so this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights his way. the floor to concoct the fifty pound as well persuaded her to have a whole movie about a box of the. cuckoo but i think it is this is the found that is a constant thank. the b.b.c. syria producer challenges the mainstream narrative by claiming a video purportedly showing the aftermath of an alleged chemical attack in duma was in fact staged. the u.s. senate's plans to slap moscow with fresh sanctions citing alleged aggression in

ukraine suppose said meddling in america's twenty sixteen election. the move comes as the heads of a two year probe be looking into claims of trump russia collusion greater rates that there is no direct evidence of this. would you support an armed faction within venezuela the record of such archer's permanently. fairly and transparently deal. as washington tries to install venezuelan opposition leader was the country's president the u.s. special envoy for venezuela is grilled over alleged previous interventions in latin america. it's valentine's day so we go to the city of love to ask people who they think donald trump secretly admires. the day can't wait for you to pay for the wall kisses he should really get along with. it's

a reason she could do with some help. it's just ten two pm here in the russian capital this is all tea and some national our top story the b.b.c.'s syria producer is challenging the mainstream narrative on an alleged chemical attack in the country he claims that video of the suppose said off the martha of a toxic strike in the syrian city of duma was in fact states. it's a line that russia and to mathcad has long maintained many of us that you have accepted the video at face value touting it as evidence of the syrian government attacking its a people. investigate. 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 video of an alleged chemical attack hospitals people in panic reaction was immediate and violent trump launched more than one hundred cruise missiles at syria france and britain chipped in un security council in our poor few the anytime to think for

years duma had been held by the army of islam hardcore islam ists 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 a recent campaign. but no one in the west listened or pretended not to hear of the media not the politicians here by the way is how b.b.c.

reported on the incident back then disturbing reports of a chemical weapons attack chemical attack carried out by the assad regime the magic's are doing more. but they're 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 are scarce we're waiting for more we've requested comment from riyadh and 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 and not quite be how it's claimed. as the consensus about what exactly happened in duma starts to change high level delegations from iran russia and turkey have gathered in the southern russian city

of sochi to thrash out a path to peace in syria maria phenomena is in the black sea resort for us is expected to be along thursday with very important talks first comes the meting of the turkish and iranian president followed by the russian president with his turkish and iranian counterparts and after that mr erdogan mr han and mr putin joined by their country's delegations including defense ministers will participate in three party summit on syria ahead of this meeting this summit russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has said that the situation in iran the syrian province of the country's north is expected to dominate the agenda and i have to say that the situation there on the ground is rather dramatic right now this is a very vast area in syria's north it's often referred to as the last remaining rebel controlled syrian enclave but the problem is that in the last two weeks it

has been a great deal of following step by step to the hands of the jihad just from the front this is a bend organization in russia it is considered to be a terrorist group so what should be done and what is the solution and this is exactly what the three leaders mr mr han and mr putin are expected to discuss today here in. 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. well i'm not sure how to cure him and i've said it before we have no factual evidence of collusion between. the to be a private parts of the media very excited expecting it would find a smoking gun in the walls to 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 after two years two hundred witnesses and three hundred thousand documents if we were to report based upon the facts that we have then we don't have anything that would suggest that was collusion between the trim campaign and russia democrats have now confirmed this to n.b.c. on conditions of anonymity send 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 a truck campaign they would see that that has not emerged so that evidence does not exist and trump will claim indication so donald trump has spoken up the it twitter

the senate intelligence committee there is no evidence of collusion between the truth campaign and russia well 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 n.b.c. have been telling us for two plus years that there is always evidence of collusion to the russians hacked their accounts. breaking news the nurse if we've been spin on endlessly for two years 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 it is kind of 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's ring that 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. you know whole question is the claims of a former cia director who previously called doubts on allegations of cole loser he is not alone in speaking up and saying that what can't be proven somehow must unquestionably be true. then maybe no evidence of collusion that the u.s. senate is convinced russia meddled in america's twenty sixteen election that's one reason it's given for preparing fresh sanctions on moscow well let's cross live now to rome and costs around for more on this roman so his the senate's got his sights on why. right well the new set of sanctions that could be imposed against russia by the u.s. senate very soon it's on the floor right now but many of the new bills the measures

were actually carried over from a similar legislation last year which failed by the way this time around once again it is sponsored by a republican senator lindsey graham and a democrat senator a bulb and then days and this new set of restrictions would target banks russia's liquefied natural gas praja. overseas the countries that cybersex are and solve that as well now it's up moscow's officials have already. proposed set of four restrictions in particular a kremlin spokesperson mitri peskov said the bill has nothing to do with international trading rules and the u.s. approach in the sanctions policy against russia is all about unfair competition. this anti russian sentiment is a form of pragmatism it has nothing to do with international trade rules it's

tantamount to racketeering it's meant to sabotage various russian projects it's a ploy to force russian players off the market to make way for american ones. now according to senators. graham and menendez. the goal of the new restrictions is to change the status quo and impose the measures and sanctions against russia that would work at the bill they say is imposed in response to russia's interference in democratic processes overseas that's one influence in syria and aggression in ukraine including the latest instance in the kurds straits and near the black sea now a russian foreign ministry spokesperson marias a car of a was also made a statement in that regard as well say that judging by the washington's logic it says should have imposed sanctions against itself already. looking back at

everything the u.s. has done around the world even just in the last ten years younger us and the senate should take some time out to think about what sanctions to impose on the u.s. and its politicians well to take effect to the new bill will have to be signed by president said donald trump and before that by the united states congress and after that after that it could become law the latest from artie's roman caceres thank you . dear pin commission has expanded its dirty money blacklist by twenty three countries including saudi arabia the name states are accused of failings as regards financing terror and money laundering some of the inclusions have ruffled feathers as well we can cross live now to our europe correspondent peter all of air in the land peter who else is on the many list. well the name that really stands out the name that's caused the most consternation

for being on that list is saudi arabia they've been included in a number twenty three different nations that the you is saying either is unwilling or able to tackle terrorist funding or money laundering going through its financial systems now saudi arabia has long been accused of having either direct or in direct ties to terrorist groups in fact there were numerous links made between riyadh and some of the nine eleven saudi citizens that carried out the nine eleven terrorist atrocity that is one of the reasons and this is why the e.u. are looking into them. we have to make sure that dirty money from other countries does not find its way to our financial system dirty money is the lifeblood of organized crime and terrorism i'm very big countries leave to to remedy their deficiencies swiftly. well saudi arabia for their part of said that they

express regret that the european union has taken this move to put them on to the list they say that they are committed to fighting the financing of terror and money laundering on their territory so twenty three nations on this dirty money list who are they some of them you would well really expect to be on there it's countries like iraq afghanistan libya palomar as well however there's also four u.s. territories on the on the list as well gw arm puerto rico u.s. virgin islands and american samoa so as you can imagine the u.s. treasury far from happy about this they've criticized the e.u. decision saying not enough time was given for its well not of time was given to challenge the inclusion on this list and the treasury went on to say that they don't expect u.s. financial institutions to pay much heed to this list or what europe intends to do about it. the u.s.

department of the treasury has significant concerns about the substance of the list and the flawed process by which it was developed. also very unhappy about saudi arabia being part of the twenty three is the united kingdom we understand that london lobbied very hard in some closed door meetings to try and make sure this riyadh didn't appear on this particular list of twenty three they didn't get that one of the reasons the british may have been trying for this is the fact that london has signed off on the british government is signed off on five billion pounds that's around six and a half billion dollars worth of arms to saudi arabia since the twenty fifteen yemen conflict started on if you're on the list what does this mean well basically it complicates any financial dealings you will have with european union based institutions say we're talking about things like extra checks or who sending the money who's receiving the money and also who's connected to those sending and

receiving the money for this list to become official it has to be signed off by all twenty eight members they've got a month to do that will be king to see if all twenty three remain on that list when it's eventually signed off by the member states indeed thanks for keeping us up to date here our correspondents our t.s.p. to all of our life from ben thank you. 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 why though as venezuela's president and it spread to oust nicolas madore this session was interrupted several times by antiwar activists. 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' actions in iran contra permanently impaired 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 venezuela i ask 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 courtroom 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 was twice convicted of the north and north philly withholding information from congress in one thousand nine hundred one over him covertly selling weapons to iran to fund nicaraguan right wing rebels in the one nine hundred eighty s. his portfolio also includes accusations of covering up massacres and supporting repression campaigns of dictators in guatemala el salvador and honduras. every gold one of the protesters at the session explains why she felt the need to act as 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. and 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 u.s. military intervention and yet we're in this dangerous situation where it's a real possibility. while the unrest in venezuela has been occupying minds in washington for weeks the anti-government protests in haiti which saw six people killed have been largely ignored 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. and angry i have the rising prices economic stagnation and corruption protesters held up police while right offices tried to disperse the crowd when. we spoke about the demonstrations both in haiti and just across the caribbean sea in venezuela

with william robinson a professor of latin american studies avi is facing a crippling social political and economic crisis it's getting worse inflation is meaning that food increasingly out of the reach of poor people unemployment is high and it is wrong as the haitian government is a close ally of the united states which is simple as that united states is going to destabilize and overthrow the been a swirling government for for the last twenty years and at the same time it has been propping 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 i'm not only surprised but it does demonstrate the complete accuracy and double standard of u.s. foreign policy towards the region and towards these two countries has gone through really read decades now of constant foreign u.s. led intervention the u.s. is already intervening behind the scenes and has never started to the mix maybe is one of the most country maybe the most intervened in the whole western western

hemisphere. more news after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. country has gone into a nihilistic fever. thank god it hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america take the show is the genius of the place especially american hero this is it we've come to a point about how much ultimate is done so we always are on the margins so what this whole culture is really important. because.

we're starting west with this is going to head east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more ground on the earth we may be completely different but end of the. welcome back to. is february the fourteenth aka valentine's day founds 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 his child it depends.

as couples across the globe celebrated day of love we thought we'd take a look at the burning passions between will to lead is what makes for a great relationship well for starters chemistry is very important. that we have to make a book years for where would we be without something igniting or flames of course sometimes that spark just isn't there and well that can be a bit awkward especially when the cameras always around.

you know every relationship goes through its ups and it stands 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 wish i would 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 little like 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. france's military records for more nato funding president trump attacked 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 toys to mend but what better way than the other until i. so who should be top of trump's valentine card list this year. researcher to lou. prime minister trudeau. i think he should really get along with tourism a reason may she could do with some help to mexican presidents in your obrador happy v.-day can't wait for you to pay for it all he says.

but most of all the number one lesson is that before you can love someone else you have to lock it in for yourself first. moving on now and in a rainy and photojournalist has lashed out at donald trump after he bashed her on twitter posting a photo of a protest she'd taken yelled to my i race had the photo was used without permission the american president published the tweets both in farsi and english on monday as a rainy and small it's the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the us shar yeltsin my erykah. still more trouble for using her face to a video agency watson he spoke to the photo journalist. 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 or to 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 with ourselves and think that these are our problems i am upset as this issue is used for other things and not to help our society this issue has bothered me for a long time. that brings you up to date this hour morefield top stories in thirty minutes time. it's thirty years since the soviet system collapsed and it's hard not to see developments in the western world in a similar light well we witnessing the final act of the cold war and if so what

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