in the stories that shaped this week witnesses of the off some off on alleged chemical attack in the syrian city of duma raised doubts over the video evidence that's been circulated a team has been speaking to doctors locals i don't see some of those who appear in the footage people from the white house told us about the use of chemical weapons and we saw no sign of that stocking or in water over the people but they seemed to be ok then walked away without any help from me. also this hour 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.

while in france police clamp down on protesters in paris sighs the french rail network grinds to a halt over president micron's labor reforms. thanks for joining us here on all teams a national. welcome program. new witnesses have given their testimony which cost doubt some claims that the syrian government used chemical weapons in duma earlier this month doctors on locals in the city have rejected a key piece of video evidence that was circulated by rebel alive groups including the white helmet some urgency responders in the wake of the alleged attack medics we spoke to you say they were at the scene told us the victim symptoms were not consistent with exposure to a toxic agent at the images are misleading. people

from the white helmets told us about the use of chemical weapons we saw no sign of that even if chemical weapons were used against those people are medical staff would also be to thank. people poured water it's good thing that we had been attacked with chemical elements and that when somebody from outside shouting about the chemical attack don't know. and somebody said it was a chemical weapon and we run to where the door is came from when this started pouring water over the people but they seemed to be ok and then walked away without any other below that confused some of the structures pouring the water is what

people say it's like saying there had been a chemical attack but i was at the spots with my wife and daughter and none of us experienced any symptoms of chemical poisoning. marty also spoke to a small boy who appeared in the what elements video a sign is ok but still coming to terms with what happened he says he was outside the hospital when somebody took him inside and began pouring water over his head but i guess they have has more on 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 but then had an 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 louise it. here it is.

that was what around me it would be here and then took me out serious to my mother eleven year old. 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 i did mostly d.n.c. i went upstairs and saw my wife and children and i was very surprised and asked what had happened when my son's eyes read. about him and he could of course think that he was on drugs just when i took my son that first told me that they still

needed him but i still took me away from the 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 white helmets is also in question 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 now in twenty sixteen a public relations organization called the syria campaign which works with the white helmet sent the musician an e-mail inviting him to a fundraising dinner in the same letter the film described in detail the work it's doing in the country it insists its mission is to elevate the voices of syria's peaceful heroes and help bring about peace waters though 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

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 them to deliver a message on stage on behalf of syria's children what is the client request as well and instead hit out at the group during the concert. no means. my solution to this is really complicated. as you use this with this 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 this in syria. 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 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 of this weekend a mission from the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. visit to do more to investigate the i did attack the team collected samples which will be sent to treat in the netherlands moscow has expressed concerns over the thoroughness of the inspectors book. the us britain and france chose not to wait

for the results of the probe before acting so i see media reports on controversial activist groups the country's accuse the assad government of gassing civilians this month they launched an operation against syria us state department spokesperson have an hour to explain that washington couldn't afford to waste time. the o.p.c. the 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. commentators on both sides of the political spectrum have been shattering bethell song the u.s. led operation with. some trump supporters are disappointed i'm one of them by 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 trust 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 has 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 that 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.

you case prime minister to resign may's been forced to defend her 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 rule makers 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 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. approached a tabloid paper carried out a poll following the strikes 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. really. approaches there's also demanded a whole exports of the middle east anti-war rallies took place in several other cities as well including bristol and swans a stop the war activists say the will of the british people is being ignored by the government. but she made things mistake that we shouldn't discuss disempowerment to

me that he should avoid seeing ever so. but it's as usual in this country democracy goes out the window when he's seeing their own pretty sickening interest why is it that the government is crowded out it's not without to buy in the house of commons why is it that i care about is a chart without a fight renounce the commons so that's where it's on. now for the first time in almost sixty years cuba is no longer under the rule of the castro family i will bring you that story much more from the week that was just after this break. we're going to walk still with you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they're going. to sock to try to tell you that every gossip and public by fell. off the bad guys and tell me

you are not cool enough to buy your product. all the hawks that we along with all the white. manufacture consent to public worlds. when the ruling class is project themselves. with the famous. lives only the one person. we can all middle of the room. is. walking back to the weekly 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 say the bomber targeted civilians who gathered near a voter registration center this comes as the country prepares for a long awaited parliamentary elections in october islamic state claims it's behind the attack. after nearly six decades under the leadership of the castro family cuba now has a new president miguel canal was the man chosen to succeed it all castro will 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 nail 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 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 i'm not a monolith i have not the first thing that we want to change is the economic working it makes prices too high to be inside and i want the new president to think more about young people this is he doing what he have i mean that my country become a better i want to stay you nearly 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 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 solar to be a 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 good choices 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 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. 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 we're fighting for public services for medical services with good hospitals and equipment i don't know the answers here micron's government towards the movements 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 see the old look 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 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 to optics 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 at the gendarmerie 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 if 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 turned into a clash between the police and a small group of anti capitalist protesters. our day before that unrest the president should have played host on strike saying they should stop holding the country hostage police that are taking an increasingly tougher line with officers in riot gear seen painting protesters to the ground while making arrests thousands also rallied in the french southern city of masai on thursday and i stopped my car in march it was organized by left wing party leaders gianluca man in charge. of the bush issue to get real in a process where president michael's brother killers and this pushed everyone together every week the head of state seems to distract us and go further with before so we need to see who through we know one of those plain evil like this.

nine hundred ninety five we have to try and. this is not to announce to the cuckold our force overviews i would destroy you these are ways to act the president shouldn't talk like this sorry i could not stay silent. transport. public workers health workers all these sectors are represented they all need. make rondo's you want to change it you can see when all the countries paralyzed it will be surprised to negotiate. over to germany were terrorists that investigations in the southwestern states have skyrocketed it seems that many of the cases involve refugees turning themselves in people of a scot 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 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 we can see why people would come forward and say that they have information and would rather face a trial than deportation that you have in the thirty's 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. r.t. . germany is not the only country that seeking seeing such a trend rather in greece hundreds of asylum seekers gathered outside a police station in the city of the salon and for the same reason many allegedly saw arrest as an opportunity to stay in the e.u. and also the quickest way to get the paperwork started a large queue formed for days after a surge in illegal border crossings from turkey geopolitical expert writer office

believes the refugee crisis has been very costly for europe we can only see the judicial system of the european countries is simply not here not to the challenge of. the refugee crisis is in the past years by and twenty seven big. german government ask the lord over to. the other traditional experts to deal with him please in pieces concerning. about all. terrorism there's also all the police's leanly that on the traditional system it means a sharp increase also in one week costs. to armenia now where almost three hundred people including opposition leaders have been detained this sunday during mass protests most of them have now been released

several people though were injured tens of thousands have been taking part in the ongoing action demanding the newly appointed prime minister resign the country's been shaken by rallies for over a week now tens of thousands of opposition supporters 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 right police have been deployed in the capital of. the country recently changed to a parliamentary system the president now has a. quite symbolic role the prime minister actually gave more powers. down as president this month after nearly a decade of ruling the country earlier he promised not to run for the prime minister's office in april though he was nominated by parliament as the sole. while football fan celebrations in the german city of magda forced to use will to can and again supporters the club secured promotion to the german second division

on saturday nearly thirty officers were reportedly injured and eleven people were arrested celebrations did begin peacefully after this two nil win that secured the club's place in the second. eventually though fires were set in the streets with bottles and firecrackers thrown at police who moved in to calm the situation. that's it for myself or the team here for this hour join us in thirty minutes for the latest global news update. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race. dramatic to follow because the only. exists

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