capable of producing chemical weapons syria's u.n. envoy gives a warning about extremists in the country but russia's fear of a false flag attack is brushed aside in washington. another. he's being trying to. you know because the seeing that before when you try to put the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into. france's president stirs outrage among the country's opposition figures after emanuel wrong calls his own citizens french for resisting economic reform. with ten days and counting into the general election in sweden anger flares at

a rally where a swedish parliamentary candidate claims he was attacked by a migrant. broadcasting live. this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right a crucial battle is looming in the last rebel stronghold in the syrian province of idlib the u.n. special envoy for syria says there are around ten thousand terrorists there and that the group is capable of producing chemical weapons meanwhile russia's foreign minister has warned that a terrorist false flag attack is being prepared to sabotage the liberation of. they should have the political it's another false flag attack is being prepared to try and hinder the anti terror operation in a loop with the facts on the table through the ministry of foreign affairs and the

ministry of defense we gave a clear and tough warning to our west and not to play with fire but russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says the preparations for a staged chemical attack are aimed at keeping al nasra a force in the region to be used as a counterbalance against the assad government but the u.s. is ignoring these warnings the state department says they just don't buy into it the russians are claiming now and this one another group stockpiling chemical weapons and planning an attack so you know and i think that's more false flag reporting to i'm going to seen that before when they try to put the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into that but still that comes as a surprise because the u.n. special envoy to syria says that the estimated ten thousand al nusra fighters in the area are indeed capable of utilizing chemical weapons the issue of avoiding the potential use of chemical weapons if indeed crucial and would be

totally unacceptable we all are aware that both the government and have the capability to produce weaponized glory. and with regard to the syrian government's chemical weapon capabilities level of question how they could even exist at all citing the fact that the u.s. u.k. and france had overseen their destruction just last year and the syrian foreign minister also said that the west's aggression comes from dissatisfaction with the direction in which political tides are flowing in the country. and you see in the u.s. the u.k. and france are not satisfied with developments on the ground therefore they make every possible attempt to impede progress in the political process in particular they are trying to protect on this are insurgents and they want the crisis in our country to continue all sides of the conflict are aware that this is

a critical point in syria it's the last pocket of terrorist resistance and russia is warning that they will try to stage a chemical attack in a final attempt to gain support from the west and perhaps gain a foothold once more in the country damascus and moscow they've already put forward efforts towards peace but the islamic groups have made it abundantly clear they will not surrender and with a zero sum game mindset it's hard to see why the most hard line terrorists in syria use every tool at their disposal to change the tide of war. russia has officially shared its concerns about a possible provocation in syria with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons former pentagon official michael maloof says a false flag attack in syria should not be ruled out. the united states doesn't believe that the rebels have that capability whereas there is tremendous documentation to show that they do have the capability they've probably been

storing it for months if not years in the province and they have used it in the past they have that capability and it is a last ditch hold for them so it cannot be ruled out and it's not it's not beyond the realm of possibility that the u.s. is trying to get assad out they're going to continue trying and and even though donald trump wants to. get the u.s. out of syria there are elements within the u.s. government that don't want that to happen meanwhile syria's foreign minister claims the controversial group of the white helmets has kidnapped forty four children damascus has suggested that the youngsters might be used as part of a possible false flag attack in italy the moscow also believes the white helmets are assisting with a large supply of chemicals being moved to the area the white helmets which calls itself a rescue group has been accused of having

a links to extremists something that they deny political activist and outspoken british rock musician roger waters from pink floyd who has long been a vocal critic of the white helmets shared his thoughts with r t is currently in a rush on tour and spoke at length with archie's shevardnadze. if there is a grassroots body called the way home and it's of foreign tears. separate for the people who actually start it in istanbul it was it didn't start syria was started by an english it soldier. in istanbul but if that body exists. and they and they go and help people. in a salad or the russians or somebody else is struck bob's of them then i support them whole heartedly with every fiber of my being. but

all the evidence points to the fact that that is not the reality i don't know if you did you did you see the the documentary that won the oscar. i mean have you ever seen anything so obviously scripted carefully shot with full interview with roger waters will be shown on sophie and co on september the seventh only on r t. i the president of france has described some of his own citizens as being stuck in the past and backwards in many micron so the so-called french goals were preventing positive change while praising the danish economic model on a visitor to copenhagen. these looser and people who have lived through the transformations of recent years are not exactly goals who are resistant to change

well those comments by president michael enough and not gone down well here in france with opposition politicians from across the political spectrum telling him exactly what they thought saying that he was showing contempt for the french people and they took to twitter to show their angry reaction as usual he despises the french from abroad the girls will be happy to respond to his arrogance and contempt . the contempt for mccraw for the french is unbearable and reveals his disconnect with the people of france we are in twenty eighteen a d. there are many on yielding goals who are attached to social progress who still fight against regression it is inadmissible to hear the president of the republic caricature and despise the french from abroad while many french everyday citizens also felt the hum from those comments from president michael unhappy yet again while he's abroad he's chosen a venue outside forces to criticize what he sees as being the french resistance to

his reforms but what many people thought as being a jibe of contempt for the french people let's not how president might console it in a press conference on thursday he defended his comments saying that he told the truth and he said that while people in france don't like permanent adjustments we are our country when in serious moments of our history we can be transformed to present my coin had been praising in denmark the danish system which means that it's easier to fire people from a job and it also means people that quit their jobs can have the social security as a bit of a buoyancy eight and those are things that he says that he wants to emulate hey in france with his reforms reforms which over the last year and a half have seen roof resistance over and over with many protests of people coming out to the streets to say they don't want my calls for foreigners to proceed.

was. yet again president mike carona has provoked fierce street. action with his comments at home while he's made them abroad and many people just can't simply believe the call of the president. a swedish parliamentary candidate has claimed he was attacked by a migrant during an alternative for sweden party rally in a town in the west of the country. any. people. are going to be looking. for.

a violent incident in the city also developed here in sweden at the meeting of the leadership of rightwing oton interferes sweden party with its vote turn into force sweden is famous for ideas that so many consider is too ready to maybe extreme for example they call on closing all the border areas and on sending a significant number of immigrants from sweden back to the countries they came from although the connection was never established a confirmed by the authorities or police response. immigrants for high criminality rate in the country since there were many people with foreign backgrounds in the crowd gathered there things started boiling quite fast people started first shouting and then throwing eggs to the party members and at one moment a youngster from the crowd attacked one of their leaders of alternative was one of

my colleagues from alternative for sweden being attacked by an immigrant q who attended did meeting him was screaming and shouting all over the meeting i was attacked i tried to protect my friend and colleague and this immigrant starting hitting false in the face but also the few eggs. when we left the scene they ran after and when we had to stop you know the red lights and they kicked the car although as you just heard the party member referred to the attacker as an immigrant police has never confirmed that information and when police arrived they took the attacker to a police car and they detained him but let the. party members go and that's part discontent of the people gathered we have been able to speak to those who have gathered there on why they were not happy with the ideas spread by as they sell

turning to for sweden part of this what they told us we really see still no streets still no street party saying they want to take down all the immigrants and the people east i'm happy they don't like to as long as we can integrate them to swedish society may become they become a swedish says me because i'm also an immigrant from belgium is that as long as they become swedish and they work and they do normal swedish things it's absolutely no problem as long as they can keep their religion they can keep their culture but the should speak swedish and they should work. immigrants here. they're not included in this. sweden is going to have general elections here in just ten days tensions are quite high ahead of the national that is described by many as a historic event because a ruling social democratic party the largest and the oldest party here in sweden according to polls could get

a worse through in the last one hundred years with right wing ideas and far right ideas getting more and more popularity u.s. president trump has threatened to leave the world trade organization details coming up short break you know what you're trying to.

you know it's all about getting along the. greatest ally friend russia there is you know play good for the kids and you know if you open it up there's other things in there so while we proceed here in the first half i'll just see what let's go. welcome back to watching r t international now stunning revelations have surfaced regarding the mysterious murder of three russian journalists in the central african republic at the end of july and the reporters were investigating possible links

between the kremlin and private military companies operating in the country they were found dead in a bullet ridden car the investigation was sponsored by russian tycoon and known critic of president putin what it cost and this has led to some speculation in the mainstream media that the murder could have been politically motivated and what are called himself never shied away from doubling down on those claims. do you have any reason to believe that these men were killed because of the work they were doing. even though yes i think exactly that. however screenshots of the text messages between the team organizing the trip have surfaced in the russian media shedding new light on what could have led to the tragedy and it's prompted at a cost to halt support for the outlet that killed journalist were working for earlier my colleague discussed the messages with. the group chat featured

the three members of the current also their boss back at the q. plus a couple of producers at this point the screenshots cannot shed light on what exactly happened on that tragic day and the probe is of course far from being over but the screenshots allow us to trace the preparations that were actually being undertaken for working in one of the most dangerous countries in africa and also the crew and their h.q. people kept using that very same group chat as their means of communication when the trip began and just have a look at some of these elements of the preparations we've got a pretty small press cards in english and also a u.n. sign for the car. make sure you film how you get rid of the press cards do it in a creative way and with commentry so apparently according to these messages from

their h.q. faking u.n. credentials was part of their plan yes and by the way the group or later claimed that they were working in the central african republic in coordination with the united nations however eventually the un said that they knew nothing of it so again the plan suggested that the group could use their freshly printed press cards at one stage of the travel and then burn them out another we don't know the purpose of that well they knew that they were about to break the law by entering the country on tourist visas but as a journalist on active duty without any accreditation you might argue that most of the central african republic is lawless land so your logical assumption would be that they must have had a go to person on the ground then definitely

a proper translator and for sure a carefully thought through plan and reality though when they arrived in the country they didn't even have the phone number of their fixer he didn't show up at the airport and they were never able to get in touch with them and at the end of the day they didn't have a proper i'd temporary and so issues started piling up one after another upon arrival and here's some of the other parts of the messages that the crew sent in the group chat guys were in a bit of a logistical disaster the locals are just in adequate gadgets are absolutely alien to them there's a feeling of total helplessness when it comes to language basically no one speaks english the journalists mission and the ca are obviously meant that they were supposed to sneak through some heavy security and have a look at what the cameraman texted and the group chat after one of their failed attempts to do just that we couldn't get in they said it's only possible with

a permit from the defense ministry plus two cops met us with all our equipment by the hotel we had to bribe them. then we were stopped at a checkpoint and other bribe but a smaller one the locals the cameras as a negative unfriendly thing and what kind of directions did their bosses give them at that point they were told to keep going the group was losing money on bribes they were never even able to get and touch with their all the english speaking guide however when everything seemingly went out of control messages from age you kept urging them to stay on track. you paid a lot of money to get to this country you shouldn't give about any permit we need a translator to find him we need help from being with you it's impossible to storm into the security retore and i'm not sure we have to go to the ministry and be

tough with the bribes next time what rules did you violate tell them you're going to go to the embassy except this was their boss questioning their violations by the way he resigned after the screen shots were published again we are in the dark about the exact events of the end of last month but this group chat clearly points at the fact that there were real security issues that the crew was facing before their tragic death. donald trump has threatened to withdraw the u.s. from the world trade organization in an interview with bloomberg he said the u.s. might leave if the organization does not shape up this is not the first time trump has threatened to end u.s. participation in global institutions or agreements since two thousand and seventeen washington has withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal the un human rights council unesco and of the paris climate accord.

alright let's go live to david lindorff who is an investigative journalist and founding editor of the online news site this can't be happening david thanks for being with us here on our team international. so thanks for having. pulling out of the w t o would be very serious move. is trouble bluffing or could he follow through. with this kind of unconventional idea. well it's seems to me that his rhetoric at least is. example of a bit of megalomania because these are treaties these are not the you know the iran deal for example it's not a treaty it was approved by the senate the w t o is approved by the senate the un is the us a membership is approved by the by the senate and nafta is a treaty that was also approved by the senate the president does not have the power to pull out of any treaty like that it would have to be the senate would have to

revoke the tree baby. big step and i doubt that there are the votes there from democrats who are going to want to give trump anything he asks for and which who are for you know global trade anyway and a lot of republicans. are for global trade so. he can't do it he has to but what do you actually would have to do is put in a bill which he supposedly has written at the white house has written. to give him sell him the authority on his own without senate approval to revoke these trade treaties and i don't think he can get that passed the senate either or the house yeah it seems in the past he's been critical of executive order but he's been certainly using executive order a lot since he has been president so what might be the implications for global

trade if the u.s. withdrawal happens. well i mean if he were able to get approval from the senate to unilaterally on his own initiative withdraw from the w t o or even nafta. it would have an enormously negative impact on the u.s. economy i mean. the u.s. is a huge trading country. both as an importer an exporter is it imports more than exports but a lot of businesses in the united states depend on selling their or their goods and services and not being in the w.t. you know it means that there will be a slap with tariffs. means everything they try to sell be more expensive. it means an end to a lot of protections for things like copyright theft and other things so i think

that would be a. huge pushback first of all from the companies that are exporting in the u.s. to that kind of a move and. as i said i think india logically most of congress is in favor of free trade so they are going to support just. pulling out of a yes an organization that really started in one thousand nine hundred four and has been working pretty well by all accounts in terms of not just the global economy but the u.s. economy david trump has said in the past that the u.s. has been unfairly treated in the organization and the administration is voiced similar sentiments about the u.n. kind of a victim mentality if you will is trump against global organizations in general. i think it plays well the reason base but i think it's factually incorrect the u.s.

which has won more than it's lost in disputes that have been litigated by the world trade organization so i'm not sure. where he's what he's basing his facts on the this is an administration that doesn't really. facts based on fact based. logic system so what is really happening here is he's playing to a base. if you're on the narrowing base white collar workers believe that their jobs have been hurt by. you know unfair trade practices and some certainly have but you know by and large these actions that he's taking on trade are a blunt tool that are probably more people in the u.s. and they're helping all right interesting to hear your thoughts david lindorff investigative journalist and founding editor of the online news site this can't be happening thanks for being with us here marty international thanks that does it for

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