a lot of fear putin says russia will interfere in the 2020 us presidential election but don't hold your breath it's only a joke. you can smell the b yeah race found it's a bit like broaching eggs but we've had because. people in the french city of iran are demanding the truth from the authorities after a massive fire at a local chemical factory though officials say the air is safe to breathe. you can talk to any form and when you have any type of contact with the smoke it's dangerous to have kids and they were impacted by the smell and migrates i think there is a risk and i can feel it. and a scientific journal has withdrawn

a study challenging the claim that the syrian government was to blame for an alleged chemical attack in 2017 after the article attracted fierce criticism. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our teacher in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. russia fully intends to meddle in next year's u.s. presidential election that was they responsible on more putin answer to a question about moscow's plans for the upcoming race for the white house we go live now to medina about 4 more so men do you know what everyone really is afraid of does moscow indeed plan to interfere well that's what the russian president said but you have to take it with a pinch of salt because he was obviously joking. russia. alleged attempting to influence the 2020 lections united states secret to.

secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you will true please don't tell anybody ok. well i'm now more serious note he was just addressing what will probably become a russia did it hysteria volume 2 now after all the investigations into russia's alleged madlang and the 26000 us presidential elections after all the media hype that we've seen in the past 2 years pretty much at average single corner stone one screen it was russia that meddled in the us elections russia meddling in the us election and russia did meddle in the 2016 election for united states to still vulnerable to russian and political interference russia's blatant interference in the united states 2016 presidential elections this is actually the crown in the century. if you think about it is you have any don't rush into the future.

is driven by. you no doubt about. the same no doubt. no doubt. russia has always that it never meddled and putting all joking aside to vladimir putin has once again stressed that. it's not you know so i don't want to you know we have plenty of problems of our own and we put our efforts into resolving them and aim to do that above everything else didn't prove that we colluded with president trump in 2016 but expressed fears that it more it's happened in the future this is ridiculous or rather it would be if it wasn't so sad because all that we see in the us internal politics is about destroying toys between our countries and i'm certain that holmes the us itself. people in the french city ever are demanding the truth after

a major fire at a nearby chemical factory if you're a cover up and disappear claims by authorities the air was safe to breathe. has more. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze a sick plume of black smoke bellowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames. in the dark goodies with the i'm not saying that the smell isn't pleasant i'm just telling you what the results of the tests namely that the air is not harmful since then there has been growing anger over what some say is a lack of information over what was put into not fire and the impact that could

have on people's health. you can talk to any forum and when you have any type of contact with the smoke it's dangerous you can believe because of the carbon monoxide and in this case when the smoke went into the sky we don't know what was in it we don't know exactly what is in the year and we worry a lot that in the future it might bring cancer or something else before i could take blood samples but what are you going to tell them to look for i know they could be cancer thyroid problems but the problem is that we hear lots of rumors nothing concrete. i think there is a risk for health and i can feel it because i have a need to throw it and i'm continuously coffee we worry about the health of our children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around rules some people are taking that. some locals have also experienced. vomiting whilst others have complained that the tap water is black and then their

ways the stench you can smell that the air is foul it's a bit like rotting eggs but with a chemical tinge and despite the initial denials that there was no health risk the french health minister has admitted that the rule is clearly polluted. it is a factory that produces hydrocarbons even if not in large volumes it is never good for the population to come across these kinds of products i cannot say that there is no danger the city is clearly polluted several schools were closed off to the fire and though some have attempted to reopen many teachers are refusing to return to work. colleagues from schools near lubrizol who have refused to work until they receive information about what was burnt and the risk because they are just a few 100 metres away from the site they did so to protect their health and that of the children who are under their responsibility and that's why there has been

a demand that the original school 30 acknowledged their right not to have children attend school under this condition. while health concerns are immediate what's perhaps most telling about the danger people here are facing is the fact that food sales 100 districts around ruin have been banned any produce that may have been exposed to contamination has to be destroyed that even includes milk. hybrid cans and worked closely with milk produces dioxins are measured in memory grams and there are a problem for us because they become highly concentrated in milk and the toxic so they render it unfit for consumption it is vital for us to know as soon as possible whether there are any dioxins in those burning materials what's going on he would tell us what to do with our produce so much from the fire house even reached as far as belgium and the netherlands raising concerns that the impact could be even the

ija reaching flags have also been raised for the health of the police and the firefighters who won't do you see during the fire protests like this have now formed to pressure the authorities to outline any risks they make face they demanding answers but are afraid that even if they recede. isn't that the danger is that as a result of that place may not have made for months or even years from now charlotte t.v. . saying with friends french police have gathered on the streets of paris as part of the strike known as the national march of anger this is the 1st place strike since 2001 and officers are demanding the authorities improve working and pay conditions please her face increasing accusations of brutality but that's while they've come under attack themselves during the protests police complain of chronic overwork outdated equipment as well as present micron's reforms on the special police pension system there's also been

a sharp rise in officer suicides with around 50 taking their lives already this year against 35 last year we asked about their demands the best usually 3 today the police have no money yes salaries. are status and all pension are being attacked officers are tired with the yellow 1st meaning that there is a lot of work sacrificing their family life and we are expressing a deep depression in our profession. i'm here to defend working conditions the threat to our special status the lack of resources across the board. we are the police services from france not just riot police but all services all the unions we've all gathered to express our discontent with the administration the silence about the way the police suicides this year we are short of stop short of money we cannot do our job and here to tell the administration that.

russia's approach to the middle east is among other foreign policy issues up for debate and a major forum being held in the black sea resort city of sochi the country's foreign minister sergey lavrov is there along with other top officials r.t. as maria for national has been following the developments. wednesday's gathering of valdai discussion club based international think tank is held him base absolutely stunning place in the mountains outside russia's black sea resort of sochi and discussions here today are just as hard as the weather the east has been announced this year is major topic asia and the middle east the latter is in the spotlight today high ranking politicians x. birds influencers are discussing current challenges and respects 10 ways to bring peace maintain peace has well as boost stability and developments in these regions syria was mentioned too many times russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has taken part in the conversation that last of the wrong 2 hours he has talked about

iraq afghanistan libya as brothers set examples of global peace efforts blaming usas approach that he has described as interfering to influence stressing this should be avoided in the future. so it is assumed that the middle east is a cradle of many civilizations and world religions of course today when it's been transformed into a laboratory for reckless experiments that have led to tragic consequences this topic is very urgent if you look at american interventions aimed at forcing relevant parties to do what washington requires washington usually considers it useful to maintain a certain degree of turbulence in the region because the us has military bases that they can only support one side if it's beneficial or the other depending on where the oil flows where the gas is where to sell their weapons. minister lavrov has said that instead of this toxic and dangerous interfering to influence strategy

every international effort should be aimed at stopping the violence and bringing peace and stability and as an example he has talked about 2 regions in syria where 2 different approaches have led to absolutely different consequences proving which one is more. effective. in syria's aleppo we were able to return the city its normal in the shortest time possible we didn't mind it in record time as will we provided the entire population with the sensualist and people started coming back nothing even close as happened in record with the u.s. led operation for terrorism with company bombing 2 years on and not even all the corpses had been buried not to mention the mining operations. foreign minister lavrov has also expressed his concerns about american and european approach towards iran iran that love has stressed and never violated any article of the joint comprehensive plan of actions adding he has any unnecessary and unexplainable

pressure on to here and will soon stop and just remind you of all the discussion club. work on thursday lightman putin russia's president is expected to join we'll cover it for you of course. meanwhile europe has been rocking its brain on how to preserve the iran nuclear deal and make its trade relations with terror on work several countries have joined the payment scheme known as instax set up to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran the payment system was set up in january by france germany and the u.k. and it allows firms to avoid using think swift payment system which is heavily reliant on the u.s. dollar washington withdrew from the iran deal earlier this year and we impose sanctions if former foreign minister of austria told us european powers are determined to maintain their trade ties with the gulf state. the whole instrumentalists developed in order to create sort of puttering trade between

a european union member states and iran in order to make did. work which means open the markets for european businesses we would face for a short time for us back to still some sort of limbo stalemate lots of fun certainties lots of trying limits how far to move when it comes to the european union we have 3 major actress east stream which are also involved in to making off to to secure a desists united kingdom france and germany i've been observing in particular the efforts of francois in order to make something happen in order to move out of that stalemate in such the european union is of course also to it's not so much creation as we will just like to have we have countries which share a much more rigid point of the united states and we have countries which are much more open to more diplomatic efforts. still to come

a scientific journal has withdrawn a study on an alleged syrian chemical attack i'll tell you why after the break. you know world's big partners a lot of conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the 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. 70 years ago this week china started down the path of communist rule over the past

2 decades china has emerged or rather reemerge as the leading world power rivaling the us the communist party can write but we claim a string of stunning successes but challenges remain what's next for china's extraordinary revolution. welcome back scientific journal that specializes in arms control has withdrawn a study that casts doubt on claims the syrian government was behind a chemical attack in 2017 the author of the report a retired mit professor told the roughly video agency damascus was not responsible for the alleged strike this article that my colleagues and i are publishing has

come under attack and a very interesting thing about this attack is that nobody who has any technical expertise has provided any criticisms at all the criticisms are all from people who have no nicol expertise and the criticisms have to do with strange arguments for example i was accused of being. biased toward the assad regime well i'm not biased toward the assad regime i just think that we ought to understand what happened here professor postals article pointed out inconsistency is in the official version of events but has come under intense criticism of explains why. where the sun revolves around us or us around it where the earth is flat who is god is greater or more

recently whether we should question why every chemical attack in syria would magically gets blamed on the government the syrian government committed chemical weapons acts against their own people it is highly likely that the regime was responsible for a star an attack on construct a sand rita rita violations of the cease fire and violence through peter treated but he needs armed forces on civilians now usually science is the answer it is resolved some of our biggest arguments but this question seems to have a strumpet science and global security respected journal based out of princeton university decided not to publish a study that questioned the official version of events that as ads government was behind the hunch a hoon attack in 2017 it all went something like this

a former pentagon employee mit professor ted postol together with respected scientists conducted a study u.s. presidential candidate gathered mentions it on her campaign web site 13th september belling cat noted anti asaad website blasts the study science and global says it will publish it anyway and will judge it on narrative soon after the journal now says it's canceling the publication is why officially. these questions included concerns about the technical merits of the analysis in this article as well as the value of publishing the article given the sensitive in contested issue of the use of chemical weapons in syria yet it is take these masses very seriously this review identified a number of issues with the peer review and revision process strange isn't it that no questions about the veracity of the study were asked when it was submitted or

when it was given the green light for publishing concerns only appeared when belling cat and its followers attacked the study and the people behind it we've asked the journal for comment but no clear answer yet then again as statement may have said it all sensitive and contested issue that caused your mind back to 2017 within 2 days of the alleged chemical attack america declared it knew everything there was to know on tuesday syrian dictator bashar al assad. launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric. attack and so trump ordered a barrel of cruise missiles to be launched that syria now any doubt about as adds

to mattick guilt would make the missile strike a war crime or an international war crime which could be why the scientists behind the study of facing such intense pressure abuse even and surprisingly are the loudest voices of condemnation is coming from elliot higgins founder of belling cat and opponent everything as'ad is website which he likes to call an investigative outlet that has received funding from u.s. government run operations mr higgins is a rabid supporter of the official pentagon line he is debating the issue with dr post or well the opi slow your dog sleep doesn't agree with you well that are they lying before i think there is aid to address the technical point in my instead of citing nonsense because i showed that none of the forensic evidence fit the

findings you need to show that what i'm saying is technically inaccurate i took your research in hex i mean i gave it was someone he said 40 years of experience as a chemistry expert i'm not interested in other people you claim are experts i want to know why this is not it's not in place the full debate is up on dr postals you tube channel but his study will be appearing on science and global security anytime soon seems twitted criticism has won the day to day where science is told to shut up because it's inconvenient its former us secretary of defense famously explained there are some things you just don't know you don't know. there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations but there are known knowns serious things we know we know and we also know there are known

and that is to say we know there are some things we do not know but there are also unknown unknowns the ones we don't know we don't know excuse me but is this is a no no. i'm not several unknowns and i'm just what i'm noticing and i'm not going to say which is the surgery you know you might hear if you ever hear the irony is sometimes those noons preferable it's better for america in this case for bending cats if no one knows what happened and they was. french police are being accused of turning a blind eye to human trafficking across the english channel an undercover investigation led by a british radio station also claims french officers may even be aiding people smugglers in their efforts to get migrants to u.k. shores to edward cossey joins me now live from london sharia these are some troubling revelations what else has been said. well we all know that the my current

crisis is fall from over even though of course scenes of boats traveling from france the u.k. are becoming much less and less frequent but according to an undercover report by l.p.c. and that alleged people smuggler is claiming that the french authorities are even helping him and his team sneak migrants across the channel. yes so really people we reach for these. it is for the birth of a person because because we don't know from so this little girl will be there this is a business to the front. well they use all the film the secret filming by l.p.c. all of the alleged people smuggler the man in charge of that. in france he goes by the name for a group the video goes on he seems to be explaining that the french authorities are advising him and his team when his best to attempt

a crossing and when is best to hold back potentially possibly because they themselves have inside information as to when the u.k. border force is in operation and patrolling the channel so that in that report it seems out best the french authorities are turning a blind eye but out was actively engaging and helping that whole operation that there was something that the french police very meant to me to know i mean well then the home office here in britain is saying that the french counterparts with british operations have this joint plan of action and says the 2 have a very close working relationship. crime groups behind the illegal attempts to cross the channel or putting the lives of people in serious danger for their own financial gain we are determined to put a stop to this illegal activity. well according to this undercover report it's apparently known that up to $7000.00 pounds of being charged to those people that

want to go towards the united kingdom it's understood that for a route he himself has led up to $400.00 people across the channel the ring is said to be in operation in london. and of course. in france now a follow up report sees that for root is been a denying himself any involvement in all of these allegations now who are these people in question of course the migrants in europe are all fleeing war torn countries oppression and persecution and it's these smugglers that are exploiting them charging them thousands of pounds potentially life threatening situations to reach their destination safely if at all now last month we know that the home secretary prita patel met with the french counterparts to discuss this joint action plan to stop vessels from attempting any crossing across the english channel and just today she then advocated tighter border controls shall be edwards bringing us

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a string of stunning successes but challenges remain what's next for china's extraordinary revolution. cross talking china's revolution at 70 i'm joined by my guest fred tang in new york he is president of the american china public affairs institute in hong kong we have andrew wilson he is an international and independent china strategist and in knoxville we process their issue she is c.e.o. of china rising capital forecast a research technology company all right in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate sarah let me go to you 1st in knoxville the 7 do they honor verse 3 of the.