i wish the political issues involved could be resolved but i think until that is done it's very little hope that the cities will be able to turn the tide. in the stories the shapes the week down so raised over the alleged chemical attack in syria's duma earlier this month as eyewitness accounts call into question a video that was widely used as evidence and r.c.t. was in the city to speak to doctors and local. people from the white helmets told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that we run started pouring water all over the people but they seemed to be ok then walked away without any help. a growing number of asylum seekers in germany are claiming to be terrorists in the hope of avoiding deportation allegedly exploiting loopholes in the system

also ahead. please clamp down on protesters in paris and the french rail network grinds to a halt to the president from flavor of. a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on r.t. international bringing you all the latest world headlines and a roundup of the stories that have shaped the week but first a video that was said to show the often mouth 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 it was released by the white helmets of self-styled emergency response group it's long been embroiled in control to see over its activities in war torn syria. one of the few sources to reports the attack on

a visit to the hospital in duma and talked with doctors and locals who said they saw no toxic agency is that. 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. people poured water it's getting that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and somebody ran up 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 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 spot with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning altie talks to a boy who was in the white helmets video how son is thankfully alright 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 to 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. an addict who is water on me he put me here and then took me out serious 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 ideals and 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 it was see what it was he could have got sick he was undressed when i took my son it 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 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. it's not just the white house it's videos that are raising questions the organization has come under fire from rock legend roger waters the co-founder of pink floyd for trying to lobby his support in the syrian war a group called the syrian campaign sent an e-mail to the musician inviting him to a fund raising dinner on behalf of the white helmets affiliated organization and the very same letter the group described in detail the work it claims to be doing in syria it insists its mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and to help bring about peace but waters' was less than happy with the invite 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 plausible 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. 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 wind 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. more comments. from. city this is pretty complicated. as you. just we with this to the proper groups the point of mentioning all of this we would be encouraged to encourage other governments to go and start dropping some 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 u.s. 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 each other it allness row 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 roger's 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 watched on the p.c. visited duma to investigate the alleged attack the team collected some pows which will be sent to a laboratory and the netherlands they are. planning another trip to the city however the u.s. britain and france chose not to wait for the official prime citing media reports and controversial activist groups the country's accuse the assault government of gassings the valiums and this month alone the average thinking syria the u.s. state department spokes person have and now it's a explained the washington couldn't afford to waste time. time. the o.p.c. view is something that we 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 we spoke to two political commentators who are usually on opposite sides of the debate about the force on the u.s. military action some from supporters are disappointed i'm one of the my 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 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 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 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 in donald trump's rescues and 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. or person had joined the u.s. led strikes on syria without the approval of parliament earlier this week prime minister to resign may had 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 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. 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 that no one in this house be in any doubt that neither i nor this government take instructions for any president. 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 tuesday following the second round of debates urging the government to stop bombing syria.

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 war activists claim the political agenda is prevailing over democracy. but she only thinks mistake we shouldn't get to discuss this in parliament and the. results. which. it's as usual in this country democracy goes out the window when you see narrow. pretty sickening tranced why is it that the government is caught out as a child without to buy in the house of commons why is it that i care about is a child without a foreign commerce so that's where it's at on the first time in almost sixty years cuba is not under the rule of the castro family i'll bring you that story and much more from the week that was off to this.

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to. 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 say the bomber targeted civilians who had gathered near a voter registration center in the west of the city it comes as the country prepares for a longer way to parliamentary elections in october in a statement virus news agency the islamic state terror group says it's carried out the attack. well after nearly six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba has

a new president miguel diaz canelo was the man chosen to succeed role castro we take a look now at his path to the top job in the caribbean islands. a new chapter has opened in cuba as miguel de niro who 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 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 step within the party was 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 in other models with the first thing that we want to change is the economic blockade it makes prices too high. 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 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 look wrongs labor reforms several groups including transport workers are refusing to back down in their long running strike

so deep in ski 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 it is heard and it seems that voices are being heard but yet again it's just clashes that what most people are speaking about. 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 in the michael jackson among the people here and 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 for medical services with good hospitals and the equipment i don't like the attitude 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 see the old look of the people have got their faces covered they wearing black and that's because they know now as being the black box of the empty fodder these are the anti capitalist say it 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 done 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 two x. 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 out a look behind me you can see a room of the police vans army 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 wear to attention to what they're doing that 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. terror related investigations and a southwestern german state have skyrocketed and it seems that many of the cases

involve refugees turning themselves in peace to all of the explains. as 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 killed 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 the german authorities aren't 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. 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 cell an icky for the same reason many reporters

leave you 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 surge an illegal border crossings from turkey geopolitical expert rayna roth believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe. we continually. traditions of the european countries is simply not true. to the challenge and. the refugee crisis is in the past years by and twenty seven. the german government has to employ over two with. just the experts to deal with. cases concerning. about all. terrorism this please is really the.

traditional system it means a sharp increase in employment class. protests of again and wrapped it in the former soviet 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 they are us follows the collapse of negotiations between the opposition and prime minister here as planned here with tensions running high riot police have been deployed in the capital via armenia recently changed to a parliamentary system where the president has a relatively simple they can while the prime minister gains more power thanks young 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 sole candidate.

we'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines join us then if you count. four men are sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the owners do not shoot around a corner. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy people in from day shouldn't let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical of

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