in this story. we. call into question the video. in the city speak to doctors. and they told us to go into the hospital. and they started. a growing number of asylum seekers in germany claiming to be terrorists in the hope of deportation allegedly. a british newspaper reports. the double agent.

pointing the finger once again. are to investigate. stories from the past seven days right up to the moment developments well welcome to the weekly on r.t. international video that was said to show the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of the beginning of this month is now being called into question the. group which has long been embroiled in controversy over its activities in war torn. to report the party visited the hospital and talk with some locals who said they saw no toxic.

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 medical stuff would have also been affected. people poured water that's really good thing that we had been attacked with chemical arsenal and somebody from outside shouting about the chemical attack don't know. we hope to explode and somebody said it was a chemical weapon and we run to whether the noise came from going to started pouring water over the people but they seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help but. somebody started pouring the water over people

saying there had been chemical attack i was at the spots with my wife and daughter and none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning. well r.t. talked to a boy who is in the white helmets video her son is safe but is still coming to terms with what happened he say's he was outside when somebody took him and started pouring cold water on him rough see if that's the report. 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. 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 or is it. here it is. and it looked towards water on me it put me here and then took me upstairs to my mother 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's fine if a little confused that is the doctor started filming us here they were pouring water and taking videos 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 and mechanically i did most of the n.c. 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 and he was undressed when i took my son that first told me that they still needed him but i still to come away from there one of the doctors who was reportedly on shift at the time seemed surprised by the sudden influx of some people. in what. they say the. symptoms 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 but 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 well it is not just the white helmets videos that are raising questions the organization has also come under fire from pink floyd co-founder roger waters for trying to lobby his support in the syrian war

a group called the syria campaign sent an e-mail to the musician inviting him to a fundraising dinner on behalf of the white helmets affiliated organization in this same letter the group the scribe in detail the work it claims to be doing in syria it insists the mission of it is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and help bring it bite but waters' was 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 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. well just last week a day before he was jew 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 behalf of the children of syria and waters to klein that request as well

instead of the white helmets during the concert. but my solution to this is very complicated. as you use this with this to the proper groups the point of mission of this we would be encouraged to encourage a couple of months to go and start dropping. serious. i've known roger waters for several several years he said that he had just grown so frustrated watching the white helmets footage in duma being cited by the us 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 jab 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. well some media outlets in the western are also calling into question the allegations of a chemical attack after british journalist robert fisk visit the duma and wasn't able to find anyone who could confirm the assault on saturday a mission from the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. visited to investigate the alleged attack the team collected samples will be sent to a laboratory in the netherlands the o.p.c. w.

is planning another trip to the city as well however the u.s. and britain and france chose not to wait for the official probe citing media reports controversal activist groups the country's accuse the assad government of gassing civilians launched earlier raids against syria u.s. state department spokesperson has explained washington couldn't afford to waste time. in the o.p.c. view is something that we've back strongly but it can also take quite a bit of time for the o.p.c. up you to gather its information and compile the report so i would ask you should the united states and her allies wait around for bashar al assad to use more chemical substances honest people should we wait around for that formal investigation that could take months and months but we took the chance to speak to two political commentators there usually on the opposite sides of the debates about

their thoughts on u.s. military action. some trump supporters are disappointed i'm one of them i like the trumps position during the election but i think a lot of people on our political left and people like me on the right think we should not be the world's police any longer that was one of the issues and main points the trump made during the campaign you know nobody likes to ascribe to any president whatever their political party killing people using munitions like this just as a distraction that's said i mean you can't deny that the walls are closing in on donald trump legally from the special prosecutor moeller from the united states attorney in new york with his lawyer cohen so do i think that down trump is that craven as to launch strikes to distract attention. no but the mere fact that it's a question that's troubling i would diminish that he has major issues as just described as a higher approval rating than did obama at this time in his presidency in some

polls the economy has not credible jobs are coming back in the economy's growing great you have well that is it is true in america right now small businesses for the first time look at the decade are excited if you look at the average of all the polls there's one poll that's been consistently and donald trump rasmussen in his camp every other poll if you average them out he is at historic lows for any president since the advent of polling in the united states of america democrats their complaint is what's the broader plan you say mission accomplished mr president what's the mission they see this as not pursuant to any particular plan and on the right it seems inconsistent with the the promises the president made during the campaign to withdraw so as a result there's just not a big constituency in favor of what he's done mission accomplished was a popular phrase that turned very notorious with iraq and look at where we are now listen i i i find it interesting you have someone on the left and someone on the right politically in america here on r t and we sort of agree the worst case

scenario is is assad gets toppled or killed and then we have another iraq for the next decade and then we really get engaged in a war because isis then overwhelms and takes over the country. people of britain join the u.s. led strikes on syria with thought the approval of parliament earlier in the week prime minister trees in may to defend the city. we have published the legal basis for action the action was legally questionable we targeted it on chemical weapons capability of the regime chemical weapons have been used by other groups in the conflict for example. britain france and america sent a clear message to those to seek to rip up the international rulebook stop and stop now prime minister is accountable to this parliament not to the whims of the us president i the elected representatives in this house should be able to debate the

deployment of british military forces into combat but that does not mean it is always appropriate the executive must be the servant of parliament not the other way round the members of this house seem to have less say in foreign policy of this country than president trump that no one in this house be in any doubt that neither i nor this government take instructions from any president was i mean well a recent poll by a tabloid fodder in that most people surveyed to were against the prime minister's decision to buy parliament hundreds gathered in westminster on tuesday following the second round of the bates urging the government to stop bombing serbia. saying. protesters also demanded a halt to arms exports to the middle east until war rallies were held in several

other cities to fighting response one to stop the war activists claim the political agenda is prevailing over democracy. but should many things mistake that we shouldn't discuss disempowerment. results. when i say. it's as usual in this country democracy. he goes out the window when he's seeing their own pretty sickening tranced why is it that the government is crowded with out to buy a house of commons why is it that i care about is a chalk without a father in the house of commons so that's why it's on. for the first time in almost sixty years cuba is not under the rule of the castro family i'll bring you more enough story in plenty besides after this.

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seventeen minutes into the program welcome back after nearly six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba has a new president miguel connell was the man chosen to succeed raul castro we can take a look now at his path to the car a b. and i lens top job. a new chapter has opened in cuba as miguel the canal was officially named the country's new leader on thursday with a final vote in cuba's national assembly it's the first time in nearly sixty years that cuba has been led by a man not named castro that gives us an idea of the magnitude this change will have on the island d.s.

canal is fifty seven years old and wasn't even born when fidel castro led his revolution in cuba d.s. can now is definitely a product of his time he's an electrical engineer by training and he followed every stepped within the party has appointed as minister for higher education before serving as vice president yes canel was selected as the unopposed candidate to replace weld castro and in his thirty minute speech he made it very clear that although changes are needed there will be no space for those who want to bring capitalism to cuba the levels are going to monitor that i have not the first thing that we want to change is the economic blockade it makes prices too high and. i want the new president to think more about young people is he doing what he has i mean i have my country become a better place i want to stay here but the new president said the country needs to advance in its economic model and adjust to the new context of modern technologies

as far as cuba's foreign policy diest canel said that in these times of uncertainty and threats to international peace and security cuba's foreign policy will remain an altar of will. back to europe where terror related investigations in a scythe western german state have skyrocketed and it seems that many of the cases involve refugees turning themselves in exploring more people all over. the number of asylum applicants coming here to germany decreases what we have see. 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 to 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 kill 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 investigations are proving to be very time consuming because they 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 an authority zone 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. belin. well germany is not the only country that is witnessing such a trend in greece hundreds of asylum seekers gathered outside a police station in the city officials for the same reason many reportedly view arrest as an opportunity to stay in the european union and the fastest way to get the necessary paperwork started a large queue form for days after a surge in legal border crossings from turkey geopolitical experts run a rough believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe. we continually see that the judicial system of the european countries is simply not to carry out to the challenges that the refugee crisis is almost in the past years

by and twenty seventeen it became clear that the german government has to employ over two thousand. experts to deal with the increasing crime traces concerning. about all i-slam most terrorism this also includes is exactly the burden on the german traditional system it means a sharp increase also in employment costs. rising problem of jehovah soran the world is increasingly putting the spotlight on prisons that's because a recent wide ranging report claims that many terrorist plots have been drawn up behind bars a bit tranquil has tried to find out whether this is the case in russia.

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this is yet another day of protests to be turning into clashes between the police and the protesters unhappy with many of the reforms that the my own government wants to make and they determined to make it move he says heard and it seems that what we see is. that yet again it's just clashes that what most people are speaking about. a 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 their weakest are always the ones who are being given today were fighting for public services from medical services with good hospitals and equipment i don't know the answers here micron's government towards the movements and the problems work is a facing a somewhat so to stick their head of state seems to be deaf judging by his speech

at the problem to straw's 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 looks 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 in front of a don't like 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 to optics bricks glass bottles anything they can go there and get their hands off.

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 angie you can see a room of the police vans. and their riot gear blocking off this particular route and some of the protesters are told seeing them now they've also been using smoke flares to to attention to what they doing there lit 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. well on wednesday president issued a plea to those on trying saying they should stop pulling the country hostage and police there are ticking increase on.