mysteries of the shapes this week witnesses of the often martha one alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of dubai raised doubts over the video evidence that's been circulating and r.t. team has been speaking to doctors locals and some of those who fear the forces people from the white house told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that we started pouring water over the people but these seemed to be ok with me and walked away without any help. and 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 had police clamped down on protesters in paris as the french rail network

grinds to a halt over president labor reforms. international live from moscow. tonight thanks for joining us this. new witnesses have given their testimony which is cast doubt on claims that the syrian government used chemical weapons in duma earlier this month doctors and locals in the city have been rejected a key piece of video evidence that was circulated by rebel alive groups including the white helmets emergency responders at some the wake of the alleged attack medics we spoke to who say they were at the scene told us the victim symptoms were not consistent with exposure to a toxic agent the images are misleading. 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 really good thing that we had been attacked with chemical weapons and that when somebody from outside shouting about a chemical attack i 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 the started pouring the water over the people but the seemed to be ok and then walked away without any help but little confused somebody started pouring water over people's heads saying there

had been a chemical attack but i was at the spot with my wife and daughter but none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning. though as he also spoke to a small boy who appeared in the white helmet some video is ok you can see him there but he still is coming to terms with what exactly happened to him he says he was outside the hospital when somebody suddenly took him inside and started pouring water on his head. what does the if looks into the story. 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 look towards water on me it put me here and then took me upstairs to my mother eleven year old house and diablo 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. 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 and i found out it was some of it was cold and he could of course 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. now the credibility of the white helmets has also been questioned by rock legend and co-founder of pink floyd roger waters he says the aid group and its affiliates have been lobbying him for support i would twenty sixteen a public relations organization called the syria campaign which works for the white house sent musician an e-mail inviting him to a fundraising dinner in the same lot of the described in detail the work it's doing in the country it insists its mission is to elevate the voices of serious peaceful heroes to help bring about peace waters there 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 because of all 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 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 syria's children wanted to climb that request as well and instead hit out at the rock group the group rather during the concert. point number. three. both my solution to this is really complicated. if we would listen to the proper groups 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 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 they 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 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 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 o p c w visit to do more to investigate the alleged attack that seem collected samples which will be sent to a tree in the netherlands who has expressed concerns over the throne assault the inspectors work the u.s. u.k. and france chose not to wait for the results of the investigation before acting as

such as media reports and controversial activist groups the countries accuse the us and government of guessing civilians this month an operation was launched against syria u.s. state department spokeswoman how the now it's explained that washington couldn't afford to waste time. the o.p.c. got us something that we 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 so it attracted a lot of debate come a day does on both sides of the spectrum have been sharing their thoughts. and here with us auntie some from supporters are disappointed i want 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 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 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 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 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 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. as prime minister to resign may has been forced to defend a decision to join the u.s. led operation against the syrian government without the approval of parliament she sought to justify the move in front of lawmakers 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 josh 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 members of this house seem to have less say in foreign policy of this country than president. that no one in this house be in any doubt that neither i nor this government take instructions from any president. i. british tabloid newspaper carried out a poll following the strikes found that those surveyed most were against the prime minister's decision to bypass paula but on monday and tuesday hundreds gathered in westminster to protest against the operation. the demonstrators also demanded a halt to arms exports to the middle east antiwar rallies took place in several other cities too including bristol and swans a stop the war activists say the will of the british people is being ignored by the government. but should many things mistake we shouldn't discuss this in parliament

. ever so. it's. in this country democracy goes out the window when you seeing their own pretty sickening interest why is it that the government is crowded with out to buy a house of commons why is it that is it's like going out of commons so that's one reason i fold first time in almost sixty years cuba's not under the rule of the castro family old bring you more on that story much more as well from the week that was just after this break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for him to let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic development the only move really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical . to sit down and talk. to. predict.

welcome back to the weekly here on r.t. international fifty seven people have been killed another hundred nineteen wounded in a suicide bombing in the afghan capital of kabul that's according to officials authorities say the bomber targeted civilians who had gathered near a voter registration center come as the country prepares for the long awaited parliamentary elections coming up in october islamic states has claimed it is behind the attack. after nearly six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba's got a new president miguel diaz colonel 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 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 of 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 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 that in other models we don't 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 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 d.s. canel said that in these times of uncertainty and threats to international peace and security cuba's foreign policy will remain an altar of all. thousands of french public sector workers have been protesting this week in paris against president micron's labor reforms several groups including transport workers are refusing to back down in their long running strike so they're in ski was at the demonstration on thursday. 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 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. cross says 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. on the on the 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 without good hospitals and the. 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 head of state seems to be judging by his speech at the problem destroy his 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 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 is trying to jack 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 ox bricks glass bottles anything they can grow that at the hands of. yeah. 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 row of the police vans army they're all out there in their riot gear blocking off this particular route and some of the protesters are told seeing them now they've

also been using as smoke flares to wear to attention to what they're doing the 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 turned into a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. a day before that arrest the president back on issued a plea to those on strike saying they should stop holding the country hostage police there are taking an increasingly tough line officers that you can see in riot gear pinning people to the ground while they make arrests in the southern french city of masai people have also rallied on thursday there was a stop mike from march it was organized by the left wing party leader john mcmahon and sean this is what he had to say on the situation well i'm going to shoot real in a process where president calls radicalism this push everyone together every week the

head of state seems to distract us and go further with reform so we need to see who through we know one of those plain evil like this. nine hundred ninety five we have to fly back this is not fair to and to the people i will force overviews i will destroy you these are ways to act the president shouldn't like this story i could not stay silent. transport. public work health work all these sectors and represent. crime doesn't want to change you can see when all the countries paris will be forced to negotiate. terrorized investigations into southwestern german state have skyrocketed it seems that many of the cases involve refugees turning themselves in it all over as more. 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 the 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. germany is not the only country that seeing such an interesting trend in greece hundreds of asylum seekers gather outside a police station in the city of the salon a key thing for the same reason apparently many reportedly view arrest as an opportunity to stay in the e.u. and also the fastest way to get the necessary paperwork started

a large queue forward for several days after a surge in illegal border crossings from turkey to political expert rainer office believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe. we continually see the judicial system 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 asked lloyds over to. the traditional birds to deal with him please in. cases concerning. about all. terrorism there's also the police's leanly that on the traditional system it means a sharp increase also in employment costs. out of the former

soviet republic armenia now where almost three hundred people including opposition leaders have been detained this sunday during mass protests most of them have been released now with several people reportedly injured tens of thousands have been taking part in the ongoing action demonic the newly appointed prime minister resign the country has been shaken by rallies for over a week now tens of thousands of opposition supporters have blocked roads calling for a new government election the unrest follows the collapse of negotiations between the opposition and prime ministers. with tensions running high riot police have been deployed in the capital of europe romania recently changed the parliamentary system the president now has quite a symbolic role the prime minister though has gained more power as saddam hussein stepped down as president this month after a decade of rule in the country he did earlier promised not to run for the prime minister's office in april though he was nominated by parliament as the sole

candidate. over to germany now where wild football fans celebrations in the city of magda bug forced before it is to use water cannon again supporters of. the club secured promotion to the german second division on saturday twenty eight police officers were reportedly injured eleven people were detained and celebrations there begin peacefully after that to. secure the club's place in the second born as leader eventually though it led to fires being set in the streets with bottles and firecrackers thrown at officers who moved in to calm the situation. those are the headlines from the team here at r.t. international join us again in about twenty five minutes for the latest global news update so you then. well the bus plunged to the wheels of the up person and then to plant the seeds in

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