style kit man chrome is the last foreign leader to be treated to a full state visit to the us funded from not even a special relationship willing to resume a gold the full state visit and she is the one that started all this hand-holding business but these grave presidents of wars their relationship. there in. the chair enjoyed a military parade for best deal day in paris last july so much that they held a joint in the syrian airspace couple of weeks ago using the assad regime for target practice but also in the western alliance will move to resist the cheese eating surrender monkeys the beat and rob along for the gold mines my former bush to hard to claim credit for sending one hundred million dollars plus a mistrial to destroy one hundred thousand dollars worth of syrian houses was inside this relationship looks pretty strange from the outside in the night of the

french the barrio in philadelphia both told. you won't be surprised by the length of what's in there used to be. called the two nations cameron told the global security and here that they are burying gold in the gulf and apparently other european leaders will not create the trauma. because of the influence over the already one city some state based adoptive french accents and the way he does u.s. president to send stem cells from a specific bond over the middle east will not go in there is minor issues of the run and trade and the imminent collapse never been blown limb by limb and the joke was bigger than the stuff so we can't let the one. below that is too much. trouble but they don't always have syria. apart from the for. president german chancellor angela merkel also paid

a visit to washington the interactions between her and significantly more formal the iran nuclear deal was one of the main issues discussed with the u.s. threatening to scrap the agreement and political analyst asyut mostafa thinks that while france might be coming around to america's thinking europe as a whole is not the trio nations in europe especially friends even more than germany and britain is trying to get closer to donald trump's aspirations and demands especially with regard to iran is not the only issue but the worst of europe is a standing against any intensification of problems and tensions with iran they just reject the demand by. european nations. to impose the unfair their sanctions on iran for its missile and regional activities

so this shows that europe is not much willing to work with donald trump. friday so a historic meeting take place the first summit between the leaders of north and south korea in more than a decade. talks

they reached a number of key agreements that could significantly warmer relations and the leaders announced they would seek the full denuclearization of the peninsula they also valid to stop all hostile actions against each other 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 well i don't praise the progress between the two sides following decades of tension it seems

a final peace treaty could actually now be on the horizon and human rights attorney erik's a rock and believes the two koreas already. i think what we can expect is a exciting moment in time which. as they said is south african history and hope could live if you have it. in a certain time in a certain slates and i really am hopeful that from these talks we can see the framework for a full peace treaty to finally end this conflict it seems both sides are ready and willing to do that if the south and north create the frame to give 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

it is already international and it is good of you to join us so far from the weekly on this sunday on this to try to help way through now much more still to come we were talking just about. anything that interrupts free trade interrupts trade and i think interest is a reversion back to neil siegel is a and we see that happening right now in the united states and presumably here in canada as well as concentrator this year for your hands bradley a report of the risk of neil fiddlers on on the horizon crypto this is the answer in my view and it is an asset class and it is gobbling up market share and the u.s. dollar is also your money is still. a war hawks selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the

chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't. produce talk to try to tell you that they'll be gossiping probably by trial for the most important day. the to blow them off after telling you on the coolant and lets you buy their product led. to all the hawks that we along with our audience will watch the lead. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime champions each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you long for the old for rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars ai industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm.

the only number you need to remember it was one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only. good of you to join us today four people were killed in the latest palestinian and see ok patient rallies in gaza palestinian health officials site dozens more were left into a jury in friday's protests they were just the latest in a series of planned mass demonstrations dubbed the great march of the time. that cut cut. cut. cut of a good put it on.

the back. this is another injury that's came just right now there have been severe injuries in the head in the legs and i was not about in the band in the post minutes we received at least ten people with. the injuries to the stomach ache and 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 so as you see this is another ambulance just came just right now. as you see this. floor palestinians that have been injured what happened right now the fact is that at least two thousand palestinian protesters tried to interfere and break the fence

and what happened is those are you forced us to react to them violently and they started. on these palestinian protesters broke the price that according to palestinian minister brown at least twenty palestinians are critical good and. clear if there does any minute. the rest is taking place near a security fence surrounding the palestinians claim was stolen from them by protesters or will be not met but i should say with a heavy handed response from the israeli army and for weeks at least forty palestinians have been killed and thousands injured united nations on the e.u. have condemned the israeli response to the protests. israel's failure to consistently prosecute five nations 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 context of an occupation such as gaza killings

resulting from the use of force may also constitute willful killings which are a grave breach of the fourth geneva convention. israel though says it's been using non lethal force for example a sponge tipped rubber bullets however the ammunition is said to be harder and heavier than previous versions it's been linked to severe injuries and even death one israeli human rights group recently released a video purportedly showing a group of soldiers in the west bank discussing their use of live ammunition. so.

we are to the israeli army to comment on the video it said the behavior shown is not in accordance with what's expected of i.d.f. soldiers but they also pointed out the commanders demand that the soldiers act professionally but the i.d.f. also promised to carry out the necessary and relevant procedures over the incident young palestinians are among those reportedly killed in the demonstrations one incident was caught on camera allegedly showing a teenager shot in the head by an israeli sniper last week the boy's father says he posed no threat to the soldiers and israeli general believes it's the price to be paid to ensure the safety of the country. and the usual you hide the low blow i said mohammed was three hundred meters away from the fence and even if he was right next to it he was at a peaceful demonstration he was just a child carrying a missile launcher was he shooting at the soldier who killed him why did they kill him i'll tell you what mohammed did wrong mohammed's fault was that he was

demanding his rights to migrate storage sometimes one shooter small body and you intend to his arm or shoulder it goes even higher and the picture is not a pretty picture of your relief that's the price that we have to pay to preserve the safety and quality of life of the residents of the state of israel to live and that's the price. it's been revealed that the former head of moscow's and teen doping lab. a key witness in the entire 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. joined my colleague andrew pharma in the studio to discuss the latest. almost 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 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 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 the last elaborate employs in sports history was aware of the existence of a russian doping system. level to. a 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 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 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 achievement see have. revoked and it happened literally a few days before the kickoff of the olympic games in south korea none of them were invited to participate many of them would love to so there you have it you know mud sticks. this is art international thanks for sharing your sunday with us here more of the weekly with the top stories of the week and of today in about half an hour.

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after receiving a nobel peace prize just a few years ago the organization for the chemical weapons now finds itself at the center of a major military standoff. may digress into. this obscure scientific organization tasked with holding a major international norm do its job without itself falling victim to geo political wrangling to discuss that i'm now joined by a former. chemical weapons expert in iraq dr great to talk to you thank you very much for coming over this morning. now just

a few years ago very few people our parts from a narrow circle of specialist even knew what the o.p.c. w.y. said only started to appear in global media after famous or infamous barack obama's statement on the red line if it weren't for that statement do you think we would be discussing the use of chemical weapons today. the point is that right now we see that. the special position for western countries. responsibility for the use of chemical weapons to iraqi government. syrian government. makes it possible for the. opposition groups to use the chemical weapon to pretend this is the fault of syrian government. because in the situation like today the western countries

they do not wait for any investigation they assign the responsibility and the punish for the chemical weapon use but when you say they punish both in this case with the latest strikes and in the previous case with the alleged attack on hunch a hole in. the response by the united states by its allies was definitely illegal from their point of view of international law but it was also a very limited and it's also quite difficult to understand what kind of military objective it could have pursued do you think deployment of using these chemical weapons use scare is the point political or is it military is it to advance a military objectives or simply to you know malign syria even more you know we would not see any any. military gains by doing these strikes so the this is really politically sure if this would be technical or military or

something. it would require more than just accusations based on videos from the internet or social network but what's the point and i clearly they don't like president assad i mean they made that position clear seventy years ago so what's the point of pushing these red line that they supposedly want to protect themselves i mean it's clear to understand from a tactical and strategic point of view what could be gained from that of course. syrian government is an important issue right now we see that the syrian government with the support of russia and the iranians are gaining more control over syrian territory that was. state control previously and who are all the actors in this area the understand there will be.

everything and they would like to get their foot in the door to make sure that they still will be viable buyable players from what i understand russia iran turkey d. try to engage them in various negotiating for months it's not like i mean there is a talk about having a government of national reconciliation in syria there is talk about holding new elections so there are some political advantages that they can pursue and to the credit of both the russians and the syrians i'm interested by to hear but still i think they allowed many of the militant groups to leave the area which is by my account unprecedented in the more than history of warfare so these people are actually treated pretty decently and they. yes but you have to

understand that when russians and syrians. bunches of opposition to leave. certain areas. you have to understand that these are not just oppositions into syrian sources there was about seven hundred. western advisers. together with the opposition of course we're. finishing. the opposition area so there will be a risks some western advisers also would be hit from the intensity of allegations i think perhaps the goals that they are pursuing out far bigger deal not off not only the syrian government i mean in diet point of view it's not legitimate at all but i do you think our goals go father in terms of diligent in my eyes in both russia iran and perhaps even turkey you can see that.

it's a chain of events after. russia told the joint investigative mechanism we got a sudden statement. who said that russia. responsibility for the use of chemical weapons in syria that was kind of troubling but i mean that if there were similar statements that affect. the. deaths of. her predecessor. the. united nations certainly the russia for a very high civilian for supporting the son who used the chemical weapons but the direct blame in russia for the use of chemical weapons in syria there was a very strange also very shocking because russia had very very high reputation in

the world of chemical weapons let me ask you specifically about the role that the c.w. can play in all of that because unlike national governments unlike national delegations it is actually constrained by its own convention it has to follow the procedure all of these be seen as following the procedure. how much does god allow for political influences to be exerted on the. scientist servant question. w. was. invented organization that would be purely technical. but . the structure or for office w. allow some politics so. consists of conference of state parties hundred ninety two countries the executive council and the technical secretariat there are people who do the technical work so inspectors.

technical assistance and so administration administration but they do the work. executive council consists of forty one. state parties and that's exactly the area where politics could be brought the last events especially the situation is all bring in. a situation in the use of chemical weapons in syria brought more politics in the situation the difference from my brain every year between politics and science is that politics starts with a conclusion and science is supposed to be open ended when you go out to investigate something you should not have any preconceived notion about who might have done it. how does it balance itself out when it comes to the actual investigation so for example one scientists go out and collect the samples do they

have an hour freedom to investigate those samples and to deliver the scientific opinion on them you have very good question but let me show how the politics are digital from the technical issues. russia. suggests that decision the executive council to support the mission or w. in syria the western countries. actually blog decision but she. wrote the request to. w. . mission specters to do if and w. did that so this is politics versus technical so how technically this work was performed the specter scam to. use of chemical weapons and they collect samples but they also work with the people they

work with hospitals they talk with witnesses they see those people who. were admitted to the hospitals and take their biological samples and all those samples they brought to headquarters. in the hague and. from the hague the samples are sent to designated laboratories there are twenty two . in the world at the moment and they analyze those samples. did have probes intelligent use of chemical weapons in syria before and i talked last year it's you had the russian envoy to the organization official going and he told me that some of those problems were stopped by the people by the specialist who tend to confound the friends of syria group and that group obviously is very eager it's you see mr assad out many of these samples and many of the testimonies were provided by turkey which is also not a neutral player in that war so if how can you have so much confidence in the

process right now when in the past it delivered the results that russia clearly didn't agree with that is a very good question but. look you can trust to the results. only in the case when. i see. according to the chain of custody and that means that an inspector. came to the site took the sample himself put it in the vial and not just close it but sealed it with a special seal that can not be broken and then those samples are delivered to. their opened in controlled. environments.