blood in your putin says russia will interfere in the next u.s. election but only as a joke. yes we will indeed do that so we could cheer you. but don't tell anybody ok. fears of toxic pollution gripped the french city of rwanda after a massive fire at a chemical factory. and a scientific journal withdraws a study challenging the claim that the syrian government was to blame for a chemical attack in 2017 that's after the article attracted fierce criticism. spoke to the author of the research. i was accused of being.

biased toward the assad regime well i'm not biased toward the assad regime i just think we ought to understand what happened here. live from moscow watching or to international our daniel hawkins review from tonight's thanks for joining us this hour. a russia intends to meddle in next year's u.s. presidential election that was the light hearted response from vladimir putin in answer to a question about moscow's plans. russia. attempting to influence the 2020 lections states secretly. secretly yes we will indeed do that so we could chew you 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 russian meddling in the u.s. election russia did meddle in the 2016 election the united states do 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 really don't russian interference. is driven by. no doubt about. the same answer

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 lines 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 that holmes the us

itself. people in the french city of rawat are demanding the truth offer 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 charlotte doing ski has more. almost a week ago the chemical plant just across the water that was a blaze afic 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 carbon monoxide 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 test 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 worried about the how to march children in the future will they have cancer or something we just don't know around the rule some people are also taking that proportions some locals have also experienced nor. vomiting whilst others have complained that the top boots 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 pollutant. it is a factory that produces hydrocarbons even if modern 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 carrots and work closely with milk produces dioxins are measured in many grams and there are a problem for us because they become highly concentrated in milk and are 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 who terminus 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 way to reaching the flags have also been raised for the health of the police and the firefighters who are 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 devinsky r.t. while. staying with french headlines police in the country have gathered on the streets of paris as part of a strike known as the national march of anger this is the 1st police strike since

2001 officers are demanding your forty's improve working and pay conditions police have faced increasing accusations of brutality but that's while they've come under attack themselves during the yellow vest protests and police complain of chronic overwork outdated equipment as well as the president 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 already this year against 35 last year we asked demonstrators about their demands. the best use of the 3 today the police have no money yes salaries keep killing 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. i'm here to defend working conditions the threat to our special status the lack of resources across the board.

we are the police officers from all fronts 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 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. a 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 cards and the author of the reports a retired mit professor told r.t. as abruptly video agency claims of inaccuracy in the study of us. this article that my colleagues and i are publishing has come under attack in 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 collects parties 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. professor postals article pointed out and

consistencies in the official version of events but has come under intense criticism against the earth as the details. 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 concha coon a silent rita rita violations of the cease fire and the violence repeatedly perpetrated by heeds armed forces on civilians now usually science is the 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 web site 13th september belling cat noted anti asaad website blasts the study science the 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 and

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. launched

a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians even beautiful. babys recruiter murdered in this very barbaric attack and so trump ordered a barrel of cruise with cells to be launched at syria now any doubt about acids automatic 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 were the loudest voices of condemnation is coming from elliot higgins founder of belling cat and opponent of everything as sad his 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 a baby for. 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 so when 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 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 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 unknowns and i'm just what i'm noticing and i'm not going to say which it is because the search area is going to remain here if you're going to hear the irony is sometimes those unknown noons preferable it's better for america in this case for banning cats if no one knows what happened and they what investigative journalist rick stunning that 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's 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.

russia's approach to the middle east is among other foreign policy issues up for debate at a major forum being held in the black sea resort of sochi country's foreign minister sergey lavrov is that i don't with other top officials when a function 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 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 that is 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 d. 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 lover of his stress 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 like many putting russia's president is expected to join we'll cover it for you of course europe's working to preserve the iran nuclear deal several e.u. states as joined a payment scheme known as set up to bypass u.s. sanctions against iran in stocks were 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 and washington withdrew from the iran deal earlier this year and imposed sanctions a former foreign minister of austria told us european powers are determined to maintain their trade ties with iran. the whole instrumentalists developed in order to create a sort of puttering trade between a european union member states and iran in order to make did.

work which means opened a market for european businesses we would face for a short term perspective 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 actors. which are also involved in did making of. 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 a 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 and. deeper political crisis is continuing to play out in peru with demonstrations held on almost daily

basis both for and against the president as the head of state and the parliament blog ahead with one another. that. attentions have surged after president martin dissolved congress for failing to support his corruption reforms the parliament which consists mainly of opposition parties then voted to remove the president from office pointing the vice president as the new leader. and while there despite taking sides in other similar issues south america this time the us appears to be somewhat neutral on the matter. washington supports peru's democratic institutions and continues to work as its

partner in democracy people are protesting. u.s. policy in peru who can see the rest of the usa a very very key area in south america so the involvement of the comparison is absolutely. possible 'd in the sense that what they have done we why dall they're doing it with this current in both areas are eagerly independent one with a rich man i mean in venezuela biggest the upper crust of the south continent of south america you know they say they would never do scans we've. had with the rule we would never have. you know fully independent photon i mean through i mean they lack a garment which was a kind of socialist leaning document in the seventy's you know it was immediately combative and struggled by the state department as they see now for afshin rattansi

going on the underground you can check out any of our stories on our website come back of course in an hour with all the latest for you. we will have a situation. grandchildren or little children ask their great grandparents. is it true that. these cars used to have people driving. pretty primitive that's what we used to do. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want.

you to go on to be pros this is what the 43 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should. i'm not sure it's out there we're going on the ground is off the crown prince mohammed bin solomon admits his country mudded washington post on this jamal khashoggi one year ago today the u.s. and britain continue to sell billions of dollars of weapons to saudi arabia coming up in the show iran's ambassador to the united nations fights back against nato

nations accusations that it's a drone attack saudi arabia causing oil prices to spike 5 percent and he warns britain against following the united states into all out war with the islamic republic. plus on the 150th anniversary of his birth what would former british detainee gandhi make of the courage and nuclear standoff simmering between india and pakistan over kashmir we asked the united nations former undersecretary general indian m.p. shah she's the ruler and there's a sex scandal hits a conservative conference and its final day tories attack germany corbin's plans to scrap welfare changes accused of killing 17000 people we speak to a former minister of voted for universal credit and ask what twitter has to do with the 77th brigade of the british army nor the symbol coming up in today's going on the ground 0 1st it's a year to the day that one of britain's closest allies allegedly killed a washington post journalist who has the un's extrajudicial executions investigated agnes kalamata on a channel owned by culture recently blockaded by saudi arabia who is responsible

for the matter of jamal khashoggi distinct from saudi arabia 1st and foremost credit for the amount of oil superpower saudi arabia and its defacto watercraft mohamed bin solomon has long been in the sights of britain's jeremy corbyn the chief architect of the brutal war in yemen which has killed 56000 people and brought 14000000 to the brink of famine the crown prince is believed to have ordered the murder of john will. rather than be robust as he promised we learned the prime minister told the dictator please don't use the weapons we are selling you in the war you are waging and asked him nicely to investigate the murder he allegedly ordered corbin today damns the new prime minister after to raise a man david cameron boris johnson what does he think of saudi arabia will within 10 weeks of becoming prime minister johnson was forced to send one of his ministers to parliament to apologize for illegal deadly weapon parts sales he supported. the

apologize for the export my sense is that my department issued an error 2015 conservative and liberal politicians have. authorized 5300000000 pounds of weapons to saudi arabia even some mainstream journalists let alone n.g.o.s like amnesty international have alleged the use of banned u.k. made cluster munitions joining me from geneva is iran's ambassador to the united nations as well by guy thank you so much ambassador for coming on the show we'll get to yemen in a moment 1st of all u.k. media says that your country is isolated there are some reports of japan and france offering lines of credit to iran as donald trump ramps up the sanctions what exactly is the state of iran's isolation i think it's better to leave it to war the public opinion which countries isolated president rouhani has traveled to new york and we could go visit he was there he met we are so.