round were seated guesses and try to. those are the types of compounds that any any organic chemistry lab or industrial site would have those are used as skin treatment agents use work removal that has nothing to do with a chemical agent l. or some western media outlets were quick to react to the report with the b.b.c. even claiming proof of chemical weapons having been used though they have since corrected the headline to reflect the fact that the o.p.c. w. has yet to reach a conclusion i can april after the alleged attack u.s. officials are also eager to jump to conclusions the united states has excellent intelligence gathering as we saw what happens with information that led us to believe that sarin and chlorine gas were used in this most recent attack we certainly had a lot of media and social media indicators that either chlorine or sharon were used james atoll also told us he's actually been skeptical all along about whether the

so-called chemical attack ever really took place. just looking at the attack looking at the cylinders i knew that this was not a chemical weapons attack that anything there may have been some cylinders that may have been exploded but those were typical industrial cylinders of common compounds they had nothing to do with a chemical weapons attack and that's why the report has said that there are no no chemical weapons agents were found at all whether they be nerve agents or chemical agents or mustard agents none of the agents or the by products the degradation products were found. in the leader and founder of a japanese doomsday cult was executed on friday show along with six senior members of the cult were put to death for a deadly sarin attack in one thousand nine hundred five the all. cult was found in one thousand nine hundred eighty four and counted up to forty thousand members i don't speak around thirty thousand of them here in russia the cult is regarded as

a terrorist organization by several countries including the us and russia and carried out a major sarin gas attack in the tokyo underground now twenty three years ago. can usually use some we typically just because a cult is without a leader for some time that doesn't mean it ceases to exist. harder and his closest followers were hanged but the cult in japan is officially registered its on the

terrorism watch list i don't rule out the possibility that the cold still has followed was in russia because here is a good breeding ground for the organization to find followers. visited moscow in one thousand nine hundred two and met with russian political and religious leaders of the cult founder went on a promotional campaign giving speeches at the country's top universities and spending millions of dollars this succeeded in attracting many followers in russia . there were numerous symptoms of errands and relative terms all the guards are going to board up we have and we try to try to help them and. also i think part of this

trial which was held russia i did not actually go in the barents sea would. be because you don't have a good big convinced officer western in general. to this process and i actually. didn't go again or when i went no longer seems to be in the upper hand and then of course just when you know the time came and we had changed everything and this is art international thanks for sharing some of your saturday with us here in moscow we are back at the top of the hour with more of your top stories.

in the last days of the soviet union people were full of hope and anticipation of the upcoming changes underground music by the young musicians of the time captured the mood. what was it like to live and make music in that atmosphere. in twenty forty you know bloody revolution. the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful. the protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer here but i mean you know liz put to do it with me in the new bill is that i'm still in the total of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four. those who took. invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these enough to ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i'm

bart chilton and this is bone boss broadcasting around the world from right here in view of the u.s. capitol in washington d.c. this is a second installment of our infrastructure deficit special if a structure isn't just a nice thing to have isn't only about having less bumps on a rider about convenience it's much more including national security we asked the former director of the national transportation safety board jamie finch about that and more. to the sucker for is a national security issue. goes about going all the way back to president eisenhower having him be the germans autobahn he brought the concept to the united

states as a as a system to build across america so you can actually travel from the us from the east coast us to the west coast the u.s. in a sort of about of time versus the several months that it took him when he was a private when he first made it into the army. the world has become more connected with people and places that ever before and we can now reach just about any city on the planet in a single day and none of it would be possible without airplanes and airports in fact the national air traffic controllers association says there are over eighty seven thousand flights in the united states every single day at the same time u.s. airports are decomposing before our eyes for an aerial view on the current state of

airport infrastructure we handed over to our correspondent nicholas or donna. most people coming into the u.s. the first thing they see is one of these and they're polls and all those and they're considers itself to be the leader of the developed world the truth is that it's a full on always want passengers from the middle east asia or europe would expect president trump didn't hesitate in saying that america's airports a third world facilities when i look at airports in china when i look at airports and abu dhabi and qatar and the different places like a third world country you land in new york and la guardia airport a kennedy airport it's like a third world airport system and its latest report the american society of civil engineers graded the country's aviation infrastructure with a very unimpressive score of you know the united states has had. in an aging

and. in aging infrastructure for about a generation so we sort of look back and the united states really built out our infrastructure in the fifty's and sixty's and early seventy's and then in some respects we've taken some time off from from from doing a lot of building and we've been somewhat maintaining our infrastructure but probably not as well as we can the. says that progress airports in a traffic control systems is slow unable to keep up with demands of increased traffic. and new technologies and passages that fail in the effects of code into sky tracks and based on millions of survey responses there's no you a sample in the world's top ten in denver international built in one thousand nine hundred ninety five is the first one on that list in the twenty eighth position the real problem however is that with the explosion of people traveling many airports are operating beyond their design capacity so we have

a situation where the airports are crowded they're basically bursting at the seams and they're. looking to see traffic is increasing over there in the coming years over and beyond but there are already handling so there's definitely a need. to improve america's infrastructure according to the department of transportation a record nine hundred sixty five million a line passengers flew in the united states last year that's a three point four percent increase over twenty sixteen and more passengers mean more dollars in fact the federal aviation administration calculated that in twenty fourteen civil aviation generated one point six trillion dollars and supported around ten point six million jobs and not just any jobs because a lot of the jobs that are done at an airport especially when we talk about aircraft maintenance and in other areas you know airport management these are high

tech jobs these are jobs that pay very good incomes each employee who is a highly paid skilled worker you know he's going to be part of a chain of a whole bunch of other workers along the way so having a good airport having a well maintained. may get favorable destination is one of the best things you can do for a community the f.a.a. also estimates that the national cost of a pool congestion is expected to rise to thirty full bill. and in twenty twenty before going on to sixty three billion by twenty forty of current funding levels. and this takes us to the issue of funding in america airports are funded in very different ways such as federal grants passenger facility charges bones and state and local grants it's not an easy puzzle to resolve and coordination between different sectors is as important as actually coming up with the money and airports

need a lot of that according to a study by a ports council international usa ports need an estimated seventy five point seven billion dollars in infrastructure investment through twenty nineteen that's american airports though only need an upgrade they require a deep comprehensive plan if that doesn't happen the country that saw the birth of aviation will struggle to compete in the twenty first century. donovan. oil and natural gas are driving forces behind much of the nation's energy and the transport behind it lies in our country's pipeline infrastructure for a closer look our chief fire tab in your report. the u.s.

currently the largest consumer of oil consuming twenty million barrels a day just in two thousand and seventeen but that wouldn't be possible without pipelines that transport the field from its source to the market and although the u.s. has fallen behind internationally and seen every critic line and its infrastructure when it comes to telecommunications transportation and water there one critical bright spot has been on and. thanks to what has come to be known as the shale revolution the u.s. is now growing closer to becoming a net exporter of crude oil and natural gas and is projected to bypass russia and saudi arabia the current global leaders in energy but this dramatic spike in energy production has created a dilemma in the existing pipelines are not equipped to deal with such an influx as there are already operating in full capacity let's take the cost of transporting

natural gas by train a cost that's nearly five or six times that of transporting my pipeline as economists kevin gillen explains first of all take train transportation a train is more expensive than transportation by pipeline just to give you some numbers it costs about ten to fifteen dollars a barrel to transport a barrel of natural gas by train and had only five dollars a barrel to transport a pipeline so it cost of transportation by train is two to three times transportation by pipeline the u.s. currently has more than two point six million miles of pipeline that transport more than sixteen billion barrels of crude oil and natural gas through the pipelines annually making it the world's largest network and of that network a more than two hundred thousand miles of liquid pipelines over three hundred thousand miles of gas transmission pipelines and more than two point one million miles of gas distribution pipelines that move energy and raw materials that fueled

his nation's economic engine but currently major ports like boston still rely on foreign oil from russia via the united kingdom as the region's high and unstable energy prices are routed would inadequate natural gas pipelines to meet its demands or oil industry's top lobbyist jack straw to highlight at how resistance to infrastructure development has led new englanders with some of the highest electricity costs in the nation particularly so through extreme winters. the recent cold snap highlighted the difference between policy makers and regions and embrace america's energy abundance and those that do not for example new englanders have been subject to some of the highest electricity costs in the nation well above national averages because of resistant.