but you never. know. in the stories that shaped the week the dow so raised over the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma earlier this month as eye witness accounts call into question a video that was widely used as evidence and r.t. team was in the city to speak to doctors and local. people from the white house told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that we run started pouring water over the people but they seemed to be ok walked away without any help . or

a number of asylum seekers in germany are claiming to be terrorists in the hope of avoiding deportation allegedly exploiting loopholes and this is still also ahead. please clamp down on protesters in paris and the french rail network grinds to a halt the president my friends neighbor. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international well the latest headlines and a roundup of the stories that have shaped this week or first a video that was said to show the often muf of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma at the beginning of this month is now being called into question the first stage was released by the white helmets. a self-styled emergency

response group has long been known and broiled in control of the sea i've written activities in war torn syria and was one of the few sources to report the attack well it's a visit to the hospital in duma and talked with doctors and locals who said they saw no toxic agency is there. 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 staff would have also been affected. people poured water. predicting that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and somebody from outside shouting about

a chemical attack don't know who that was we heard an explosion and somebody said it was a chemical weapon and we run to where the noise came from and started pouring water over the people but they seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help but confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying there had been a chemical attack i was at the spots with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning. after he talks to a boy who was in that white helmets video has son is thankfully all right but he's still coming to terms with what happened he says he was outside when somebody took him and started pouring cold water over his head more gaseous has 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 i look towards what around me he put me here and then took me up stairs to my mother eleven year old ass and dia was one of the apparent victims in the white helmets video here he is after being drenched and sprayed he's fine if a little confused 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 idea motion 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 about 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 some people come to. people in what. they say had. 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 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's not just the one how it's videos that are raising questions the organization has also come under fire from rock legend roger waters the co-founder of pink floyd for trying to lobby his support in the syrian war while a group called the syria campaign sent an email to the musician inviting him to a fund raising dinner on behalf of the white helmets affiliated organization and the same letter because it described in detail the work it claims to be doing in

syria it insists it's mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and help bring about peace but waters' was less than her pay with the invite i was quite suspicious after i was invited to that white helmets dinner now my worst suspicions have been confirmed in 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 and missiles illegally in the syria and just last week a day before he was due to give a show in barcelona waters was contacted by a french journalist working for the white helmets the reporter asked for a few moments on stage to deliver a message on behalf of the children of syria waters declined that request as well and instead hit out at the group during the concert. why the marines. from ninety six you. agree completely on the.

basis with this to the propagandists the point of mentioning all of this we would be encouraged to encourage other governments to go and start dropping. serious. i've known roger waters for several several years said that he had just grown so frustrated watching the white helmets footage and 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 a 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 this weekend a mission from the global chemical weapons watchdog the n.p.c. debbie visited duma to investigate the alleged attack the team collected some poles which will be sent to in the bar trade in the netherlands. is also planning another trip to the city. however the u.s. britain and france chose not to wait for the official probe citing media reports on controversial activist groups the country's accused the assad government of gassing civilians and this month launched every against syria the u.s. state department spokesperson has a now way to explain that washington couldn't afford to waste time. 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.

of 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 well we spoke to say political commentators who are usually on opposite sides of the debate about their thoughts on u.s. military action some from supporters are disappointed i have 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 truck made during the campaign you know nobody likes to ascribe to any president whatever their political party killing people using munitions like this just so it's 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 don't 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 that is not credible jobs are coming back in the economy's growing. great yeah well that is it is true in america right now small business is for the first time i think that they are excited if you look at the average of all the polls there's one poll that's been consistently and donald trump rescues that 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. person who joins the u.s. led strikes on syria without the approval of parliament only this week prime minister to resume a hand to defend that decision. we have published the legal basis for our action the action was legally questionable we targeted it on chemical weapons capability

of the regime chemical weapons and 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 rule book 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 members of this house seem to have less say in foreign policy of this country than president trump let no one in this house be in any doubt that neither i nor this government take instructions from any president. i. well a recent poll by a british tabloid found that most people surveyed were against the prime minister's

decision to bypass parliament hundreds gathered in westminster on choose day following the second round of debates urging the government to stop bombing syria. the. protesters also demanded a halt to arms exports to the middle east antiwar rallies were also held in several other cities including bristol and swanzy stop the activists claim the political agenda is prevailing over democracy. but should many things mistake that we shouldn't discuss this in part i'm going to be patient and wait for the results. but it's as usual in this country democracy goes out the window when you see in their own political interest why is it that the government is crowded out as a chart with out to buy a house of commons why is it that i care about is

a chart that of our analysis of commerce so that's where richard one of the first time in almost sixty years cuba is not under the rule of the castro family or bring that story and much more after this short break. we've signed one of the greatest. but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and a huge amount of pressure you have to be the center of the. great. game you are the rock at the back nobody gets to you we need you to. go. alone. and i'm really happy to join. russia.

this special want. me to just say the radio. latest edition as we go. hello welcome back now thirty one people have been killed and at least fifty injured in a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul that's according to officials all thirty say the bomber targeted civilians who had gathered near the voter registration center in the west of the city it comes as the country prepares for longer awaited parliamentary elections in october

a statement via its news agency the islamic state terror group say's it carried out . so often at least six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba has a new president miguel diaz canelo was the man chosen to succeed raul castro we take a look now at his path to the top job on the caribbean island. a new chapter has opened in cuba as miguel de niro of 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 is being led by a man not named castro that gives us an idea of the magnitude this change will have on the island the u.s. canal is fifty seven years old and wasn't even born when fidel castro led his revolution in cuba d.s. canel is definitely a product of his time he's an electrical engineer by training and he followed every

step 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 good enough to monitor the have not the first thing that we want to change is the economic it makes prices too high. i want the new president to think more about young people is he doing what you have i mean you have my country become a better place i want to stay here 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 ultrabook. thousands of french public sector workers have been protesting in paris against president make friends labor reforms several groups including transport workers are refusing to back down in their long running strike solidly bensky was at the demonstration on thursday. this is yet another day of protests of it turning into clashes between the police and the protestors unhappy with many of the reforms that the my own government wants to make and they determined to make a voice is heard and it seems that voices are being heard but yet again it's just clashes that what most people are speaking about. easy to cross has 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. i'm happy with the government because the poorest

classes are always the ones who are forced to give and there we just are always the ones who are being given today were fighting for public services from medical services with good hospitals and the equipment i don't like the entity of micron's government towards the movement and the problems work is a facing a somewhat so to stick the head of state seems to be deaf judging by his speech at the problem destroys 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 say that a lot of the people have 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 and they don't like as 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 say but in all of the clashes project just being thrown to optics bricks glass bottles anything they can go there and get their hands of. well we're in the middle of what seems to be a standoff between some of the protesters and the police just take our look behind me you can see a room of the police vans the gendarmerie they're all out there in their royal gear blocking off this particular route and some of the protesters are told sing them now they've also been using smoke flares to were to attention to what they're doing that lit fires to some of the bins and they've also been throwing projectiles to

walls the police this protest was meant to be about reforms of macaroons government it's once again tuned in to a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. terror related investigations and the southwestern german states have skyrocketed and i think that many of the cases involve refugees turning themselves in piece all about explains. the number of asylum applicants coming here to germany decreases what we have seen 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 jump 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 are 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 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. and germany is not the only country that is seeing such a trend in greece hundreds of asylum seekers gathered outside a police station in the city of the seller nicky for the same reason many reportedly view arrest as an opportunity to stay in the e.u. and the fastest way to get the necessary paperwork started a large queue formed for days after a surge in illegal border crossings from turkey geopolitical expert rayna rothfuss believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe. we continually see the judicial system of the european countries is simply not to hear adds to the challenge of. the refugee crisis. in the past two years. twenty seven. the german government has to employ over two.

further traditional experts to deal with the police. chases concerning. about all. terrorism this pleases legally the. traditional system it needs a sharp increase also go on won't close. protests have erupted again in the form of thought the republic of armenia people that are demanding that the newly appointed prime minister step down the country has been shaken by rallies for over a week tens of thousands of opposition supporters blocked roads calling for a new government election day on the rest follows the collapse of negotiations between the opposition and prime minister. with tensions running high riot police have been deployed in the capital you're a fan i mean here recently changed to

a parliamentary system where the president has a relatively simple a role and the prime minister gains more power as song sounds stepped down as president this month after a decade of ruling the country earlier he promised not to run for the prime minister's office but in april was nominated by parliament as the thought candidate . well the back at the top of the hour with all the latest headlines we're seeing here that. guys are one more of my guide to financial. survive all this is as if they took my shoes by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just getting more and more to that. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for

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