the u.s. house intelligence committee reveals its final report into alleged russian meddling in the presidential election and finds no collusion between the trunk campaign and russia will be looking into other findings of this long awaited report. elsewhere three people have been confirmed killed almost a thousand others injured after fresh clashes have erupted in garza months according to the palestinian health ministry. key witness in the russian doping scandal fails to confirm several allegations during court testimony that says the careers of many russian athletes were almost destroyed following his claims. more than a dozen syrians have testified at the hague saying that an alleged chemical attack in the town of doomer was fake. they were scared they started to pour water on me

i don't know why they did this of on them as professionals we saw that there were no symptoms suggesting chemical weapons had been used. thanks for joining us money into this if you aren't sure is r.t. international the u.s. house intelligence committee has found quote no evidence of collusion between the campaign and russia this is according to its final report on moscow's alleged meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election. details. 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 react 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 to 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 see 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 community. 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 panda monium we saw also there the controversial russian ambassador sergei you look of course of the pictures and of course the shameful picture where the united states press corps was kept out by the russians were allowed in that 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 its goal to do with russia so after a year long investigation that included seventy three interviews nothing hearings and briefings and the review of countless documents what we're left with is the determination of no collusion and about earth as we had before the report came out which is little to none. legal and media analysts lionel believes that two whole

years investigating trump russia alleged collusion have proven entirely pointless. to lovers of logic and lovers of proof and lovers of justice i apologize and completely upset 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 gaged in this are a while back and forth how do we do 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. let's head to the middle east now where three people have been confirmed dead and nine hundred fifty five others wounded this is in the latest palestinian and patient rallies in gaza that information coming from the palestinian health ministry the protests there are part of the six week long great march of return. but the authorities are. you are the man on the low. end up in. the bag. with the the the dog the.

lot numbers without accounting for bond in the post minutes we received. least ten people with severe injuries to the stomach and they will die 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 and they are crowded 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 the first friday of the great great march of return and today's fight is titled is that you propose where you are protesting. this friday and. this is another injury that came just right you know from the fans there have been severe injuries in the house and in the legs so as you see this is another ambulance just

came just right now. from a look at your defense and as you see this i'm liz has at least four palestinians that have been injured what happened right now the fences that are at least two thousand palestinian protesters and try to interfere and break that the fence and what happened is those are your choices every act it there violently and they started to shoot i know these palestinian protesters were broke the price that according to palestinian minister had at least at twenty palestinians are in severe critical condition and they can clear their death in any any minute. 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 to being wounded according to u.n. . israeli army though denies using excessive force against protesters it also accuses a mass which controls guards or of using civilians and children in the

demonstrations israel's defense minister is called on people not to approach the border so shevardnadze spoke with the i.d.f. chief of staff about the current escalation in the region the full interview is being at throughout the day here on r.t. just for now there is a quick preview you are obviously a very patchy arctic man who has served and serves his country are you able to take a step back and see this from a distance how unbending both sides are. the boss the palestinians and israelis need. to give. in the illusionary dreams of getting real from the other we are staying here they're staying here it's an israeli palestinian challenge is reproduced to me an issue was disapproved decides to give this support and i really think that for the benefit to

the future. the future of the palestinian kids who used to do or will be born to more in sympathy for my kids or other kids in israel it's. good to sit down and try to solve it with the help of the others but i was can also read for us. it's been revealed the former head of moscow's anti doping laboratory grigori drudging cough a key witness in the russian doping scandal failed to confirm several 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 not easy to stand after and my colleague angie farmer 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 dops or it seems it was common knowledge at least that they had a special drug cocktail brewed performance that the swapped the dirty urine samples for clean ones through some hole in a lab wall so a lot of was said in it 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 was a last elaborate employees in the sport's history was aware of the existence of a russian doping system because. we are top level chicks.

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 richard mclaren a canadian law who basically pulled put the burden on his shoulders to compile a massive report on the scale of the dopping 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 you know we 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 the good news for those thirty say athletes that had their appeals 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 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. near the published report by the world anti doping agency on violations in twenty sixteen is revealed italy as being the worst offender rusher is only 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 new revelations. if i was going to say to you what country do you think was the number one things violated in two thousand and sixteen which country would you name russia russia maybe between america and russia. i would guess russia. russia china no russia russia so what would you say then if i told you that russia

was not the top violated in terms of ante taping 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. while that's surprising i for one of the top ones to be honest but i guess it's just what the reporters nowadays focus on this is the easy news for them isn't it makes me wonder if you like trust on the newspaper but priding well i just watch the news so you hear about maybe it's just a sort of western take on things trying to tame the enemy and i think there is a long history of us blaming them for it certainly some get caught. but everybody does the. fresh face but the same old words it seems america's new secretary of state has kicked off his new role with

a speech at the nato headquarters in brussels same the alliance will continue countering russian aggression. moral pump has to be now joined by kelly morgan a correspondent for in the states what exactly then did the new sixty state have to say well he's only been sworn in for a day but now acts cia chief and now secretary of state mike pompei oh he's speaking at the nato headquarters in brussels and when he spoke he actually reminisced a little bit about his time in the u.s. military when he served in germany this is pompei zero in brussels. we talked a lot about that the changing nature of the threat from russia when i was a young soldier it was seventy two tanks and sixty tanks rolling across the east german plane this is today is different and we collectively each of each nation individually and nato together must come up with solutions to address that there

were lots of ideas there was an enormous consensus of the risk that it poses to the west. now stoltenberg the nato chief seemed quite warm and receptive to the new secretary of state from the usa he had some nice words for pompei oh this is this is the nato chief addressing mike pompei oh. long on body experience including serving us a soldier in in germany during the cold war. provides him a perfect back room for being the top to promote over the north in states. now it's also important to note that while he was speaking pompei i was quite critical of germany for not achieving the two percent military spending target there's a two percent military spending target the nato countries are expected to reach at this point germany has not yet reached that target now it's interesting to note

however that a poll of among germans showed that germans are much more concerned about u.s. president donald trump and then think that he's a bigger threat to world peace then then u.s. president russian president vladimir putin other much more threatened by the usa and president trump than they are by russia so it was quite interesting to note that but pompei received a warm reception but as always he did talk up the possibility and play up the idea that there is a consensus that the nato countries are facing some kind of threat from russia. and bring is brought up today that our correspondent in new york caleb maupin thank you . on the other news local syrian doctors have testified that they saw no patience with signs of chemical poisoning this was in the aftermath of the alleged attack in the city of duma witnesses explain how events unfolded on april seventh to the u.n. bank chemical watchdog alongside russia's representative boy also spoke out after

appearing in a video which activist groups claimed to show a chemical attack. we were in the basement and then heard someone outside scream go to hospital they were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did this. 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 inhaling 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. your side of. 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 these testimonies were not enough to change the western mainstream media stance on what happened in the mass became clear during the following q. and a session how low do you have to go to bring a little child all the way and threaten them. 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 signed his told you the truth something you do not want to hear it was a necessary measure we needed to show that there was a lie in a very dangerous one. we discussed this with independent research of n s a bally who's just back from doom and who collected people's testimonies that. well actually i am surprised and i'm shocked at the levels to which western media has stooped over this alleged event in german or and the moral bankruptcy and degeneracy that were saying from western media i mean to accuse russia of basically

exploiting a child 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 east aleppo it is almost whatever evidence is produced now will 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 predetermined with the site before the o.p.c. w. comment so we can almost predict that if o.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 afrikaner around the site before a p c w could get there when i spoke to people in duma dr medical star

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 they were also all saying the same thing to me that there was no chemical weapon attack. emotional handshakes and hugs wrapped up an historic summit between the leaders of north and south korea it was the first meeting of its kind for over a decade and it's been dubbed as the summit where peace broken out leaders announce that they'll seek the full. denuclearization of the peninsula they also vowed to stop all hostile actions against each other and to gradually reduce their weapons arsenals additionally they agreed to hold talks with the u.s. and china to arrive at a proper peace treaty to take a quick look back now at how the day was spent.

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little. girl. the leader spent more than an hour in face to face talks kim jong un joked that he wouldn't interrupt his counterpart sleep in the early mornings anymore most likely a reference to the north missile tests which usually take place around dawn. i. and the leaders also treated each other to some every day lines 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 fritter for kim that to remind him of his school years in switzerland for dessert there'd be a cake with the symbol of a united korea on it and it's understood that north korea's first lady is also attending the dinner first public function outside the country

a look back briefly at how the thought between these two sides happened. praise the progress between the sides following decades of tension it seems a final peace treaty could just be on the horizon human rights attorney eric career is already. i think what we can expect is a exciting moment in time in which. as they said is south african history and hope could live if you have it in a certain time in

a certain place and i really am hopeful that from these talks we can see the framework for a full peace treaty to finally end this conflict seems both sides are ready and willing to do that if the south and north can create the framework of their own steps in self-determination then the us 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. thanks thing with auntie the same thing plenty more news updates coming your way in half an hour say that.

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and welcome to cross talk where 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. talking to us foreign policy i'm joined by my guest michael in washington he is a professor of strategy at the johns hopkins university also in washington we have and then you for achi he is the director of grassroots political consulting and in new york we cross to george.