no collusion says the u.s. house intelligence committee is it delivers its final report into alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. three protesters are reported dead and almost nine hundred injured during clashes in gaza or on friday in the latest great much of return as palestinians protest against israeli occupation. the key witness in the russian doping scandal gritty ruching core fails to confirm a number of his allegations during testimony at the court of arbitration for sport .

this is r.t. international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us no collusion that's the verdict of the u.s. house intelligence committee which found no evidence that donald trump's twenty sixteen presidential campaign was working with russia archies jacqueline vogel looks into the committee's report. if you've heard it once you've heard of a thousand times but here it is once more for those of you in the cheap seats the russian active measures campaign against the united states was multifaceted to leverage cyber attacks covert platforms social media third party intermediaries in state run media the house intelligence report begins with a novel idea the american people rightly want to know what the russians did and how and what each section starts off with accusations of what the kremlin did where the evidence is meant to be there is just a bunch of blacked out text nevertheless the committee concludes that russia's goal was to sow discord in america and cast doubt on the democratic process that's

apparently with point zero zero zero two percent of u.s. election related advertising on google and with an equally huge amount of ads on facebook twenty five percent of which were never seen by anyone that's in the report still the aim was apparently achieved and is the sole reason for the expanse of divide that has grown in america since the election approaches active measures campaign achieved its primary goal of inciting division and discord among americans for more than a year us politics have been consumed by busy recriminations charges and countercharges about the attacks it's wholly unclear how russia's alleged actions are responsible for the political chaos that has ensued since trump took the white house it wasn't russia reporting that term's former campaign manager has connections to ukraine spelled out collusion one of the many theories that the report shoots down the charges against the for president transform a company manager or save more than seventeen million dollars in secret payments

from a kremlin linked political party in ukraine but it was the american media that hypothesize that trump jr's meeting with a russian lawyer proved moscow was supporting trump donald trump think he was about to get help from a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin this is looking more and more like treason all this strange behavior from the president it's all explains now a stream of lee. by the intelligence community condemned by the report as damaging national security wasn't orchestrated by the kremlin who are also learning from your sources that intelligence officials they denied n.b.c. news is learning from intelligence sources u.s. intelligence sources tell c.b.s. news or even taken bastard half of team trump was accused of meeting with him and that's threaten their jobs but the report says there was nothing sinister there also there the controversial russian ambassador sergei look of course of the pictures of course is shameful picture where the united states press corps was kept out for the russians were allowed in that is an open question whether there was collusion cooperation between trump associates during the campaign and russian

officials all of that discord was home grown so after a year of searching that included seventy three interviews nine hearings and briefings and the review of countless documents were left with the conclusion of no collusion and as much proof as we had before the report was released meaning little to none 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 this core embassies two superpowers and gage didn't is our will back and forth how do we do this where do lovers of logic and justice go to to we deem ourselves from this well the house intelligence committee has a republican majority yet despite stating this report was final the democrats on the committee say they will continue to probe the document has been lauded by

president trump tweeted while a total witch hunt must end now while democrat congressman claimed it was floored political activist karen kwiatkowski thinks the u.s. political environment was troubled long before any alleged russian involvement. i was surprised actually that the report seeing does confident as it was that there had been some success in a so-called active program by the russians or anybody else that campaign and everybody who's watched our campaign know the primaries and we had something like seventeen different republican candidates had a horrific divisions in the democratic party during this primary that they had to me that seems very difficult to prove given the political environment united states specifically over the last several years. three people have been reported dead and eight hundred eighty three wounded in the latest palestinian anti occupation

rallies in gaza that's according to the palestinian health ministry the protests are part of the six week great moment of return demonstrations. on her. sister. was earlier in the central hospital in gaza strip where at this hospital receive all the injuries from the fat fans fans area from the five locations that are protesting the first friday of the great their great march of return and today's fight is titled is that you triples where the youth are protesting. this friday and

now this is another injury that's came just right now from the fans over there have been severe injuries and that had an end in the legs and arms for lot of putting in the post minutes we received at least. ten people with severe injuries to the stomach and they will die any minute the ambulances are still carrying hundreds of people to the hospital there is a lack of medicine and medical equipment in the hospital. 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 fact is that at least two thousand palestinian protesters and try to interfere and break that the fence and what happened is those are your forces and i reacted violently and they started to shoot i know these palestinian protesters were broke the price that according to

palestinian minister brother at least ten twenty palestinians are is yet critical condition and they can clear their death in any any minute. well these images from the ground show journalists covering the rallies have also been injured over the past month forty palestinians have been killed and more than five thousand wounded that's according to the u.n. . and the u.n. has also denounced the use of live ammunition by the israeli defense forces against palestinians. israel's failure to consistently prosecute violations committed by members of its security forces encourages them to use deadly force against their fellow human beings even when they present no threat in the contests of an occupation such as gaza killings resulting from the un prove who use of force may

also constitute willful killings which are a great breach of the fourth geneva convention the israeli army denies using excessive force against protesters it also accuses the palestinian political group hamas which controls gaza of using civilians and children in the demonstrations israel's defense minister has called on people not to approach the border parties sophie shevardnadze spoke with the i.d.f. former chief of staff about the current escalation in the region the full interview is being aired throughout the day but here's a preview you are obviously 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 where you think you think you can. think that both the palestinians and israelis need. to give up. in the illusionary dreams of getting read on the other we are staying

here they're staying here it's an israeli palestinian challenge it should be and is report this to me an issue was disappointed. to give this support and i really think that for the benefit to the future. the future of the palestinian kids that we were born. to do we want to more and same still for my kids or other kids in israel. to sit down and try to solve it with the hope of the others but i was going also with ross. the former head of moscow's anti doping laboratory rajan cough has failed to confirm a number of his allegations against russian athletes this was revealed after the

key witness in the diving scandal gave testimony via voice link to the court of arbitration for sport back in january in february the court upheld the appeals of twenty eight russian athletes banned for doping but as i mean now given some of its reasons artie's a ghost town of joy my colleague under fire in the studio earlier to discuss the developments first and foremost in the past few years that we've seen the scandal unravel i should 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 the lab walls so a lot of was 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 cocktail which he claims he concocted himself he says that he never saw anyone administering these said steroid cocktail he didn't know how the cocktail. was smuggled from russia or brought 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 the last elaborate employees in

sports history was aware of the existence of a russian doping system. top level to. a chunk of claims were the foundation of which 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 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. alternative sources so to speak you used to put together the report so good news for those thirty so athletes that had their appeals. but they would say well look 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 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 saw there you have it you know mud sticks and a new report by the world anti-doping agency on violations in twenty sixteen reveals italy as the worst offender russia was joint six but the only country banned from the olympics over doping allegations we gauge reaction on both sides of the atlantic to the new 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 told you that russia was not the top violated in terms of anti doping in two thousand and fifteen they weren't even the second the third the fourth all the fifth but they were actually six in the report what would you say to them as fighting aids while it's surprising to me as to why for russia we want to talk wants to be honest but i guess it's just what the reporters nowadays focus on this is easy news for them isn't that it makes me wonder if you've got like a trust fund a newspaper with a pricing well i watch the news but i guess not so you hear about maybe it's just a sort of western take on things trying to tame the enemy and i think there was a long history of us blaming them for it certainly some good quarter. but everybody does the. witnesses to the alleged chemical attack in the syrian town of

duma have testified they saw no signs of chemical poisoning or a mass after the break. goes the for the stimulus and the israelis need. to give up. in the illusion their dreams of getting rid of the real estate if you will stay here in the venture would have to find ways of living side by side peacefully. in washer buying gold is a kind of gold mine gold is like us we don't think he's right the big number one lives in a fiance alistair house is blown away by the huffing and puffing of the big bad feel wolf and then taking a number two you got countries like india that are like one step in one step back their household sector has all the gold their government doesn't exactly and then

the big bad feeling will often pop in the people the problem is that to survive with the government has blown away then you've got the countries like china and russia that have said rouse's twenty four karat gold bullion and the big that theo walcott the pup and it didn't blow their house away. welcome back germany's chancellor angela merkel says the existing agreement with iran is not sufficient to cover its nuclear program the announcement came during the press conference following had masing with the u.s. president on trump previously muckle had stressed the importance of preserving the current nuclear deal with iran. the isn't there we believe it's better to have this agreement even if it's not perfect than to have no agreement we'll continue to discuss this bridger many will watch very closely to ensure that this agreement

will be honored. well for more on this issue let's cross live now to middle east expert paul their route paul sank you very much indeed for joining us well i'm the local now says the current iran deal isn't sufficient and terrans to use her words geo political influence in syria lebanon and iraq was be counted let's just listen to what she had to say. also by. the iranian leader it is not sufficient to see that iran's ambitions are curbed and contained that it is most important to recognize what is that you run through its ballistic missile program is trying to exert geopolitical influence in syria and lebanon and we have to see to it that this is attempted influences curb to contain and then beyond the iran deal the reliability can be established. well merkel previously emphasized the importance of maintaining the current deal i mean what you think she shifted her position. that's a good question you know i'm not really sure what the german chancellor is

suggesting but iran deal is working right now in curbing iran's nuclear ambitions and that was the intention of the deal but for other ambitions that iran might have in the region you know the iran deal wasn't intended or designed to curb those emissions so i think that if you know she keeps her focus on what the joint comprehensive plan an agreement is intended for which is just the iranian nuclear program then you know she would hopefully realize that the it's a good deal and it's working but for other issues you know that you know maybe other negotiations need to happen for other issues. well let's also look at wider issues here i mean donald trump met french president to money micron early this week i mean couldn't merkel be competing with not conflict influence with trump say . there is this possibility of that and you know macross also believes that the united states should stay in the deal most of the world believes that we should

stay in the deal i believe that's the right course of action you know it's a deal that was by you know the p five plus one and you know and you know including germany you know so there's really no reason to abandon the deal well they've had from a call we've had from merkel i mean do you think other european leaders will also that position on supporting the current deal. i hope so you know the current saying current deal is working its a good deal i would hope that president trump would not try and exert any geo political influence or you know any type of economic influence brain get others to abandon you know support for the deal because you know as they keep saying it's a good deal it's working you know for different ways that iran could have pursued nuclear weapons if it decided that's what it wanted to do in all four ways and kirk . i want to tell me what you think maybe donald trump's next step i mean i think he'll pull out of the current agreements and you think he will then have european support. i hope he doesn't have europeans of or and it's

a good chance that he may pull out of the deal as my pump ayos just confirmed as the new secretary of state m.r. my pump you know is typically been a kind of hawkish type of politician when he was a u.s. representative you also have four investor john bolton who is now a national security advisor and ambassador bolton has often said that we need to her iran's nuclear ambitions and any inhibitions that matter through force and that's his idea of diplomacy so unfortunately president trump is surrounding himself with people who were never supportive of this deal of the first place but you know i believe that a lot of the lack of support probably has to do with you know who the architect of the deal was you know what we call the arctic mean it's an overstatement but you know john kerry and president obama but again there there's their approach to iran's nuclear program was sort of a reaction to the approach that president bush had for the evil alleged iraqi

weapons program. that polar a middle east expert many thanks faithless thank you man. well me money america's new secretary of state might pump aoe has begun his role with a speech at night saying the alliance will continue countering russian aggression and has more. there's only been in office for a day but now ex cia chief and recently sworn in secretary of state mike pompei o. is in brussels speaking at the nato headquarters we heard his remarks and during his comments to the nato officials he did reminisce about his time during the cold war serving as a soldier in the u.s. military stationed in germany this is my pompei oh 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 stoltenberg seemed very receptive to mike pompei are very happy to be looking forward to working with him this is stilton bird responding to mike palm pale his so long on body experience including serving us a soldier in in germany the cold war. provides him a perfect back room for being the top to promote over the north and states that wasn't exactly clear how his military service in the us army being stationed in germany during the cold war would help prepare pompei o for working as secretary of state of the united states in nato that wasn't exactly made clear now in his comments he did emphasize a kind of disappointment with germany because germany has not yet received the two

percent military spending target expected of nato countries at this point the germans have not yet fulfilled that expectation and increased their military spending to reach the two percent target furthermore a poll that has recently come out shows that germans are more afraid of donald trump the us president as a threat they're more afraid of him than they are us. russian president vladimir putin so it's not exactly clear however the concepts of the cold war and his reminiscing about his service in germany during the cold war seem to be central in my palm pales remarks in brussels. local syrian doctors have testified they saw no patience with signs of chemical poisoning in the aftermath of the alleged attack in the town of duma whiteness is explained how events unfolded on april the seventh to the un backed chemical watched on alongside russia's representative a boy who appeared in a video that activist groups claimed showed a chemical attack also spoke out. can never have all right 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. is. 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. only showed symptoms of choking and nothing more. 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 so i have no fatalities or instances of people suffering from a poisonous substances. but these testimonies were apparently not enough to change western mainstream media stars are what happened in duma. 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 hassan has told you the truth something you do not want to hear it was a necessary measure we needed to show that there was a live in a very dangerous one. independent research of n s a bailey who has just returned from duma condemned the western media's coverage of the event. well actually i am surprised and i'm shocked at the levels to which west of me. has stooped over this alleged event in june and the moral bankruptcy and degeneracy that were saying from western media i mean to accuse russia. basically exploiting a child in using the evidence of eleven year old has and after

western media has cynically exploited children throughout their history if there is 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 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 the new come in so we can almost predict that if the 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 doctor medical start 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

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