in the stories the shapes the week i witness says of the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of do love raise doubts over the video evidence that's been circulated a knotty team has been speaking to doctors local and some of those who were filmed people from the white house miss told us about the use of chemical weapons and we saw no sign of that we run started pouring water all over the people but they seemed to be ok and walked away without any hope. 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. a british newspaper reports that u.k. all parties have identified key figures in the script how poisoning once again

pointing the finger at russia we look at the claims about the nerve agents of origin. a very warm welcome you're watching the weekly here on r.t. international all the latest headlines and a round up of the stories that shape the week first a new witness testimony has cast doubt on the allegations that the syrian government was behind the chemical attack in the city of this month the video evidence used to support the claims was published by a number of rebel aligned groups including the white helmets and self-styled and controversial emergency response groups that are t.v. business at the hospital in duma and talked with doctors and locals and they told us the victims symptoms did not suggest they had been exposed to a toxic agent. 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 were also being affected. people poured water. thing that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and somebody ran out 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 spots 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 her son is all right but it'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 right ghastly as has the story these harrowing scenes panic sheer terror soaked trembling children screaming adults and strange as it may seem many of them had no idea about what was going on that had ak 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. to be here with the hose clear 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 drained 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 it was see what it was 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 the one of the doctors who was reportedly on shift at the time seemed surprised by the sudden influx of some people come to hear. 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 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. on only that someone shouted about chemicals and it's not just the white helmets videos that are raising questions the organization has been harshly criticized by rock legend and co-founder of playing pink floyd roger waters he says the group tried to lobby him for his support in the syrian war a group called the syria 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 same lesser the group described in detail the work it says it's doing in syria it insists its mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and 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. and just last week a day before he was do use a play as an event in barcelona waters with contacted by a french journalist working for the white helmets and 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 town outside the group during the concert for comments. saying. really complicated issue. is just if we with this to the proper gun groups the point of mentioning 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 he 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 job littleness 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 won't stop the n.p.c. w. visited duma to investigate the alleged attack the team connected to some pows

which will be sent to in the bar a tree in the netherlands however most go has expressed concern over some of. visiting an limited number of sites and interviewing too few witnesses however the u.s. britain and france chose not to wait for the official investigation citing media reports sounds controversial activist groups the country's accuse the assault government of gassing civilians and this month in operation against syria u.s. state department spokesperson has a now it takes plain to 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 when we spoke to two political commentators who 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 rise 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 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 don't trump is that craven as to launch strikes to distract attention. no but

the mere fact that it's a question i would do and i would do the 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 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. the u.k. joined the u.s. led operation against the syrian government without the approval of paul imminent and this isn't the prime minister to resign they had to defend this week 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 josh britain france and america sent clear message to those to seek to rip up the international rulebook stop and stop now prime minister is accountable to this poem meant. not to the whims of the

u.s. 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 from any president. a british tabloid newspaper carried out a poll following the strikes if found that of those surveyed most were against the prime minister's decision to bypass parliament on monday and tuesday hundreds gathered in westminster to protest against the operation coups in the. process 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 say the will of the british people is repeatedly ignored by the government but she many things mistake i wish we shouldn't get to discuss this in part i'm going to be patient i'm waiting for the results. but it's as usual in this country democracy goes out the window when you see in their own political interests why is it that the government is crowded out as a child without to buy in the house of commons why is it that i care about is a child with out of our going out of commons so that's where it's at right thousands of protestors are taking on government reforms in the french capital without footage from paris and all the details after the break. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the

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teams the latest edition of the bigger new better jersey look at. the welcome back forty eight people have been killed and another one hundred twelve wounded in a suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul according to officials authorities say the bomber targeted civilians who had gathered near a voter registration center it comes as the country prepares for a longer wait to parliamentary elections in october islamic state claims it was behind. often at least six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba has a new president miguel diaz canelo was the monk chosen to succeed raul castro we take a look now at his paul to the top job on the caribbean island. a new chapter has opened in cuba as miguel de can

a live 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 s.q.l. 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 in 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 that in other models that i have not 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 this week in paris against president mccracken's labor reforms several groups including transport workers are refusing to back down in their long running strike so it depends he 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 every sees 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 anymore because it was on the on the people here and happy with the government because the poorest classes are always the ones who are forced to give them 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 like the attitude of micron's government towards the movements 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 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 say that a lot 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 it 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 blocks bricks glass bottles anything they can grow that at the 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. in the royal gear blocking off this particular route and some of the protesters are told sing them now they've also been using smoke fledge she were to attention to what they're doing that lit fires to 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 in to a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. terror related investigations and a southwestern german states have skyrocketed and it seems that many of the cases involve refugees turning themselves in peace 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 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 other 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 are 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. . developing story now from the former soviet republic armenia where over two hundred people including opposition leaders have been arrested this sunday during mass protests seven people were injured as part of an ongoing action demanding the newly appointed prime. minister resign a country has been shaken by rallies for over a week tens of thousands of opposition supporters blocked roads calling for

a new government election there on the rest follows the collapse of negotiations between the opposition and find ministers song c.m. with tensions running high riot police have been deployed in the capital. how it functions that. president this month. in the country earlier he promised not to run for the prime minister's office but in april was nominated by the parliament as the sole hundred day. they were in problem of islamic extremism around the world is increasingly putting the spotlight on prisons because a recent a wide ranging report claims that many terrorist plots have been drawn up behind bars if you're trying to trying to find out whether this is the case in russia.

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passenger flights lists leaving the u k. well that's of course despite both the un's watchdog the f.t.c. w. and a u.k. government lab being unable to determine the origin of the poison used in the soulsby attack london still insists that russia is responsible claiming that only moscow could have produced the substance russia's representative to the p.c. dep use that that the u.k. is withholding information making it very difficult to establish the truth. russia will not accept any national or international results of any investigation without access to full information including materials from the british probe without consular access to our citizens and most importantly without the obligatory participation of russian experts in all actions to establish the truth that happened in souls on march the fourth.