a couple of weeks ago using somebody to tug. on the west and. he's eating surrender monkeys. my first pod to claim credit for sending one hundred million dollars. to destroy one hundred thousand dollars worth of sirius. on the side this relationship seems strange from the outside in the night. he went. with somebody to. hold the nation's. global security and here they are burying. her and other european leaders. because it. was pretty tame. when he. sends them.

over the mental. issues of the run and trade. to tell. the kids that he. tried but they don't have syria. apart from the french president. also paid a visit to washington for the interactions with you know. well bit more formal the iran nuclear deal was one of the main issues discussed with the u.s. threatening to scrap the agreement political analysts. things that. might be coming around to america's thinking europe as a whole is not. the trio nations in europe the specially 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 there were rest of europe is a standing against any intensification of problems and tensions with iran they just reject the demands by. european nations regard to the imposing further sanctions on iran for its missile and regional activities so this shows that europe is not much willing to you know work with. friday so an historic meeting take place the first summit between the leaders of north and south korea in more than a decade. i

. mean. after hours of talks they did reach

a number of key agreements that could significantly warmer relations the leaders announced they would seek the full denuclearize ation 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 told so the u.s. and china in order to arrive at a proper peace treaty donald trump praised 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 eric to rock and believes both koreas already. i think what we can expect is a exciting moment in time in which. as they said in south africa history and hope could live if you have it. in a certain time in a certain slates and i'm really hopeful that from these talks we could 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 give their own steps and self-determination then the u.s. 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. or thank you joining us so far for the weekend here at alatri international that has been one big week for worldwide news we are back with more in just. a thing that interrupts free trade interrupt freedom and i think interest freedom is a reversion back to neal journalism and we see that happening right now the united states and presumably here in canada as well as concentrator next year if your

hands bradley a report of the risk of neil seattle is up on the horizon crypto is 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. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy people in foundation let it be an arms race based on often scary dramatic development that only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that's right. very critical. to sit down.

with us for the weekly hero nazi humanitarian organizations are demanding over an alleged saudi led air strike on a wedding party in yemen the bombing killed at least twenty people and injured dozens more in fact some reports suggest as many as fifty people may have been killed i should issue you a quick warning the video we're about to show you may well be considered distressing a small seven year old boy here can be seen clinging to his father's body is said to have traveled from another part of the country to attend the wedding celebrations the man's body was reportedly the last to be taken away following the strike as the boy wouldn't let go of him and many of these victims were women and children.

i was the bridegroom and i was our friends gathered in our place and were hit by an airstrike many instant people were killed and injured. i want to know this is my nephew who was injured last night by the airstrike he's two brothers who were killed. recalling tutted a number of humanitarian organizations for their response human rights watch says saudi arabia continues to target civilians and refuses to adequately investigate or compensate victims oxfam condemned the attack and cold for an investigation. in response riyadh said it is taking the report very seriously and will fully investigate as it claims to have done in the past with many similar incidents the saudi led coalition intervened in yemen almost three years ago to counter the

opposition fighters riyadh considers them as terrorists seeking to overthrow the yemeni government the u.n. has described the conflict as the worst manmade humanitarian disaster in modern history and we spoke to the former head of the red cross in yemen who explained just how much needs to be done to help that country there is a problem with a structural collapse of the system in yemen you have problems of water you have problems of sanitation we in the international red cross we try to fix those problems otherwise there would have been maybe not be any running water and so on anymore so there is no doubt that what is coming into the country at the moment is not enough and more should be done humanitarian aid is to some to a large extent allowed in but the problem is that more is needed to ensure a decent level of life for the population i am afraid that this is becoming a feature of some of the conflicts you know some of the conflict where i work at

the beginning of my career were very poor country there were poor before the war who were doing the war unfortunately poor after the war very little infrastructure so in a way very little too to reconstruct and the problem was reluctantly should i say simple to deal with here you have something which is extremely complex you have infrastructures which are falling to pieces up to the point of the whole system we have commissioned a study from the well known british school that is going to carry out a full study of the health system in the moment to to get to know where we are today in yemen you are very serious crisis there is a food crisis there is also a crisis that has led to one million. suspected community of cases of cholera last year in a matter of six months it went like this for you in twenty two years and the i.c.r.c. had never seen something like that bringing back the country on the on back on its feet will be

a long long lasting tong's. it's been revealed that the former head of moscow's anti doping lab. a key witness in the entire russian doping scandal failed to confirm a number of allegations against the country's athletes came during his recent testimony at 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. down off early i joined my colleague andrew 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 the lab walls 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 said cocktail which he claims he concocted to himself he says that he never saw anyone administering these said steroids 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. or top level to the. chunk of claims were the foundation of richard mclaren's report which was then used for a blanket ban on russian athletes and he was speaking to was an e in this court case what did he say well indeed sir richard mclaren a canadian law who basically pulled put the burden on his shoulders to compile a massive report on the scale of the door 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 up held but they would say well ok ok that is good news but the damage as far as we're concerned is already been done to our names well indeed because what happened back in february twenty eighth russian athletes they used to be banned for life they had been banned for life from participating in the olympics which means they were stripped of their medal as the future held nothing for them from that point no more achievement see

have those bans 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. not just about wraps up the weekly for this hour here on the international my colleague on your farm you just saw in that discussion with he goes down off the helm often out. in july twenty seventh team hunted also to a freelance journalist working with on to the militant shelling in syria. to only his second fight scotti has established a solid also to memorial lives they will recognize war reporters who often risk their months with the sake of the truth and through them these you can submit to

your published works in the video or written form goes to a war and on t.v. don't come into now. political enemies to leave the victim as i did just that when a few for the full force i found that i did just that my wife. when i left that i sat next to. a log and i measured. the births of leave out of the book to his slow. and. take. custody of those mothers came until he took a look at the shit out of them and just let me have

a difficult moment. and these years are made up often do i don't. know how shame will. kill a gun it will be a admission from the. welcome to worlds apart after receiving a nobel peace prize just a few years ago the organization for the provocation of chemical weapons now finds

itself at the center of a major military standoff which some fear may digress into world war three can this obscure scientific organization tasked with upholding a major international norm do its job without itself falling victim to geo political wrangling well to discuss that i'm now joined by a former un chemical weapons expert in iraq dr ken it's great to talk to you thank you very much for coming over this morning. now just a few years ago very few people are parts from a narrow circle of specialist even knew what the o.p.c. w.y. say they 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 in. responsibility for the use of chemical weapons to iraqi government. syrian

government. makes it possible for all 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 see they punish both in this case with their 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 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 this chemical weapons use scare is the point political or is it military is it to advance a military objectives are simply to you know malign syria even more you know we would not see any real. military gains in these strikes so 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 government with the support of russia and the iranians are gaining more control over syrian territory that was there. state control previously and who are all the actors in this area the understand. everything and they would like to get their foot in the door to make sure that they still will be viable buyable players in from what i understand russia iran turkey de try to engage them in various negotiating for months it's not like i mean there is a talk about having at government of national reconciliation in syria there is talk about holding new elections so there are some political values 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. russians and syrians. bunches of opposition to leave. areas. you have to understand these are not just oppositions to syrian sources there was about seven hundred. western advisors. together with the opposition of course we're. finishing.

the opposition area so there will be a risks some western advisers also will 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 that 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 there was a kind of trial and i mean that if there were similar statements that affect. the.

deaths of. her predecessor. the. united nations certainly russia for a very high civilian for supporting the son who's 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. scientists surveyed 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 point 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 when 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. when 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

you 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 analyzed 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 con from the friends of syria group and that group obviously is very eager to see mr assad out many of these samples and many of the testimonies were provided by turkey which is also not the 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. that means. an inspector. came to the site.

put it in the vial. not just close it but sealed it with a special seal. be broken and then those samples are delivered to. their opened in controlled. environments. records are kept this is exactly. we now already have i think very clear in the western media to suggest that the russia and syria used this initial delay in the ability of the o.p.c. inspectors to access the scene that they used it's basically to clean the area from a technical from a scientific point of view can the o.p.c. w. inspectors establish why that the scene was tampered with because even if they delivered clean samples in this case clean from the russian point of view the west

i think would easily come out and say that. there is nothing there simply because the russians killed all the evidence. yes but in the case of. actually there were not. specters who came into the samples yeah turkish side had provided them with lots of inconsistent. mechanisms to. after. use of chemical weapons in tashi whom it was possible to analyze the samples and. you think that russia can rely on that kind of argument is there not really. a tickle yes you can clean the area but the use of chemical weapons and remember chemical weapons is not.