capable of producing chemical weapons in syria as 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 false flag attack is being proposed to try and hinder the n.t. terror operation. for when they 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. his own citizens french golf for resisting economic reforms. but. with ten days and counting to the general election in sweden anger flares at

a rally where a swedish parliamentary candidate claims he was attacked by a migrant. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us. all right a crucial battle is looming in the last rebel stronghold in the syrian province of lib the u.n. special envoy for syria says there are around ten thousand dollars for 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 in the middle of another false flag attack is being prepared to try and hinder the end terror operation in egypt 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 western partners 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 and this one another group stockpiling chemical weapons and planning an attack so you know and i think that's more false flag type reporting from 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 chlorine. 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 that foreign minister claims that the controversial group of the white helmets has kidnapped forty four children damascus has suggested the youngsters might be used as part of a possible false flag attack in italy 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 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 russia on tour and spoke at length with our very own sophie shevardnadze. if there is a grassroots body called the way home it's of foreign tears. separate for the people who actually started to stumble it was it didn't start sooner it was started by an english ship soldier. in a stumble but if that body exists. and they and they go and help people. in a sad or the russians or somebody else is struck bob's of them then i support them whole heartedly with every fiber of my being put 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 that full interview of roger waters will be shown on sofia and co on september the seventh right here on r.t. . the president of france has described some of his own citizens as being stuck in the past and backwards in many micron's said so-called french goals were preventing positive change while praising the danish economic model on a visit to copenhagen. because of the. looser and people who have lived through the transformations of recent years on not exactly goals who are resistant to change well those comments by president michael enough to 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 eight 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 unhappy that yet again while he's abroad he's chosen a venue outside florence to criticize what he sees as being the french resistance to his reforms but what many people thought as being a judge will contempt for the french people but that'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 a 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 the job and it also means people that quit their jobs can have a social security as a bit of a buoyancy aid and those are things that he says that he wants to emulate a in france with his reforms were forms 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 my corner has provoked fierce street. action with his comments while he's made them abroad many people just can't simply believe the cool of the president's. problem entry candidate has claimed he was attacked by a migrant during an alternative four sweden party rally in a town in the west of the country. ah. yes. the people. who took a look no. violent incident in the city all

develop here in sweden at the meeting of the leadership of right wing turn into for sweden party with its vote turns or for sweden is famous for ideas that so many can see there is to ready to maybe it's 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 responded blames immigrants for high criminality rate in the country since there were many people with foreign backgrounds in the crowd gathered their 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 the leaders of alternative was one of my colleagues from alternative for sweden being attacked by an immigrant q who attended did meeting him with screaming and shouting all over the meeting i was

attacked i tried to protect my friend and colleague and the immigrants starting hitting. in the face but also the few eggs. when we left the scene they ran a. and when we had to stop going to the red light we 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 member 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 this alternative 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 least unhappy they don't like as long as we can integrate into swedish society may become they become a swedish says me because i'm also an immigrant from belgium. 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 they 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. 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 here's what tribe so about the you know nearly two months ago. but it's created the united states very badly and i hope they change their ways they have been treating us very badly for many many years and that's why we were at a big disadvantage with the w.t. you know and. we're not planning anything now but if they don't treat us properly we will be doing something this is not the first time a trump has threatened to end u.s. participation in global institutions or agreement since two thousand and seventeen washington has withdrawn from the iran nuclear deal the un human rights council unites co and the paris climate accord we spoke to investigative journalist david lindorff and former british politician george galloway for their thoughts. donald

trump is a bull in a china shop and he's knocking over all kinds of institutions this is just the latest china shop that he's lumbered around and he did the same with nato he did the same with the european union he's done the same with the potus climate arrangements done the same with the iran nuclear deal and so on so is the great disruptor. to have an enormously negative impact. the us economy i mean. u.s. is a huge trading country i think you would fly in countries becoming skeptical. about any further dealings with the us including you know some of the us is the largest partner secure many. european countries in general and in asia i think it would be hugely damaging to the u.s. relations with its trading partners. president of the international olympic

committee has admitted the war on doping in sports might never be won but thomas bach has come under fire for his comment especially from america's anti-doping agency which claims bach has just given up parties oleksiak cesky comments now on what this could all mean for the future of russian athletics. while the world of sports continues its fight against doping the president of the international olympic committee has made a very honest and a very sad admission but pink. who will always have been. he's. one of the walls you can order those words did not sit well with the chief of the u.s. anti-doping agency traver tygart obviously a top flight but the leader of a ranch i don't can't simply throwing it out he probably has a point especially since doping scandals have hit tiger's own turf just this week

alone two u.s. athletes received lengthy bans for substance abuse that's while pundits blame anti-doping officials for turning a blind eye when it comes to domestic sport or rather multibillion businesses like the n.f.l. but thomas back strong words weren't the trigger for your side as criticism tiger assumed that the i.o.c. president's quote was essentially a precursor to water reinstating the russian anti-doping agency at that meeting scheduled for september twentieth but he did say that he hoped russia had learned its lesson the hard way and would be welcomed back into the world of sports and that was something tiger stressed must not happen would be a devastating blow to russia has made a lot of credibility as well as the hopes and dreams of millions around the world who believe in clean and fair competition russia and its anti-doping agency have been imprisoned for several years now after the publication of the so-called mclaren report which detailed accusations of

a state sponsored doping program the result many russian athletes banned the country's anti-doping agency effectively shut down and water handing over a lengthy criteria list for ricin to be reinstated last year the agency acknowledged that nineteen of thirty one points had been met and just this month the president of water said there were only two conditions remaining. two off thirty one but they still had to be purified i think relationships are good to the point that we have yet to purify the two conditions that are still outstanding sure more needs to be done with new accusations and new anti-doping investigations russia still has three weeks to put things right so has tiger jumped the gun in demanding russia to be kept out the final two criteria we're talking about. russia is supposed to say hands up the mclaren report was right we did engage in state sponsored doping russia has absolutely rejected the mclaren reports finding not

because they don't believe you russia's quite rightly said we want the evidence thomas bach himself has requested the evidence and so far nobody has seen it apart we presume for mclaren it is only a guess at this stage but i think the first steps to a reinstatement will be taking place towards the end of september when there is a big meeting of water and i think the outcome will be that russia will be readmitted i think it will be an unconditional reinstatement but eventually on i think people would just have to say well ok russia are not admitting the been state sponsored doping but we need them anyway they are a world power in sports and sport needs russia keeping sports clean is something that both the i.o.c. president and ahead of us anti-doping agency are striving to achieve but can you really demand one thing from another country when similar dopping scandals break

out in your own backyard one thing's for sure the next water meeting in the seychelles is looking like politics and doping will go down the finish line. video of a young palestinian girl climbing an israeli security fence in the west bank has provoked outrage online. she was simply trying to get back to her house so it was claimed after the i.d.f. closed off route home campaigners say this is happening all too frequently to palestinians are blue agency ruptly spoke to that girl. and leave next to a checkpoint the day before yesterday the door was closed and i had to jump to france to get home they closed the door because stones were being thrown there still thrown stones. we talked to two from the hebron freedom fund who filmed the incident never the army closes the gates that you know do that every day

and the distinctions are there if the students from the neighborhood use. a few minutes on leaving or to the school we have a give the school a boy to school only two or three minutes from that neighborhood but the solution policy and the situation policy. of the really cute patients makes them. walk around and sometimes climb the gates and they climb the fences here's a closer look at where that incident unfolded it was in the southern part of the west bank in hebron all the city israeli authorities have put up a one hundred fifty meter long fence there which you can see here marked in blue and now palestinians living there have two ways to reach their homes the first is the main entry exit checkpoint of that fence in the second the gate that you saw

being scaled by the girl in the video now we asked the i.d.f. why they felt closing off those routes was necessary and they replied it was well for security reasons after an israeli man was stabbed to death in the area last year. last thursday that specific gate was again locked for several hours now israel claims it was for repairs after palestinian sabotage of the i.d.f. also stressed residents were still able to pass through the main security checkpoint it's not the first time the gate has been a flashpoint back in may israeli forces kept it closed for six days as a punishment for stone throwing as they put it.

was. was. was. is again says palestinian families are facing segregation and inequality in their daily lives because of this bear. the fence. the neighborhood around seventy seven families from the schools from the. from the universities from the other neighbors we call that gate and they're all. an equal because that road is really one of the indians from the main street is that. they walk on the mean street and the years we're living they walk on the side of the old you know we have twenty two checkpoints one hundred movement in one kilometer square in the city center of. stunning revelations have surfaced regarding the mysterious murder

of three russian journalists in the central african republic at the end of july the reporters were investigating possible links between the kremlin and private military companies operating inside the country they were found dead in a bullet ridden car investigation was sponsored by a russian tycoon and known critic of president putin order to cause this is led to some speculation in the mainstream media that the murder could have been politically motivated and what it cost him self 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 the. work yes i think exactly that. however screenshots of text messages between the team organising organizing the trip have surfaced in the russian media shedding new light on what could have led to the tragedy and it has prompted her to cost you to hold her support for the outlet that it killed journalists were working for earlier my colleague jacqueline

discussed of the messages with parties really approaching. the group chat featured the three members of the curve and also their boss back at the q plus a couple of producers at this point the screenshots can not shed light on what exactly happened on that tragic day and the probe is of course far from being over but the screen shots 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 later claimed that they were working in the central african republic and 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 angler speaking guide however when everything seemingly went out of control messages from h.q. kept urging them to stay on track to go there by yourself you paid a lot of money to get to this country you shouldn't give up about any permit we need a translator to find him when he's held 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 group chat clearly points at the fact that there were real security issues that the crew was facing before their tragic death. or of a dozen from mailbag of the top the hour with more news you watch night international stay with us.

and trump you know it's all about detente getting along with the greatest ally and friend russia there is no place to get to the kids and you know if you open up there's other things in there so while we proceed here in the first half i'll just see what what done what. readings and sound you should see this week the death of u.s. senator john mccain has inspired both hero worshipping adelaide from his mainstream supporters and cries of warmongering villainy from his detractors a polarizing figure in both life and death but while.