when i took my son that first told me that they still needed him but i still took him away from there. the boy is clearly in shock still do have to go through something like this to go through such terror at his age is unthinkable really we've reached out to the white helmets resting in statement of some reaction to what's been 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 project tile 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 the released

video well they saw it as rock solid evidence of a chemical attack the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and a star is that gas had regime has previously used chemical attacks the assad regime has used this same yellow gas canisters the n.s.c. telling fox news they have a high degree of confidence that it was yours 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 if that were a nerve agent whether he's got it. 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 we can go up the korean gas for a while and it doesn't make him. and he said i could see it growing through

a roof and never even breaking its silly way down even if it did great go the dispersal of the chlorine my only kill the people in the room or what not even people outside the room had time to get out now an international chemical watchdog is carrying out an investigation into my do we know what level of what stage there are now in the investigation while the o.p.c. w. in spector's the fact finding mission they are in damascus but they so far have not been able to and to do much it's not safe un security mission they went to the city of do mine with the syrian army and they came under small arms fire so far it's not safe enough but this whole endeavor as some would be rendered almost irrelevant i should say because the retaliation for the chemical for the chemical attack that's there's no confidence yet in the fact that even happened in the first place but the retaliation is already there the u.s. the u.k. and france launched more than a hundred missiles to strike targets they believe this government are using to

produce chemicals right now the big intrigue is what the official investigation is to show whether or not the attack happened. following white helmet footage of an alleged chemical attack in syria the u.s. led military strikes on the country on saturday that's despite promising to pull american troops out of syria and remove the u.s. from the conflict altogether just before the attacks and now there are reports of a new so-called arab force being assembled in the event of a u.s. withdrawal were against the explains 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 after what happened last time all the last times the 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 reemerge. and a new name. for the past that. you are.

dead bodies everywhere missing knowledge. among the dead bodies lying on the street that's. seven years old the. prince was out of sight for a while before resurfacing on the 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 jordan bolton is the new national security advisor one

of the most radically militant hawks and washington no one's going to cab out princes shady past john bolton is just not a big. it's a win win if you are unwilling to occupy a hostile desert and a country that doesn't want you that well privatized it give your buddies a chance to make a quick buck after all isn't that what friends are for. the u.n. special envoy for syria has spoken about saturday's bombing of the country by the u.s. and its allies saying that strikes won't help resolve the crisis the comments came as to fund a mr met with the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov of. what this happened last week. it's not a start up for chief engineer but. in spite of what we may think will say it

political process needs to be relaunched sergey lavrov fun stuff until mr were in moscow following talks over the ongoing situation in syria the un asked special envoy to syria separate them a story said that it is very important now to lower not only the a military tension now but political as well now you've just heard that he said that the risks and airstrikes conducted by the u.s. france and the u. of kate did not help to deescalate the situation there but the countries which conducted those these strikes had a slightly different view on the subject saying that these talks were unnecessary and just to fight. we had reached the point where this strike have become indispensable to be able to return credibility to our communities and words the action was taken to alleviate humanitarian suffering in syria by degrading the regime's chemical weapons capability and deterring its use of these weapons the

airstrikes were conducted in response to claims of an l.n.h. chemical weapons attack on the syrian city of too much even before the official investigation of the organization for the pocket bishan of chemical weapons even started now the u.s. said that it could not wait for the official results and decided to bomb syria on reports and intelligence that could not be revealed to russia's denies that such an attack took place and speaking to a media today said a gay lover abused harsher rhetoric than the u.n. special envoy to syria and he said that this was not only an attack on syria but on the peace process and the whole group or the three countries the u.s. the u.k. and france have not only bought. the chemical facilities in syria but also the geneva peace process after this meeting in moscow demister were a is an outing to the uranium capital as about the moment he is conducting quite an

intensive run at international meetings aiming at relaunching peace talks in syria . the us democratic party has filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against well almost every figure in the russian donald trump collusion probe the party claims trump campaigns conspired with the russian government its nationals as well as wiki leaks and all to hurt the democrats we cannot cross live to samir khan in d.c. for more on this so severe breakdown of the federal lawsuit for us. well said the democratic party's going out on a limb here and their lawsuit targets not only the russian government but the trump campaign wiki leaks claiming that they all work together to influence the u.s. presidential election now democrats claim that russian intelligence services quote hacked into the d.n.c. as computers penetrated its phone systems an ex field traded tens of thousands of documents in e-mails to further russian interests in electronic and apparently

trump gleefully welcomed russia's help of those were their exact words and then they also say that julian a song founder of wiki leaks post of the documents only because he supposedly shared the goal of damaging the democratic party what isn't discussed however is the content or the authenticity of the leaked e-mails and documents which hasn't been disputed at all so go figure but this is just part of the multitude of investigations into alleged russian collusion and it all started with the old d.n.i. intelligence report that came out back in january of two thousand and seventeen which claimed that a lot of near putin ordered an influence campaign to undermine faith in american democracy none have reached any successor of found any damning evidence so far so this looks like just you know the next chapter in the democratic party is a crusade against the trunk campaign and russia but this time they're looking for compensations for damages inflicted upon the d.n.c.

so we're just going to have to see what happens with. perhaps not all that surprising move coming from members american reporting live from washington d.c. thanks for bringing us that update. ahead of highly anticipated talks between donald trump and north korea's kim jong un the president of south korea has said the. demands are realistic. north korea has not attached any conditions that the u.s. cannot accept such as withdrawal of american troops from south korea all they're talking about is and then to hostile policies against north korea followed by gonski of security meanwhile for the first time since the split of korea in one nine hundred forty five a direct telephone link has been set up between the two leaders on the peninsula to discuss the developing political situation there we are now joined live by pak long one a senior lecturer in politics at the u.k. is a bath university. now well north korea agreed to the concessions for peace do you

think well i think with the. agreed to a concession or nord to sure we know all of these events we will be depressed at the north of korea when je and i think from last year since he was elected in may he has been a very very persistent and fair very skillful in not just dealing with. the us but also dealing with china so i think i'm anticipating that actually is setting up these talk for mr kim jong un and mr donald trump i think at the present time he has already been very popular within south korea and he will be sure we do we know whether to talk we will see it all nort now donald trump earlier has said that he would leave the talks with kim jong un if it would not be fruitful whatever that means for him how reasonable is it to make such statements ahead of the meeting. ok

now let's look at it this way i think mr donald trump he made a statement because he already sends that to talk may nought and in the photo all come that he anticipated now if that is the case then he will walk away how i thought i want to warn him that if he walk away the person to be praying that the talk will fail we'll both him and mr king. and the person who set up these talk we still want to be the sure enough now these talks of course are unprecedented do you think we should expect a breakthrough in relations between washington and pyongyang after them ok if you look at history all of the fault and grandfather of mr kim jong has promised rice ation all fecal reopen intra so to me.

at the dynamic who studied the korean peninsula. history of the us asian i'm not surprised that these kind of promises a actually a way to kind to buy time and trying to. pray into the situation in order that mr kim jong un can't ask for some more concession now having said that because the thesis and tiny new set up by mr wynn jane so if we did the pens on president moon how you'll be convenes. in the meeting with mr kim jong un what kind of steps and measure and concession he's willing to make in order to make these the nuclear i say should come true in the near future. of course all eyes will be on those talks to see what does come

from the impact along senior lecturer in politics university thank you for joining us on the program today. from. the u.k. government is setting up a special russia tax task force comprising senior m.p.'s that will counter perceived threats from moscow it comes amid the current diplomatic spat between the two countries over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter tutor the details. this committee consists of very high profile u.k. politicians and at the helm of that committee is the chairman of the foreign affairs committee and his name is tom took in heart now he has not minced his words about blood emir putin in fact what he said is that the u.k. must target everybody who supports the russian president and his gangster regime during his interview he obviously sounded like he wasn't a fan of mr putin but he did mention someone that he was a fan of and that was the saudi prince mohammed bin salman the big change actually is that what he's trying to call really trying to bring women and young people into

employment is trying to read it all this is really something quite impressive in a separate interview took a hard talked about his career path and his aspirations and he described a number of roles that he feels that he would be ok at including the job of pm so it appears that he wasn't particularly fussy about what future lies ahead for him would it be great to be pm yep it would be great to be foreign secretary fantastic would it be great to be different circuitry wonderful would it be great to be a minister of any kind yes on a more serious note now the tensions between russia and the u.k. have been exacerbated by these crippled poisoning london is insisting that moscow is behind the attack moscow is denying any involvement at all and asking u.k. for firm proof as to why they are suggesting that russia is indeed behind those attacks so the accusations are continuing from the u.k.

side and now that this new committee has been set up we can only see that those diplomatic relationships are probably going to go downhill even further. gone trump has accused opec the organization bringing together some of the world's biggest oil producing nations of artificially reason crude prices he made the claim after me to. of opec state ministers in saudi arabia the price of the black gold reached a three year high on friday some experts tie the price hike to a production cut deal by top oil producing nations however international oil economist mum do salomé told us that the us presence against opec are groundless. and high at a price for oil should benefit us shared only but the u.s. says so his at back in opaque has no meaning and is not justified president is wrong to attack opaque because of prices opaque is not

doing more than defending its size and its wealth they lost a lot of them three hundred billion that is between oh guess twenty fourth ian and twenty sixteen because of the oil price i can see quickly they had to take measures at its including but that cup along with russia to defend that ites that's a wrap up of today's top stories for this hour but we'll be back with another global update in about thirty minutes. we are still living with a lot of conflicting usher and does the situation see that to the rest of the

middle east the problem between so. now the american president is that i and you know to withdraw and some outs to go down we heard that the saudis are the true go to. go. so it's kind of the pull to fail is the reason the situation is very very dangerous. greetings and salutations today is word of the day hawk watchers is precious merriam webster defines precious something of great value or high price someone highly esteemed or cherished gold gold diamonds and honest politician all good examples of things considered to be precious. what about water children

two things i believe many would would put at the top of their list for things they consider very very precious both to themselves and society after our children are our future and well you can't live without water so precious unless of course fracking company in colorado or the city of chicago let's start in the old windy city of chicago illinois where according to the chicago tribune analysis lead was found in water drawn from nearly seventy percent of the twenty two thousand seven hundred ninety seven homes tested during the past two years tap water in three of every ten homes sampled had lead concentrations above five parts per billion the maximum allowed in bottled water by the u.s. food and drug administration and yet apparently chicago mayor rahm emanuel must have missed that whole crisis in flint michigan you know just a little bit of next to a little bit close guess he was just you know too busy to notice because as the

tribune reports the mayor's office says that it is up to homeowners not the city to decide if it is worth replacing the lead pipes at their own expense. meanwhile across the country in greeley colorado mother jones is reporting that the colorado oil and gas conservation committee commission is now being sued by environmentalist and civil rights groups for allowing a company to build twenty four twenty four l. and gas wells by a public school in a low income area after the same company tossed its original plans to build near a charter school serving mostly white middle class families. i guess berserk agoa clean drinking water isn't a precious enough commodity to merit a line in the city budget and in colorado well kids are only precious apparently if they have the right sized bank account and skin color now let's start. watching the hawks. you get

a. real good look. at the bottom. like you that i got. with. well the watching the hawks i am tired robot and i'm tapped wallace and i feel and i have days of about having deja vu all over again that a lot of it was business apparently that happens quite a bit i find it strange that you know we were kids growing up in that same part of the country in the midwest there was you know discussions about radon there was discussions about lead in paint there was discussions about you know all of these

things as best as in buildings and there were steps taken both to remediate those things that were a risk and to put things in place to stop it from happening and or make sure that when there are children in a home where there's lead paint these things how do you water how did our water supply in the very pipes that our water goes through somehow get overlapped because these things cost money and no one wants to take responsibility so what happens well this is all basically the reason why rahm emanuel's told all these people to have like you know lead pipes and potentially the water that's causing i want to get sick it is out of the cities plumbing code individual property owners are responsible for maintaining service lines so like the connect up there you see about right there are cargo and you see the lead levels that exceed the five you know parts per billion that like a little the red right there is ridiculous. so you see the parks a lot of people know what it is that they're plumbing code says the owner. i have to be responsible for the pipes that connect from the rubble of the city's street

right reacts but but. this is despite the fact that until one thousand eighty six which is not that long ago the same ordinance mandated the use of lead pipes to bring water into the homes from the city law rags so the regulations that they had that homeowners had to abide by was they had to put these pipes and just tell me a nine hundred eighty six that the chicago didn't understand that you know lead was bad you probably shouldn't put your water through my pants at that point we all do that's why i'm confused how did chicago be chicago that far behind you know that's the question that we've got that that's the question the citizens of chicago need to say look you guys screwed up in the past you made this an issue for us today putting it on our financial backs is absolutely ridiculous it's very no it's not cool and rahm emanuel is this progressive he came out of the obama administration he was supposed to be the guy who is going to clean up chicago. chemicals policy

director of the nonprofit environmental defense fund chicago could be a leader and they should would solutions to this problem but instead they appear to be sticking their heads in the sand speaking of people sticking their heads in the sand let's talk about good old colorado so what happened was accordingly according to mother jones and twenty thirteen originally extraction oil and gas had wanted to and then mineral resources picked up a site close to what was called frontier work it was called frontier academy it's majority white school agreeably colorado and originally they had a site that was near that school that they wanted to put this. fracking wells. so at that school seventy seven percent of the students were white most families there were middle class only about twenty percent of them qualified for things like free lunch money that was back up close they pro the kids protested everything else and so. eric huber his attorney for the sierra club's environmental

law program told them that when they are looking for another so when they were looking for another site away from frontier academy where does it wind up in a hispanic community by a the hispanic school we think that decision was made unfortunately because that particular community doesn't have the resources to fight it so the new school is below romero academy in schools about eighty seven percent latino or hispanic african-american or other people of color and more than ninety percent of the students at all over america for free and reduced lunch here's the deal you don't get to poison kids just because they're poor and their parents have to work seven jobs so they can't go and protest no that's not right it's gross and i'm sorry but at some point you can have all the bank account you were in the world but you're going to have to look yourself in the mirror that you did that that you you put that into place and you made sure to protect someone's pocket book and not children it's amazing that it was you know who it's amazing how you see them get away with it over and over and over again push it on the backs of the poor people or those

the look different from the rich people. just like they did a year ago videos and images of syrian children and rebel controlled stronghold went viral online and by way of mainstream media prompting president trump and western leaders to retaliate against the syrian government with their air strikes and unequivocal condemnation but aside from the arguments over how exactly is the use of chemical weapons to kill civilians any different morally from doing the same with conventional weapons say in yemen there is a debate over the actual evidence beyond the graphically disturbing but medically inconclusive videos that would implicate bush r.l. assad's government in conducting gas attacks on the town of duma you see as much as neoconservatives and regime change proponents like to denigrate the search for truth as treasonous propaganda it is probably worth answering that vital question before we were starting world war three our teased yuliya shop a full of reports on some of those that for its. eleven year old has been his father gave account of how

events actually unfolded in do mon april the seventh the u.s. and many european countries accused the syrian government of using a toxic agent that the boy sat he recalled punning but not a gas attack. where in the basement my mother told me that we had run out of food and wouldn't have anything to eat until tomorrow i heard noises outside somebody was shot in that you have to go to the hospital so we run there when i came in some people grabbed me started pouring water or my had. and that's me in the video that's me. trying to work yes. i went to the hospitals with stance and found my wife and children asked them what had happened and they said people outside was shouting about some smiled and told them to go to the hospital at the hospital they gave dates and cookies to the kids. meanwhile just days after denouncing the white helmets the co-founder of the legendary wrong group pink floyd has revealed the controversial rescue group had been trying to

support for travolta's exposed email correspondence with representatives of the white helmets asking him for financial donations he conducted his own investigation white helmet sixty's and here's what we have to say why comments i think. both my station and. create probably can. cherish so if we put this to the proper congress the point of mentioning all this we would be encouraged to encourage our governments to go and start dropping so serious. after the white helmet chad that showing the alleged chemical attack near damascus u.s. british and french forces hit syria with an strikes in retaliation time dissing a number of facilities which they claimed were related to chemical weapons production and development meanwhile in the eastern ghouta region around do you must over a thousand people.