please. 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 this fifth week garza protests the rallies erupt on friday we thought that twenty five palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli soldiers. and. also the u.s. house intelligence committee reveals its final report in sync with age russian meddling in the presidential election and finds no collusion between the trunk campaign and russia we look into the other findings of this long awaited report. more than a dozen syrians testify at the hague saying the alleged chemical attack in the town

of it was vague. they were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this of on the run as professionals we saw that there were no symptoms suggesting chemical weapons had been used. for the welcomes just turned seven pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now our top story this hour it has been revealed the former head of moscow's anti laboratory doping a. change of a key witness in the russian doping scandal failed to confirm a number of allegations against the country's athletes it came 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 some of its reasons r.t.

as you go dan are fairly joined me in the studio to discuss the latest. byrne first and foremost in the past few years that we've seen the scandal and revelation say it has been established that pretty much every single athlete in russia dope so it seems it was common knowledge at least that they had a special drug cocktail brewed performance that the swapped their dirty urine samples for clean ones through some hole in the lab walls so a lot of was said and was said by a man named grigori roche and of so he was the key witness he put forward the allegations but in the in the case basically during that hearing the court of arbitration for sports he revealed that many of the stuff that he said was best circumstantial first and foremost he said that he never actually administered the said cocktail which he claims he concocted to himself he says that he never saw anyone administering these said steroid cocktail he didn't know how the cocktail

was smuggled from russia abroad because well you know to be used in an international championship it would have to cross the border and also he's never been a witness to the mysterious you know you're in the swamp dirty to clean one he did say that his allegations came from basically talking to his colleagues but that was it when it comes to these allegations and in the past two years his words were taken at face value i should say no one questioned them and broaching of himself was propelled to fame even starring in an oscar winning documentary about the doping problem in russia have a look. i was hoping to facilitate what it was a was deliberate employees in sports history was aware of the existence of a russian doping system. or top level to the.

chunk of claims were the foundation of richard mclaren's report which was then used for a blanket ban on russian athletes and he was speaking to was an e in this court case what did he say well indeed sir richard mclaren a canadian law who basically pulled put the burden on his shoulders to compile a massive report on the scale of the doping problem in russia so he mostly relied on the allegations. but testifying in front of the same judge being cross-examined as well he said that basically while he did not shy away from mentioning athletes by name in the report in no way he said he meant to you know assume that they were guilty of something so basically being mentioned in his doping report did not mean he says that those athletes were complicit he also revealed he couldn't basically you couldn't explain justify to the court of arbitration for sport why he trusted roger and why he never questioned his

allegations also he refused to provide the names of other witnesses of you know of turn it of sources so to speak he used to put together the reports so there you have a lot of questions being raised about the reports and if it is being revealed that the evidence put forward was not convincing enough for the court so good news for those thirty say athletes that had their appeals up held but they would say well ok ok that is good news but the damage as far as we're concerned is already been done to our names well indeed because what happened back in february twenty eighth russian athletes they used to be banned for life they had been banned for life from participating in the olympics which means they were stripped of their medal as the future held nothing for them from that point no more achievements of just ruined the point of their lives so they have. revoked so they were

reinstated they got their awards back and they basically the court. of attrition for sports yet they're good to compete and it happened literally a few days before the kickoff of the olympic games in south korea so just guess how many of those athletes were actually invited to participate many of them still you know pursuing sporting careers none zero none of them were invited to participate many of them would love to saw there you have it you know mud sticks. speaking to me earlier will sociology professor last in university ellis cashmore says that testimony does cast further doubt on his credibility. whole nucleus of the mclaren investigation and the ultimate report on the circle of state sponsored doping rested on his testimony and i question from the outset how objective or neutral or fair his testimony could have but it is

a fugitive the guy has fled from russia he does have an axe to grind the systematic operation that the crown 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 player who is still say russia cannot compete on the world stage in athletics until it gets that there has been state sponsored doping and i think that the court of arbitration rolling that the 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. to the middle east now where another palestinian anti occupation rally is underway in gaza or it is part of the six week long great march of return i reports are coming in that twenty five palestinians have already been wounded in clashes with

these raids soldiers and the pictures from the granting show to some of the journalists covering the yet rallies have also been heard in the past month forty palestinians have been killed and more than five thousand wounded according to the west bank. are. was. was there. was another one was there as it. was. well the israeli army denies using excessive force against the protesters and it also accuses her mass which controls gaza 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 there seems to provide medical care to over six hundred palestinians injured by bullets since the start of the month but 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 four to the year of the gaza 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 goes on there was such an absurd thing we wait. so you stay in the news it's proportionate use of the process and it was a neighbor when you against protesters this is in los overton point tonight. we were all taught fragments you see you know easy sharon's in there i think teach sewing mean that. won't. explode and these people.

you know fracture also. very serious injuries that they wouldn't question a lot of time or so we're being titian so. so it's not a question of just this friday which we last heard of months and. years well we are quite sure of it so. we are very afraid of high uys inspection bones which are exposed we know already but. there we treat these complications and that we will rise to requests special rotaries issued for submission to say guess are in the states. well we have asked the i.d.f. to comment on this and the accusations made by doctors without borders as well as the claims that its crowd dispersal methods can actually be people with serious disabilities although so far we've not had a reply now in the meantime israel says it uses non-lethal sponge tipped bullets

however they are believed to be harder and heavier than older versions and they can not only cause severe injury but can also kill as happened back in twenty fourteen meanwhile him israeli human rights group recently released a video showing soldiers in the west bank discussing the use of live ammunition. ok. now in other news tonight the u.s. intelligence committee has revealed its final report on alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election and find no between the campaign and russia when i joined. in the studio was just tell us a bit more so give us more detail then what exactly was said in this report now of course this report we've been waiting for quite a while the house intelligence committee actually a month ago completed their investigation and said that they would be releasing

this report once it was looked over and redacted and as expected it says there is no collusion between team trump in moscow that they announced a while ago so that we were expecting and it does go on to say however that russia did interfere in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election no question about it according to this report and it starts off with this novel idea saying that american people rightfully want to know what russia did and how but if you go on to read this report this two hundred fifty three page report if you're really looking for concrete facts you're not going to find they are because of all of their reductions every section starts off with accusations of what the kremlin did using everything from media to or what they call propaganda social media to hacking the d.n.c. allegedly to cyber attacks it all starts off with these accusations but then it's just a bunch of blacked out text so the evidence many were hoping for including of course russia who denies all the claims it's just not there and again because the

conclusion was that russia's goal was to sow discord at america and cast doubt on the democratic process the report says that was achieved and blames russia for the expanse of divide that now has grown in america since the election all that we've been seeing over the past year or so it's saying that somehow this you know the things that russia supposedly did for. facebook posts twitter posts using google that is all what has led to the past year of political chaos and america it goes on to say that google was also used although then says that google itself said that point zero zero zero two percent of the election advertising was found to be associated with russian actors saying that it reached only three percent with views of maybe five thousand or more so all these very rather insignificant things somehow it's created all the chaos that we've seen in this past year of politicians attacking one another all either side of the aisle attacking the president calling

for impeachment the leaks that we've seen from the intelligence community somehow this is all connected back to russia and you know we've seen everything over the past year one thing in particular we saw a lot of accusations saying that you know trump's former campaign manager manager has connections to ukraine that therefore signify shows there's collusion that trump was somehow connected to the d.n.c. hacked that's collusion the report says no trump team trump and hacks not connected his former campaign manager and russia not connected no collusion something we saw a lot about was. of course the russian investor half of team trump was accused of having connections with this guy it led to the national security advisor michael flynn leaving his post and jeff sessions was also pulled into that as well let's take a listen as to how the media reported on that. now the washington post is out with a headline that reads sessions the attorney general spoke twice with russian

ambassador during trump's presidential campaign justice officials say questions are being asked about one of donald trump's key appointments once again it's all to do with russia and of course the ambassador russia is the russian ambassador. from russia is a russian and of course the story with the investor that's one tiny thing at the drop in the bucket and felt like almost every day at least every week we're seeing some new connection that they've come up with between team trump and russia to prove this collusion and yet here we are two years on and there's no this report is coming out saying no collusion whatsoever but in evidence that we can read to say the least ok thank you there with the latest on that let's get. to the use now of legal media analysts lionel who joins this is c evening good evening to you lionel thanks for coming on a report again with lots of accusations conclusions to you that russia did

interfere but when it when it comes to evidence where is the evidence is that all the bits that are in black do you think. the russian ambassador is russian. let me just clarify that too to lovers of logic and lovers of proof and lovers of justice i apologize and completely absent myself from anybody and anything any organization that would think that in any way remotely represents anything of worth this is so sad so pathetic so embarrassing now all of the harm that was done from the accusations all of the the talk about discord diplomatic discord embassies two superpowers and gauged in this are about back and forth how do we undo this how do we how

do you ever do sponsible for this there is an old expression in this country there was a fellow who was acquitted of a charge and he said where do i go to get my good name back where you lovers of logic and justice go to to we deem ourselves from this this goes to show you that and i want everybody to understand the reason why this was done was not to necessarily investigate russian collusion or involve origin or the spreading of seeds of gov of descended discord it was to try to justify how hillary clinton lost to rig the election everything about this started with hillary clinton she didn't lose because she was a terrible campaigner she did lose because she was rejected summarily by the american electorate she didn't lose for no no no she lost because of.

russia that said that's where it started and the snowball started now when that was compost neatly completely exhausted and you could not find a drop of blood out of that argument the more they said well maybe there was a trump collusion just to see if there was a collusion not even that held true the only thing and i don't know how many millions of dollars and time that was devoted to this the only thing that we can maybe point to is that these people called the russians russian government russian actors people with russian names i don't know but these people that we will collectively call the russians put out a tweet and facebook stories that did not encourage armed revolt by the american citizens i would have been something revolting no it did not encourage

violent storage subversion now. it merely presented allegedly the point zero zero to whatever percent of this but presented stories that other american actors and politicians and folks in an activist were alleging as well so it just so happened that this horrible russian examiner's of dissent or whatever was or saw in this court happened to me are exactly the same thoughts and sentiments of actual americans who may have had a different opinion from hillary clinton and this what we're doing right now i'm sorry please no i was going to just jump in and say in terms of solving discord who's the worst copra him and if you look at the intelligence agencies and what was leaked out from them and accusations and now apparently not true to the main he's the chief culprit you could argue. i mean if you look at me not only that let's talk about i don't want to go into this but we've got this far false accusations of

collusion we've got false accusations of gas attacks air false accusations of attempted murder here i mean we've got is there is there one accusation just one that's proven true as of late just one or somebody will come forward and says i am a russian agent and i broke in and stole numbers or something or where you could say now that that's collusion that's that's something you know this is more of a theological kind of a we're infecting of the minds of the american people by presenting this court it's embarrassing and there's no about there's no apology there is no who does anybody space for this two heads roll who started this what was the basis of the probable cause i'm a prosecutor where did this start by what what evidence did anybody glean or what

evidence did anybody have to even get this this this man this court if you can call it that going and what about the irreparable harm right now that is done to the trumpet administration what about the discord this being sold against this man just very briefly donald trump says this report will put an end to those accusations of collusion do you think it will just briefly. never never it's all they've got it's the only story in town and the american public has been so had better waited to this mean that they want to hear more of it they believe there is evidence when there is no evidence are no no i'm sorry to say this isn't stopping i hope it does but i'm afraid it will ok i know that the d.n.c. is calling this report flawed but i'm sure we'll discuss that at a later point when our time. after to tell you i was there you go and media analyst alone or thank you. know another news local syrian doctors have

testified that they saw no patients with signs of chemical poisoning in the aftermath of the alleged attack in the city of doom or when this is explained how events unfolded on april the seventh to the un back to chemical watchdog alongside russia's representative however not everybody was willing to listen to their accounts as more aghast if explains when these reviews 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. 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 use they must have had solid evidence you don't just launch 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 injured 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 show

symptoms of choking and nothing more it all happened because one missile hit a building nearby and a lot of dust 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 onset of it we came here willingly we demanded the red cross allow us to come here. wrong in truth there isn't a 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 the 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 a russian press release that somebody here was going to be present to 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 film is fake i don't know maybe i missed something. in one ear out the other with no poor's in between. ok let's get the thoughts now with george galloway he's a pretty sure third broadcaster and former and paid to many joins us now and you very welcome george thanks for coming on to r.t.

tonight to discuss this we're hearing they're just taking the rads report for example more and more people are coming forward saying look we live there but we saw no evidence of a chemical attack but this line is not even discussed by western leaders or in the western media it's just totally dismissed well that made for miserable viewing i must see not because of the witnesses voluble testimony but the conduct of people who call themselves journalists people who passed for the fourth estate which is supposed to ask difficult questions of everybody in a story but they have become absorbed like a kind of stockholm syndrome in bed did with the states in which the walk and the collection of states is in play here and

that's the reason for the kind of frenzy the kind of bitter cynicism that the displayed and i was embarrassed to watch it because most of the war still friends were british thank god you cannot bribe or twist the average british journalists but when you see what unbridled deal do you see that there is no reason to embark was in full and ugly view to anyone watching the press conference it also makes you think yours doesn't it what evidence has to be presented for them just to perhaps reconsider their position not necessarily change their opinion in the end but just to at least say ok let's have another look. well how did they form their opinion they formed from afar either in news rooms or studios they have never been in syria they don't know any arabic they've never heard of dumas until it became

a war zone they were told which way they should be facing a long time ago in this conflict and they've never stopped to ask themselves how we ended up on the side of the jihadists the army of islam these are not people normally given to flying flags for the army of islam but they're ready to fly the flags of the whole alphabet soup of these islamist fanatic formations that are operating in syria it's one in the same time ridiculous but also obscene and when real journalists went there like robert fisk the multiplayer awarded british journalist of the year more times than i can remember when he went there on his own feet walked around with our mind our with our guard

nothing just him and his notebook and pencil and told them there was no chemical attack in duma well it's is as if he'd never existed as if they'd never heard of him robert who they might as well have been asking george curry to tell his story one at a time but i believe it athan adams george galloway pretty short a broadcaster and former and pay thank you. thank you for watching at home she will have more news feed and house and. car.