for. in the stories that shapes the week terrorists film a false flag chemical attack to send to the united nations and post online with the hope of discrediting the syrian government that's all according to russia's military. he's editor in chief speaks exclusively to the two russians accused of poisoning and his daughter much of the media and many british politicians into overdrive they called the men's claims a joke. also donald trump signs

a new executive order to defend all future u.s. elections from foreign meddling less than two months before the country's term important. us are joining us you're watching the weekly here on r.t. and. we'll start this hour with some news just in police have cordoned off roads surrounding a restaurant in solves bring the two people have fallen ill in a restaurant their officers are investigating a quote medical incident that involves a man and a woman in the u.k. city and this is after the ambulance service was called we are following this incident will bring you fresh information as it comes in to us.

russian military says that extremists in syria's province of staged and filmed a false flag chemical attack to frame president assad's government moscow adds that the militants will send select footage to the u.n. and circulate the rest on line and all the help of the controversial rescue group the white helmets following the filming on the evening of the same day at a joint meeting between representatives of the white helmets and terrorists. out of the nine videos from the two were proved to be sent to the u.s. and b. or b. c w the rest of the material was suggested for social media because of low quality according to the russian reconciliation center preparations for the supposed attack were made near the syrian town of conscious where an alleged chemical assault occurred on april fourth last year it said filming took place in a nearby village where there's also a chemicals that stockpile washington rejected the warnings from russia though that the white helmets were directly involved in staging an attack insisting there's no evidence to support that as the battle for libya looms the u.s.

is pouring troops into syria warning if there is a chemical attack there be a much stronger response than seen before contrary to earlier pledges to leave the country jacqueline bouvier takes a look at how america's approach in syria has changed the deeper the u.s. gets sucked into the syrian conflict the more the continuity of time seems to change when it comes to decision making in washington back in two thousand and thirteen when allegations of chemical attacks arose barack obama was still in the hot seat and time still seemed minear we intend to investigate thoroughly exactly what happened. obviously in syria right now you've got a war zone we have to make sure that we know exactly what happened what was the nature of the incident what can we document what can we prove. our commonsense review the evidence and attack if justified later the idea that investigations require time those were the good old days but two thousand and seventeen came and

times changed syrian dictator bashar. launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians less than seventy two hours later the u.s. fired fifty nine cruise missiles at the airbase they suspected chemical weapons were launched from before any investigation took place. only months later did a un report come out placing the blame at the feet of the syrian government something they still do not so when the controversial white how much group released a video claiming to be proof of a chemical attack in april this year truck was able to pinpoint the culprit in hours many dead including women and children in mindless chemical attack in syria area rich cities in lockdown and encircled by syrian army making it completely inaccessible to outside world president putin russia and iran are responsible for

backing animal assad big price. so the area's inaccessible and yet those responsible have been found out already no ifs ands or buts how does the guy do it the u.k. and france also joined the ranks of the striking government sites in syria after an investigation you ask well three months later the o.p.c. w did put out a report saying chlorine may have been found but on nerve agents and the case is still open so all proof of the last attack hasn't been found the us is again using its crystal ball to determine what no one else can and is ready to act at least according to wall street journal sources brazil and bush are on the son of syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country's last major rebel stronghold u.s. officials said so if and when a chemical attack takes place during ellipse liberation the guilty party is already known if there are chemical weapons that are used we know exactly who's going to

use them that russia is warning of stage attacks is irrelevant that it would lead to exactly what the terrorists want also irrelevant but why look at every scenario when you have everyone else and time on your side. the u.n. estimates there are about ten thousand terrorists on their affiliates in need to live in syria former u.s. congressman ron paul believes washington's willing to use these terrorist groups just as long as the tactic benefits u.s. policy that. the evidence is out there that we are playing too many games with their car there because we've used al qaeda as the excuse for being there and yet i don't believe that is the case i think we were there for other reasons and that al qaeda is it's a haven there and we're on their side i mean the pragmatic reason for this is that . we think al qaeda will help our position the united states position to get rid of assad and this is

a bipartisan republican and democratic position and it's only individuals like ourselves in the institute for peace and prosperity that are arguing this is totally unnecessary this isn't the first time that the evidence is very clear that we have aligned ourselves with al qaeda when we think it's temporarily a benefit to our foreign policy. on thursday that superman accused of carrying out the poisoning of former russian double agent paul and his daughter on british soil gave fabled exclusive interview to want to be stating they had nothing to do with the assassination attempt. as they spoke to us he's editor in chief margarita simonyan it prompted such headlines in the british media this murderous and having a holiday from all others that their claims only made the case case. of the new to me and i didn't leave when you called me on my cell phone and told me that you are on the next on the. line.

if you really look like the pictures shown to us by the u.k. . and you know someone why you. we are those who were shown to you in the pictures. and i would say under powered through the russians they are those your real names national yes they are real names i would suggest of them but even now when you are talking about it to tell you the truth you look very nervous on them. what would you look like when your life is turned upside down in a moment and just one day and changed our lives. what do you work for the g.r.u. what do you mean normal and you and i don't either but no one accuses me of working for the jerry you but you are being accused of that your colleagues accuse us of that by your colleagues you mean journalists you are being accused by u.k. authorities and yes that's the scariest thing where do you work you are adults you

need to make a living if we tell you about our business people we work with will be affected tell me anything so that we believe you everyone has questions what do you do to cut a long story short we're in the fitness industry well he's editor in chief there said she chose not to give her personal opinion leaving it instead up to the viewers to decide whether to believe the man this is what she said though after the interview . i knew they were nervous and sweating a lot i had to turn up the air conditioning a lot higher than usual and still they were sweating and wiping their foreheads which obviously happens when people are nervous there could be a lot of reasons for it i understand this was the first interview in their lives but they could have been nervous for other reasons as well that's also possible they refused to show their i.d.'s on camera because they didn't want to be pursued and identified further but they showed them to me i did not run a polygraph on them as a journalist i believe what they see i saw those were the people i saw their i.d.'s

and that they feed the photos and videos what was going through their minds and whether they were speaking the truth it's hard to see. it wasn't only the mainstream media who were quick to react to the interview british politicians notably the former foreign secretary didn't would either. but you know you see the you see what's happening now with these q two characters produced in this city through kuwait by putin own russian t.v. these ludicrous she questions make a mockery of the whole thing and it really makes my blood boil typically boris response really you hear him using vivid language about his blood boiling and he said that alexander patrol found respond to share of on the murderers and that they're welcome to see him in court if they want to challenge that fact and he also spoke of his work as foreign secretary saying that he holds the kremlin in absolute

contempt and that he made what he called the classic mistake of trying to engage with moscow i mean the concept classic mistake of thinking it was possible to have a reset with russia and. then it just became clearer and clearer to be true that was before so when he was foreign secretary as top diplomat it was his job to represent the country to travel and he called himself a committed rasa file back in twenty seventeen it was his job to meet up with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov now however when he happens to be speaking in washington he says he regrets it all very much and it was a fool's errand and to quote something he once said about his own views that in europe his view on russia appears to have been like a supermarket trolley as well so quite an extreme reaction from the former foreign

secretary why does the view of a former cabinet minister even matter well he is widely tipped by the but. to be potentially the next conservative leader so clearly his views are getting a lot of air time also the current lead to resume a prime minister her spokespersons rubbish the interview that alexander the trough and respond by sharon did with r t saying that the account provided by the two alleged attackers is an insult to the public's intelligence and outright lies so downing street wasn't having any of that foreign ministry spokesperson marias the horror of was unimpressed with downing street's response questioning why london immediately dismissed petrol for the sheriff's account forty minutes after that

interview was first to add dimitri pest scoff the spokesperson for the russian president vladimir putin he said that russia would consider any request to interview the man from the u.k. in accordance with russian law but moscow is yet to receive such a request from london russia's foreign minister commented on the issue saying ishtar moscow reached out to london the only response was guilty who we need can use to explain whether it was an order or an accident so you lavrov noted it was pointless to maintain discussions on such a level stressing the russia is still ready for a serious dialogue just not based on presumption of guilt just runs a new court believes in this case the truth is less important to some politics. only about two or three days ago a government lie and this was echoed in the mainstream media it was that these two men would be dead by now it was. going to be up to the. leading putin critic who

said that the russians would have meant kill them to talk that was the official narrative three days ago and then what happens these men. contact are seen on our interview and then of course it's often got that we were told that they were a story then changes to of course what they're talking is a pack of lies so i think it's quite interesting really that whatever they had said to be dismissed i think because we're talking it really about geopolitics of propaganda coming before anything else. moves to prevent the prevent foreign interference in the upcoming united states midterms will have details after the break. they're. already on the table which are direct discrimination

and emerge in the way of the ukrainian orthodox church one. if accepted will presuppose that the ukrainian orse of the church should change its name and that it should be a name to the russian orthodox church in the ukraine it is something like putting the. yellow star on the georgians the in georgia. two thirds of american households do not have five hundred dollars emergency care. has crazy. population doesn't have money and burning money maintaining thirteen aircraft carriers around the world why why don't you change your policies and do something that is good for the making. and good for america in the long run.

donald trump has announced plans to tackle alleged foreign interference in u.s. elections which he described as a national emergency and once that the president's issued an executive order which focuses on any attempts by individuals or countries to influence voting the crucial midterm elections in november are seen as the main reason for the timing of the order in the event that meddling is proven sanctions would be imposed targeting sectors of strategic significance like finance or defense or is it just honest takes a closer look. trump has declared war on election meddling rules of engagement weapons free. to the assessment shall identify it to the maximum extent ascertainable the nature of any foreign interference and any methods employed to execute it the persons involved and the foreign government or governments that authorized directed sponsored or supported it don't be thrown off by the formal

word government the us president understands that in a very abstract sense everyone and anything can be a government of sorts an actual authority a political party and even an individual all are designated targets. you when it comes to new ones on a scale between a sniper rifle and carpet bombing trump is closer to a firm a nuclear blast his understanding of interference is so broad it seems the president thinks the us election can be swayed by accident disclosing information threatening to disclose information undermining public confidence in a candidate by these rules everyone retreating we can leaks outside of america would be interfering in the election. do so is the twenty sixteen election meddling case now closed after all the u.s. intelligence all agree long ago that russia meddled in that vote but of course

trump won't be shooting himself in the foot the term united states election means any election for federal office held on or after the date of this order that's right the executive order covers the upcoming midterms and on wards in case of any meddling the investigation will have to review all evidence within forty five days but chances are you won't see any of that. you the framework which may be classified in whole or in part shall focus on ensuring the. agencies for fill their responsibilities pursuant to this order in a manner that maintains methodological consistency the shroud of secrecy around the forensics might as well conceal the lack of it the executive order allows an appeal in the century a gut feeling assigning blame although there has been no evidence of a foreign power altering the outcome or vote tabulation in any united states

election foreign powers have historically sought to exploit america's free and open political system trump didn't sign an executive order he created a magic bullet for himself marketed to the public as something that will protect them and which allows the white house to target whoever it wants. so-called tax teaching arabic in more schools are being proposed in france to curb the spread of radical islam the measures put forward by a leading think tank is the government mole's its own moves in paris cased reaction to the suggestions. here's a reminder of an ambitious promise president made to lawmakers a few months ago the total reform of islam in france and with the groundwork in place by the autumn. there is a radical and aggressive interpretation of islam that sets as its goal questioning

the norms and laws of our free country and free society by autumn we will clarify the situation by giving islam a framework and rules that will guarantee that it is practiced in accordance with the laws of the republic so far it's only words but continues to chew over how to bring in those changes help is that turned a liberal think tank them or taking institute has released a report with its own suggestions it is essential to have an alternative muslim religious discourse in french that is parallel to the mainstream discourse prevalent on social networks today meaning the salafist discourse fronts must equip itself with the means and important networks to disseminate this counter-narrative who can do that only muslims the report also has some concrete suggestions about how to achieve this one is to incorporate arabic into the educational system the

idea is that by offering arabic in schools fewer children would find themselves in dubious institutions linked to settle a fee indoctrination and radicalization. it's not going to fight anything the terrorists will remain terrorists i don't see why we can't learn arabic is a very interesting language and it would help us to open ourselves to the people we meet on a daily basis i'm not for it i don't think it's going to turn to anything learning several languages good anyway the think tank also suggest creating an official and independent museum association for islamic from. it's with the idea that it could help stamp out any underground fundamentalism but it suggests the funding for such a body should come from a tax on how food products earned the services for muslims yet again that hasn't gone down well with everyone. not for the prices keep on rising and rising it's

a crisis. in our religion and if you can find food that is you can still eat just not pork you just need to pray for what you are eating can eat almost anything you want so i don't think it's a solution if it's. not too much. and make sure you find your food. as for taxes the funds are used properly then why not we need to look at the possible advantages it could help some groups of people division over both suggestions from the report may have my thinking that he's bitten off more than he can chew especially with the fact that recent polls are hardly sliding in the president's favor one carried out by a doc said this week found that seventy one percent of respondents now thought negatively and when it comes to how his government is handling terrorism previous polls showed that more than haul they weren't doing enough many are waiting with

bated breath to see how much will keep those promises over here but the early signs are not positive. auty paris. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trade per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need

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