that means someone somewhere synthesize them and shared the information since then these formulas or some of them have appeared in various publications constantly you simply cannot see they are secret. there's more to it if you suspect a potential adverse really has made a new discovery you have to do the same in order to study the new substance and make and he do it's it's true to say that russia is not the only country being able to sympathise a few grams of no beach up in the late ninety's all intelligence services in the west worked on because there were these rumors about a new military chemical agent produced in russia so so i'm not surprised that in france in a new king in the united states you have this kind of information that could explain this speed in which the product was identified that's the purpose and that's the job of this kind of laboratories and there's

a whole lot of nerve agents to go around with more being discovered undeclared. for months and it's a country and there are many discovers the properties of a new chemical structure it's the chemical weapons potential they must immediately according to the convention for it would be obviously w. but no country does so despite having created many such chemicals. and it really isn't as difficult as it may sound if it's really an overture we're dealing with it's not a real problem to synthesize that kind of nerve agent or the necessary components are easily available on the open market the synthesis does not require sophisticated procedures any specialist in organic chemistry would be able to make it though every expert we talked to said that you need serious expertise and

substantial funding to make cure nerve agent. and of course you can't make this in any basement the chemicals are highly toxic and the lab has to be well equipped with ventilation detoxification equipment and the chemists themselves have to be educated not every lead can synthesize this but there are twenty or so labs that counter. the argument that there is no alternative explanation because only russia has made nova trucks sales. britain's decision to classify almost every aspect of what happened and the investigation is called the room and mill running but there are tidbits that have leaked out tidbits that have the scientists crashing the heads of each other is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already very very toxic so

a small amount should have killed mr creep out for sure but again it's very difficult to assess and evaluate this kind of question before knowing exactly how the product was delivered the interesting thing with nobody chalks is that there are so many of them and they come in so many different forms they can come in a powered as solid as a crystal and even as a liquid but just to give you some reference if this was a variety of the nuvi chalks a single drop is enough to kill ten people ten people within minutes if this was in the hailed even more units one and putting it we can tell you are symptoms appear and follows in minutes if it gets on the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to hours. at first one might think that the script could only have

survived because the dude's had to be very small but the reported symptoms don't match they simply missing a little of it when witnesses found them they said serug a script was rocking back and forth waving his hands it seemed more like the effects of narcotics if it was a small dose as they claim then first would come meiosis then the rest of the symptoms convulsions uncontrolled urination but we didn't see that in photos or hear of it in rip. course there are many questions. if indeed this was the nuvi chalk nerve agent at work the script bells were very fortunate british medics must have realized quickly what was at work here or else have a miracle cure of a new nerve the chintz there's no other explanation. we're going to stay across that story as it develops but switching gears now it is independence

day in the united states but a majority of americans that for the first time in at least eighteen years say they are no longer extremely proud of their country that's the finding of a poll by gallup which tallies that with a number of other recent surveys that also reflect a downward trend or has come up and take a closer look. the fourth of july american independence day a time for barbecue fireworks and celebrating the old stars and stripes. but is a patriotic impulse dying among americans a new poll shows that not all americans are swelling with national pride the poll indicates that less than half of americans actually say that they're extremely

proud of their country and that's with donald trump playing up u.s. exceptionalism we're going to make america make america great again great again are you planning to celebrate the fourth of july this year actually i'll be working as i am sure there's every day comp by whole came out this year and when asked if they were proud of their country extremely proud of their country only forty seven percent of americans said yes that's less than half what do you make of that poll. i saw that i don't understand i'm in that the other category am extremely proud and now we look so bad in court towards other countries who are looking towards us and saying that we look so separated now instead of being united i suppose it's about trump mainly really it's just just simply the president. what else i think you get at that there is not a political. level happening. just faith and leadership to really come down to

what i think deep down the numbers probably higher people may feel a grudge about certain political you know swings these days used to be that once a year americans put aside their political differences and marched behind the american flag is one on independence day however this year it seems that partisan political differences are impacting how americans feel about the best. nobody's able to mop and see new york. let's take a second remind our viewers of our breaking news british counter-terror police say two people who were rushed to the hospital following their possible exposure to a toxic substance were in fact affected by the pair who are in a critical condition took ill ten kilometers from where the former russian double agent sergei screwball and his daughter were poisoned exactly four months ago. right now we are joined live by mohammad shot feet from the ramadan foundation to discuss this story thanks for being with us here on r t international. so british

counter-terror police have announced that two people who were rushed to the hospital following this exposure to an unknown substance were in fact exposed to the nerve agent novacek is there any possibility that there could be a connection to the screwball case last march. first of all i'd like to wish them well and hope they make a speedy recovery it's an extraordinary development four months after that alleged poisoning insult we are seeing other british citizens now being subjected to this same threat i would just caution the police to complete their inquiries let's not jump on to you know aggressively target one country or another unless wait for the facts in the evidence before jumping to conclusion and one of the criticism if you like of the british government when they reacted to solve was even before the

evidence had been completed and the inquiry had been completed they decided to lay the blame russia and i hope that they learned the lessons on this occasion. and now the u.k. counter-terrorism unit said that in fact there is no connection at this point between the two cases though they say no the child was used in both. so how can they be so sure so early in the event in the investigation that it is not the truck . but i think that what they are saying is that the tests that they conducted the initial test point in that direction that it's not. i would again as i've said would be very cautious to either late these cases wait for the evidence let's see what happens but the important thing here is that britain is a world power. and we've got to change our foreign policy to reflect the new

dynamics of the world. and i think what has happened. is that we have a government is more determined to score headlines than to actually engage in a dialogue russia is a great country would great influence around the world and it requires you know leadership on the part of the british government to gauge media on a on an equal fourteen. so i'm going to ask you to go down the rabbit hole with me just a little bit here prior to the screwball case no one had ever even heard of before what is the likelihood of this agent being used twice in such close proximity all in the same area i mean is there something nefarious going on or what's the deal. i don't know it sounds farfetched but again as i said the counterterrorism police and will chip police are looking into this and trying to put

a case together and i would want to be guarded by evidence not a knee jerk reaction as we've seen previously. how it is it possible for nobody in the preceding four more to be poisoned by norwich or after this attack and why is it taken four months i mean that's going to be a key question for the investigators go to more importantly if this was the same. poison that was used in sold how come you know it's taken four months for it to appear and you know affect other people i just find that really i struggle with that if i'm honest but. if he's to gather their evidence and i hope that the answers are provided to those questions now you've touched on this a little bit already but i want to go back to this what do you think that the reaction of the u.k. government will be now i mean it is precarious situation. the last

time you admitted that they pointed the finger at moscow do you think they're going to be so quick to jump the gun this time. well we'll have to wait and see if in the morning there is an emergency cabinet meeting which is called the corporate committee which is a security committee of ministers chaired by our interior minister of it and i'm sure after that particular meeting the british government will provide its response as i said the rhetoric which we've seen from the british government has not been helpful we need calm hates collectively looking waiting for the evidence before jumping to any conclusion. so russia right now is in the middle of hosting the world cup the world is literally watching this country if moscow is blamed what do you think the fallout could be and does this really make any sense.

it doesn't make any sense and i think that russia you know people were saying that it was going to be a disaster the world cup was going to be a disaster the fact that there were going to be hooligans russian hooligans who were going to be tilt. from around the world and reality is somewhat different it's been a fantastic world cup not just on the pitch but. for finds in various parts of the country and i think russia should take immense pride in the way they are delivering the next in the world cup and i hope that the reaction from the british government will be a lot conciliatory than it has been in the past or a very interesting period thoughts mohamed tawfik chief executive of the ramadan foundation thanks for being with us here on r t international. we will be continuing to follow this story throughout the night you are watching our two international thanks for being with us. thank.

you. since the start of the world cup or russian sports commentators have put cruelly sure on their list of teams capable of winning russians love to root for the underdog but will have sympathy for a rival russia's quarterfinal to croatia her.

welcome back you're watching our two international reminder of our breaking news british counter-terror police say that two people who were rushed to the hospital following their possible exposure to a toxic substance were in fact affected by the pair who are in a critical condition took ten kilometers from where former russian double agent sergei screwball and his daughter were poisoned exactly four months ago. this evening i've received test results from poll that showed that the two people have been exposed to get to know the truck however i must say that we are not in a position to say whether the nerve agent was from the same batch the script was

word supposed to. the possibility that these two investigations might be linked is clearly a line of inquiry for what is important however the investigation is led by the evidence available so we don't make any assumptions or indulge in speculation local residents are concerned about this latest poisoning as they and their families have yet to receive any instructions from authorities. to be honest now because state. retracted say in the first louise a possible link so three that it was possibly a drug raid and now a third night so you know to visit being checked in any information border place. would be most in there yes i mean as it is but. it will add a little bit where you know that we don't know what's going on because you. know you know you have more children coming here and there are other parents who live around here and not it was being technically of course we're going to be staying

across this story as it seems the situation develops moving on now the working conditions in france french law enforcement are facing a true crisis that's according to a newly released report that flags up a number of issues including grueling schedules and excessive stress and also highlights a worrying number of suicides among police officers. today we are on edge of the implosion there has already been daily violence in our relationship with people it's a job without gratitude. was. was . the was on an almost daily basis offices on the frontline of violent protests terrorism and a wave of my creation the issue highlighted by the report is the high level of suicides within the police force it says it's thirty six percent higher than in the

general population and forty six percent a weak police officer is a bad officer in the eyes of others so colleagues don't want to talk about their problems with other officers told him is currently still working as a police officer to be able to talk openly about the issue of suicide in the force he asked us to hide his identity and set up on his own we don't have support when it's bad at home and it's bad work we don't know who to confide in recently i could visibly see a colleague wasn't looking good unfortunately i didn't have a way to report that we felt something was wrong fifteen days later he took his life tom says police officers are under pressure twenty four hours a day and a never able to step away from the job and he says it's becoming more and more difficult to carry out his work teach the staff shortages and a lack of first sources bazzi asked someone from the interior ministry to comment

on the plate in this report so far we have had no response but earlier this year the minister responsible for the internal security forces made this statement to the committee this to katie these issues should have all day and at the end of twenty seventeen i asked the director of national police and the director. of the national gendarmerie to work on an analysis of the research for suicides the parliamentary committee report also says police and security forces so understaffed they worked almost twenty two million hours in overtime with that compensation if it were to be paid it would cost a staggering two hundred and seventy two million euro much of this it states is down to the heightened terror threat and its peak tourism season kicks in pickpockets and scam artists are adding to the pressure the senators say the only way to relieve it is to hire more offices between three and four thousand of them

almost half the amount or is it back on his promise to boy over a five year period the parliamentary report makes more than thirty recommendations to help turn this crisis around it's been welcomed by police unions he see something must be done to prevent the entire system from collapsing since the terror attacks in twenty fifteen we're in much more demand and the number of missions has multiplied don't have the resources it's only going to get worse and they say you card to put a price tag on the security of the french republic you can ski r.t. paris. now the fee for world cup is a down to the last eight countries or colombia and a swiss guards who are broken on tuesday but it was jubilation for england and sweden hearkens has all the angles covered for us in st petersburg.

wherever you're watching us today welcome to russia's historic capital. decide to have a museum how to square dripping in history it's all about today it's all of course about the football jangling knockout stage has now wrapped up we know that eight teams now set to play in the world cup quarterfinals the world why go head to head with france brazil face belgium on friday that should be a goal fast on saturday all eyes here of course with the host russia and their clash with getting to of course sweden england also the same day. moscow wrapped up the knockout stage last night it really did have everyone has their seat so myself for three to three lives in a dramatic penalty shoot out. the

whole range of emotions jubilation for the. only thing to break that penalty. for several tournament's and of course heartbreak for colombia who gave it their all but it wasn't quite enough. i was also watching the game in which colombian players there gave everything for one hundred percent agreement that it should be exhausted so while there were such. more. because we're going motions one. point if you are more complete than you could be in the quarterfinals great job. you've done for cause. probably longer for many.

you are not. really going to. find out and heading for the finals there we. share their hair. to be. all eyes of course on england caps and. football's hottest property right now the best striker at least according to many he scored that crucial penalty there was always a tension knowing that might just blow it all but that goal number six for pushed him to the top of the race for the golden boot as the world cup's top scorer finds a rapids to victory last night as you might expect scenes of relief and of course jubilation.

if. i. now as things heat up here in russia the intrigue. pundits taking a break from his crystal ball predicts it will most football results most of all talking so far to some young budding football stars of the future here is that report. yes i would think it was the exception called philip martin the last question to. you not clear to me i do not snip the last years of my saddam. but actually the least. it is. my leaving my command that much as tonight to be within your. winning your children to continue doing all chelsea. only. this is a more lenient. option. social problem with also you come on do you would you just

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. positively surprised with what i see what i see in this little session and i hope that all should be as you read me i've also seen my my players being professional players. we do she is. they enjoy more of the period they are playing in the period where they have other practices but this is as important exercises that they can do outside the little little game what's your secret in achieving that much trophies the secret is what i was asking you. to enjoy but at the same time if you says if you want to reach a certain level. has to be a serious serious thing every minute of the day we're. working with my players i take it very very serious always have this model always happy to do something that

i really like to do but i always read with a great cause and he did it and be sure to have fun every minute throughout on the pitch take it seriously what's your favorite muchas tonight for if i answer to you or the other ones to go away it is like when you are a father and you have more of them than ones then one son which one is the favorite son. i have a son the daughter i cannot say which one is my favorite. my favorite was the difference in training russian players. players i think in the one of the secrets is the competitiveness of the league every club has probably eighteen twenty twenty peaches like this one. only for the academies i hope. with kids like you coaches like him we facilities like like that with the passion of the russian. people. as for food well with what the world cup can change in

terms of the. of the mentality in. all of united states mexico kind of can be a target for the russian national team to to improve let's make a challenge and sometimes challenge is all dreams they become reality one day so let's see in the next twelve years. i coach the russian national team and some of them they play for me they'll. go i got. and i was might see some those youngsters in russia's next world cup squad oh down now of course the last eight fans cross the world have been on a rollercoaster ride from the very start for some though it seems to be a bit of

a year that needs it but one of motional support they've got their four legged friends with them for company.