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 not 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 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 in this let me jump in here let me let me jump in here we've got to go to a hard break and after out of hard break we'll continue our discussion on syria staying with our city.

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welcome back across like we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing the situation in syria. ok let me go back to mohammed in. nikki haley she says she's not confused i think she's confused all of the time she made it very clear that the u.s. presence 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. in syria were other actors are creating political facts and the us 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 trump either mr nation who is going to fuel or doesn't know how to but afraid of the intentions of drama and i think now with the situation that is a combination of perform active 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 exit cues are in the field in particular in syria is a huge and i think now we have been talking about the rise of bernie can ism i think that we have to pay attention to something new is the waning confidence in

washington by the numbers and now it becomes like this great power that has lost its focus and also probably trump 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 the expectations of the public in this region of the world by embracing 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. and the israelis on the that's when it's going to be a mess a joke and i don't think the poor to be able to figure out what to do next. i mean

that's brought up a really good point because there's so many festering issues particularly in the middle east but 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 finesse you're going to need a lot of patience and the date this administration 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 truong started and issued the tweet and the response of the russian foreign ministry was we don't we don't participate

in twitter diplomacy now you can bring this back here because because you the main problem is the policy it's not just to people you need finesse you need you need that clause of managing to find agreements 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 syria and 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 it ministration and his allies and 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 age but is trump the

person to deliver that agreement that consensus absolutely not and what followed site in moscow is position now i would be very wary of having to negotiate or deal with trump on any matter not just syria for that matter because because because in trump you are dealing with an individual who has some unpredictable who has such a lack of understanding of the situation that all you have to do is bring up his tweets from two thousand and thirteen ridiculing obama who didn't in syria to understand that the gods 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 now i wish i've got i wish that weren't funny but it is ok i should laugh because it's such a. agents of great gravity here in the let me go to gareth here we can see you know both muhammad and danny bring up a really good point there i mean next month i guess we're all going in we're all in tis a painting and that it was going to withdraw from the iran deal ok in the at the same

time maybe he wants to make a deal with the north koreans i mean and then the u.s. is stubber and it will end in 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 well ash carter comes around and bombs ok or or just women a major city is of liberated from terrorist and supported by foreigners oh we have a chemical weapons attack here so i mean i on every single scale there's no reason to be optimistic here and one does influence the other these situations are interconnected go ahead karen 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 with the. 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 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 yeah 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 oh actually state department designit 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 deep state the blob will never ever under any circumstances buy that deal though it would be a good deal go ahead mom. a month ago i was very optimistic about the next summit to be twinned going on and kim jong un or non they thought they would achieve a breakthrough but having that reflected on trump as a conflict analyst from my perspective i am kind of confused because when i consider him a pragmatist or a realist he is not good at waging a war and this is the second that book. 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 him 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 votes around the. front on the one hand and came on the other and because of this inflated politics we may not see or we may not witness what we're looking for a little major or a little significance in advance in the agenda so i think the 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 or their ways if it is left to trump and i don't see any good it's going to finish with danny and i'm going to give you a situation danny you know what the situation with iran deal with north korea that

this is how it's going to 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 finish up. it's more likely that it will but in essence what the fundamental flaw in trump's syria action was which will lead to huge problems now in the future wolf setting a precedent and saying that he was going to think by it because now any any any with of of an idea that chemical weapons must 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. the syrians and you've got to remember there are u.s. troops on the ground in syria who for the show partly saudi 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. the philippine city of angeles when the u.s. military moved out the six tourists moved in. and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up you. played and. i played the like you like. i know your.

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to. north korea is hosting old missile launches and shutting down the country's nuclear test sites according to the country's state news agency. for palestinians are reportedly killed and more than a hundred injured it is raining gunfire as thousands rally on the gaza border was easy if there ever. was my gut. says i heard that a journalist working for r.t. is treated for tear gas exposure while. covering the latest events on the israeli gaza border. and r.t. visits the site of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of duma as doubts are raised over videos claiming to show the aftermath of the incident.

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us north korea is holding old missile launches with immediate effect and shutting down the country's nuclear test site the country's leader kim jong un made that announcement at a party meeting according to the state news agency. now that nuclear ization is complete and verified circumstances we do not need any further nuclear tests medium long range an intercontinental missile tests. for war on this i'm now joined by r.t.s. daniel hawkins hi dan good to see you again on the much more can you tell us about this surprise announcement well it's pretty big news kate obviously in fact i can't remember when such a straight forward about sort about north korea's nuclear program was made last sort of the thought of relations back in twenty fifteen what we heard from the

korean central news agency the official state agency is kim jong un has announced from the april twenty first the country to be suspending all nuclear tests and all ballistic missile tests shutting down all of the key nuclear testing facilities and focusing instead its resources according to the north korean leader on building a strong socialist economy mobilizing people to increase the country's quality of life they've also added to that of course a clause. that was likely to be one that north korea will never use nuclear weapons unless there is a nuclear threat or nuclear provocation to the country so that is the clause we have to bear in mind here they've also said they're willing to intensify dialogue and negotiations with both maybe and the international community so that's the context here of more of a thawing of relations with the southern neighbor out of course coming up to that crucial meeting in june with president trump should that go ahead as planned that will be the first meeting between a current sitting u.s. president and a north korean leader and of course we have

a tweet from trump to be expected to be without that stating very good news from north korea in those suspension of nuclear ballistic tests and looking forward to the summit so he's certainly taken the news positively. while it is an optimistic and also while this is good news of course it should be taken with a pinch of salt this could be a bargaining chip some sort of bluff of course on the part of north korea leader that's what mainland this will point out nevertheless is a part of partner very much changing rhetoric between. north korea its southern neighbor the united states so so it would be a big reaction tomorrow from world leaders from the u.n. and of course all eyes on june when that historic summit may very well take place i'm sure get plenty of reaction throughout the night as well daniel hawkins thank you very much indeed thank you. now four palestinian protesters have been killed and one hundred fifty six injured in israeli gunfire according to the gaza health ministry around three thousand people

gathered on the israeli gaza border on friday for another so-called moment to return is the fourth of six weekly demonstrations led my family has been christened palestinians local journalists one who three was in the midst of the kashrus oh my god it's crazy everyone is running from the tear gas canisters they're randomly shooting to get something everyone. was really good hard to do we were covering the protest and coming closer to the protesters and suddenly they in they intensively started to fire tear gas and we were trapped by at least five tear gas canisters we started to feel our nose and eyes burning we couldn't even take take a breath and at that time i literally fainted i didn't know what's happened what

was going on so i'm two hundred meters away from the fence that separates between gaza strip and is ran we can see the israeli snipers stationed along the borders there are heavy weapons they have been firing tear gas canisters live ammunition on the protesters and demonstrators and it's very dangerous here but you can see at least three thousand palestinian demonstrators prisoners families and a lot of palestinians are marching towards the fence so as you see all the ambulances are in state of emergency where they are ready to take on the injuries from the near the front and as you see the palestinian protesters are very very very close to define some only demanding the right of return but are also demanding to break the siege on the gaza strip that has been imposed by israel for more than eleven years did got is fur. the place and is surrounding i ask you one from all the sides if there is you're right i lift up and down you're totally surrounded by

tear gas canisters i can hear children crying for the two guys i can see those children trying to run away. kids families and everyone the palestinian protesters are again trying to close the fence that the israeli army i did just pilot funds the thing i did last week and that is you see they're trying to target these palestinian protesters by that you guys tear gas canisters palestinians are not only demanding the right of return but are also demanding the demanding the release of the seven thousand palestinian prisoners and their israeli jails and as you see the palestinian protesters are holding the pictures of these palestinian prisoners in beds really jails. now let's return to our top story north korea is halting ole miss saw the nuclear tests according to the country's state media well to discuss this further we can now bring in brian becker from the un to move on so coalition hearted ron thank you very much indeed for joining us well

let's look at the announcement that is already being welcomed by donald trump i mean how much of a breakthrough is this and should we take this promise at face value. well this is a major stab you can see in that from the beginning in this process north korea and south korea have been the drivers this will now take offensive i would call it also the d.p. r. k. has been very predictable over the past few years you know in the western media in the us media there characterize frequently as a rogue out of control sent me insane. but can joe has been very clear he said at the beginning of two thousand and sixteen that they were entering the final stage of their nuclear testing program in two thousand and seventeen the same in two thousand and eighteen and january first they said we've completed it we now have the deterrent we need and the same kind reached out to the jail in the south korean government is

a big step the north korean government on the eve of the talks with south korea is removing all the obstacles the impediments to that would start a possible real major development on the korean peninsula in the korean war to an end finally all these many decades later and also let's look at some of the context here i mean can recently met the iranian military attack and also former cia chief mike when do you think these meetings could have led directly to this decision. yes i think from the beginning if you look back at the last twenty five years of the d.p. r. k. these missile and nuclear technology program has been very clear that what the north koreans really want is not a war with the united states they want a security guarantee from the united states they feel that they may be only even on the precipice under cost of a possible new stage in u.s. diplomacy or u.s. strategy in the asia pacific region that would allow the north koreans that

actually have a security guarantee that it's wanted from the beginning that's on the north korea wants it wants a peace treaty and it wants to be able to trade and it wants to be able to be economically integrated into the world economy it all comes here to meet trungpa in june as as we know it's well broadcast i mean does this give course for optimism ahead of those talks i think so i mean i've been you know of course cautiously optimistic from the beginning because again you have a government in south korea that wants to make this happen the government it's a progressive government and replace the hierarchy as hardline government. and he is now in prison for decades and the same kind kim jong il represents a new leadership in the d.p. r. k. these two leaders and these two governments of trying to make this happen and this is very promising the big obstacle will be what happens in washington north korea wants peace south korea wants peace the big question is will the military

industrial complex in the united states accommodate itself to a new reality we're also here ever needing to they're going to find hotlines been set up between ten and south korean president mangy i and the tail leaders are also due to meet this month i mean what can you expect from that meeting to think. well i think why they're going to do is lay the foundation or in intro enter a korean peace agreement now it's only in a way symbolic because the parties to the armistice that ended the korean military conflict that was signed july twenty seventh thank you fifty three the war began june twenty fifth one hundred fifty that includes the united states and the people's republic of china as well as the d.v.r. ok so south korea can't give d.p. r. k. your of korea a security guarantee only washington can do that and so what we're going to see is a peace agreement symbolic largely. but i would say as a precursor.