now granted. but ima putin says the russia will interfere in the 2020 us presidential election yes he said it but it was just a joke. basically an altered secretly yes we will indeed do that so we can properly but don't tell anybody ok. tell us the truth starts the police from locals in the french city of rwanda after a massive fire at a chemical factory in the fears of a cover up over the threat. of a scientific journal with drawls a study that challenges the claim the syrian government was to blame for a chemical attack in 27 months after the article attracted. criticism. video agency

spoke to the author of the research. i was accused of being. biased toward. good evening and thanks for joining. russia fully intends to meddle in next year's u.s. presidential election that was the tongue in cheek responsibility of putin in answer to a question about moscow's plans for the upcoming race for the white house. these russian. alleged attempting to influence the 2020 lections united states secret was told that you secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you all up properly but don't tell anybody ok well that's quite a statement coming from the russian president but you have to take it with

a pinch of salt because he was obviously joking but on a more serious note he was addressing probably what might become russia did it his area of volume 2 now after all the numerous investigations that we've seen into russia's alleged meddling in the us presidential elections back in 2016 all the media hype that we've seen in the past 2 years pretty much every single quarter someone screamed that it was russia that meddled in the u.s. presidential elections russia meddling in the u.s. election 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 crime of the century. if you think about it it is you have any doubt that russian if you're. driven by himself no doubt about it. this is

a monster no doubt. no doubt. and almost 4 years since donald trump has been elected there was a number of different investigations conducted by the american intelligence agencies the moola reported that maybe had planes and many other articles that were written to prove the existence of the hounds of the kremlin behind the american elections but moscow has always said that it never meddled and putting all joking aside lattimer important has once again stressed that. you know we have plenty of for. of our own 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 might happen in the future this is ridiculous or rather it would be if it wasn't so sad because all that we see in us internal politics is

about destroying ties between our countries and i'm certain it harms the us itself . people in the french city of ruin are demanding the truth after a major fire at a nearby chemical factory they fear a cover up and dispute claims by the authorities that the air is safe to breathe other dude is going to place. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze a thick plume of black smoke bellowed into the sky as firefighters battled almost 24 hours against the flames. in the dark goodies with i'm not saying that the smell isn't pleasant i'm just telling you what the results of the tests are 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 firemen but when you have any type of contact with the smoke it's dangerous it can be lethal because of the camera mounted sight and in this case when the smoke went into the sky we didn'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. i have 4 kids and they were impacted by the smell and my grades i thought about having tests done before was with absolutely no information about what we should be looking for 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're worried about the how to march children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around rule some people are also taking that proportions some locals have also experienced nor. vomiting whilst others have complained that the tap water it's black and then there is 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 perhaps most telling about the danger people here are facing is the fact that food sales from 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 term us what to do with our produce so much from the fire has 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 were on duty 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. even though the danger is as a result of that place may not image for months or even years from now charlotte even ski. while. french

police have gathered on the streets of paris as part of a strike known as the national march of anger it's the 1st police strike since 2001 the officers are demanding the authorities improve working unpaid conditions police have faced increasing accusations of brutality but that's while they were coming under attack themselves during the all over us protests. police complain of chronic overwork outdated equipment as well as prison micron's reforms of the special police pension system there's also been a sharp rise in officers suicides with around 50 taking their lives this year against $35.00 last year we asked the demonstrators about their demands. the best usually 3 today the police have no money yet salaries keep calling our status and our pension are being attacked officers are tired with the yellow vest movement there is a lot of work sacrificing their family life and we are expressing a deep depression in our profession or the. home here to defend our working

conditions the threat to our special pensions status the lack of resources across the board. we are the police officers from all fronts not just riot police but also misses all the unions we have all gathered to express our discontent with the administration the silence about the wave of police suicides this year we are short of stop short of money we cannot do our job and here to tell the administration that. 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 in the town of can check on the author of the report a retired mit of professor told r.t. is probably video agency claims of an accuracies in his study are groundless. this article that my colleagues and i are publishing has come under attack and the 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 technical 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 the only thing that matters is is this article technically correct this is a science based journal and if there's any technical errors in it then they need to point them out because they have they've actually in several conversations said they are not aware of any technical errors so the problem seems to be that there are accusations being made from the outside which have no scientific merit that it appears has caused them to take pause if

a supposed to go pointed out inconsistency is in the official version of events but it's come under intense criticism he's my guess the it explains. 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 were to 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 concha koon assad rita rita the violations of the cease fire and the violence repeated treated by heath armfuls move 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 assad's government was behind the harm she 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 website 13 september belling cat noted anti asaad web site blasts the study science and global says it will publish it anyway and will judge it or narrow it 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 matters 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.

launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians even beautiful babies recruiter 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 of everything as sad 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 doesn't agree with you well that are they lying before i think there is ied to address the technical point in my instead of citing nonsense because i showed that none of the forensic evidence fits 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 youtube channel but his study will be appearing on science and global security anytime soon it seems twisted criticism has won the day to day where science is told to shut up because it's inconvenient it's 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 spirit things we know we know and we also know there are unknown unknown that is to say we know there are some things we do not know but there are also unknown unknown the ones we don't know we don't know excuse me but is this in the no no no. i'm not several on loans and i'm just what i'm noticing and i'm not going to say which it is the search you know we might hear if you're going to hear the irony is sometimes those unknown noons preferable it's better for america in this case for bending cats if no one knows what happened and they what.

investigative journalist rick sterling says the withdrawal of the article has nothing to do with science and everything to do with politics. the article was authored by 7 scientists who are experts in the field they ruled out the fact that. that it was definitely something that could only have been caused by a bomb drop from the from the air it was respected to analyzing the hole in the ground and modeling whether it 122 millimeter. projectile missile could have caused that and they determined that it could have caused the the criticisms mostly have come from nonscientific people what's sad is that a journal that supposed to be dedicated to scientific inquiry and that is supposed to be dedicated to disarmament and arms control is apparently being bullied or

allowing itself to be bullied into political censorship and bias. precious approach to the middle east is among of the foreign policy issues up for debate today major for being held in the black sea resort of sochi the country's foreign minister sergei lavrov phase that along with other top officials if an option has been following 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 risks 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 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 to normal in the shortest time possible we didn't mind it in record time as well we provided the entire population with essential and people started coming back nothing even close has happened and record with the u.s. led operation for terrorism with carpet bombing 2 years on and not even all the corpses had been buried not to mention demining operations. foreign minister lavrov has also expressed his concerns about american and european approach towards iran iran that love has stressed never violated any article of the joint comprehensive

plan of actions adding he hates any unnecessary and unexplainable pressure on to here and will soon stop and just remind you of all the discussion club will continue its work on thursday lightman putin russia's president is expected to join we'll cover it for you of course. europe is racking his brains on how to preserve the iran nuclear deal and make its trade relations with tehran work several e.u. countries have joined the payment scheme known as instincts so that to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran in stocks was set up in january by france germany and the u.k. it allows firms to avoid using the swift payment system which is heavily reliant on the u.s. dollar fortune to withdrew from the iran deal or in the year and 3 impose sanctions a former foreign minister of austria told us that european powers are determined to maintain their trade ties with the gulf state. whole instrumentals developed in order to create a sort of trade between

a european union member states and iran in order to make. a work which means open the market for european businesses we will face for a short term perspective still some sort of limbo stalemate lots of uncertainties lots of trying limits how far to move when it comes to the european union we have 3 major actors. which are also involved in the making of the tissue pureed. united kingdom france and germany i've been observing in particular the efforts of france 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 like to have we have countries which share much more rigid point of the united states and we have countries which are much more open to more diplomatic efforts.

young african-american girl who claimed she was attacked by white schoolmates who's issued an apology for making up the entire story retractions raised questions about the trend in hopes reports killable but has the details. it was a crime so verandas that everyone was talking about it a young african-american woman held down as 3 white guys cut her dreadlocks and insulted her where were ministry where were any partly to protect her. from this heinous crime the tears in the eyes of the grandparents came from righteous outrage now questioning the claims of a crying girl is not a good look for anyone especially the media which most americans already hold disdain for but maybe they should have well it turns out the incident never happened her grandparents have written an apology to those young boys and their parents we sincerely apologize for the pain and exhausted see these allegations

have cools down to the administrators and families of manual christian school we have sorry for the damage this incident has done to trust within the school family and the un to school and it has brought to the school to the broader community who rallied in such passionate support for adults and we apologize for betraying your trust now of course actual hate crimes do happen we can recall how recently there was a high school wrestling referee in new jersey who forced a black athlete to cut his dreadlocks he was shamed in front of the audience outrage was everywhere but we see another disturbing trend in us society that's people faking hate crimes against themselves in order to get media attention and sympathy who can forget just the small let could only go off with their words. i mean. so is. this magic country. all those celebrities who rallied around justice watts case and filled the airwaves

with their outrage and indignation well they look pretty bad now remember that crowd of high school boys from kentucky were shown in a video wearing trump pats and confronting an elderly native american veteran remember how it turned out that he had actually walked up to them and that the boys had already been met with a tirade of anti white slurs from the nearby black hebrew israelites named the skates i want names shamed them if you think this wouldn't box you know hard be think again or this question have you ever seen a more principle face in this kids with the overall crime rate in the united states on the decline actual hate crimes are increasing and that's what makes these hoaxes so vile it feeds into the idea that actual victims of actual racist atrocities shouldn't be taken seriously and your fortune is being used you know it just sometimes he performs do occur and when they do occur i think did this kind of the hoax does a disservice to the victims of legitimate hate crimes when something like this

happens you know it's going to make it harder let's say for the next victim to be believed you know because there's so many instances of these types of posters popping up i think that a lot of you know editors quite frankly have lost their soul you know especially now in america strong they're always just looking for the most sensational story the story the page going to see the start is and you know most negative picture of america unfortunately it seems like we have a lot of self-hatred in the american mainstream media nowadays. a deep political crisis is continuing to play out in peru's demonstrations held on the north daily basis suppose for and against the president that says the head of state and the parliament are at loggerheads with each other.

tensions have surged stuff the president martin the scholar dissolved congress for failing to support his anticorruption reforms the pohlmann that consists mainly of opposition parties then voted to remove the president himself from office appointing the vice president as the new leader you are despite taking sides in other similar disputes elsewhere in south america this time the united states appears to be staying neutral washington supports peru's democratic institutions and continues to work as its partner in democracy people are protesting. the us. through its concede the rich to get into the usa a very very key area in south america so the involvement of the comparison is absolutely. possible in the sense that what they have done with wide

all they're doing it with this current are in both areas are eagerly independent one with the rich man i mean in venezuela biggest the upper crust of the continent of south america united states would never do scans with. with the rule we would never have out you know fully independent photo tonally in peru i mean their lack of garment which was kind of socialist leaning garment in the seventy's you know it was immediately combative and struggled by the state department on the beach about it so they'd appreciate you watching us here on r.t. this evening stick around i'll bring you updates in half an hour.

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