thanks what i think is this is the found that there is a constant excuse. 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 all we witnessing the final act of the cold war and if so what comes next. the leaders of russia tekkie and iran the meeting in sochi for crunch talks on syria the b.b.c. syria producer challenges the mainstream narrative by claiming a video pep that played showing it off to mark the event ledge chemical attack was in fact staged in the u.s.

senate's plans to slap moscow with fresh sanctions citing alleged aggression in ukraine and suppose that meddling in america's twenty sixteen election they may have come says the heads of the two year procreating into claims of trumped russia collusion reiterate that there is no direct evidence for this. lie from moscow you are watching r.t. international welcome to the program. and the latest attempts to thrash out a peace plan for syria high level delegations from iran and russia take a have gathered in the russian black sea resort of sochi the trilateral meeting is now in to weigh the terror some of the latest insights from the talks. i'm convinced that will be able to give new impetus to the normalization of the situation in the syrian arab republic based on the ground and within the framework

of political and diplomatic efforts to establish and into syria to join. syria's territorial integrity can be presented. the why do you is not cleared from . east to be free to use them because. unfortunately the us government continue to legal action still supports terrorism during. music to its advantage or well 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 the ways to bring the long awaited peace to this war torn country as you know the violence has been. happening there in the last almost eight years and speaking before their bilateral meeting both presidents have talked about significant progress due to close cooperation between russia and turkey agreeing that more

effort should be done more efforts needed to defeat terrorists on the ground the biggest concern today is of course the province of libyan rushers in syria's north sorie a very vast area home to up to three million people more than ninety percent of which according to the russian side is today controlled by the jihad just from 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 involved russia turkey iran and of course syria most who believe that an qur'an is not doing its best making it easier for terrorists to come 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 zone thirty kilometer wide strip along four hundred sixty kilometer long turkish syrian border and korea says it is needed to. turkish security from syrian kurdish forces are right charge of these areas that. terry's but there are right now in open dialogue with the official damascus over these territory something that russia supports. we're expecting a press conference from the leaders of russia taking and iran will be we'll be bringing that to you live so do stay with us. the b.b.c. syria pretty severus challenging the mainstream narrative on an alleged chemical attack in the country he claims that the video of the supposed an aftermath of a toxic strike in the syrian city of touma was in fact staged it's a line that russia and to mass chaos have long maintained many of us they have accepted the video at face value transmitters evidence of the syrian government

attacking its and people mark our staff has small. 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. with. 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 a hundred cruise missiles that syria france and britain chipped in the un security council in are brought few to anytime 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 generational islam rules dumont with an iron fist very co-opted activists dark . 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

the intelligence agencies of one of the countries that is rushing to spearhead campaign but no one in the west listened or pretended not to hear all 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 overwhelmed dozens of people have been killed due to poison gas a chemical attack did happen believes ria but everything else the casualties that panic the videos those were meant to achieve something that seems odd for the first full blown his styria over supposed chemical attack casualties in north quiets be how it's claimed we contacted the b.b.c. for comment and said the producer in question was expressing his personal opinions

about the footage and he didn't pay me attack never took place we can now cause live to pierce my chair in politics that new case sheffield university welcome to the program say first of all why would the witnesses who back in april near to the hospital events were staged why would they ignored. why would ignored by western media or western governments well because what they were saying was not convenient it did not fit with the narrative which is being maintained for a long time regarding syria and i suspect it did not fit with the interests of france britain and america who i think were intent on carrying out strikes on syria we have to remember that after duma i mean there were voices calling for the government to wait for an o.p.c. w. investigation but there was no waiting for an investigation they went straight ahead and attack syria so i think these voices were not heard they were not

listened to because western governments wanted to attack syria and going to use whatever happened in order to justify it. well to the comments of the b.b.c. produce a change anything because like you said the alleged attack in question prompted an immediate response from the u.s. and its allies they launched and strikes in syria without investigation into the matter would they make such a quick decision like that again. well they certainly would make a quick decision such as that unless we start to get to the bottom of what has been going on in syria unless we have a full proper transparent independent international investigation into the alleged chemical weapons attacks which we in the current for years now we're not going to be an established the truth of what's going on and we will be unable to properly evaluate the planes that the british french and american governments in the making every time they carried out strikes following the alleged attack it's very clear at this point in time do we need that kind of investigation because when you have some

. saying that there has been staging even if he says that some kind of attack did occur if he's claiming that staging occurred then the question obviously by that is what else has been staged how far does that stagey stand is it the case that what happened in duma was. in fact a false flag those are the questions which are now on the table and which now have to be addressed and it's very important we do do that otherwise we will see patterns repeating themselves and attacks on countries occurring with lindsay or next to no evidence in support of them well the b.b.c. still maintained the attack did take place but is there evidence to back that. what would the b.b.c. is not in a position to know whether the attack occurred you require first of all p.c. w. final report to be issued and the o.p.c.

interim report did not pass judgment on whether an attack had occurred it is clear that people were killed that people died who killed them is what is the question here who is responsible for the deaths. what degree of manipulation occurred is simply not does not know the. b.b.c. is in a position to do that b.b.c. should be doing what all journalistic organizations should be doing which is calling for a proper investigation and scrutinizing the claims being made by their government in respect to this issue and there is ample indication that they're inconsistent sees regarding evidence coming out of doing what we do point towards some kind of manipulation some kind of false flag event that's what needs to be looked at rather than a kind of defensive response which seems to be what the b.b.c. is doing in relation to one of its producers who is now saying things which i would imagine very uncomfortable for b.b.c. producers and management well what about the view is that will they take such news

reports like they see nothing of the alleged attack seriously after this. i mean. in terms of people's trust in what they're seeing ok i think there's already widespread public concern and distrust of what governments say we've had to since the iraq invasion in two thousand and three with allegations of weapons of mass destruction which turned out not to be true and frankly this is a continuing pattern we have a continuing failure of much of the mainstream media across the west to really get to the bottom of key issues in relation to foreign affairs and the longer the more years they keep on doing that the more distrust the there will be and is already a crisis in the media is always this sort of soul searching about why do people not know follow the mainstream media in a way that they used to why are people going to turn to an independent media reason why people are doing that is because they do not trust what they're being told and

they have very good reason not to trust what they're being told people scrutinizing and questioning and it's time i think for the mainstream media to wake up to that and it's time as i said before for a proper full independent transparent international investigation into what has happened in the syrian war into the actions of all of the governments involved and critically into this question of manipulation of information from what's going on the ground in syria and how the information has passed so easily back through western media to western audiences appreciate your comments their peers muppets and chair in politics professor from sheffield university thank you. tantamount to racketeering that's how the kremlin spokesperson has described a new u.s. bill to sanction key russian companies rehman kozyrev has the details. any 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 these new sanctions woods at targets banks russia's liquefied natural gas projects overseas the country cybersex or and solver and that as well now kremlin spokesperson dmitri bischoff said that the u.s. approach in sanctions policy towards russia is all about unfair competition and this empty 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 standards or is this a 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. supposedly russian meddling in u.s. elections is one stated reason behind the bill yes it comes as the heads of the u.s. senate intelligence committee officially admits there is no direct evidence to what trump colluded with russia in the twenty sixteen presidential race now it's off to an exhaustive two year probe into the matter. before we have no factual evidence of. it to your private parts of the media very excited expecting it would find a smoking gun. also 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 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 that we don't have anything that would suggest there was collusion between the trim campaign and russia democrats have now confirmed this to n.b.c. on conditions of anonymity to 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 the 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 trim campaign and russia 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 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 that 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 appellate but on the very same day we heard this on the very same channel you know a senate senator burr coming out and saying there was no direct evidence. of conspiracy that also really struck me because prosecutors almost never had direct i did 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. you know whole

question is the claims of a former cia director who previously called doubts on allegations of collusion he is not alone in speaking up and saying that what can't be proven somehow must unquestionably be true. more of our top stories after a short break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the country has gone into

a nihilistic fever just want to thank you gotta hit the road and get out to traveling across america to find what makes america take to charlotte the genius of the precisely the american hero this is it we've come to a point from which alan would have done so we always are on the bridge is simply what this whole culture is really important. because. we're starting west with is going to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the bee i think i want to leave now doesn't do any more ground on the earth it may be completely different but the end of this. please. welcome back to is the fourteenth of february fun time say and therefore we thought it was the path that takes case to the relationships between the most powerful people in the world reporting from the city of love has

been ski. as couples across the globe. celebrated day of love we thought we'd take a look at the burning passions between rule to lead is what makes for a great relationship well for starters chemistry is very important. that we have to make a book for 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 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 rules but sometimes even if he has a boundary issues the president criticize to rescind may saying that her plan for breakthrough 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 to ask 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 see. germany is captive to russia well mr make america great again could have some toys to mend but what better way than the other talk i. so who should be top of trump's valentine card list this year room. who are a million men whose research 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 president 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. washington's new special envoy for venezuela has been accused of lying by the house foreign affairs committee elliott abrams was quizzed about the u.s. efforts to install a position need to one day as found this way as president and a bid to oust nicholas my doorway the session was interrupted several times by

antiwar activists oh you still said they were right. because then i want to know. the activists were dragged out into rest and they were trying to draw attention to abramson alleged human. if violations in latin america his track record was raised in some areas from congress members persons in 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 past actions in iran contra 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 or 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 court 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 a north philly withholding information from congress in one thousand nine hundred ninety one over him prevent lee selling weapons to iran to fund nicaragua and right wing rebels in the one nine hundred eighty s. he's also facing accusations of covering up massacres and supporting repression campaigns of dictators in guatemala el salvador and honduras. a real goal 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 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 while the rest in 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. angry over rising prices economic stagnation and corruption protesters held rocks at police officers trying to do it with tear gas 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. is facing a crippling social. political and economic crisis it's getting worse inflation is meaning that food gruesomely out of the reach of poor people unemployment is high and it is rising the haitian government is a close ally of the united states because it's simple as that united states is going to destabilize and overthrow the venezuelan government for for the last twenty years and at the same time it has been propping up in a leet 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 really surprised but it does demonstrate the complete ocracy and double standard of u.s. foreign policy towards the region and towards these two countries has gone through really decades now of constant foreign u.s. led intervention the u.s. is already intervening behind the scenes it has never started to the mic brady is one of the most country maybe the most intervened in the whole western western hemisphere. and iranian photojournalist has lashed out at donald trump after he bashed her on on twitter posting a photo of a protest she'd taken yeldham a.r.e said the photo was used to put out had permission the american president published the tweet in both. men day as iranians marks the fortieth anniversary of the overthrow of the u.s. backed shah yeltsin miami condemned donald trump for using her photo video agency

rapidly spoke to the fact missed. in your i have no twitter account and someone sent a picture to me i wanted to react at that time because of my patience it took a long time i did not expect this picture to become viral because i was thinking that i had taken better pictures while sometimes things happen in a way that we do not expect. you know to me every issued a lengthy instagram post in which he slammed trump and his policies saying u.s. sanctions the devastating the lives of iranians to intreat my protest against the street can be defined as social to be more precise there are always people who can travel to europe for different occasions like wedding parties or funerals in our forests years face time in order to be in touch with their families so it is clearly painful to me and it also affects my personal life my

family is in us and we haven't seen each other for four years because of the travel ban and i felt like my family was in a prison because we could not even visit each other in another country when you do him and the economic and social impact of the sanctions that affected people including those who are not interested in political issues caused me to show a symbolical protest it was not something like a legal complaint or any other thing. israel's prime minister is facing calls to explain off to calling for war with iran it came in an interview on the sidelines of a u.s. sponsored middle east summit in poland. you can on your. from here and go into a meeting with sixty foreign ministers and voice from countries around the world there against iran but what is important about this meeting and this meeting is not secret because there are many of those is that this is a nope.