all over the world not only thought of or al-qaeda we would have mercenaries from all over the world with different ideological backgrounds not only like one color or one dimensional ones like we saw in afghanistan no this is the multinational. the numbers are so big. you know liberating it live and if there is should be should be a walk they ask i mean and if we want to do it then we should be appreciated internationally because we are doing the world trade but right now we see when you when you say cleansing how are you going to liberate it and i'm going to ask this question did the syrian government ever use chemical weapons during these past seven years against even if we want to except that they were foreign backed proxies did the syrian government of use chemical weapons never never even what we had chemical weapons even before the smell of them in our chemical weapons when we had them in our arsenal we never used them against these proxies actually they were

used against us of two thousand and thirteen. my twenty kilometers from aleppo and we were the ones who went to the security council and demanded an inspection to go to a book to inspect the use of chemical weapons under the of course the support of the turkish government as you know the british the british prime minister doesn't accept it and believes that russia was in some way involved with this and actually you know what i am here lately over your chemical weapons program there was no russia at the time in two thousand and thirteen the russians game september two thousand and fifty i'm talking about the incident two thousand and thirteen we lost more than twenty soldiers due to get nickel weapons that were used against our soldiers and civilians are harmless. and we are the ones who submitted the first claim. and the quest the police can inspect that these jihadi groups that you call moderate rebels are using chemical weapons bed in my. we don't have holy powers to

control the wind directions and we live in a dense highly intensely populated areas and our troops are everywhere so it's not really smart to use chemical weapons to hurt our soldiers and our civilians and just finally your reaction to the kremlin saying that they have to look again at supplying the syrian government now with the most advanced defensive missile defense of technology in the world and whether it will protect you in case out here rabia and israel and perhaps britain united again send airstrikes your way we really whole we really hold the kremlin supply us with not only with s. three hundred but we need the s four hundred as well because we were victims of. terror war four of now eight cities now we are entering the eighteen of this war and israeli air force and the so-called coalition air force and all of all of this

is a threat to our security is a threat to our people and we need to defend ourselves this is our our god given right and our international right to defend ourselves. it well. after the break. playwright and food bank volunteer tara was one explains why the one on the whole million food bank packages were needed last year to keep british people from starving when the u.k. has money to storm shadow missiles at one million dollars a pop and from the news hauled up and told us and britain on the walls simply getting buried. lethal military force. coming up about two of going on the ground. in july twenty second team on an attempt to freelance journalist working with.

militant shelling in syria. on a sacrifice has established a solid memorial they will recognize will reporters who often risk so to speak of the truth comes through them these you can submit to your published works in a video well written form to a war on t.v. dot com now. welcome back want to go through some of this week's headlines as a liberal democrat member part of a glenn bit obrecht lembit u.k. nato joint warrior exercise today that's why get wind rush and all the other scandals and you've chosen this very grim story from. independence this is no war exercise this is will for real the independent reports yemen at least twenty killed including bright off the air strike by saudi that coalition hits wedding party not for the first time it looks like

a completely innocent social occasion meant to be a celebration has resulted in mass death and forty five wounded obviously change ten thousand been killed in this british rock war but what we do know is that over ten thousand people are being killed the majority. the vast majority civilians over eighty percent of yemen's population now in need of humanitarian aid in that sense this individual killing pales into insignificance but this is happened time and time again now if some other aggressor did that to a western country there'd be pandemonium it would be brought up in the united nations there'd be an emergency session of the council but this seems to be treated as some kind of collateral damage perhaps because our allies of the west are responsible and i should say the sales of weapons and bombs in saudi arabia from this country have increased by five hundred percent since the start of the war but i think surely leaders apologists as it work would defend themselves by saying wedding parties have been a particular targets that they were doing whether you want to do any thirteen by

the u.s. air force i mean this is just paktika province december twenty third twenty one one hundred revellers die in a village in eastern afghanistan. province july first twenty zero to at least thirty possibly forty celebrities twenty seven members of the family twenty of form a twenty and we're going to rebuild iraq forty two dead wedding guests even the musicians hired to play this at the ceremony this is the point afshin that word the sterile phrase collateral damage is written large in the destruction not just of immediate family but friends and relatives because the west has made another mistake yes i suppose the british could try to distance themselves from the american mistakes but in reality let's not play that game this shows that there's a lack of responsibility a failure of targeting even if one argues that those wars were legitimate and they were in place reined by the saudi arabian government say they don't deliberately target civilians britain is giving a massive aid package to the world's worst humanitarian crisis how do you answer the oh well it's

a mistake let's move on let's forget about it once again same point if it was the other way around if it was americans or british who died in a wedding due to another country's aggression you'd never hear the end of it but there wasn't much coverage at all on the day after. this happened tony hall today i should say director general of the b.b.c. went beyond some questions as to why there's no coverage of yemen it's about b.b.c.'s commercial activities but you have a story here from evolve politics well this is about the b.b.c. this ties into what we've just been discussing in a sense of politics reports the b.b.c. work directly with m i five to bar leftwing journalists and prevent a left wing british government this goes back about eighty years i think turn around one nine hundred thirty three where no was in for the whole story right up potentially to the one nine hundred ninety s. it started then two years after the informal conversations there was a formal agreement that there would be conversation between the secret service which of course didn't exist officially till one thousand eight hundred nine and the people running the b.b.c.

to prevent arguably a left wing government now this was all denied at the time and you can kind of understand why but it's. what you get away but it's as if the he says association was enough you didn't need to be a member of a left wing organization they actually had three different categories and i think that is understandable because there was a terror in this country about the communists over running the country but here's the irony i work with the b.b.c. i must be right wing i joined the b.b.c. around this time which included years ago do no one ever say i would have to england but they were supposed to file for all of us sitting here in our team which basically means we've been potentially an article by the b.b.c. and now they have to explain why we're here it makes mockery of those people who point to one or two stations and say we've got a bias but the other ones haven't i think in reality there's much less bias overall then we think but it's also means that those who seek to blame others need to look

at their own house first well very serious article which i'm sure would have to be some kind of inquiry into let's go to a source that probably never makes it on to the b.b.c. and the headline shows were yes the world socialist webs. it says nearly thirty thousand single parent families made homeless in england in twenty seventeen now let's think about that this is england a first world country and it turns out that something like forty seven percent of households are statutory homeless are single parents lots of work but they simply can't make ends meet and the figures have gone up there's a charity called gingerbread which has been very concerned about this and here's the other point the changes to the benefit system make this even worse where does this send austerity well these are the people going on just as the least there has been no coverage on the order of the mainstream media here in britain could be thirty thousand single parent families there is peripheral coverage i occasionally see things on the news you see maybe

a little bit more in newspapers especially after leaving ones but this is an inconvenient truth eight percent increase on five years ago as austerity policies the saved directly from tourism is david cameron's policy there's been a ten fold increase in zero hours contracts by forty thousand people your party a liberal democrat coalition in those early years can't blame me for that i wasn't there for that period of government with coalition but you're right from twenty ten on woods has been a big problem it actually goes back to the labor administration as well tony blair's administration gordon brown's of ministration also made changes to the benefit system let's take a step back from this these figures once again sound a little bit sterile we're talking about tens of thousands of people living in the united kingdom which is the sixth wealthiest economy in the world who are homeless and they're trying to bring up children and i think that squares two comfortably with those who claim that we are the bastion of the welfare state that over thank you. well in the past twenty four hours the u.k.'s

largest food bank provider the trussell trust has claimed failures in the tory welfare system of lead to more and more people needing food banks to live former food bank manager charles when he wrote an actor in a new british theatre production the food bank as it is joins me now jar they were coming on going underground the odds on favorite going to the latest odds to be the next prime minister is jacob riis morg the tory m.p. marginally beating corbin on the odds says food banks are rather uplifting just describe what inspired you to create this new play. well far from uplifting i found that when i started working at the food bank i couldn't quite believe what i was seeing i was shocked to be frank at the situations that were p.p. people were coming in with. i felt that the stories were weren't widely known amongst the public that that things were going on under our notice is that people

just had no idea about this they were living in a parallel universe so i was seeing people who had had no money for weeks. yet families with young children it makes absolutely no difference whether they're young children in the family or someone's benefits are delayed or they're being reassessed the presence of children in a household makes no difference boris johnson and dominic round the other tory m.p. board shorts of foreign secretary it is not about people languishing in poverty this is more about cash flow problems i totally disagree with that i mean people living in desperate poverty even even people who are working in secure employment are really just about managing we often find people who. although they may not be able to feed themselves they also come their homes and sometimes they can't even light their homes people are not able to run for it is. or ovens because

they don't have the money to pay for the power so people really are in poverty it's a serious problem in this country i know it's been performed in front of jeremy corbin before jeremy corbin became labor leader we had blairites appearing on this program advocating the carrot and stick approach towards welfare and the most vulnerable how do you think the media managed to create if you do a perception that actually these are just people scrounging and using food banks as some sort of in a number rudd's words magic money tree of a different sort. i think the discourse in some of the press is the plea distasteful and immoral frankly that you know these are not just words these words are really hurting people they really internalize the stigma that peddles. and people just believe it and even articles that depict food bank clients in the

supposedly sympathetic light often don't go into full detail and leave the person open to horrible comments trolling and. in so doing they they help to create an atmosphere of which the prime minister said food bank use is complex the reasons for food bank use a complex and that it's not a simply a matter of having enough money to eat going to be a minister a member of i think that she may be trying to fudge the issue and distract people from the fact that the main issue is poverty that's what's driving things by case there are obviously there are compounding factors that result in a person living in poverty so disability mental health issues addictions. make it more difficult for the month soldiers cruelty that on the part of the government conscious cruelty is the phrase used by some as regard to achieve it drives them people like the director ken loach. he's been on this program we depicted them of

course famous in the. door winning film on your blake i think before i did the job at the food bank i would have thought that phrase was overblown but having seen the reality is really really hard to escape the notion that there is a conscious policy going on here to leave people in the. possibly that somehow that will deter people from claiming benefits. i mean when i see someone who is money has been stopped overnight who has a disability who has maybe depression and is driven to the verge of you know feeling hopeless and despairing i have met people in line people who've been using the food bank who attempted suicide and it's very difficult to escape the feeling that there is a conscious cruelty going on terrorism thank you think here well in a moment we'll hear an excerpt from the play and if you're in london in the u.k.

you can see it at seven pm at center in the seventeen in that wall from so that's after the show there will be back on saturday with palestinian mc gaza or up to the un's mideast envoy has told israel just stop shooting of children can be judged by social media was your saturday fifty one years to the day muhammad ali refused to serve in the u.s. war against vietnam that would kill more than four million men women and children he was stripped of his title as heavyweight champion of the world now here is sarah somerville performing an excerpt from food bank as it is a lot of us volunteers a former say thank you sis and every week we hear the same things i'm so shy. i'm so embarrassed to be. a companies it's me needing help it's usually me helping other people some of them are. quite pale some of them thin. some of them

can barely hold their heads up they're so low on energy. often if you show them the slightest kindness or understanding the burst into tears. even the men. will say things like. i feel broken or everything's wrong just everything and there be tears streaming down their faces. you try and keep it light of course you do. it every week that at least now at least one person says they feel like. killing them so. we keep

a happy face you know we really try but sometimes it's all we can do not to break down and cry we see. i know some people say that food banks are run by a bunch of do gooders taking the place what government should be doing what we meant to do i let people stop of.

well. you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub you're going to walk into excitement it's that knowing that's where the adrenaline in much comes from. and you can easily move by definition and the extremes will put most of. the violence is a part of. the schizophrenia. where you can do all these things and behave like badly. you're going to be full of horsepower for all. schools more so for the last. honest man infirmed. role. in the thought. i would grow older where no

really did uphold are going to get. the meaning in these music at least if you don't involve the constantly evolving. saudi arabia's top diplomat warns could target that its government faces collapse unless it starts in the back to u.s. operations in syria. french leader among maneuvers between pleasing europe and donald trump on the iran deal during his address to the u.s. congress. this agreement. may know the address all concerns but we should not that's abounded needs without having some see substantial and more substantial instead. handouts for extremists

an alleged bodyguard of osama bin laden is that found to have been collecting benefits in germany for over two decades. and russia is the. ministry displays fragments of missiles it says the syrian government intercepted during the recent western strikes us claimed all of its missiles hit their targets. are broadcasting live. this is. thomas certainly glad to have you with us now saudi arabia's foreign minister has warned the qatari government that it could collapse if it does not start lending support to the u.s. military in syria. should finance the u.s. military presence in syria and send its own military forces before the us president american protection for. if the us is to withdraw its protection represented by its military base in then the regime then within less than

a week this comes as we've heard different words from trump basically giving the impression he's still making up his mind about whether or not to withdraw u.s. forces from syria he's been talking about it for him in terms of very soon relatively soon it's not exactly clear now we did hear trump say that if saudi arabia wants the usa to maintain a military presence in syria they should help pay for it they will be making a decision very quickly in coup warden issue with others in the area as to what we'll do saudi arabia. is very interested no decision and i said well who do you want to say maybe you can have to pay so now we hear the foreign minister of saudi arabia saying that there are regional rival we could talk our must share the burden of the fighting in syria or else there could be some rather harsh consequences it's interesting to note yesterday tuesday donald trump was at the white house as being

with the french president mccraw on and he seemed to indicate that there were other countries that had been approached by the united states about increasing their role in syria financially as well as merit militarily there is talk of the prospects of an arab coalition in the works for syria now this is certainly not the first point of disagreement between qatar and saudi arabia folks who recall over a year ago there was a falling out between the two countries and that resulted in a number of countries cutting off diplomatic relations with qatar saudi arabia and during that spat we heard that donald trump unprecedentedly accusing qatar of funding terrorism. said that they absolutely are not funding terror. isn't that statement from trump was simply inaccurate so now we've heard these very very dramatic words from saudi arabia's foreign minister waiting to see what comes next well security analyst and former british army officer charles hsu bridges told r.t.

that any gulf states sending troops into syria would be breaking the law while a lot depends on the difference of course between what is being stated quite grandly by various politicians and leaders and what actually my actually turned out to happen on the ground let's not forget that this would be an occupation force because syria of course is a sovereign entity certainly the recognized government of syria has not invited these other countries from the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council states to come and join in any action or any military operations inside syria itself let's not forget. president assad and his forces are winning the war in syria and almost certainly at some stage those that then replace american troops may well end up in combat against syrian forces and possibly also russian forces and those countries will be keen to avoid that i suspect. the french

president has concluded a three day trip to washington by addressing the u.s. congress where he got a warm welcome from lawmakers. best birthday to. the president of the french republic. and i know my spoken susie asked me of the special bond between the two countries and a lengthy speech full of historical references. friends supposed to play to the story of this great nation from the very beginning. for my. friends point also to the french philosopher involved. in the benjamin franklin george washington for america in france that's a good song of the united states. the income cmon devolved martin luther king was president there was a result from thomas jefferson who was not. nobles these. patients

relationship this is. well along with all those historical references there was some policy discussed most importantly the iran deal now the media has portrayed a trump and mccraw relationship as a bromance so to speak comparing it to the infamous bush blair bromance of the early two thousand but that could definitely be a mischaracterization considering that mccrone took some positions that were totally out of line with trust policies including expressing support for the paris climate agreement using the phrase make the planet great again which is in stark contrast to make america great again slogan now mccraw was a bit more ambiguous regarding the jay c.p.o. way or the iran deal calling for a more comprehensive deal while reiterating that france would not be abandoning the twenty fifteen agreement he presented for a number of months i've been saying that it was not sufficient it will enable us at

least until twenty twenty five it's going to be to have some control over their nuclear activities. we therefore wish to work on the new deal with iran. we signed it at the initiative of the united states we signed it and boasts the united states and france that is why we cannot say we should get rid of it like that france will not leave the g.c. purely because we signed. mccraw as explanation today seemed to be a reaction to backlash from the e.u. and again mccrone did clarify that then the sesame of the agreement outweighs washington's concerns and he urged other signatories to stick with the deal until there's a better one but more crowded trump reaching consensus came as somewhat of a surprise to the other signatories especially considering that five hundred french british and german m.p.'s wrote a letter to the u.s. congress asking them to support the deal saying that the concerns should be

addressed separately and not within the context of the j.c. p.o. way which evidently is in direct conflict with the crown and trump sphere so the check out what the e.u. and russia had to say about it and what can happen in the future will seen the future but there is one deal existing it's working it needs to be preserved we are against the revision of these agreements and believe it's very counterproductive to de rail the longstanding international efforts will make sure that these agreements and shrines in the u.n. security council resolution weren't be violated trump has until may twelfth to decide what he's going to do but now that there seems to be some division amongst the members of the e.u. it's impossible to predict what exactly will happen. france's president also visited george washington university on wednesday where he held a speaking engagement with students while there he answered questions on the iran deal stating he believes trump is likely to exit the compound but stressed of the need to work on a new and broader nuclear agreement or guard decision tehran based political

analyst sayed. excuse me told us that although france and america might be aligning on the iran deal the rest of europe does not want to go in a strong political trio nations in europe especially friends even more than germany and britain is trying to get closer to donald trump's aspirations and demands especially with regard to iran is not we are you sure. you are all standing against any intensification of problems and tensions with iran. just rejected. by. european nations. to imposing further sanctions on iran for its missile and regional activities so this shows that europe is not much willing to work with.

well during the same event said france that would increase its support for the coalition in syria and reinforce the u.s. military presence in the north of the country and also stated that he is unsatisfied with the peace process since he believes it has produced results like wrong went on to express hope that efforts by smaller groups of nations would serve as a bridge between the geneva and. gauche ations. as the syrian military works to secure complete control of the battle scarred city of duma kilometers of rubble built tunnels have been discovered has exclusive images of the vast a sub training network that helps to sustain the islamist insurgents.