don't want to. believe. he didn't you believe he was you see you. saw him or god. was. watching to protect the territorial integrity of syria the leaders of russia iran take me in the latest bid to achieve a peace plan for the country. at b.b.c. syria producer challenges the mainstream narrative by claiming a video has to be showing off the mark 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 and supposedly meddling in america's twenty sixteen action. the move comes as the heads of a two year probe looking into claims of trouble russia collusion reiterate that there was no direct evidence for the us. from moscow you're watching international. the top story in the latest attempts to thrash out a peace plan for syria high level delegations from iran russia antic a have gathered in the russian black sea resort of sochi and the message from the leaders is clear it's up for the syrian people to decide the few. of their country

where if a national has been following the tafe meetings here and she joins us live maria can you bring us up to speed on today's developments. yes of course i can say that thursday has seen very intensive talks on syria between russia turkey and iran and as all the three leaders confirmed speaking at the press conference following the event these talks have also been very fruitful and very productive mr putin mr han and mr erdogan have all stressed that they believe that the meetings under so-called asked enough forward is the most effective mechanism in resolving the syrian crisis a lot has been said about territorial integrity of syria that it should be protected no matter water about the fact that these are syrian people who have to decide the future of their country and also about countering terrorism on the

ground in syria it should be for everybody agreed in any form let's take a listen right now. we're convinced that we can provide stability and peace in syria by only using political not military methods following the principles of unity sovereignty and territorial integrity we think that only the syrian people can choose a future. a lot of us announced they were going to draw their troops from syria but according to our information they intend to continue interfering in the domestic affairs of syria regardless of how many american boots remain on the ground it must be up to syrians to decide their own future. but it's very important to resolve the situation of. syrian brothers but it's a very hard drives have suffered a lot over the past years but we. wish. syria nor any of the

region suffers such a crisis over again. all the three leaders have also agreed that the syrian crisis should be resolved with the help of syria's friends but without any foreign interference speaking of which the iranian leader mr rouhani has slammed a u.s. lead and u.s. plans to gather in of more than sixty sixty countries in warsaw poland that happened the same day as the summit regarding syria here in sochi where it was announced among other things that there is no peace in the middle east unless confronting iran say these measures and these after it's have been viewed by the iranian leader as counterproductive and having nothing to do with bringing peace to syria back to you bringing us the latest r.t.s. maria thank you. well

a meeting this been widely seen as an iran summit isn't the way in warsaw with representatives from more than sixty countries attending israel is also represented by prime minister benjamin netanyahu who made the arminius threats about war with iran we'll have more on this later on in the program. as russia iran and take a meet and syria a b.b.c. producer in the country is challenging the mainstream narrative on an alleged chemical attack he came to the video of the supposed aftermath of a toxic strike in the syrian city of team that was in fact staged it's a line that russia and damascus have long maintained many of us they have accepted the video at face value touting it as evidence of the syrian government attacking its and people. more at our staff has more on this. 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 release the video 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 u.n. security council in our poor few conies time to think for years duma had

been held by the army of islam hard core is limits the same guys that caged woman and elders and roofs to protect themselves against airstrikes i can tell you that jerry shul 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 this could happen 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 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 medics are doing more damage 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 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 it said the producer in question was expressing his pets no opinions about the footage and he never said the attack hadn't happened we've had from peers were up in certain charron politics if you case sheffield university he says western countries ignore anything that goes against the narrative. there is ample

indication that there are inconsistent seas regarding evidence coming out to do what we do point towards some kind of manipulation some kind of false flag event why would ignored by western media western governments well because what they were saying was not convenient and did not fit with the narrative which is being maintained for a long time regarding syria we have to remember that after doom i mean there were voices calling for governments to wait for p.c. w investigation but there was no way to know b.t.w. investigation they went straight ahead and attacked syria so i think these voices were not heard they were not listened to because western governments wanted to attack syria and they were going to use whatever happened in order to justify that it was already widespread public concern and distrust of government we've had this 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. 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 that is what else has been staged how far does that stage extend to is it the case that what happened in doom was in fact a false flag those are the questions which are now on the table which now have to be addressed and it's in very important we do do that or why we will see patterns repeating themselves and attacks on countries occurring with flimsy or next to no evidence in support of them. tantamount to racketeering that's how the kremlin spokesperson has described a new u.s.

bill to sanction key russian companies. customer it has to teach us. 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 for meddling in u.s. elections is one stated reason behind the bell yes it comes as the head of the u.s. senate intelligence committee officially admit there is no direct evidence donald trump colluded with russia in the twenty sixteen presidential race that's often exhaustive two year private into the matter. well i'm not sure i have. said it before we have no factual evidence. it to your private parts of the media very excited expecting it would find a smoking gun. the walls to 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 vindication 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 that 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 you know a senate senator burr coming out and saying there was no direct evidence of that kind of conspiracy that also really struck me because prosecutors almost never had a direct hit our state 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 new commission in

a woods hole quash these are the claims of a former cia director who previously called doubts on allegations of cole loser and he's not alone in speaking up and saying that what can't be proven somehow must unquestionably be true. coming up saudi ally the u.s. response to brussels blacklisting riyadh for financing terrorism and money laundering that story and much more right after this break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to

resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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 to our take israel's prime minister is facing calls to explain the

calling for war with iran it came in an interview on the sidelines of u.s. sponsored middle east summits in poland. and you count on your gosh i'm sure from here i'm going to 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 an open meeting with representatives of leading arab countries were sitting down together with israel in order to advance the common interest of war against iran. and this transcript of the interview netanyahu is official twitter accounts deleted the phrase war with iran and replace it with combating iran but in the original you could hear the prime minister saying in hebrew that would that translates as war iran's foreign minister said they originally tweet exposes netanya his true intentions adding the

whole world knows them to javid sorry that middle east summit in poland the waterfall circus meanwhile the u.s. vice president mike pence has just lashed out at iran the greatest through peace and security in the middle east. is the islamic republic of iran. well to discuss this further we can cross live to politics professor saeed mohammad marandi welcome to the program slate now do you think netta now his comments about the war with iran will have any consequences. i think the most important thing about it is that it shows the israeli regime is looking for trouble and the same is true about the saudi regime i think your viewers will recall that over a year ago. the crown prince said that he wants to take the war inside iran

and today we or last night we had a major attack on the iranian conscript soldiers near the border with pakistan killing nearly thirty young men so the iranians don't think that this is necessarily a coincidence especially since the group they carried out their tack is a wahhabi extremist group that has the same ideology as isis and al qaida and we know that saudi arabia saudi arabia promotes that ideology in iran if you run an intelligence says that this group and other groups that have carried out attacks are linked to so the and amorality intelligence directly looking at the tweets again netanyahu his office change the choice of words in the tweet from war to combat inc do you think this backtracking will help calm the situation. i think it just shows that the israeli prime minister is has has made

a major mistake and that he's hurt himself and his allies in saudi arabia and the emirates and the u.s. regime by making such an explicit statement of course the europeans are not all that different from the israelis and the americans because during the conference in poland we had the any k it's a which is a cult group a terrorist organization which fought for saddam hussein for many years against the iranians and crushed the iraqis who rebelled against saddam hussein for many years this group which went to move to europe and is operating freely in europe in the united states they had it an enormous presence in poland with of course government support from the united states from the saudis and the europeans and and israelis and it's sort of like having an al qaeda demonstration in

tehran against u.s. policy or against europeans or against france or britain or germany this is how iranians perceive the scenes that they saw from poland so the europeans are harboring terrorists the israeli regime is talking about war the saudi dictator has said he wants to take the war to iran and we have of course the likes of pompei o. and bolton who i think everyone knows they are very well known neo cons and then we had the attack last night against innocent iranian young soldiers protecting the borders well we had a little bit earlier on the u.s. vice president mike pence call to run the greatest threat to the middle east does he have the right to say so what's your opinion on that. i think the international community has all they have to do is just look at the map

the americans destroyed afghanistan they actually according to present ski before he died on a stance in order to draw them into the country so he sacrificed a country to. hurt the soviet union we saw what the americans did in iraq they supported saddam hussein gave him chemical weapons then destroyed saddam hussein they destroyed syria by helping terrorists along with their european and regional allies they destroyed libya they are starving the people of yemen they are supporting their brutal dictatorship in saudi arabia and in batting and of course now we have venezuela so the america some person on the street and calls himself the president and the americans decide that he is the new president of the country i think this is more than enough to show who the people who is the troublemaker in the region and of course there is always the palestinian people who are victims of harlem colonialism and apartheid appreciate your comments on the story politics

professor saeed mammon marandi thank you thank you. moving on now in the european commission has expanded its day to many blacklist by another twenty three countries including saudi arabia the name states are accused of failings in regards to financing terror and money laundering but some of the inclusions have ruffled feathers this piece all of every ports 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 dodgy 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'm very big countries leave to. to remedy their deficiencies swiftly saudi arabia for their part say that they regret the decision taken by the european

union to include 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 i believe it is that you sit back to that could be ability over sort of the pressure on the saudis strongman. mohammed is mounted and i believe this will be also a heavy blow it is a force to actually bring in. so now that the congress is there actually are. a lot of resolutions to put pressure on saudi arabia using 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 even 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 the final list has to be signed off by the e.u. twenty eight within the next month will be interesting to see when it is signed off if all twenty three names that are there now there in the final version. no forgetting it's fun time stay there for we thought it was a pet fact excuse 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 rule two leaders 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 are always around.

you know every relationship goes through its ups and downs i mean who doesn't have skeletons in their closet. do what any good therapist would suggest they work through it i was really being tough i'm 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. or plan for breaks 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 records 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 you have some toys to mend or what better way than the other until i. so who should be top of trouble. in your research. prime minister trudeau. i think he should really get along with tourism a series of. happy v.-day can't wait for you to pay for it all he says. but most of all the number one day for yourself first.

thanks for watching neil harvey will join you at the top of the hour. it's thirty years since the soviet system collapsed and it's hard not to see developments in the western world.