representative to the o p c w gave a statement in the hague setting out claims against russia john fogle mentioned a chemical incident in syria which took place a year ago and led to the us taking military action against syria he claimed that russia had convened a meeting in the hague to make a political point former british diplomat peter ford told us that that statement highlight the lack of real evidence against russia. the british authorities jumped to the conclusion that they wanted to see a thesis on a pretext and then invented the evidence to justify that. was circumstantial evidence that russia might have been involved and the british government quickly. built up on this but when you look at the statement today the only additional evidence is speculation it underlined the fact that the british argument so weak. and therefore it was a diversionary tactic to bring up the anniversary of the allegations concerning contrail corn. in fact the. mission weakness on the part of the british delegation if they were convinced the case got sold sprit they should have concentrated on on that e