united states house intelligence committee reveals its final report into alleged russian meddling in the presidential election and find no collusion between the trunk campaign and russia will look into the other findings of this long awaited report. three people are being confirmed killed more than six hundred others injured after fresh clashes erupt in gaza. he witness in the russian doping scandal fails to confirm a number of his allegations during court testimony the careers of many russian athletes were almost destroyed following his claims. more than a dozen syrians testified their headache they're saying an alleged chemical attack in the town of duma was. they started to pour water on me

i don't know why he did this more than as professionals we saw that there were no symptoms suggesting chemical weapons had been used. this is r.t. international. the u.s. house intelligence committee has found quote no evidence of collusion between the donald trump campaign and russia this is according to its final report on moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen american presidential election artist jacqueline vogel looks into the report. well we've been waiting for this report for about a month ever since the house intelligence committee closed their investigation and said they'd be releasing it wanted it already been redacted and of course first and foremost says as you mentioned that there is no collusion found between team trump and moscow but it does go on to say that russia did interfere in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election no question about it and it starts off with this

novel idea saying that americans rightly want to know what russia did and how they did it but the two hundred fifty three page report doesn't really have any information on that thanks to all their read redactions each section starts off with accusations of what the kremlin did using everything from cyber attacks to propaganda namely us of course and that social media everything we've been hearing about for the past year over and over and then there's just a bunch of blacked out text so the evidence many people are hoping for including russia who's denied all these accusations just isn't to be found in this report ok so no collusion i wonder if he'll finally have a day in office where he's not being attacked or connected with russia or somehow i don't to those given the track record what about the russian interference and if there was russian interference what was the well again they're saying that russia's goal was to sow discord and america and cast doubt on the democratic process and the report says that that was achieved and blames russia for the expansive divide

that has grown in america over the past year but if we look at the political chaos that has ensued since trump got to the white house it's wholly unclear how facebook and twitter posts could be responsible for so much if you look at the report it goes through point by point it wasn't russia reporting that former campaign managers connections to ukraine proved moscow was supporting trump that's one of the many theories that the report shoots down it was the american media that hypothesized that trump jr's meeting with a russian lawyer proved that moscow was supporting the campaign a stream of leaks leaks by the intelligence committee. he condemned by the report as damaging national security and even endangering the lives that wasn't orchestrated by the kremlin or even take ambassador chris that we saw a lot of news reported on him as well half of team trump was accused of having met with him and it put their jobs in danger but the reports of there was nothing sinister there no collusion all of that discord if you want to call it that was

home grown here's a small taste of some of the pandemonium we saw also there the controversial russian ambassador sergey you look of course of the pictures of course is shameful picture where the united states press corps was kept out by the russians were allowed in there is an open question whether there was collusion cooperation between trump associates during the campaign and russian officials 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 so after a year long investigation that included seventy three interviews nine hearings and briefings and the review of countless documents what we're left with is the determination of no collusion and about as much purpose we had before the report came out which is little to none. ok let's begin to get done for and she's thorough

to a grassroots political consulting can the country join me on the line very good to have you on daniel the report sokol russian active measure is still no evidence maybe it's been redacted that evidence because it seems like an awful lot of this report is basically blanked out do you think we will ever see any actual proof certainly saw a lot of critics if they did that. no this is all part of the ongoing geo political struggle to try to bankrupt russia over arctic natural reserves and i've said this countless times syria ukraine sanctions nato expansion everything we're doing is a part of this and we'll just continue this report all of these exhaustive hearings are almost laughable as to a lot of this evidence the discord in the united states we do a great job at that or so. across the map with the ever

expanding intervention policies on defense to a lack of focus on our own economy and infrastructure and education which causes a lot of the headache we have we don't need anybody to come in and try to influence that and the accusations constantly against this network which never asked me to say a word before i come on compared to mainstream media which gives you a stripped before you're allowed to appear on to the facebook influence campaign where russia is accused of spending one hundred fifty thousand that's less than i spend on a congressional social media consultant for one congressman not the entire populace of the united states and other of the you know meetings of course officials will have meetings with him besser to slee act to every other ambassador from around the globe in order to build relationships for

a president that's coming in office from the attorney general secretary of state except her and this is common practice so very much i don't know i was completely dissatisfied as far as a lot of other people i think with the content that came out and we didn't learn a lot and i don't think we ever will and just that it's been something you mentioned about the i mean the claim in the report is that russian active mentions is the cold. achieve the goal of inciting division and discord among americans now i'm just want to talk briefly about the media because to what extent should america be looking at its own media we've had these leaks that have often turned out to be untrue we got very partisan news channels in the us which pretty much split the country politically down the middle is donald trump and his claims of fake news he got a point there should they be looking at how the media in the us is making the problem worse. absolutely we have the only country that protects in the

constitution freedom of speech and the media itself however we've changed over the last ten to fifteen years to where five corporations in this country control the entire media apparatus and those same companies contribute to the political process and pay into political action committees of congressmen senators governors alike so they are as much a part of the propaganda as they are anything else and everything is a fed script whether it's fox on the right to m s n b c on the left to c.n.n. which is just garbage. the radio stations and the newspapers as well it's a very controlled agenda and absolutely i mean as or at others are looked at by department of justice right for register as a foreign agent other capital should be looking at the bogus nature of our news and putting that under the microscope and yes you're absolutely correct here in this

country there should be mass hearings on the propaganda machine of the mainstream media and the fake news to whatever they call their credible content but instead we have congress focused on doing things like trying to register our tea and h.k. and others as foreign agents because there's actual truth in content that comes from these channels outside of that control propaganda in addition to their trying to actually set the bar where they would be able to determine what is a legitimate protected news source or a media anchor and for bloggers and all alternative media not giving them the same constitutional protections that they are propagandized mainstream media have a very dangerous path and the opposite of what they should be doing then you appreciate on many things for cooling off done for aren't you my guest i meant to address was political consulting. so to the middle east now

three people have been confirmed dead in six hundred and eleven more wounded on the latest day of palestinian until capacious rallies in gaza on friday the protests are part of the six week long march over time but the. really. tough. times for a lot of money in the post minutes we received at least ten people with severe injuries to the stomach and head they will be doing at any minute the ambulances

are still carrying hundreds of injured people to the hospitals there is a lack of medicine and medical equipment in the hospitals in the crowd so we are in the central hospital in gaza strip where this hospital received all the injuries from the fat fans fans area from the five locations that are protesting had the fifth friday of the great their great march of return and today's fight is tight is that you propose where you are protesting. this friday and now this is another injury that's came just right now from the fans there have been severe injuries and that had an end in the legs so as you see this is another ambulance this came just right now after a minute that your defense and as you see this ambulance has at least four palestinians that have been injured what happened right now did the fences that at least two thousand palestinian protesters and try to interfere and break that the

fence and. what happened is there's where you find it is every addict their violent . protesters broke their parents. at least their twenty palestinians are in severe critical and. their death any minute. and you can see images from the ground showing journalists covering the rallies have also been injured over the past month forty palestinians have been killed more than five thousand of them wounded according to u.n. estimates the israeli army denies using excessive force against protesters it also accuses hamas which controls guards are abusing 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 their teams are provided medical care to over six hundred palestinians injured by bullets since the start of the month they also say the

number of patients treated in just three weeks of this month is higher than the number treated during all of twenty fourteen that was the year of the gaza war we spoke with the head of the mission in palestine he believes that many of the injuries will result in disability. what i can tell you is that what they were there they were white. so you say use it or pushing the jews of the cross and. against this to this. point tonight. we were little fragments or you seem depressed you know we see sharon's and now all . these people. they receive their injuries. so a lot of time will be titian. so it's not

a question of just this friday. the months and. years quite sure of it so. the real. fight uys fiction. exposed we know. but. then we can expect these complications and that. requests speciated to reason for submission to say against any state wants war conjoin that. we sent a request to the i.d.f. asking for comment on doctors without borders reporters well as on planes it's crowd dispersal methods could leave people with serious disability so far we have no response in the meantime israel says it uses norm a lethal sponge to bullets but believed to be harder and heavier than older versions they can not only cause severe injury they can also kill as it did happen

back in twenty fourteen meanwhile an israeli human rights group recently released a video showing soldiers in the west bank discussing the use of live ammunition. ah. it's been revealed the former head of moscow's anti doping lab group. key witness in the russian doping scandal failed to confirm a number of allegations against the country's athletes now this 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 it is done off joined to my colleague andrew farmer to discuss the latest byrne first and foremost in the past few years that we've seen the scandal unravel they should say it has been established that pretty much every single athlete in russia dog so it seems it was common knowledge at least that they

had a special drug cocktail brewed performance that the swapped a dirty urine samples for clean ones through some hole in a lab was so a lot of was 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 cocktail which he claims he concocted himself he says that he never saw anyone administering these said steroid cocktail he did 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 he's calling 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 brought it up himself was propelled to fame even starring in oscar winning documentary about the doping problem in russia have a look. i was hoping to facilitate what it was and was deliberate employees in the sports history was aware of the existence of a russian doping system. up little chicks. 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 or 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 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 report 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 has already been done to our names well indeed because what happened back in february twenty eighth russian athletes they used to be. and 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 are 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 arbitration for sport said yeah 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 so there you have it you know mud sticks. a newly published report by the world anti-doping agency on violations in twenty

sixteen reveals italy is the worst offender joint six just to remind you that very year russia was the only country to receive any suspension from the olympics over doping allegations we took to the streets on both sides of the atlantic to get people's reaction to the latest revelations. if i was in this eighty what country do you think was the number one thing violated in two thousand and sixteen which country would you name russia russia russia maybe between america and russia not quite sure. i would guess russia top the list russia china no russia russia so what would you say then if i showed you that russia was not the top violator in terms of anti doping in two thousand and fifteen they weren't even the second the third the fourth or the fifth but they were actually six in the report what would you say to that as fighting aids while it's

surprising to me actually for russia will be one of the top ones to be honest but i guess it's just what the reporters nowadays focus on this is easy news for them isn't it makes me wonder if you can like trust on the newspaper but priding well i just watch the news but i guess not so you hear about maybe it's just a sort of western take on things trying to paint the enemy and i think there was a long history of us blaming them for it certainly some good quarter. but everybody. goes for his sports lawyer lucien vallone candy joins me this evening and nice to have you on newson let's talk about. testimony what kind of credibility does it give him. well i would say his credibility is totally destroyed so he was not able to convince the judges and that means he was not able to back the mclaren record

was we will bases for all these allegations over all these years i think this is now a big defeat for i.o.c. who are the bar for war and i think this is a big big defeat details are important as i understand it he was happy to share his steroids cocktail recipe with the made it not with the court why why do you think he wouldn't do that. that you must ask him i don't know. i think. it's it's very clear from if you read the cost decision that even was not credible he could not bring. the real facts that were necessary to to say that somebody did at the opening offense of these athletes and

and then working what counts you have to really prove to a very very high uncertainty and higher degree that some of the dog because the not only cause of developing pro and that means they they are obliged to really prove everything and if shows their reforms are necessary and athletes must be much more involved in part our code and such kind of reports it is really a mess what happened and all these athletes they are the weak team of a very bad management of these cases and i think. one should see about reimbursing these athletes for having suffered so much not only these athletes but also the paralympic athletes that were all these collective bonds were

based on the report is mclaren report was. not true to fit the test of us. yeah i mean it's interesting point you made that you know perhaps financial reimbursement for some of the victims thinning of the athletes but most of the russian athletes had their appeals upheld it has to be said but the damage to their careers that's been done they've lost that financially you suggest some you know perhaps reparations what about reputation though because months sticks and what you're accused of being a chain a dope or for many people that tarnish never disappears i think is there any way they can ever get their reputations back. yeah you're completely routes these are the burns you shouldn't we know people that they are they still are the we believe if you are not not you know found guilty there's something is wrong you see and you will lose a lot of credibility you will have problems to finance points or you probably have

lost a lot of support because of that and i think it is necessary to have it too which is clear to remember if it was published and that that's what should be done they shouldn't be reimbursed for all the suffering of the loss financial loss you know hor all families of these athletes were all saw. touch all the names first broke and i seen it's time that we have to sing about these possibilities to sue nice. scene and barbara and probably meckler. for having done the. listen appreciate your thought listening to the expertise of lucinda loney sports lawyer thank you. then. moving on our local syrian

doctors have testified they saw no patients with signs of chemical poisoning in the aftermath of the latest attack in the city of duma witnesses explain how events unfolded on april seventh this was to the un backed chemical watchdog alongside russia's representative but not everybody was willing to listen to their accounts or get the experts when these videos emerged pundits and politicians took them as gospel the truth conclusive indisputable and irrefutable proof of asteroids chemical since the chemical weapon that killed dozens of civilians and astaire's the us had regime has previously used chemical attacks the assad regime has used this 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 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 see him 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 nailing smoke and the only shows 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. 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 poison 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 when you might you know tomorrow if you don't understand normal language let's try a different way if you are 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 but if we came here willingly we demanded the red cross allow us to come here. wrong in 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 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 that 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. more and more 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 we have independent research of n s a bailey who returned from doing just days ago about what she saw there while.