claims of a chemical attack in the syrian city of doom earlier this month are called into question with a number of journalists who visited the site struggling to find any evidence to the reports. we've heard about it on t.v. but from personal eyewitness accounts no one has seen anything so far the syria conflict seems to have forged the new friendship between the president some from under the over and mutual dislike of the conflict stricken countries. and the local cameraman claims it's really soldiers shot dead and all armed palestinian teenager on the gal's the border last week stating he has video evidence to prove. when i killed him he wasn't carrying a stone or sling shot overnight he was acting like everyone else.

just gone nine am this monday morning here in the russian capital wherever you're tuning in from right around the world alone welcome our top story diets are continuing to grow over claims of a chemical weapons attack in the syrian city of duma earlier this month a number of western journalists who travel to the city say they are struggling to find eyewitnesses to confirm the reports well let's get into this now with our senior correspondent who joins me live murat indeed what did the journalist the sculptor who were they when they visited do what's come out of this well what is so surprising not a whole lot if you know if you were expecting revelations proof of guilt or even

suggestions of such. a disappointment. 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 they 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. they heard about it on t.v. but from personal eyewitness accounts no one has seen anything so far it's not just coming back from a town about five kilometers from here and it has approximately twenty thousand people who have fled from eastern guta and above all duma so the people there are telling us very piers razorblade this whole story from a privileged seventh was staged. and you know that is what is so surprising because these three western journalists the first was robert fisk a reporter for the independent many years of experience he was the first to cast

doubt that this attack had even happened he spoke to witnesses locals doctors at the medical facility where the apparent victims were treated then there was pearson sharp an american and german reporter for the idea of all of the war correspondents all of them with prior experience the they know what they're doing and none even found the suggestion. of culpability here but they got a huge. huge backlash from from from the public because they went contrary to what the western media had talked about them and trumpeted for weeks and weeks that assad was behind this and there's no negotiation the united states backed by britain and france was soo convinced that they had even carried out the strikes near hours before the c.w. specialists were jus to arrive to investigate to see point the o.p.c. w.

organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons there had been criticism that why weren't they intimate there they're now right here they arrived on saturday they've collected samples but there's not a lot we know because of the way the w. operates there will. be we don't know when the analysis will be done when we'll have any sort of any sort of results but the u.s. envoy to the u p c w has suggested that perhaps russia may have tampered with evidence because russian specialists were first on the scene siggy lavrov the russian foreign minister personally address these accusations and he said he said it's ridiculous look if you were interested in proof an investigation you wouldn't have bombed syria hours before the c.w. specialists would due to arrive. can you can see russia has not tampered with them yes i can guarantee aggressive action was. less than three to four hours before.

the inspectors want to visit the place with the knowledge because with the. reckon we just actually go back to the seventh of april when this attack occurred and where the claims originate from where is this story coming from well all pro-rebel sources the first one was the white helmets which are largely financed by western governments programable actors rescue is for rebel fighters and they released redos from a hospital showing them downs in people with legibly the victims of a chemical attack then there was the syrian american medical society which is financed again by the united states to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars and they claim that they treated five hundred people with symptoms of exposure to chemical agents they were the uni sources these were the only sources that were

cited by western media when they repeated these reports that there had been a chemical attack but all these journalists that have visited the sea other experts addling we've spoken to locals to witnesses to a boy that was in the hospital during that joining the event we spoke to the doctors who were on shift at the hospital and all of them say that they didn't see anything that they didn't see any attack that they didn't see any victims that they don't know anyone who was injured in this or exposed in this attack and this is story that you know repeats no matter who you turn to but russia the russian position remains the same that we shouldn't jump to conclusions about where this alleged attack happened or not until there's. until we have moved to. base our opinion then judgment on ok what comes from not senior correspondent

because the if thank you let me just focus on one of the aspects there was speaking of he mentioned the white house once the self-styled emergency response script behind the reports of the chemical attack well they have long been embroiled in controversy for instance the activists enjoy wide support from western governments the closing that they had received twelve million dollars in overseas donations this year the u.s. which is thought to be the white helmets largest contributor is reviewing its funding for rebuilding war robert syria but the state department assure that the group won't be affected by any cutbacks as the funding and the funding that the u.s. was providing to to this group and because of this. 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 unlike you know u.s. contributions are still as far as i know that is all still is all still in play and there is no rational person holding 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 tell me 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 in the gravel groups and call it could regime change that defeats the objective 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 it questioning their motives of western involvement in syria because over the last seven years it's now evident that all these groups had linked to terrorism. well syria is expected to be the main focus of an upcoming visit of the french president to the u.s. among all mccrone says he wants washington and part and their allies to play a key role in creating a new syria the french and american leadership here to have bonded over syria with seeing their bilateral relations are as strong as 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 relation based on the different meetings we had and it's official these visits that your president. president is expected to double his french counterpart with a private dinner at mount vernon the virginia was the home of america's first president george washington and is considered to be the cradle of american french relations the presidents are also expected to exchange memorable gifts and the society looks though it while your money will visit to the u.s. promises to be so special. donald trump is the fist u.s. president in nearly a century and his face 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.

maicon even went as far as trolling trump on his favorite platform off to washington pulled out of the paris climate deal the paris this child 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 thick at the bilateral tensions since that we've seen the best of the newest political bromance. i've. the friendship between our two nations. and ourselves and my day is done great that . nothing will ever separate i was. deep rooted in that blossoming relationship that lies the military foundation president maicon was the first to back donald trump in his decision to strike syria even boasting that he convinced trump said to

be in a tour. listen or 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 not it will be a 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 a sudden he say some familiar syrian dictator bashar al assad the best shot at us said he. is in 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 as the roman gods jupiter all good

leaders make another's we can assess strength and the manual micron thief this 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 her it 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 thought nick 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. nisha city will be around nuclear deal mentioned there was struck back in twenty fifteen it obliged to run to stop its nuclear program if the u.s. dropped sanctions against iran but president trump has cast dots on the agreement to unset in may the twelfth deadline for participants to improve its term otherwise washington will withdraw from the accord not a runs foreign minister warned that his country would resume nuclear enrichment if the us walks away from the deal a professor of politics in toronto list that tearing up the iran nuclear deal will only hurt the us the united states is in a weaker position today than it was six seven years ago the iranians are the iranians are used to sanctions i don't think that the united states will be able to put the sort of pressure on iran that it was able to do so before so personally i

think that if the americans go down the road. tearing of the reman they would. faced more harm then the iranians the americans would be isolated and they will be seen as violating the agreement and unreliable whereas the iranians will be seen as the victim. he claims to have this sort of influence so he could use this influence in a constructive way that is possible but with we'll still have to see trampas from looking at him from tehran is very unpredictable. moving on the shooting of a palestinian teenager during ongoing clashes on the gaza border has been caught on camera he was allegedly shot by israeli defense forces and a warning you may find the following video disturbing.

muhammad was shot in the head and. fifteen years old. spread following the shooting party spoke to the cameraman who filmed the incident he wasn't threatening the soldiers and was are. participating in the march like everyone else lots of people of his think and he was among them that he was not a threat israeli army and he was not a man it could have been. he was a fifteen year old child no matter what he was doing he couldn't have been posing a threat to the soldiers given the distance between him the friend as well as the fact that the soldiers were stewed one hundred to two hundred meters back from a friend when i filmed him he wasn't carrying a stone or a sling shot or a knife he was acting like everyone else. we managed to speak to him as family as well they say he was just exercising his rights as a peaceful demonstration and was far from the border fence. you sure you.

know i said mohamed was three hundred meters away from the fence and even if he was right now. through it he was at a peaceful demonstration how he was just a child 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 the other just that he asked to go to the demonstrations and i said i didn't want him to because these railways threaten and target people each friday threats from the israelis increased then he asked to go and play outside but he's caved and ran off to the demonstration as soon as he got there they targeted and killed him it happened in less than an hour. mohammed knew that his uncle was going to the demonstration and said i want to go with you he said no as 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 fence for an hour he was returned to us as a martyr. but it's 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 israel's defense minister also stood by the idea of secession calling for people not to approach the border. the only co-produce 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 a full investigation is needed the e.u.

calls on the israel defense forces to refrain from using lethal force against unarmed protesters israel has launched an investigation into the case following worldwide criticism of the killing the conflict on the border flared with the start of the so-called march of return almost a month ago palestinians are demanding they return of territory they believe israel has occupied the demonstrations have left dozens of palestinians dead uninsured in the past three weeks. after the break the latest from london on the poisoning of a former double agent is.

sure seems wrong but. just don't. let me. get to shape out this day becomes active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right to the press this is what the three of them will be good. interested always in the water.

question. welcome back to r t international the u.k. is expected on monday to field questions from rochelle in 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 seoul three 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. under u.k. military love were unable to determine the origin of the poison used in the sort of spree attack ortiz sophie shevardnadze spoke to

a former eastern bloc spy who successfully penetrated the cia during the cold war he his perspective on the script case. i. i. was so scrip are most definitely wasn't a victim of any kind of operation or at that from the russian side because that would totally destroy russian credibility as far as exchanges are concerned and they are dependent on it because they certainly have to get their people back if they get into trouble the union i. there is certainly is some kind of scenario all 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 you 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 agency is vengeful. yes the cia was certainly vengeful they they did try to compromise me and they certainly spread false rumors is they tried to. read the ugly stories about me to miss their eventual cia was certainly

very ranch one over orley f.b.i. i would say more the f.b.i. than than the cia. brushes the defense industry has unleashed some brand new hardware the following all terrain vehicles focus on getting trip safely on and off the path of a let's take a closer. so

if you'd like to know more about any of those stories this morning want to check on our t. adult column for a closer look at all of those umbach in what half an hour it's time with more global news from our tates q here in moscow. one. per level one hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles they are going. to do so for the tell you that every gossip and public works well for the support. of the box of advertising telling me you are not cool enough to buy their products. these are the hawks that we along with all its worth watching.

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imagine returns in this is going underground a quarter of a century to the day britain woke up to learn of the death of stephen lawrence in south london sparking an inquiry that would find britain's police institutionally racist coming up on the show from margaret thatcher's bombing of the melvina small planes to teresa mayes bombing of syria we are tony blair's attorney general lord morris what makes a war legal or illegal and but is a painting in yesterday's london marathon may not be as healthy as it seems according to a report from the international car industry funded us health effects institute more than seven billion people on earth are breathing dangerously polluted air buses london cleans the streets of daily brief from sunday's marathon we speak to a criminal court judge appointed by a little shorts and i get the train skid row to run from oppression all civil

coming up in today's going underground but first two more european union officials convene in brussels to discuss the future of syria nine days after british prime minister tourism a bomb the middle east country certainly recovering from seven years of a war where different sides were backed by outside powers so was what tereza may did illegal publish legal advice suggest resume's lawyers relied on precedents like this we are taking this action for one very simple reason to damage the forces sufficiently to prevent the loss of each. for continuing to perpetrate his vile oppression the late yugoslav and serbian president slobodan milosevic would later be exonerated by the international criminal court in the hague which said it was unable to find sufficient evidence for a plan for ethnic cleansing that yugoslavia was just the beginning of legally controversial wars carried out by nato joining me now is the british attorney general appointed by tony blair a lot more us of a lot more us welcome back to going underground or was tourism

a justified in bombing syria on legal grounds yes no doubt about it she followed the deed quoted her statement exect clear in terms what appears in my book fifty years in politics of the law which set out exactly what i did in kosovo. or were there that there was no alternative that the damage was proportionate and short as possible in order to alleviate an overwhelming humanitarian disaster you're telling me that there is the word proportionate in the un charter no but we're not talking about the un charter you're oh yes i know but regrettably the un charter doesn't cover this kind of situation the charter allows you to arm conflict where there is self-defense or where there is

a security council resolution unhappily when because of the power of the veto you could not get the united nations resolution in kosovo and i'm sure you do it hopeless to try to get it to this occasion what is the point of the united nations charter i mean i oversee i expect you to back your decision when it came to the former yugoslavia you might change your mind of a serial of the past few days what is the point of the united nations charter if those two areas obviously the syria strikes are all about self-defense of. and if russia vetoed. to persuade the. countries of the world the i.p.u. international political union polly meant. to change the charter i'd made a speech in cape town ten years ago and i just.