it's thirty years since the soviet system collapsed under it's hard not to see developments in the western world in a similar law it's all we witnessing of the cold war and if so what comes next. the b.b.c. syria producer challenges the mainstream narrative by claiming a video purportedly showing off to martha when the alleged chemical attack was in fact staged. the u.s. senate's plans to slap moscow with fresh sanctions citing an alleged aggression in ukraine and supposedly meddling and america's twenty sixteen election. the move

comes as the heads of a two year probe be looking into claims of trumped russia collusion britta rates that there is no direct evidence that this. is found in time today so we go to the city of love to ask people who they think donald trump secretly admires. be the day can't wait for you to pay for the wall he says he should really get along with pretty soon made to reason she could do with some help. this just ten three pm head in the russian capital we're watching aussie international. a top story the b.b.c. syria is challenging the mainstream narrative on an alleged chemical attack in the country he claims that the video of the supposed it off to martha of a toxic strike in the syrian city of to. was in fact staged it's

a line that russia under mask us have long maintained many others that have accepted the video at face value targeting it as evidence of the syrian government attacking its own people more investigates. 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 islamist 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 time 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

almost used 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 research for the campaign but no one in the west list. and or pretended not to hear the media lot of 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 medics are doing it. but they're overwhelmed 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 loos were meant to achieve something what evidence rearm has no side from a few tweets details the scares we're waiting for more we've requested comment from

ria 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 order quiets be how it's claimed. as a consensus about what exactly happened in duma starts to change high level delegations from iran russia take a have gathered in the southern russian city of sochi to thrash out a path to peace in syria bilateral meetings have already been held between the russian and tech ish sides where if a national is in the black sea resort for us hi there mushy say what has exactly been discussed so far. i have to say that this is mr putin and mr edward guns nine make ten in the last year with all of them including today's one focusing on syria on ways to bring the long awaited peace to these war torn countries you know the violence has been. happening there in the

last almost eight years and speaking before the bilateral meeting both presidents have talked about significant progress due to close cooperation between russia and turkey agree though that more. efforts should be done more efforts needed to defeat terrorists on the ground the biggest concern today is of course the province of bin rushers in syria's north sorie a very vast area up to three million people more than ninety percent of which according to the russian side is today controlled by the jihad just from a looser from former al-qaeda affiliated group this is very dramatic and very big progress for the jihadist and biggest concern for all the sides being a bald russia turkey iran and of course syria most who believes that and korea is not doing its best to make it easier for terrorists to come in quick to conquer

a new lens because turkey is the country that is supposed to secure this region according to previous agreements but it seems that turkey is more interested in another region in syria's north east of the euphrates river and is continuing to push the idea of so-called a zone thirty kilometer wide strip along four hundred sixty kilometer long turkish syrian border and korea says it is needed to protect turkish security from syrian kurdish forces right now in charge of the area that sees as terri's but their right now in open dialogue with the official damascus over these territory something that russia supports so we witness hard talks here in sochi and after their by electoral meeting the russian and turkish presidents will be joined by their iranian counterpart and discussion on what should be done by all of these countries to bring peace to syria we'll continue back to you keeping an eye on talks for us.

thank you. u.s. senators has have drafted a new batch of sanctions targeting russia well we can cross live to rome and costs around for more on this roman so what sectors house the senate got its site and why . well first of all many of this new bills measures and sanctions were actually carried over from another legislature from last year and that legislature had failed to pass and once again this particular bill right now is sponsored by republican senator lindsey graham and democrat senator bob menendez now these new sanctions woods at targets banks russia's liquefied natural gas projects over seas the country's cybersex are and solve that as well now kremlin spokesperson tree bischoff said the bill has absolutely nothing to

do with international trade rules and the u.s. approach in sanctions policy towards russia is all about unfair competition. this anti russian sentiment is a form of pragmatism that 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 according to senators graham and menendez said this new bill is designed in response to russia's interference in democratic processes abroad influence in syria and aggression against ukraine in order for this bill to pass it has to go through a congress first and then of course has to be signed by president donald trump the latest from a moment caceres thank you. previous rounds of u.s.

sanctions cited russian meddling in america's twenty sixteen election but the man heading a two year senate prey into those allegations has just reiterated that there is theory of direct evidence to back up their claims. well i'm not sure how to cure him and i've said it before we have no factual evidence of collusion between cuba and russia. the two year private parts of the media very excited expecting it would find a smoking gun. but the walls feel like they're closing in on the trip 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 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 the democrats have now confirmed this too and we see on conditions of anonymity sent 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 an occasion so donald trump has spoken up the it twitter the senate intelligence committee there is no evidence of collusion between the true 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 narrative 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 and 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 of 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 is really 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 that whole question is the claims of a former cia director who previously called doubts on allegations of cole luzhin he is not alone in speaking up and saying that what can't be proven somehow must unquestionably be true. here pin commission has expanded it

steady many backlist by twenty three countries including saudi arabia the name states are accused of failing financing terror and money laundering some of think solutions have ruffled feathers as pay telephone reports isn't the first time that riyadh is being accused of having either direct or in direct links to terror organizations but what the european union is hoping to do here is provide some kind of proof electic for its own financial institutions against those that are trading in this money we have to make sure the 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 invite the countries leave to to remedy their deficiencies swiftly so to rabea for their part say that they regret the decision taken by the european union to. them in this list riyadh says it is committed to tackling the

financing of terror and also money laundering the list comprises of twenty three names among them some places you may expect to be on there iraq afghanistan libya panama but it also includes for us overseas territories go on puerto rico the u.s. virgin islands and american samoa so as you would imagine the u.s. treasury department is far from happy about this 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 another nation not particularly happy that saudi arabia is on that list is the united kingdom in fact we understand that london tried very hard to make sure the saudis name didn't appear on the list to no avail though one of the reasons for this may well be the fact that the british government does licensed five billion or almost five billion pounds that's just under six and a half billion dollars worth of arms sales to saudi arabia since the twenty fifteen

yemen conflict started if you're on this list what it basically means is there's going to be restrictions and complications when you come to dealing with e.u. financial institutions there's going to be extra credit checks on who sending money who they're sending money to and also who the sender and the receiver are associated with as well the final list has to be signed off by the e.u. twenty eight within the next month it will be interesting to see when it is signed off if all twenty three names that are there now there in the final version. live now to political analyst abdel bari atwan to some reaction to this good to have you were there so if the reports are true what wants the u.k. playing out do you think. well i believe it is a huge setback to the credibility of saudi arabia that pressure on the saudi strongman mir mohammed bin taliban is mounting and i believe this will be also

a heavy blow to his efforts to. the to actually brains and vestment of saudi arabia so now they're the congress as they're actually approving a lot of resolutions to put pressure on saudi arabia he was in saudi arabia of money laundering accusing saudi arabia of financing or not fighting the financing of terrorism i think this is a heavy blow and it could be fatal it means that no director or is the arm deal to saudi arabia especially in its war and yemen so i think they have i think they must have a huge what is because of this a fatal blow do you think that a would actually heed such calls from the u.k. which we know is leaving the block. well actually u.k. and a very difficult situation now and we had the foreign minister of u.k.

is going to was so meeting in order to advocate for a peace settlement to yemenis war now i think this is this is a huge test for britain i used test for european european actually. raising that id card in front of the saudi saying your human rights record is very bad and it is actually getting worse and we are warning you if you continue at arresting the activist woman activist and particularly if you are actually going ahead of this as a nation plans like what happened to the saudi journalist. jaji so if you are going to do it so you will be more isolated and the international community may be no arms deal maybe also there is that will be in huge inspection and huge embargoes on the dealing with the european union and also i think i can see a unity between european union and the congress to put more pressure on saudi

arabia and this could lead to. you know a changes inside the saudi royal family we don't know what will happen but i believe that that no no this is very tight now and i think there are facing a huge challenges there used to count on european union the use to count in united states but it seems what was this huge and serious accusation of money laundering. financing terrorism i think there are losing a lot and their future is very bleak does the fact that u.s. territories are blacklisted say much about transatlantic relations. yeah definitely it's well i'm not surprised if it's actually to be in the last this is the first time so they're a bit and i blacklist is used to be the darling of actually united states and also european union so to lose this status and to be accused of financing terrorism or

at least not fighting. money to terrorists this is this is actually. will be a heavy blow the usually saudi arabia pretend that they are the ones who are actually fighting money laundering they are the ones who are fighting terrorism but now it's me is you know people will go back to eleventh of september when seventeen of the saudi citizen participated on the stack on that on new york and washington so i think the saudis are extremely worried and they are quick to issue a statement and it's getting this less but i believe ok united states government actually condemns the less but this is actually at the core of now it is a blessed spot and that saudi money actually business and also and. they have actually syria that there are fighting terrorism i think a lot of work ahead for them and all the right to actually remove their name from

the list and i believe i think it will be extremely difficult for them to do so and it must be reminded that the saudi government has response before for to such a killing and political analyst abdel bari atwan thank you for your expertise there . poland stashes the cash on some u.s. military toys well look at what was left getting after the break. 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 the only sleep i'm going to exist i

don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big. lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to get the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back it's february the fourteenth aka valentine's day and a good excuse for us to look at the relationships between the most powerful people in the world reporting from the city of love has shown 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 or break 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 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 i'm sure with you 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 little like building rules 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 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 toys to mend for what better way than the other until i. so who should be top of trump's valentine card list this year and i'm going. to be

a million researcher to luke raj. 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. polenta signed a major missile to live retail with the u.s. the signing marks the start of u.s. vice president mike pence is face it to warsaw here's what the polish president had to say. beat up it i'm delighted that the u.s.

vice president's visit started on such an important and symbolic night with the signing of an agreement on future deliveries to poland time ability artillery rocket systems these will be key to upgrading poland's defenses. let's have a quick look at poland's new cat the system consists of a lights multiple rocket launch on a whale shark is designed to knock out light tama and pests now carious can carry up to six rockets and has a maximum striking range of three hundred kilometers. the full delivery will be completed in twenty twenty three the dale is a part of a polish defense program with billions of dollars walsall says this level of expenditure is necessary due to the threat posed by russia we got reaction to the deal from former pentagon security analyst michael miller. well according to

paul and it's to go both through their their defenses against against russia and that's part of their nato commitment and this is being backed it's courted by the united states because it fits their narrative of the russian a major threat to europe but russia does not threaten. they they feel that they're going to be safer as a consequence of these these purchases but also it helps the u.s. defense industry because it is a half a billion dollars. morphia world news right here were naughty and just stay for half an hour. buff and the bullets are used in my song huevos to assume because it's so smooth to have on the plaza this way got to dog so hard not to think of the mother

decide this is what the look like they are and i don't mean to start then if. this is the only think that we do is music because everybody fights his way. to. the floor you can call the fifty pound is worthless woody allen you have all the ability to put a hold on the. what i think is this is the fans that is a constant. 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 always witnessing the final act of the cold war and if so what

comes next. with this manufactured consensus to the public will. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the final. lifts and be the one percent. of the room sick.

greetings and salutation. you can still hear a hawk watchers especially here in washington d.c. i know we've talked about it before right here on this very show you can hear it behind every politician speech build lives every lobbyist gold plated e-mail and every new missile fresh off the assembly line it's that slow quiet sucking sound the united states of america's ever growing national debt and my fellow americans this week we hit a milestone yes this week we finally got our national debt up to the record breaking level of twenty two trillion dollars that's trillion with a t my friends which i don't know about you but i think it's time to break out the cigars and because twenty two trillion deserves a toast that's an epic amount epic amount i mean seriously epic amount of economic negligence that there's a.