really we've reached out to the white house questing in statement of some reaction to what's being what's being filmed in duma right now

but we're still to hear back from them even as i understand there was other footage from the alleged senior of the attack was and yes indeed there was another video released by another activist and it is apparently from an apartment building where the actual chemical project tile the alleged chemical projectile landed this is the initial video that we're showing you right now and this is the project oh we our crew again managed to get inside this very building so to the left you can see our video and to the right is the original one and initially how the media reacted to the first we released video well they saw it as rock solid evidence of a chemical attack a chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and astaire's that the asshead regime has previously used in chemical attacks the assad regime has used this same yellow gas canisters the n.s.e. telling fox news they have

a high degree of confidence that it was yours so the person filming the video was wearing a gas mask in the way thing he explained it was apparently the project was still toxic was still fuming with the something toxic and that's why they had to wear a mask to protect themselves but. we've spoken to a number of experts and they've told us that in me a gas mask is basically not enough to protect oneself from a toxic substance have a listen if that were a nerve agent whether he's got his base covered or not it's going to go right through his skin and the only protection that he could have a whole body 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 it going through a roof and never even breaking it's a silly way and even if it did great go the dispersal of the chlorine might only kill the people in the room or what not even people outside the room had time to

get out now and international chemical watchdog is carrying out its investigation into my to we know what level of what stage they're at now in the investigation well the o.p.c. w. inspectors the fact finding mission they are in damascus but they so far have not been able to and to do much that's because mainly it's not safe the u.n. security mission they went to the city of do my with the syrian army and they came under small arms fire so far it's not safe enough but this whole endeavor has some would been rendered well almost irrelevant i should say because the retaliation for the chemical for the chemical attack that's well there's no even there's no confidence yet in the fact that it even happened in the first place but the retaliation is already there few days ago in april the fourteenth the u.s. the u.k. and france launched more than a hundred missiles to strike targets they believe the assad government are using to produce chemicals so really right now the big intrigue is what the official

investigation is to show whether or not the attack happened. it's not just the white helmets videos that are raising questions and the groups also come under fire from the pink floyd co-founder roger waters for trying to lobby his support for the syrian conflict some time ago the so-called syria campaign which is linked to the white helmet sent the musician an e-mail inviting him to a fund raising dinner and 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 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 and 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 reportedly working for the white helmets the reporter asked for a few moments on stage to deliver a message to the children of syria or has declined that request as well and instead he hit out at the white helmets during the concert. and. reading. through. this with this to the proper congress the point of this we would be encouraged to encourage our governments to go and start dropping. syria. we contacted the white helmets for comment in the meantime we've spoken to journalist and r.t. contributor max blumenthal he's the one roger waters handed over 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 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 jabot illness or a witch 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. a joint strike on syria led by the us came not long off the president had been promising to pull american troops out of the country however there are now reports of a new arab force being assembled in the possible event of a u.s.

withdrawal the details now with antes and what are the cause the 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 and 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.