manufacturing different chemicals that could fall into this type. if you've got the right laboratory you've got the right facilities. people will look at them especially the look at them from a defensive perspective if they look at them from weaponized in perspective that's clearly illegal against the o.p.c. w. the. chemical weapons would have written treaty for company don but there's two things to this there's capability and there's a lot of laboratories around the world would have the capability of producing this but then to work out who's done it there's intent you put capability and intent together and that's why the fingers are pointing at russia but you need an investigation to do that of course and britain says' and said before the investigation that only russia could have made the novacek nerve agent didn't mention intent until a little bit later how much do you think it the czech president admission this is the leader of a sovereign nation undermined that. i don't think it undermines it in that in the slightest you know the capability so there again there's

a dinner of people taking soundbites out of very complicated reports taking those sound bites as the complete fact it's not the statement that came out from the chief executive officer of d.s.t.o. porton done where he turned around and said he could not with the test that he'd done positively point the finger at russia he then went on to say that but that was not his job his job was just to identify the chemicals that were being used by them . and it was up to the wider intelligence agencies and the investigation to take that little piece of information in hundreds more pieces of information to put the complete picture together i'm not picture point clearly russia well there's a lot of questions i think after today's development as well we thank you very much for answering some of unfilmed engram a former intelligence and security officer. living on our us rapper kanye west is a russian spy secretly working for vladimir putin according to

a strategic intelligence analyst the accusations come after wes publicly revealed his warm support for donald trump rutgers they have now looks at an ever growing army of kremlin agents remember when being portrayed as a russian spy was funny. a bit of a joke. over. what he had done in the dark when. while ings russian spy assaulted. by a casual. who isn't funny now could be anyone in the oval office in the pentagon madison square garden. can years recent coordination with trump along with his use of infamous or rhetoric and symbols confederate flag reek of products here just join up the dog's hind

year indorse trump publicly their friends. i'm not saying can you west is involved at all in the trump russia scandal but i am saying he has russian ties and was there right after the twenty sixteen elections scott did walk in or perhaps work in a contributor for the us news channel m.s.n. b c and also founder of russia gate agrees there are just too many dogs not to connect them kanya west went to russia he went to russia he literally flew to moscow and walked around the jew see what he got up to i sure didn't get to be doing anything it's now so or vs why didn't we see it before we see it now and there are more of them clint eastwood openly backed trump and the russian connection is blatant clint eastwood speaks russian.

pretend. oh and robert de niro he hates trump or so he says but look at the facts he cool owns the chain of all to a luxurious restaurants in moscow and he's opening a new one soon you know who goes to his restaurants oligarchy we're not blind anymore there could be russian spies in my audience and i would know everyone is a suspect. are you a russian spy now. russian spies. ellen de generous knows what's up we need lists so i've put together a quick one to start things off this is a list of american stars who recently been to russia they held. and

did business it's time to wake up russian agents everywhere the president the republicans hollywood your neighbor your friends maybe probably even you. the great march of return protests along dancers border with israel are entering their sixth week palestinians are denouncing what is widely viewed as israel's occupation of cancer and calling for refugees to be able to move back to lands their relatives were displaced from in one nine hundred forty eight almost fifty people were killed during the rallies in april including two palestinian journalists over fifteen hundred people are reported to have been injured we heard from a journalist who is in the middle of the demonstration in gaza. one hundred fifty meters away from the fence and says the morning there were ten palestinian protesters injured just right now the palestinian the protesters started burning

the tires declared the vision of the israeli snipers since the morning the israeli army is stated that they deployed to one that one hundred fifty new snipers on go on the fence and this is an injury that let's just shot just right now at that palestinian damage make that less than just right now from the israeli snipers so. it's a nice neighbors targeted the pavement but not always about as that make with live ammunition just right now that the damage there is going into the highway to that medical field going and as you see there is it is diapers i take it think that it didn't grow this serious and that made the extent journalists. in the united nations has commented on the situation in saying that the killings by israel's defense forces are a breach of the geneva conventions we urge accountability for the murder of

journalists in malta mexico russia and slovakia and the apparent assassination of a b.b.c. passionate reporter in afghanistan on monday would you also condemn the recent deaths of journalists in the gaza strip i don't have one i don't have all the details of the investigation but i will say you know we always are saddened by the loss of life and that israel does have a right to defend itself is really state's attorneys responded to concerns from the u.n. and human rights groups by saying not protests on the gaza border fall into the state of war category so that human rights laws do not apply to the i.d.f. troops often gauge meant. the u.s. state department say the incidents in gaza should be investigated by israel however

washington has taken a different approach to the recent probe into the alleged chemical attack in syria when the us launched air strikes on the country before any official probe had taken place journalist dave lindorff believes we're seeing a case in the united states this is really using double talk here they are they know that the israelis targeted these journalists they were wearing press written across both sides front and back and they were reporting on a peaceful protest and the shooting of unarmed citizens and the israelis didn't want the reports out so that killed the poor of the reporters it was not self-defense of israel these killings of palestinian journalists was deliberate and the u.s. won't condemn it it's a total double standard. moving on now american military forces in the african nation of djibouti are coming under attack from blinding chinese leaders the

pentagon's latest statement also came with an urgent notice affixed dream caution for its military in africa. this activity trysts threat to our air. we have formally to march. and we've changed. it's a serious matter so we're taking years years now chinese military observers say that the beams could be used simply to scare birds off of the airfield or to disrupt the activities of spider they also point out that china is a signatory of the protocol on blinding laser weapons which outlaws the use of equipment that can cause permanent blindness this is china's only overseas military base located in the african country of djibouti just a few kilometers away from a very strategic u.s. military base now you can bet with two key military setups so close together the

two geo political rivals are looking for any possible secret info they can get from each other they've even admitted as much we have taken we are taking significant steps on the counter-intelligence side so that we have all the defenses that we need there is no doubt about that that's general wald house or the top commander of u.s. military forces in africa now the u.s. military is all over the continent engaging in anti terror operations flying drones propping up aligned governments but while the houser admits that china is doing something in africa that the usa is not doing very well investing look we'll never outspend the chinese on the communist and that's i guess the point i was trying to make china has been an effort on the african continent for quite some time but we as a combatant command have not dealt with it in terms of a strategic interest and we're in the we're taking baby steps in that regard africa is part of china's one belt one road initiative a twenty first century silk road of sorts enabling countries to trade with each other china has set up a t.v.

project for rural africans they've built all kinds of railroad and sharing economic access to remote parts of the continent and among english speaking africans what country. do they want to study in the u.s. or the u.k. nope it's the people's republic of china yes the usa certainly has the upper hand in africa when it comes to flying drones or deploying troops when it comes to something else winning the trust and friendship of the african people china is way far ahead they look up at r.t. new york. ok i just want a couple of our top stories this hour we've got live reaction coming up the great march of return protests along galluses border with israel are entering their sixth week palestinians are denouncing what is widely viewed as israel's occupation of gaza and calling for refugees to be able to move back to lands their relatives were displaced from in one nine hundred forty eight almost fifty people were killed during the rallies in april including two palestinian journalists these are live

pictures right now from the israel border over fifteen hundred in that timeframe are also reported to have been injured. while the united nations has commented on the situation in gaza in saying that the killings by israel's defense forces are a breach of the geneva conventions. it's difficult to see how time burning or stone throwing. or even more of course thrown from a significant distance that heavily protected security forces in defensive positions can be seen to constitute such 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 in response israeli state attorneys responded to concerns from the un and human rights groups by seeing the protests on

the gaza border fall into quote the state of war category so the human rights laws do not apply to the i.d.f. rules of engagement so a lot of speed. but let's not bring in a libya ruffle fetes reserve colonel in the israeli defense forces and also former foreign media spokesman welcome to the program can i put it to you first is israel not grossly mischaracterizing the situation by calling it an armed conflict rather than an occupation. good afternoon sir first of all i believe that the main issue is the misunderstanding of the world community dealing with the situation i would like you very shortly to tell you what's going on we're facing the hamas islamic terrorist movement hamas is like the muslim bore the branch for the palestinians the goal is very simple there was

a full and elation and destruction of the state of israel and to kill the drew the knees were on to replace them by your khalifa. before any nation america friends of course israel the full right to defend them serve against people looking like. victims there is a play the game but they are not at all we are not facing just a simple pacific march of nice people who are facing people who want to invade our country and when someone wants to invade your country you have to put the beauty's once you let him go in and you just leave or you define yourself right but if we don't you know that i want to. be eight because i'm just dressed like abu i want to work this two years in the us is it for us not in single is really just one word we call it during what is now happening during this protest campaign that is not

a fair war it wasn't a very well you know what you say. listen you often moshe and i know very well version military story we expected very much you expect that in order to defend yourself to be killed first you think that it's the right thing in the military issues in war you have two possibilities or you win or you lose and if i repeat the past when the german nazi army invaded the bush. people lost twenty million people but the a win at the end of the day i must believe that easy could do it without ruining so many people it was much better it is where we are they stand to feel easy fully and thoroughly served defensive position against people i won't say anything and i just say very clearly how must hamas terrorist islamic groups like isis our right to defend ourselves and we'll continue to do it

i hope that they would stop this. military activity against us israeli forces have been shooting unarmed protesters who are hundreds of meters from the border fence we know that from the last number of weeks what justification is there for that. did you see what happened to the news today in the days before yes two journalists were killed they were launching their still launching by the way. ok let's talk about the journalists good point the journalist is a member of the other didn't military branch of hamas you can be serve a journalist you can be also in the same time a terrorist these gentlemen ok what's the fallout for part of the other didn't the cemetery brain to greece he was part he was involved militarily speaking and they believe that it was killed not because he was a journalist because they were terrorists and when we face terrorist activity we

have again to defend those who are going to wait for them to get into israel to be killed to be wanted and then to react that's no that's no sense no set in the world is doing so and in the situation against islamic groups like hamas like hezbollah in the north like this like people that you have sometimes also facing in syria where you are also defending your position you have to be very clear you cannot let people kill you you know they are to react you have to act first because the rule of the game in these terrorist military rule is to be on the initiative not to be on the reactivity right the point of this case that with the journalist is that he was wearing a blue vest marked press it was very visible that it was an actual journalist and he's now dead is anybody going to be held to account. listen you again repeat the same how must narrative. you think that people from

worrying specific military fatigue with a name i'm not a terrorist when you're a terrorist you do everything in order not to be seen not to be perceived as a terrorist there are terrorists it was a terrorist you could have a blue vest a red vest a white vest we also found nurses and sometimes doctors playing doctors or playing nurses being part of hamas or islamic jihad we also even the attacks in israel by people using keep. black black clothes from a religious jews. who have to if you like your food in these very vicious activities he's a terrorist in this region is playing a very a very a very good a very good role ok finally journalist ok just finally we know that the embassy is going to the american embassy is going on the fourteenth of may to jerusalem do you think you're going to see more protests in the buildup to that we've got about

thirty seconds or it's a possibility. it is that it's a possibility but we are very very happy that the american government is depressing isn't busy from tel aviv to our capital and these are some problem we're under with them no problem. rafa veil sovereign state ok thank you so much for coming on the program this hour livia rough of its reserve colonel in the israel defense forces under former foreign media spokesman for the country. stay with us for more great artie proposing.

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