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sunshine and blue skies here in moscow on. the b.b.c.'s syria is challenging the mainstream narrative on an alleged chemical attack on the country he claims that video of the supposed. strike in the syrian city of duma was in fact. it is a lie. except to the video it. face value touting it as evidence of the syrian government attacking its own people artie's correspondent what i guess dia of investigations. you don't hear it very often not even a doubt not a suspicion but a certainty that the hospital scenes of the alleged chemical attack in duma was

staged and this is coming from the b.b.c. syria producer after almost six months of investigations i can prove without a doubt that the duma hospital scene was staged no fatalities occurred in the hospital the incident in question occurred almost a year ago when the syrian military took on the army of islam in the town of duma. the white helmets working with islam missed released videos of an alleged chemical attack hospitals people in panic reaction was immediate and violent trump launched more than one hundred cruise missiles that syria france and britain chipped in the un security council in are poor or if you took anything to think for years duma had been held by the army of islam hardcore islam it's the

same guys that caged woman and elders and roofs to protect themselves against airstrikes i can tell you that jaish al islam rules dumont with an iron fist very co-opted activists doctors and humanitarians with fear and intimidation you may also remember in the lead up to this incident russia warned that this could happen and that rebels might stage a chemical attack to invite foreign intervention the rail and evacuation deal we have undeniable evidence that this was yet another staged attack that involved. intelligence agencies of one of the countries that is rushing to spearhead the research for the campaign but no one in the west listened or pretended not to hear the media not the politicians here by the way is how b.b.c. reported in the incident back then disturbing reports of

a chemical weapons attack chemical attack carried out by the assad regime magics are doing more. but there overground dozens of people have been killed due to poison gas a chemical attack did happen believes ria but everything else the casualties the panic the videos those were meant to achieve something what evidence rearm has we don't know aside from a few tweets details the scarce we're waiting for more we've requested comment from riyadh the b.b.c. and we'll keep you posted but it seems odd for the first full blown his styria over supposed chemical attack casualties in north quiets be how it's claimed. the senate intelligence committee chairman has reiterated that there is no direct evidence that donald trump was colluding with russia during the twenty sixteen presidential race he's been leading

a two year investigation into the matter and of course during that time parts of the media got very excited about the probe expecting it would find some sort of smoking gun or to use kill of modern reports so donald trump has spoken up here twitter the senate intelligence committee there is no evidence of collusion between the truth campaign and russia he based this on what was said by senator burr after two years two hundred witnesses and three hundred thousand documents he had this to say. if we write a report based upon the facts that we have then we don't have anything that would suggest that there was collusion by the trump campaign and russia democrats have now confirmed this too and we see on conditions of anonymity percent investigators have access to highly classified intelligence so for example if there was an intercept between some russian intelligence officers suggesting that they were conspiring with the trump campaign they would see that that has not emerged so that

evidence does not exist and trump will claim an occasion while the twitter sphere lit up because for two years n.b.c. has been pushing the trump russian narrative now they're saying the opposite. n.b.c. news and miss n.b.c. have been telling us for two plus years that there's always evidence of collusion to the russians hacked their accounts breaking news the narrative we've been spin on endlessly for two years it was based on zero evidence it seems that it wasn't lost on n.b.c. themselves who did everything to walk back their affiliation but on the very same day we heard this on the very same channel senator byrd coming out and saying there was no direct evidence of dr tying to give conspiracy that also really struck me because prosecutors almost never how to direct it i wish the intelligence committee came out and said they found no direct evidence of criminal conspiracy but that's not the senate intelligence committee is read it it is the f.b.i. in a special counsel's team to do the criminal investigation so he doesn't have any evidence

but he somehow just knows it's there. mr trump's claims of no collusion in a would hold these the claims of a former cia director who previously called doubts on allegations of collusion he's not alone in speaking up and saying that what can't be proven somehow must unquestionably be true but the walls feel like they're closing in on the truth administration right now and i'm not sure they can hold them off for much longer the walls are closing in and everyone is freaking out the walls are closing the wheels are coming off. the walls are closing in on president trump the walls are closing it with trump on the walls are closing in on the trump white house. all of the walls are closing in at this point the walls are closing in fast so if enough people are saying it you don't need any evidence the message of those pushing the rushing the narrative is just believe it would happen r.t. new york. the new u.s.

special envoy for venezuela has been accused of lying by the house foreign affairs committee elliott abrams was quizzed about washington's efforts to install opposition leader one and why would have been as well as president in his bid to oust the current president nicolas maduro the session was interrupted several times by antiwar activists really going to said let me. write me back to the carter center i want to follow. the activists were finally dragged out and arrested they were trying to draw attention to abram's alleged human rights violations on latin america this track record also came up in the us and some other questions from congressional members of the audience would you support an armed faction within venezuela that engages in war crimes as you did in guatemala el salvador and nicaragua i am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack which is not

a question you feel that your parents action in iran. permanently impair your ability to fairly and transparently deal in the region my question is whether you're aware of any transfers of weapons or defense equipment by the united states government to groups of it as well i asked this question because you have a record of such actions nine hundred ninety one you pleaded guilty to two counts of withholding information from congress regarding your involvement in the iran. affair i fail to understand why members of this committee or the american people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful i don't think this entire line of questioning is meant to be real questions and so i will not reply abrams who was twice convicted of unlawfully withholding information from congress in one nine hundred ninety one over him funneling weapons through iran to

nicaragua right wing rebels in the one nine hundred eighty s. his portfolio also includes i.q. as asians of covering up massacres and supporting repression campaigns of dictators in guatemala el salvador and honduras. golda one of the protesters at the session says abrams could lead to war in venezuela. he started to speak i just couldn't help myself but to stand up and tell congress to tell the foreign affairs committee don't listen to this war criminal elliott abrams has shown how much he wants to go to war and this is putting venezuela in a really dangerous situation most likely plunging the country into a bloody civil war and it's not what the people of venezuela want the majority of venezuelans do not want us military intervention and yet we're in this

dangerous situation where it's a real possibility. and while the rest in venezuela has been occupying mines in washington for weeks in haiti the poorest nation in the caribbean has been largely ignored despite six people being killed in antigovernment protests that on wednesday hundreds marched to the national palace in the country's capital calling for the president to step down the demonstration quickly descended into chaos thank you. well i agree of a rising prices economic stagnation and corruption protesters hold rocks at police while the ride officers tried to disperse the crowd with tear gas spoke about the demonstrations in both haiti and just across the caribbean sea in venezuela with william robinson a professor of latin american studies. eighty is facing a crippling socio political and economic crisis it's getting worse insulation is meaning that food increasingly out of the reach of poor people unemployment is and

it is wrong is that the haitian government is a close ally of the united states it's as simple as that united states is going to destabilize and overthrow the been swirling government for for the last. twenty years and at the same time it has been popping up in the elite far right wing government incredibly corrupt government which rules over a social order which benefits a tiny minority for the last thirty forty fifty years so that's nothing new i mean it's not done not only surprised but it does demonstrate the complete hypocrisy and double standard of u.s. foreign policy towards the region and towards these two countries has gone through nearly three decades now of constant foreign u.s. led intervention the us is already intervening behind the scenes it has never started to phoenix haiti is one of the most intervened country maybe the most intervened in the whole western western hemisphere. thank you joining us here on r.t. international for this day it's february fourteenth take a valentine's day and

a good enough excuse for us to look at the relationships between the most powerful people in the world reporting from the city of love shot of. as couples across the globe celebrated day of love we thought we take a look at the burning passions between. what makes for great relationship well for starters chemistry is very important. to the piece we have to make a burger he is perfect where would we be without something igniting all flames of course sometimes that spark just isn't that and well that can be a bit awkward especially when the cameras are always around.

you know every relationship goes through its ups and downs i mean who doesn't have skeletons in their clothes it. really does it really won't make a go of things and they'll do what any good therapist would suggest they work through it i was really being tough and sure was she i will go back and forth and then we fell in love ok no really he wrote me beautiful letters well if there's one thing we know about trump a likes building walls but sometimes even if he has a boundary issues the president criticize to rescind may saying that her plan for brakes it was poorly going to be poorly executed which is essentially the worst

thing you could say about her on the first broadside against twitter and france's military record for more nato funding president trump the attack the fight beginning at breakfast today at one point today the president asking what good is nato and saying germany is captive to russia well mr make america great again could have some ties to mend but what better way than the other until i. so who should be top of trump's valentine card list this year. prime minister trudeau. i think he should really get along with putin to resume

she reads in may she could do with some help to mexican president sonia obrador have d.v.d. can't wait for you to pay for it all. but most of all the number one lesson is that before you can love someone else you have to lock it in for yourself it's. only about halfway through the program here on our two international so far on this valentine's day we are back with more in about one.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic development that only really exists i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical. to sit down and talk. he's gone into a nihilistic fever. i think he got. out to travelling across america what makes america the charlotte. this place is. this is a point around which. we always are on the verge of something. called. oh. we're starting west with. we're going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bees i think i want to leave now. you may

be completely different in this. welcome to your new international the french capital has seen a demonstration against police violence organized by various yellow vest groups it comes as one of their own protesters a former national boxing champion is jailed for a year for beating in office a rally in january a video of chris throwing punches that went viral and led to a manhunt one witness claims he was acting in response to a police source told the form of also has expressed regret over his aggressive reaction. i saw the repression that was i saw the police. have seen the police hurt people with flashed. i've seen people hurt

a sim pensioners get tear gassed of sin a lot of things i was tear gassed on the last day yes i want to dance on the riot police was gassed with my friends and my wife i was gassed and for a moment the anger came up in me yes well i wrecked it badly i reacted badly but i was defending myself and that's it. that's it began they used tear gas against us and then started listening us with battles i found myself on the ground lying cold up i was then chased by the police who tried to grab me another policeman from the rapid response school then turned up and tried to grab me he punched me in the face right in the teeth and then he keep me i have severe lung disease but the slightest blow can cause them to see if that happens i die the books to save my life if he hadn't done what he did i would have died on the spot french authorities say almost two thousand people have been convicted for offenses committed during the year level as protests the country's prime minister says fourteen hundred more are

awaiting sentencing. we spoke to a fair it was hit in the head with a stun grenade in december she claims she's on the brink of losing and i because of it here's her story. that is told. we were on the seans elisei it was calm and fast and there were very calm yellow vests around us and then some who have been started vandalizing the shop on another side of the street trying to set fire to it policeman started to shoot to help the firefighters to get through and it was the last then that i remember because after that i fell and the grenade hit my head throughout the morning they were never going to put. my eyes still in great pain and will be removed in the next operation talked to said it can be saying it is painful to touch it i can't move it and i can't read. it's estimated around two thousand people have been injured during the yellow bus protests of fury in the linear things the current level of violence between the

protesters and the police is far from normal. it is clear as a policeman they're called to work every saturday i understand that their time but fatigue is not an excuse for everything especially for leaving people without ice guns were on the right and i was on the last day to explain to me why the policeman fired in my to berkshire it is not normal it's france is one of the oldest democratic countries in the world it is not normal that this is have been here. an iranian photojournalist has lashed out at donald trump after he bashed tyrone on twitter posting a photo of a protest that she had taken yalda my i said the photo was used without permission the u.s. president published the tweet him both farsi and english on monday as iranians marked the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah i yelled at my condemning donald trump for using her photo and our

video agency ruptly spoke to the photojournalist. but. you know if i have no twitter account and someone send this picture to me i did not expect this picture to become viral i took this picture in december thirtieth two thousand and seventeen during approach is said to run university against economic situation in the country these photos are like a mirror which we should use for our society and what's worse to see ourselves and think that these are our problems i am upset as this issue is used for other thing and not to help our society this issue has bothered me for a long time. although my. lengthy instagram post and what she saw trump and his policies saying that u.s. sanctions had devastating the lives of everyone here. in the. as a matter of fact my purpose against this tweet can be defined as a social aspect and emotional release of family spurstow life by families in the us and we haven't seen each other for four years because of the travel ban and i felt

like my family was imprisoned because we could not have been visit each other in another country this is in the issue that has happened almost every family and has affected our society on the other hand the economic and social impact of sanctions that affected people including those who are not interested in political issues caused me to show a symbolic protest it was not something like a legal complaint or any other thing i mean more if you are a story still to come here without international program with tons and heart. there's an incontrovertible evidence that we're being visited and frankly everyone

in very high ranking classified. you know this the public hasn't been told because they've been wanting to keep the secret for reasons of technology and the macroeconomic as per dollar system. it's thirty years since the soviet system collapsed under its hard not to see developments in the western world in a similar light and all we witnessing the final act of the cold war and if so what comes next. now competition a stock price discovery say and a fake crisis and fake crisis beget fake news. columns out of fake crisis fake news you want to get rid of fake news restore competition in the marketplace

to get real prices and then you'll get real. welcome to the excitement show from outside the european parliament building and brussels now the prime minister to ease a may finally agreed to backstop deal with the european commission put it to the west coast of parliament last month and had it flung back in the face from recommend joint you have two hundred thousand votes now she's trying to tweak now the government going to give it with a commission agreement with a westminster parliament but even the sure she's side there are two final huddles to overcome firstly a bundle of legislation which is still got to go through the westminster parliament

and secondly. any deal would have to be ratified by the european parliament on the subject hundred fifty one members in the building behind me normally they would ratify anything recommended by the commission but patience finally running out with the u.k. in this parliament building the darling of those parliament. who know the answer to first brought to the studio with you. and your messages thank you alex you've had a great response to the last in our series on denmark first we hear from susan he says other small countries he did this building to once again bravo to alex aventura team thank you so much always kind as ever arthur says we were seeing another indian nation is called include and should be teddy says another fantastic and informative program thanks alex and sludge dave says we love the jeans but they need to bring pork and back and so see all of us would agree that was when she came

gordon says it looks like a place of hope i would like to someday visit well i hope you get the chance wendy and finally gabriel says art is amazing and the boat and of course cable segment the wonderful un city in copenhagen alex had the opportunity to have a look right into last week's show and i for the first in a series of shows which present breaks it but from a european perspective this week we hear from the british dexa tears in here that next week we hear from the your opinion mayor is that now back to alex in brussels . back in brussels i'm off to talk to stephen wolf one so you can pay me the most such as an independent and an excellent position to judge the state of the negotiations. stay warm you have a fantastic position to comment on that the state of the black as we call it in scotland has an independent member the european parliament no longer member you can

you can take i over what's happened so stephen or as well i think everyone agrees a mess it's a real disaster in terms of geopolitics the way that other countries are looking at britain on a macro politics in the way that you're managing the government well here in the european parliament is the sense of being stunned by other m.e.p. some other countries about how a nation that they respect very deeply who they've had a long historical connection with and has been unable and incapable of projecting and very clear message to the european negotiator so why is that i mean why of the last two years from a political point of view been so. in effect of and communicating what exactly the government wanted i think is because there wasn't any real desire by the establishment in london be those the civil servants who had to keep their eye over the negotiations in the policy papers the team that surrounded to reason may not

withstanding david davis softer stories in john davis i mean think about david and experienced european negotiator for train passed an intelligent affected respected politician it was the bracks. why wasn't david davis able to impose some order in the chaos because i think behind him people like ali robbins and those who were in those teams were not on the on par with the deal the robins is a civil servant this is the kind of eminence gillies of the negotiations shadowy figure behind the scene has been the. the u.k. civil service objective that of the of the had a civil service objective the conservative government object well there are those who said there have and there are those who've accused the civil service of being in cahoots with a kind of institutional europeanized intelligentsia and that is they've been used to forty years of dealing with civil servants in the commission they can work out the deals amongst themselves and politicians here.