the key witness in the russian doping scandal fails to confirm a number of his allegations during court testimony that is the careers of many russian athletes were almost destroyed following his claims also to more than the dozen syrians tested by the hague saying that the alleged chemical attack in the town of two was in fact stage. they were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this as professionals we saw that there were no symptoms suggesting chemical weapons had been used. and hugs and handshakes and history in the making north and south korea's leaders agreed to rid the pin insure of nuclear weapons during their first in a decade meeting and protests that have already seen forty killed and thousands injured in the past month the sec to go on for another two point.

four pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now it has been revealed that the former head of moscow's anti doping a. chunk of a key witness in the russian doping scandal failed to confirm a number of allegations against the country's athletes did come during his recent testimony to the court of arbitration for sport in february the court upheld the appeals of twenty eight russian athletes banned for doping but it's only now given reasons why we can get more details on this martin joins us in the studio to let you go we were hearing that the court did give a number of details today concerning the case of the russian alexander diego of what was said about testimony that well and in the past two years that we've been through this whole doping. allegation scandal it has almost become common knowledge

that russian athletes well they just don't all of them there have been allegations of a special cocktail drug cocktail designed especially for them we know that they've been swapping urine samples dirty one for clean ones through some hole in the wall and so on and so forth so the source for these allegations is this man. of and he for the first time appeared in court and was cross-examined by the prosecution and the defense he himself claims that he designed these said cocktail the drug cocktail but apparently what his according to his testimony he did not and let me just read it out to you very quickly he did not administer this cocktail to anyone himself neither did he see anyone administering the cocktail he doesn't know how the cocktail was smuggled out of russia you know to be used in international competitions for example that have to cross the border he does not know how it was

done also he's never actually been a witness to anyone swapping a dirty urine sample for a clean one but for the past two years his words and his allegations were just taking the face value no one questioned them and he himself was propelled to fame effectively he even starred in an oscar winning documentary about the doping the doping problem and russia have a have a taste. i was hoping to facilitate what was a last deliberate employees in the sport's history was aware of the existence of the russian doping system. real top level chicks. here certainly a tasteful nobody thing though are they or that there is no doping at all in fact cas as we know said it is going to continue to hold sanctions against eleven

athletes who had their appeals rejected so we knew it existed but i suppose the thing is here is that those claims from the chain called for use as the basis for the richard mclaren report which was then used to blanket ban a lot of russian athletes what it mclaren have to say well in the hearing richard mclaren the canadian lawyer behind the an extensive report basically which late foundation for a lot of russian athletes being just disqualified from ever participating in any games well he himself said he did not shy away from mentioning any athletes in the report but testifying in front of the same judge who said that basically the mention did not mean that any of those athletes were complicit in the dog being scheme that he portrayed in the report so basically first he mentions an athlete and just spills the spills the beans and you know just out as a potential doper and then he goes and says well no no no no i did not make any allegations i did not accuse anyone i just put the name there for the sake of

apparently just being there he also could not explain to the court of arbitration for sport which is the highest judicial body in sports by the way he could not explain why he just trusted grigori raj and gov and never looked back never questioned him he did not name any of the other sources of alternative sources he refused to out them as well that he apparently used to put together the report and he could not answer why the presumption of innocence in his opinion. should have just been flown out of the window in case of russia and the ball should be in russia scored to just prove that it was a clean clean nation so to speak and the sad thing here too is that even though names have been cleared for many of them the damage has been done i mean mud sticks well exactly i mean look at what happened this february this february the court of arbitration for sports cleared twenty eight russian athletes from a lifetime ban from participating in any in the olympics in any international event

i mean a lifetime ban means your career is pretty much ruined and that ban was overturned the biggest punishment was no more for them and it was done just before the olympic games in south korea were about to kick off guess how many of those twenty eight outfits were invited zero none nada not any of them basically the international olympic committee refused to invite any of them so there you have a if you say mud stinks world indeed and sticks to thank you there was a you get it out of there with the sociology professor at aston university ellis cashmore says that chunk of testimony cast further doubt on his credibility. the whole nucleus of the mclaren investigation and the ultimate report on the so-called state sponsored doping rested on his testimony and i question from the outset how objective or neutral or fair his testimony could have but he's

a fugitive the guy has fled from russia he does have an axe to grind the systematic operation that mclaren refers to we don't know about that what we do know is that russia has denied any knowledge of this this is led to a kind of a standoff between russia and the athletics governing organization that is the idea blair who is still say russia cannot compete on the world stage in athletics until it in bits that there has been state sponsored doping and i think that the court of arbitration broadly that lack of credibility it returns up will actually make a few people at the i don't think twice about this decision because it is absurd. you know the nice local syrian doctors have testified that they saw nine patients with signs of chemical poisoning in the aftermath of the alleged attack in the city of doing the witnesses explained have events unfolded on april the seventh to the

un backed chemical watch told alongside russia's representative however but everybody is willing to listen to their accounts is more aghast you have explains. when these videos emerged pundits and politicians took them as gospel the truth conclusive indisputable and irrefutable proof of assad's chemical since the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and astaire's that the us had regime has previously used chemical attacks the assad regime has used the same yellow gas canisters the n.s.c. telling fox news they have a high degree of confidence that it was used they must have had solid evidence you don't just flew into a hundred cruise missiles in an act of war without convincing proof beyond any doubt right right wrong. we were in the basement and then heard someone outside scream go to hospital we

were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this. pundits and politicians who've never been to syria where it happened witnesses the locals who were there in the hospital in question say they didn't see a thing all the exhaust was white helmets dousing confused of aliens with water neither did the doctors see anything. on the seventh of april i was in the emergency room treating patients it during the fighting the same day around seven pm we started receiving patients with breathing problems about fifteen cases this happened because people were in hailing smoke and dust but they only showed symptoms of choking and nothing more it all happened because one missile hit a building nearby and a lot of the first got into the hospital rooms with. the screams chemical weapons

chemical weapons were used to create panic this lasted for about an hour we were treating the patients and then sending them home we had no fatalities or instances of people suffering from poisonous substances this isn't helping western journalists their leaders insist it happened syria russia and locals insist it didn't dead end usually when you put your mind to not a monologue if you don't understand normal language let's try a different way if you're impervious to arguments let us bring you the witnesses so russia aboard more than a dozen witnesses to the west to the u p c w and invited western press perfect opportunity for journalists to get to the bottom of this right. right how low do you have to go to bring a little child all the way and threaten them right off the bat the nile but here's the what if we came here willingly we demanded the red cross allow us to come here

. wrong then truth there isn't the right answer no matter what you say to some people no matter what you show them they'll never ever come around or change their views how threatened do you have to feel to change your story into the noise a chemical weapons attack stubborn doesn't do this fellow justice he's really the reason that the boy had to fly over. yes my son is young and it's been difficult for him to make it here a flight here is no easy thing so little has scientists told you the truth something you do not want to hear it was a necessary measure we needed to show that there was a line in a very dangerous one. anyone who hoped there would be a breakthrough was in for a disappointment hours of testimony and the evidence all for naught there you

mentioned in the russian press release that somebody here was going to be present who was a witness of producing the video of the white helmets and i was wondering where this witness is and if he can tell his testimony. it's my view all these witnesses we heard from today are the evidence the white helmets feel is fake i don't know maybe i missed something. in one ear out the other with no pause in between. it was more a ghastly there were let's get the thoughts now finesse to be lee she's an independent researcher and journalist and photographer to his visited eastern guta as well just over the last few days i understand so be good to talk to inverness you're very welcome what was surprising for me during what i had to report there is that the spite what twelve people coming out and saying things that completely contradict what the west is saying there's no discussion it's just completely

dismissed were you surprised by that. sadly no i wasn't surprised and i'm certainly not swell actually i am surprised and i'm shocked the levels to which westerman me. has stooped over this alleged event in gemma and the moral bankruptcy and degeneracy that was saying from western media i mean to accuse russia of basically exploiting a giant in years of playing the evidence of eleven year old has and after western media has cynically exploited children throughout the history of this conflict and if we don't have to go back to far to remember. in easter left by whose father had clear links and associations with terrorist groups during the terrorist occupation of east aleppo and how bad i love dad's testimony as a savage old child was heavily used and i would say abuse by western media

to basically promote a military escalation so in other words to promote war what we see with russia and this event at the i p c w isn't a time to actually kong down on the military escalation and the conflict and please let's not forget when i spoke to people in duma dr medical staff in the same hospital in the medical point that received victims on that night they all also told me exactly the same thing as people are now hearing in the hague and also when i went outside and spoke to civilians only seven hundred meters away from the alleged attack me they were also all saying the same thing to me that there was no chemical weapon attack and in fact in that area itself we found on that day a new chemical weapon storehouse that was controlled by the terrorist factions which was josh al islam the saudi backed and terrorist group but there was also.

another chemical weapons. facility not so far away which was was completely under the control of josh on that and there we did see at least we saw one still and. that looked very similar to the ones that they are describing as having been used by the syrian army. billions into much but i think also a really important point i want to make on this and while the west are crying outrage about the so-called use of this trial what i will say very strongly speaking to the children into my speaking to their families in that child and his family will fail tremendous relief that finally their voices are being heard on an international stage because for seven years voices like theirs have been completely muted and ignored and disappeared by western media under the a.b.c. news investigating at the moment but from your own point did you feel as a whole lot more evidence to come out about this alleged attack that could persuade

people one way or the other. well you know i think one point that marette made is that it is almost whatever evidence is produced now it will be perceived as being influenced by russia or by syria i mean we've already seen the british government and western media if you like laying the ground for saying that russia had already pretty tampered with the site before they go p.w. comment so we can almost predict that p.c. w. find no evidence of chemical weapon use in that area the next line will be russia tampered with and sanitized and sprayed affirmation around the site before a p.c. w. could get there so you know what is happening now is that where sit in the skeleton of the western media propaganda campaign that has been waged against syria for eight years we're seeing it more and more exposed and more and more vulnerable and

fragile to what is effectively evidence that is coming from civilians on the ground in this example in eastern guta for example i p c w found no evidence of chemical chemicals in the bars they so-called chemical weapon manufacturing site that was by the tripartite alliance of aggression france britain and the united states and yet i've done a very quick check on google i cannot find a single western media on a google search having reported that i p c w found no chemicals in the bars a so-called manufacturing site to the north of damascus why not why are they not reporting this they were quite happy. to accept that the u.s. u.k. and france. claimed that there were chemical weapons being manufactured but at that site and yet when it's disproven by the organization that they have put their faith

into it's not it doesn't appear to be being reported except by let's. a friendly meeting out of. syria i mean you talked about perhaps russian people occasion russian influence and syrian influence in the commit this investigation but how important is media reporting and how much do you think that will influence things. well i think media reporting is you know we've we've seen throughout the seven years this war would not have been maintained without a very. state partisan media both in the u.s. and the e.u. and in the u.k. it would not have been possible for this war to have been maintained without that media intervention and aggression towards i would say the majority of the syrian people who support not necessarily president as you know this is one of these reduction as arguments but who support their own secular state and who will defend their secular state against external hostile influences and so i think what

is really important here is that aggression that was carried out against syria by the u.s. and france and in and the u.k. was unlawful under international law it had no basis in legality and it has you know basically syria was condemned on the basis of an alleged offense right this is a very dangerous precedent we've seen these countries behave in a man lawful manner but i don't think ever in quite such a. precipitous way is there this could potentially have taken to war with russia inside syria and we're still i think i believe that all of your watching how the media is reacting to what is unfolding in dumas for example i don't think we're out of the woods yet i mean i believe it was your representative

that the or the russian representative to the c.w. sat there are there is potential for further false flag attacks to further escalate this intervention and i think you know we all have to be very aware of this investigation and so i do know we should be looking at both sides you know without this mudslinging going on but the. the aggression carried out by the u.k. and the your ass in front should never have happened without this investigation first taking place that's the important point sure and just on the point you said that both sides should be looked at i mean even when you bring twelve witnesses and sit them down in front of the media to ask the many questions. that's their opportunity to point out and it's just passed off the some sort of stunt by the russians it's extraordinary isn't that so so basically what they are actually doing is dismissing again the syrian forwards because what all of us have been doing and

is trying to actually transmit the voices of syrians that are simply not being heard in the west and today as i sat and they. introduced those syrian patriots and witnesses to be the meijer and as you say but yet they excluded and. ok vanessa look we're going to have to leave it there but really good to talk to yourself and thanks for coming on to r.t. that was an s a bally independent research journalist and photographer and someone who has been to eastern go to just in the last few days to thank you. now another anti occupation marches expected in garza today we're going to have details on that for you just after the break. from foreign policy could be described as double speak the president doesn't have a defined policy approach even goals are difficult to discern is this what the art of the deal is transformed policy making america great again the world safer.

as i can go. right to you number one was in effect. blown away by the huffing and puffing of the big bad wolf. countries like india that are like one. sector household sector has all the gold their government does exactly and then the big bad wolf after the bottom the people the problem the government was blown away and you've got the countries like china russia that have said wow so twenty four karat gold bullion and the big. blow the rousing.

welcome back handshakes and hugs wrapped up an historic summit between the leaders of north and south korea it was the first meeting of its kind in over a decade and a number of key agreements were reached the leaders and i'm still seek the full down economics ation of the peninsula they also have to stop all hostile actions against each other and to gradually reduce their weapons arsenals additionally they agreed to hold talks today with the u.s. and china to arrive at a proper peace treaty so let's take a quick look then at how they spent the day together. thank you. thank you thank you. thank you.

thank. you. thank. you thank you. thank . you. i. well the latest to spend more than an hour in face to face talks kim jong un joked he wouldn't interrupt his counterpart sleep in the early morning stay anymore most likely referring to the north's missile tests which usually take place

at dawn. thank. the leaders are also treating each other to some cutlery deny delights to kim jong un sent a special chef to the border to prepare cold buckwheat noodles for moon while the south korean leader ordered a traditional swiss potato for it if it came from mind him of his school years in switzerland for dessert will be a cake with the symbol of a united on it and it's understood that north korea's first lady is also attending the dinner at her first public function outside of the country so let's break from that back then the thaw between the two sides and how it happened.

so following decades of tension it does they know that a final peace treaty could now be on the horizon. i think what we can expect is a exciting moment in time in which. as they said in south africa history and hope could live if you have it. in a certain time in a certain slates and i really am hopeful that from these talks we can see the framework for a full peace treaty to finally end this conflict it seems both sides are ready and willing to do that if the south and north to create the frame to give their own steps and self-determination then the u.s. as it's much smaller role to play if we can agree that and hold them to the notion that ending the hostile policy creating a peace treaty with the u.s.

and south korea will lead to denuclearization of the korean peninsula. to the middle east now where another palestinian anti occupation rally is underway at the moment in gaza as part of the six week long great march of return in the past month forty palestinians have been killed tonight a five thousand injured according to u.n. estimates. look. the earth was. the earth. what. was the crux of. the earth. was. well the israeli army denies using excessive force against the protesters and

it also accuses how mass which controlled scars are of using children to carry out acts of terrorism israel's defense minister has called on people not to approach the border meanwhile doctors without borders recently released a report saying that their teens provided medical care to over six hundred palestinians injured by bullets since the start of the month they also say that the number of patients treated in just three weeks of this month is higher than the number treated during all of twenty fourteen the year of the guards of war we spoke with the head of the mission in palestine who believes that many of the injuries will result in disability. what i can tell you is that what i chose on there was the opposite of the way you wired. so you stay even use disproportionate use of the cross and the night when you against protesters i ching this is a most important point to remind you seized. in the. fragments are you going to resist sharon's and now i think teach sewing mean that.

exploded and these people. they received their injuries. quests a lot of time also will be titian you need. a reason so it's not a question of just this friday's which we last heard of months and even for summers and years when we are quite sure of it so. we are very afraid of high uys fiction weaves of bones which are exposed we knew already but. then we did she kurtz to treat these complications and that we will be able to requests special to resist certain for sufficient to get any say let's work on the job then what we have asked the i.d.f. to comment on these accusations and i so far we haven't received a reply that's how the news is though he's just come full four thirty here in

moscow from a at the top of the. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle chromes foreign policy could be described as double speak the president doesn't have a defined policy approach even goals are difficult to discern is this what the art of the deal means is trumps foreign policy making america great again and the world safer.