this hour's headlines stories claims of a chemical attack in the syrian city of earlier this month are called into question with a number of journalists who visited this site struggling to find any evidence to back the reports. also the syria conflict seems to have forged the new friendship between the presidents of france and america the two ball and over a mutual dislike of the conflict stricken country's leader. he speaks to a cameraman who claims he filmed the moment i.d.f. soldiers shoot dead a palestinian. we spoke to the boys from. below i said mohammed was three hundred meters away from the fence and even if he was

right next to it he was a peaceful demonstration he was just a child. live from moscow to the world mrs arty international my name's you know neal good to have your company our top story are continuing to grow over claims of a chemical weapons attack in the syrian city of duma the beginning of april a number of western journalists who travel to the city say they are struggling to find witnesses to confirm the reports well for more on this as the of joins me in good morning route so what did the journalists actually find what did the governor when they visited well that is what makes it so surprising it's it's not a lot that they discovered and we're talking here. three journalists was robert

fisk first reporter for the independent a veteran of the middle east decades and decades of experience he went to duma to the alleged site of the chemical attack he spoke to witnesses he spoke to locals went to the hospital where people were allegedly treated spoke to medical staff and all of them said the same thing that they knew nothing that they saw nothing that you know we staged there was also pierson appears and sharp an american in the german report of their d.f. they both went and they reported largely the same thing everybody they talked to said that this attack had been staged that they are doing heard about that people had been running around and shouting chemical attack chemical attack and those panicked understandably those huge backlash when they published their material because it went directly against what the media and western governments have been

trumpeting ever since first reports emerged that this was a sad that this attack took place that you know they needed to be needed it needed to be punishment so were the united states backed by france and the u.k. you know so convinced from a few videos and a few reports that they struck at syria merely hours before international specialists from the u.p.c. w. would jew to arrive in the country to investigate on the part of the. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons can we get that up in just a moment just let's listen to what was said first here. i've interviewed twenty people so far who live here in this area who say they were there that day and they didn't see anything they didn't hear anything didn't smell anything they don't know anyone who was injured they've never heard of that they did see it on t.v. it heard about it on t.v. but from personal eyewitness accounts no one has seen anything so far as we were

just coming back from in town about five kilometers from here and it has approximately twenty thousand people who have fled from eastern guta and above all do the people very telling us very persuasively this whole story from april seventh was still. another aspect of this is of course the just seeing what was there on the ground the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons as we're hearing they have arrived in doing. when they when they went on saturday. they went they collected their samples and have now presumably sent those samples to the various the board stories that they have in order to analyze them but there's a jew to the way they operate we won't know any real details because they're all very quiet about that we would even know when the results approximately when they'll be available published but the united states envoy to the u.p.c.

w has already said that russia accused russia of perhaps tampering with evidence because russian specialists visited the scene first and russian foreign minister sergey lavrov refuted those claims by saying that look if you were interested in getting samples early you wouldn't have bombed the country near the site of the alleged chemical attack merely hours before. experts would due to arrive. and you can see russia has not tampered with yes i can guarantee aggressive action was to. listen to you for international inspectors want to visit the place where the alleged chemical of the. just going back to what was at the seventh of of the a police start of this where did the. claims of the attack actually originate from the entirely rebel sources there were two organizations at the heart of the from

from which these reports originated and which were cited by the entirety of the western media this was the white helmets which actors rescue was for syrian rebels and their backers they're largely financed by have been financed by western governments then there's the syrian american medical society which is funded by usaid closely tied to the u.s. state department to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars they said that they treated five hundred people with symptoms reminiscent of those of a chemical attack. no matter who those journalist spoke to who we spoke to we spoke to witnesses we found a boy his father we found doctors who were on shift at the hospital of the tide other people who were tossed but locals and all of them said the same thing they heard it was

a chemical attack they didn't see anything firsthand but it was you know people running along the streets saying go to the hospital there's been a chemical attack so it was all it was all rumors but. again russia says that this alleged chemical attack must be investigated it isn't reasonable to jump to conclusions and that we should wait for concrete information before we make any judgments ok bring us right out the dates with the latest developments senior correspondent in the shoot thank you. ok just was mentioning there are they why tell me the self-styled emergency response group behind the reports of the chemical attack has long been embroiled in controversy the spite the activist do enjoy wide support from western governments the white house knows that they have received twelve million dollars and overseas donations this year the u.s. which is thought to be the largest contributor is reviewing its funding for

a building war ravaged syria but the state department assured that the group won't be affected by any cutbacks as the funding and the funding that the u.s. was providing to this group and because of the falls as far as i'm aware all of the work still continues people's bills are still being paid if there's anything that's a change that also might let you know contributions are still as far as i know that us all still is all still in play is no rationale for supporting these groups so why tell me to work in any government territory and they have a very political agenda one might argue that the way to home and to doing some humanitarian work as well but because of all the political linkages one kid easily say that they are compromised because as a humanitarian you shouldn't be taking part rebel groups and calling that defeats the object you that's why there are so many questions against the white house a lot of people who say we should stop supporting these groups that are questioning their motives of western involvement in syria because over the last seven years

it's now evident that all these groups had linked with terrorism. well syria is expected to be the main focus of an upcoming visit of the french president to the u.s. and money well mcchrystal says he wants washington and parlous and their allies to play a key role in creating a new syria the french and american leaders appear to have bonded over syria what mccrone saying they're buying less relations are a strong ever. how do you explain your special relationship with the president and some of called you the whisperer i think we have a very personal pollution based on the different meetings we had and it's official these visits that your president. the president is expected to does all his french counterpart with a private dinner vernon the munchkin was the home of america's first president george washington and is considered to be the cradle of american french relations

and it's just it looks now it was money well mccollum's visit to the u.s. promises to be so special. donald trump is the first u.s. president in nearly a century to end his famous chair without holding a state dinner but he's wasting little time and his second his first in a date at the white house french president emanuel but the tyranny this initial encounters have been slightly shaky. micron even went as far as trolling trump on his favorite platform off to washington pulled out of the power of the climate deal but paresis charm seems to have done the trick i remounted dinner atop the eiffel tower with first ladies last july may have been enough to figure if i'm to get the bilateral tensions since then we've seen the best of the newest political bromance. i've.

the friendship between our two nations. and ourselves. is on break but. nothing will ever separate us. deep rooted in that blossoming relationship that lies the military foundation president micron was the first to back donald trump in his decision to strike syria even boasting that he convinced trump said to be a notoriously bad listener not to withdraw. troops the usual ten days ago president trump was saying the united states of america had a juicy to disengage from syria and i assure you we have convinced them that it is necessary to stay for the long term the relationship between the two leaders has drawn comparisons with former playschool best george w. bush and tony blair once dubbed the couple their friendship was noted will be full invasion of iraq and the british government inquiry called the bad bush

relationship its attending factor in shaping it their relationship went from clean and healthy on toothpaste to a mutual hatred of saddam hussein some familiar syrian dictator bashar assad the best shot at us said bashar al assad is in a war against his own people micron and trumps common grounds can be found in good old fashioned ego a self proclaimed stable genius and the strong of the roman gods jupiter all good leaders make another sweet can assess strength and the money feeds his chance for front his own special relationship with the u.s. at a time when the u.k.'s was beginning to flounder not to mention ties with other european leaders as well but it can always be smiles and handshakes take the iran nuclear deal currently trying a wedge between their new found friendship and the worst deals i've ever seen disasters deal one of the dumbest deals one of the worst deals ever was the around

deal i'm all for agreements but that was a bad one we cannot and will not make this certification. a solid robust verifiable agreement that guarantees that iran will not acquire nuclear weapons to denounce it without proposing anything else would be a serious mistake not respecting it would be irresponsible as the deadline approaches to fix or nic the iran agreement is thought to my car might be the only your opinion to try to talk trump out of breaking the deal but with the white house back on the diplomatic dating scene for the first time in two years there's plenty of things for the media and world leaders to. let's focus on one of those matters the iran nuclear deal mentioned there was struck back in twenty fifteen but obliged to run to stop its nuclear program if the u.s. dropped sanctions against iran but president trump has cast doubts on the agreement on set a may the twelfth deadline for participants to improve its terms of the wise america

will withdraw from the accord iran's foreign minister warned his country would resume nuclear enrichment if the u.s. withdrew from the deal a professor of politics and to run around this complied with every element of the agreement well america has violated it on multiple levels. from the iranian perspective it's clear the americans have to abide by the agreement they are already by the multiple levels both under trial and obama the french government. but in any case if the french and the americans choose to stick with the deal. the iranians will continue. their side of the bar but if the french or the americans they choose to accept the deal then i think it's. he claims to have this sort of influence so he could use this influence in a constructive way that is possible but we still will still have to see trampas

from looking at him from tehran is very unpredictable. the shooting of a palestinian teenager during ongoing clashes on the gansa border has been caught on camera it was allegedly shot by israeli defense forces and a warning you may find the following video disturbing. mohammad was shot in the head and died instantly he was fifteen. public spread following the shooting party spoke to the cameraman who filmed the incident he says mohammad wasn't threatening the soldiers and was. participating in the march like everyone else people were participating and he was among them he was not

a threat israeli army he was not a man it could have been considered threatening he was a fifteen year old child no matter what he was doing he couldn't have been posing a threat to the soldiers. between him as well as the fact that the soldiers withstood one hundred to two hundred meters in the fence on the other side when i filmed him he wasn't carrying a stone or a sling shot or a knife he was acting like everyone else. we also managed to speak to firmly base see he was just exercising his rights a peaceful demonstration and was far from the border fence. mohammed knew that his uncle was going to the demonstration and said i want to go with you he said no he was afraid that something might happen to the boy i thought i'd convinced my hamad to stay at home but he left asking his aunt to tell me and my wife he was just going to the friends for an hour he was returned to us as a martyr. going to the colors of the set of my under armor he asked to go to the

demonstration and i said i didn't want him to because israeli threaten and target people each friday threats from these release increased them he asked to go and play outside but he's caved and ran off to the demonstrations as soon as he got there they targeted and killed him it happened in less than an hour. i miss you let me show you how low below our city mohammed was three hundred meters away from the fence and even if he was right next to it he was a peaceful demonstration he was just a child was he carrying a missile launcher was he shooting at the soldier who killed him why did they kill him i'll tell you what mohammed did wrong mohammed's fault was that he was demanding his rights. we really defense forces has reacted to the incident posting a picture on twitter showing palestinians close to the border fence claiming that

hamas is using youngsters for terror attacks israel's defense minister also started by the i.d.f. the search and calling for people not to approach the border. the only culprits in the death of the fifteen year old boy in gaza are the leaders of hamas those cowards hide behind women and children and use them as human shields so that they can continue to dig attack tunnels and carry out terrorist actions against the state of israel i say to the residents of gaza for a long life do not approach the fence. it is outrageous to shoot at children how does the killing of a child in gaza today help peace this tragic incident must be investigated well israel has launched an investigation into the case following worldwide criticism of the killing this so-called march of return has left many palestinians dead and injured in the past three weeks.

nineteen minutes past eight am this monday morning here in moscow lots more news coming up in ninety seconds. it's.

what politicians do something. to put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. for some one of the brits. to do like to be prosperous what with before three in the morning can't be good for the. interest of always in the waters of our. first six. welcome back to our to international the u.k. is expected on monday to provide unser is to russia's questions on the case of a former spy poisoned last month that's according to the british envoy to the

international chemical watchdog the o.p.c. w surrogate script and his daughter yulia were poisoned in salt spray on march the fourth the u.k. immediately stated that moscow was quote highly likely to have been behind the incident but the o.p.c. w. and the u.k. military love were unable to determine the origin of the poison used in the salt. but artie's sophie shevardnadze spoke to a former eastern bloc spiny who successfully penetrated the cia during the cold war he gives his perspective on the scribal case and you can in fact watch is whole interview at the end of this broadcast in around five minutes time. i. was so scrip our most definitely wasn't a victim of any kind of operation or attack from the russian side because that would totally destroy the russian credibility as far as exchanges are concerned and

they they are dependent on it because they certainly have to get their people back if they get into trouble to me. there is certainly is some kind of scenario of. russian operations and. they just became a good opportunity. i believe that if you really want to get out. you know how to do it till you move to a different continent your change identity if you really are very mean had access to very sensitive information that's what i would advise. such an agent to do but otherwise i don't think it's really all that. the dangerous or if you want to leave you leave it in most cases they will if you

go you know why because it doesn't make sense to force somebody to do something that he doesn't want to do but our intelligence agencies banks fall. yes the cia was certainly vengeful they they did try to compromise me and they certainly spread false rumors they tried to. kind of was say threat. ugly stories about me either to. yes their eventual cia was certainly very lunchroom or the f.b.i. i would say more the f.b.i. than than the cia. well european union officials are reportedly working behind the scenes to persuade washington to ease sanctions on russia imposed after the poisoning of the double agent circus. in the u.k. last month it comes amid concerns of a blowback to european businesses having in particular they blocked the biggest

economies france germany some of the sun chins target the metals trade europe's all the minium market is already seeing some disruptions concerns of a supply gap have also prompted the renewed diplomatic push. under the latest sanctions european companies are effectively barred from doing business with targeted companies meaning that automobile or space telecommunication powerhouses are now facing a shortage in crucial resources metal industry executives have warned of layoffs and production disruptions germany is seeking to ease concerns the german government at all working levels would point out where the interests of german companies have been affected and make it clear where the raw concerns and where we see undesirable consequences previous sanctions how fall so taken

a toll some estimates point to a nearly eighteen billion euro loss for european markets around four hundred thousand e.u. workers are also thought to have lost their jobs as a result of the punitive measures. well ahead of the meeting of the world's most developed countries in june there have been calls for russia to have a seat at the negotiating table a german opposition lawmaker has urged the g seven bloc to enter a quote constructive dialogue with moscow political experts william melanson shares the idea that a diplomatic solution will be of benefit for european business partners. the actual business is the companies themselves in france and germany in particular must be putting enormous pressure on their currently allegedly anti anti russian governments with such a key. product as aluminum and all its by products we have a very large economic multiplier effect going into

a lot of other industries not just aircraft and motor cars but fridges furniture and let's not forget other countries let's remember that austrian particular is very much against any sanctions freeze of the russian keeping europe separate from russia and germany especially away from russia is the traditional anglo american plan anyway you can bet if you have learned to to ignore ignore the more excesses of the american instructions and get closer to russia i mean business is business after all. russia's defense industry has unleashed some brand new hardware these all terrain vehicles are the last word in getting trips safely all in off the bottle for let's take a look. the so

. the so. that's where we leave the news for another but i was promised a cold war spy talks modern espionage next in sofia and. r.t. international. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty

five percent of global will be loans to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent. some with four hundred to five hundred three per circuit per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only. the same wrong. well we just don't. get to shape our. becomes to add to it and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground.

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