in the stories the shapes the weak witnesses of the often mark of an alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma braised sound so over the video evidence has been circulated and r.t. t.v. has been speaking to doctors locals and some of those who were here when the first . people for the white house told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that we run and started pouring water into the people but these seem to be ok you didn't need to wait without any hope that he or she. has 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 as the french rail network grinds to a halt at the president for truong labor for. a very warm welcome you are watching the weekly here on our c international or the latest world headlines and a roundup of the stories that have shaped the week first new witness testimony has cast doubt on the claims that the syrian government the syrian government was behind a chemical attack in the city of duma earlier this month the video evidence used to support the allegations was published by a number of rebel aligned groups including the white helmets a self-styled and controversial emergency response group both to r.t. visits to the hospital. and talked with the doctors and the locals and they told us

the victims symptoms did nor suggest they had been exposed to a toxic agent. people from the white helmets told us about the use of chemical weapons 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. bridgette thing 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 we run to where the door is came from and the started pouring

water over the people but they seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help but a little confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying they 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. the refugees from duma have been sharing their accounts with other journalists to here's what they said to a reporter from a major german t.v. station because. there's this web cam right from its own where there are approximately twenty thousand people who fled from eastern guta and duma and we spoke to people there who told us that this whole sermon for people story was staged by the e.u. but cycle. also talks to a small boy who appeared in the white helmets video how son is ok but is 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 gaseous has more. 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. that supports water on me it put me here and then took me upstairs to my mother eleven year old has sandia 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 mostly d.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 some of 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 them 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. the credibility of the why and how mr is also been questioned by rock legend and co-founder of pink floyd roger waters he says the age group and its affiliates have been lobbying him for support in two thousand and sixteen

a public relations organization called the syria campaign which works with the white helmets sense the musician and email inviting him to a fund raising dinner in the same letter the firm described in detail the work it claims to be doing in the country it insists its mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and help bring about peace but waters' was less than happy with the advice 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 then just last week a day before he was due to play at an event in barcelona waters was contacted by a french journalist working for the white helmets the reporter asked him to deliver a message on stage on behalf of the children of syria waters declined that request

as well and instead hit out at the group during the concert. well my solution to this is pretty complicated. he. says if we would listen to the proper congress the point of mention of this we would be encouraged to encourage a couple of months 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 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 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 helmet. this weekend a mission from the global chemical weapons watchdog the p c w visit to do more to investigates the alleged attack the team collected samples which will be sent to a laboratory in the netherlands however most go has expressed concern over some p.c. w. experts visiting a negative number of sides and interviewing too few witnesses however the us britain and france chose not to wait for the official investigation citing media reports and controversial activist groups the countries accused the assad

government of gassing civilians and this month launched an operation against syria u.s. state department spokesperson have a now it explains that washington couldn't afford to waste time. 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 months and. commentators on both sides of the political spectrum have been sharing that folds on the u.s. led operation with us some from supporters are disappointed i'm one of them 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'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 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 and he joins the u.s.

led operation against the syrian government without the approval of parliament and decision that prime minister to resign may to defend on monday. 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. a british tabloid newspaper carried out a poll following the strikes it 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. the israeli. protesters also demanded a hoax to arms exports to the middle east and through war rallies took place in several other cities too including bristol on throngs a stop the war activists say the will of the british people is being ignored by the government. but make sure many things mistake that we shouldn't going to discuss this in parliament to me that he should avoid certain would be results in

a womanizer a mission that we want but it's as usual in this country democracy goes out the window when you see in their own way pretty sickening tranced why is it that the government is crowded out as your chart with out to buy in the house of commons why is it that i care about is a chart that apartment house of commons so that's where regional and while thousands of protestors are taking on government reforms in the french capital because footage from paris and all the dates house for you after the break. but i was telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battles they're going. to do socks for the tell you to be gossip the tabloids i fell. off as well as the tell me you are not cool enough to buy a product. of

a heart that we all already know what. nor make this manufacture consent to the public well. when the ruling class is to protect themselves. with the famous merry go round lives and be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. welcome back fifty seven people have been killed and another one hundred nineteen

wounded 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 it comes as the country prepares for a longer wait as parliamentary elections in october islamic state claims it's behind the attack. after nearly six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba has a new president miguel diaz can now was the man chosen to succeed raul castro we take a look now at his policies to the top job on the caribbean island a new chapter has opened in cuba as miguel the kind man 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 the u.s. canal is fifty seven years old and wasn't even born when fidel castro led his revolution in cuba d.s. canal is dead. but lee a product of his time he's in an electrical engineer by training and he followed every stepped 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 going to monitor what i 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 this is you don't mean what you have i mean i have my country become a better place i want to stay here the new president said that 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 mccraw as labor reforms several groups including transport workers are refusing to back down in their long running strike so it depends key was at the demonstration on thursday this is yet another day of protest to be turning into clashes between the police and the protests this i'm happy with many of the reforms that the my own government wants to make and they determined to make their voices heard and it seems their voices are being heard but yet again it's clashes that what most people are speaking about.

crime says that he doesn't care about our movement but if you wasn't afraid at all he would not send so many national police officers. yes 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 fighting for public services from medical services with good hospitals and equipment i don't like the entity of micron's government supports the movement and the problems work is a facing a somewhat so to state head of state seems to be that judging by his speech at the problem destroys book he thinks that he's in a position of power. that. 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 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 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 or 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 to optics bricks glass bottles anything they can grow that act at the hands of. god. well we're in the middle of what seems to be a standoff between some of the protesters on the police just take out a look behind me you can see a room of the police vans as a shunt army the lot that are in there roy it care blocking off this particular

route and some of the protesters are told seeing them know they've also been using smoke flares she were to attention to what they 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 the forms 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 in a southwestern german states have skyrocketed and it seems that many of the cases involve refugees turning themselves in piece all of it 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 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 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 swayed back in the summer of twenty fifteen when angela merkel opened germany up to refugees peter all of r.t. . or germany is not the only country that seeing such a trend in greece hundreds of asylum seekers gathered outside a police station in the city of the felony for the same reason many reportedly view a rest 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 thirteen illegal border crossings from turkey geopolitical experts rayna rothfuss believes the refugee crisis has been very costly figure we continually. of the

european countries is simply not true. to the challenge and. the refugee crisis is in the past years by angle twenty seven. the german government asked lloyds over to leave. she gets the axe byrd's to deal with the police in. cases concerning. about all. terrorism. is legal. in the traditional system. a sharp increase in employment costs. a developing story now from the former soviet republic armenia where the two hundred people including opposition leaders have been arrested this sunday during mass protests seven people have been injured is part of ongoing action demanding

the newly appointed prime minister resign 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 the on rest follows the collapse of the goshi ations between the opposition and prime minister siraj song siren with tensions running high riot police have been deployed in the capital armenia recently changed to a parliamentary system where the president has a relatively symbolic role and the prime minister gains more power frank sigh and step down as a present as the president this month after a decade of ruling the country earlier he promised to. not run for the prime minister's office but in april was nominated by parliament as the sole candidates. now four people have been killed and three injured dr a man opened fire in a diner near the city of nashville in the u.s.

the incident took place in the early hours of sunday morning the man was described as a semi nude by police when he shot two people in a waffle house carpark with an assault rifle the suspects believed to be a local twenty nine year old then entered the diner and continued shooting before fleeing the scene make it your thirty's have asked people to remain indoors as they continue their search operation. but we'll have all the latest details on that story and much more for you at the top of the hour join us then if you can. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all

four have 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 less do not shoot around a corner. we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone was signed up to be friggin poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not the truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene these batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining

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