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when i'm alone my god i like the idea of you build the. best people around the north and i. think we will be a little bit as it was that is just about i. welcome back we're still here with his latest book reporter a memoir is out now in the past forty eight i was israeli jets of talking to damascus i mean the war seems to be continuing over kind you said that there are actually. two suspects for the chemical attacks that news of which was beamed

around the world is the reason why i say britain should bomb syria why do you think money journalists would just go there is only one suspect the assad government and well that would happen is with the if you're talking about an incident in which. bashar assad's use of nerve agents against his own people in which is a took that was a two thousand and thirteen was a very real from his point of reactionary force there was very hostile to his his presidency. and of course there was constant conflict conflict it was. one of the games and i says later it was a stronghold as we all know now it's bob and bob the smithereens war is awful we americans should maybe be a little more tolerant made to hatred for bashar he had a war it was an awful war and you fought it awfully but so do we everybody does that's the horrible thing about wars and they're not good when it was government funding the white helmets right now that say it's one sided here it's the only can

we trust you there's no question there's a look there i'm sure there are some people in the white helmet that were very actually doing with you know trying to save lives but the it's pretty clear now that they're basically the major funding also i think america was indirectly supplying some money certainly the brits were and so certainly it was a edge it was a propaganda gorgas ation to along with possibly doing some real good relief work but too many times you've seen this same child in photographs you know year after year always covered in dust i mean there's been a lot of actually good reporting on it that they do and gauge anti assad but it's very easy here assad is hated and i get a lot of criticism criticism for saying having a different story for example about the use of sarah and i could publish what i wanted about him in america i had to publish it here in the london review now all that happens is in june of two thousand and thirteen there was a very important all source intelligence report put up by the american defense intelligence agency included but made a complicated for me i got a copy leaked i guess you call it and it had

a lot of signals intelligence and the one reason i sort of stay alive i only ten i don't want to write i don't want to cross up any intelligence operation that's reasonable legitimate so i there's a lot of stuff. in this particular document i didn't publish it because i didn't know how much of this stuff is is very competent we're doing us good learning some stuff about the other side i just didn't know so what i had a report that said there was tremendous concern in the community because both turkey the two they're judged amerie their paramilitary police units were driving truck folds of the chemicals that when mixed together make a nerve agent it's called kitchen seren it's very crude the syrian army has a very sophisticated sarah and that has additives that make it more lethal more toxicity more penetration much better weapon in fact it's so toxic nerve agent you can once you meld it once you make it taken or. phosphate and.

alcohol i mean certain specific kinds you mix them and the additives you have to put in a weapon because it will burn through a weapon in a day even a congress seal weapon so it's use it or lose it if you milled it and so we and the israelis used to monitor the syrian chemical arsenals and we could for once we detected a melding it that we were going to attack and israel was in this with us through israel knows the story i'm telling you and we also knew then the syrian army had a very sophisticated weapon and we also knew from this intelligence report that saudi arabia turkey were supplying the basic chemicals to al nusra which is isis was in there then i was the cutting edge and so there was a tremendous yes well absolutely. we always think everything because there was a law passed in two thousand and two after the invasion that said any time the

president could do what he wants with congress so we always called everything. i mean everything everything around him in libya it was al qaeda in africa because that gives you the cover of the law congress passed that stupid act even push the right to in. vien anywhere without going congressional authorization it's amazing piece of legislation talk about dumb anyway the point is this report troubled everybody there was a study done about what can we do about it how many people american soldiers we should we didn't want to have there's a nerve agents suddenly comes this attack and we get a sample from the russians and it's taken to serve peter wall who is the director jeff the head of the british military the sample is taken to his people down here they could take at the port down where they conclude we know what the syria has serious been signed in a signatory to the geneva convention on chemical weapons we know that syria has we know what it looks like and what was used in that place was not the same as in the syrian military this is told obama two times by the chairman of the joint chiefs

before the recent. remember the red line when when the attack took place. so when the attack took place that allegedly forty nine there was one tenth as many as matter when the attack took place and people were killed and the world said did it my government said that the government knew they knew from this very important intelligence report that cause a huge study to be done inside about what to do but it would take sixty thousand troops to get into the war we were thinking of maybe sending troops on the side of bashar really to get rid of this stuff we don't want these guys to have it and of course there was too many troops and it didn't happen but they knew there were two suspects that knew a noosa had the stuff in syria the stuff forget about having it analyzed they knew right away and they only talked about one and so i wrote an article saying while let's hold on folks what i also learned because i was writing months later is that the material that was taken by russia russian and challenges which is quite what

can i tell you russian intelligence in damascus i mean without russia i don't think he could have survived i think they saved a couple you fifteen he was in trouble he might have survived anyway the army was holding forth there wasn't collapsing as much as people thought that he was having trouble. anyway and by the way i'm always taken his apologist for bashar assad only doing is telling the truth i'm telling facts period. people who fight wars all fight with same way he he doesn't do anything differently than we do the hell out of people how can the united states use the nuclear bomb on hiroshima did daylight bombing of major cities in germany one thousand forty four cities you know the sent the famous bombings that everyone dreads that just fire storms we just say somebody ho says it is war criminal for fighting the war the saves in a war or war and by all accounts the casualties are almost the same of both sides if this is an apology that's just that's just people not wanting to believe not wanting to believe their prefer their just like letting their personal dislike

overcome the reality the point is that it was analyzed important the brits had it and only which is a laboratory we in america respect for the skilled in chemical weapons it was delivered the count was good liver to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff its name was norman dempsey dempsey takes it i write this categorically in the london review i write this i don't say who the source is but i say he takes it you don't hear him denying it you hear nothing said about this takes it to the president and says mr president you can't you don't have a case it's not clear it's not clear bashar did it the same day we learned later years later two thousand and fifteen. obama does a long interview with a man named jeffrey goldberg of land a monthly magazine one of his people he liked a lot twenty thousand word interview in the middle of the interview he says about that incident the red line the head of national intelligence a general named clapper air force one comes to see me and he says mr president.

it's not a slam dunk which is you know like considered to be the that libya perhaps it's not that you know but so he didn't do the bombing because he didn't think he could win the case in the public arena that's why he did do the bombing not because there was a deal made on getting rid of weapons he lied and so i write this stuff he didn't tell the truth syria wanted to get rid of this. what pushchairs i want to go i wrote in two thousand and three for the new yorker quoting mustapha to last the head of the fence of a huge defense minister of syria been defense minister for ten twenty years wrote a lot of poetry stuff and i quote him saying at one point there was a worry that america may take syria and i said what would you do then he said what could i do and i said well you could use a chemical weapons and the call it was in the new yorker and it was read to him you know the new yorker check stuff he approved this was in english he speaks english and he said to me. he said those things chemical weapons he says those things those

use this things that the old man bashar is father want it off us he thought it was a deterrent against israel cost us a fortune teller we have to protect them it's a big pain he said if we use those weapons america could incinerate us with nukes and they'd be right and so crazy would be to use those weapons i said what would you do then and he said well we let america let the americans call that they come to damascus so let's see what happens i said what are you talking about he said just like in baghdad when the when the when the when the knights of malta came in the thirteenth century the rivers would be full of their blood he said we have a resistance and so i remember going back and telling my general friends in washington you know this is not textbook you talk with the defense minute this is not he's not going to defend the country is going to let you come and kill you when you get there they're different i remember saying you're not going to have it's not going to be like the fight against not going to have a defense perimeter and you're have to fight your way into the city he's going to let you in and get you when you're there it was very interesting but then he was

prime minister here was telling us it is certain that british troops should be involved we're getting huge amounts of persuasion here. i mean is syria now on syria up until say you know the drought it's over now and the kurds are cut a deal with bashar assad it's over and drums of changes policies because when it comes to doubt we've been having here a thing where. has been accused on a regular basis in the british well of it of assassinating people in britain well that's the case is sort of falling apart there's been several porting from europe and i should say the book says you get all you start researching on w m d contexts for stories for decades now you've. got to india for example there was a story and let's get let's get to the let me just say this there was a story in the press where syria was using chlorine in. the endgame in the isis and you know this spring there was an endgame and it was stories that they were using sarin gas and chlorine together and so here's why hellman set foot. in the fifty's

koreans are very volatile gas and it's of great interest to the it's not a lot of work for egypt and there was a story just the other day about syria drop the u.n. report saying they dropped as chlorine gas spawn there's no such thing in anybody's arsenal a korean bomb you have to how much chlorine can you put into it cory's a gas it dissipates quickly it moves quickly it's not lethal you can breathe and keep on what it's not it's not a war for agent you could there's no such bomb but even more important because chlorine so reactive in the chemical corps in america when they develop those nerve agents in the fifty's they thought let's see what happens if we meld chlorine with it maybe with soup it up make it even more more efficient as a killer and it turns out that chlorine immediately first thing it did in their field reports is published documents in the field cory immediately would go and grab all the hydrogen molecules from this era dignity disappeared so worked exactly the opposite in other words sarah and drop of course would become just another use

this gas it would be much less lethal the korean would make it weak so that you can't which is in the way it was record you can't use sarin and chlorine together just the nobody does any homework the script and we had geoffrey robertson q.c. one of the world's leading human rights biases and who said that russia has a posture in this killing live in and go here. the m i six by it was. we were told in this country i mean clearly this was a lethal military grade yeah it was a nerve gas as if you have to population you that you can have no idea of military grade military grade v.x. . you could wipe out half of london with that one i mean it's really it was well we'll call this story you'll take a look i've written about it so i ask myself that i have written the story i always had about it from my friends in america is. those two were helping your the british intelligence services with information about the russian mafia that's what they were doing here in other words the people that would high in the list that would

want to hurt them would be the russian mafia russians but not the russian got to worry about the screwballs well yeah i mean that was the understanding and there's also been some reporting in europe of it that it's been pretty much wiped widespread there was a story but the same after the same thing that they were actually were doing work for the marriage for the british intelligence committee modoc to vs i mean there is a big russian mafia let's face it and but that is in the russian government all i would say is i think i mean tell me what i was told but i haven't done any reporting on it so i don't know firsthand i know secondhand i've been told by people in america because you ask about it is that is that most likely the most likely they they were known to have been talking to the six and five relevant six or five people that i am i five or six people about what they knew about russian corruption in and you're not in russia again you know the activities and so the only you from there you can draw your own conclusions of all who wanted to first of . all that's it for one of your favorite shows from this season will continue to

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a few refineries higher end product and put that money back into the economy in this way may take ten or fifteen years but you're not going to be now taken over by some cia operatives. most go towards it has intelligence that jihad if in syria's providence are preparing to stage a chemical attack and they to blame on the assad government. and media baron of allegations in the us media that russia is planning to magill in the upcoming midterm elections the cia reportedly complains that its kremlin moles have gone quiet. to u.s. nationals are sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempting to who in vietnam they're members of a california based group regarded as a terrorist organization by handling.

a very warm welcome you watching r.t. international with me micky arison our top story this hour the syrian government says it's ready to recapture the last major rebel stronghold in the country but of lip damascus has been deploying additional forces on the frontline of the enclave though says it will still willing. to pursue a course of reconciliation however that's what i did it was earlier snubbed by the came militant group controlling the area taria. the group's chief has warned other factions from taking part in any talks with damascus.

well meanwhile the russian defense ministry has warned that militants in italy are preparing the provocation moscow's that it has intelligence that the hardest star intending to stage a chemical attack and lay the blame on the assad government a strike on cases item using poison laid missiles is planned within the next forty eight hours that some players outside the region are preparing yet more provocations on syrian soil involving chemical weapons with the aim of destabilizing the situation there and undermining the positive dynamics of the ongoing peace process. more the missive warns that it's the white helmets pro rebel group that will be there first with cameras and tweets as they usually are whenever there were rumors of chemical attacks and we reached out to them for comment and as is also usual the u.s.

and its power stabbed ready with guns drawn we now see plans for the syrian regime to resume offensive military activities and it would. we are obviously. a better possibility that. they used chemical weapons again if the syrian regime uses chemical weapons we will respond very strongly it's getting very hot in the area america's just pulled up another guided missile cruiser packed with tomahawk missiles the weapon of choice when attacking syria also u.s. strategic bombers heavy duty stuff have just arrived in the neighborhood the russians also acting moving more and more ships to the mediterranean rumors say submarines too and it's cool dreadfully reminiscent of what happened last time.

meal weeks before the alleged chemical incident in ghouta the incident that provoked a british friends and us missile barash well mia weeks before that the russians warned that rebels were preparing to stage a chemical attack now they have warning it will happen in. which begs the question why oh why would ask who has almost won this war why would he launch a chemical attack and invite disaster now there is no value for syria or its allies in using chemical weapons against any of the

terrorists syria is already winning syria has already won along with its allies along with russia and with iran and hezbollah they have already essentially defeated the tech feed the terrorist and the cleanup time the other thing you've got is we have so many times been told that the organization for the preventing prohibition of chemical warfare has emptied syria of all of its chemical weapons this happened a few years ago but we keep getting told syria is making chemical weapons. u.s. intelligence agencies are reportedly complaining that the kremlin moles have suddenly gone quiet it comes amid a host of fresh russian meddling allegations in the media of the american midterm elections daniel hawkins picks up the story. less than two years after the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the russians are at it again the end words this time it's the u.s. mid-term elections in the crosshairs of kremlin meddling another russian attack on

our elections a serious warning about russian meddling in future u.s. elections there also hacking or attempting to hack political campaigns russia is added again it's clear for all to see what happens after all how can one refute such a mass of sources intelligence sources tell him b.c. news there is no doubt the russians are trying to encourage the presidential election a source tells n.b.c. news law enforcement and democratic sources telling c.n.n. . sources two sources with links to the counter intelligence community anonymous sources according to anonymous washington post source now we may not even have those through a lawyer according to the new york times they've gone to ground gone quiet what's happened there could be a couple of reasons it's ok the times reassures us they've not been killed risk yet although says the article putin is intent on killing traitors and the russians

are willing to kill sources perhaps they say the assassination attempt on double agents script file has affected flows of intelligence as with the meddling accusations minimal evidence was also enough to expose the kremlin's hand in that case russia has long arms russia has lots of tentacles we imagine that they will continue to have an interest in our elections but also many other nations' elections as well we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states intelligence blackout could also be down to a fall in u.s. operative numbers in russia the russians kicked out a whole bunch of our people laments a former cia officer a reference of course to moscow's retaliation after dozens of russian diplomats were first expelled from the united states the russian meddling saga even has the us president himself worried. i'm very concerned that russia will be fighting very

hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump but those are named officials can explain the logic the kremlin doesn't want to specific outcome any more broad chaos is apparently the aim despite no hard evidence of meddling past or future it seems the narrative is getting old are named sources can only sound convincing for so long no no the rusher informants they were definitely in the u.f.o. crashed or was a meteorite this is so confusing what the media told us imagineer of france whisper in the ear of the new york times sources say your times makes up stories what if as analysts anonymous sources allege russia isn't busy tilting elections sowing discord or spreading chaos what if russia isn't doing anything at all that

would never make a thrilling read. to us nationals in vietnam have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison for attempting a coup they were among twelve people threatened to all of the members of the provisional national government of vietnam which was declared a terrorist organization by the countries or thor it is back in january when the war in vietnam ended more than four decades ago but apparently for son the struggle is ongoing. the vietnam war one of the world's bloodiest conflicts and the american army's biggest defeat to the ideologically opposed blocks in two decades of fighting came at a cost of fifty six thousand u.s. troops all in a bid to overthrow the communist regime of north vietnam but the casualties among civilians were much greater at least two million people died in the war. after

hopes of tightening a democratic grip across the vietnamese state slipped away and up to one hundred forty one billion dollars was spent on military operations the us folded to what had been an exhausting war at home and abroad. in one thousand nine hundred seventy three thousands of antiwar protesters would later contribute to the end of u.s. military involvement and two years later the south surrendered with vietnam forced to unite under a socialist flag. however it would take years for vietnam to heal from the wounds of the us campaign. toxic herbicides left the country scarred. and its citizens suffering. fast forward to twenty eight and us been our relations have turned a new leaf. even prospering. however there are some.