the kerosene is a chemical. he talks about a case where a person led to a racetrack and gave a course they poisoned potato. he talks about the case involving somebody else trying to light a match which is a chemical and setting fire to a haystack. we can all think sadly of athletes. lance armstrong accused of unlawfully taking drugs. i mean why do we think matters of list a fall within those words outside the words other peaceful purpose even though they are unlawful and by the way did anyone say to the drafters of the convention i found nothing in this brief on the point or did anyone tell congress that poison potatoes drug enhancing performance-enhancing drugs, page examples of justice alito used last time to get vinegar to a goldfish i mean these are all chemicals not in the act -- an ex-. they're absolutely nothing to do with chemical weapons and why do we think we have to get eon that fact? >> that's a very important point here that gets to the heart of what the national interest is in this case with respec

many of the chemicals are organophosphates.i like to tell people it's chemically pretty much the same stuff as was used in syria in the recent civil war, much smaller concentrations, of course. but not knowing how much the children, the families are being exposed to, you just can't not question the safety and i just don't feel like we have enough information to know whether there is safe use or not. >> at dupont pioneer, we repeatedly tried to get an interview. >> we would like to ask for an interview. >> all they would give us is a telephone number to make an appointment. we phone the number we've been given. once again, no one answers. at dow chemical, we asked for weeks for an appointment but were told there were scheduling difficulties. the seed industry is stonewalling. not one representative was willing to speak on camera. >> these chemical companies say that their permits come from the federal level and that they have every right to be here and that they have every right to spray whatever they want without telling us a t

them from chemical weapons -- i'm sorry -- from chemicals into chemical weapons isn't a noun, it's a verb. it's their malicious use. and that puts you in a very odd sort of situation. i think that, you know, if congress had come in and said, look, there are certain chemicals that by their very nature are almost inherently weaponized, i think congress would have a lot more authority to proceed in that kind of situation. >> counsel, we permit that in all sorts of definitional sections of the criminal code. we call a dangerous weapon anything that you use to inflict serious injury on someone. i don't think of a car as necessarily a dangerous weapon. it is something i use to transport myself. it's only when i'm using it for a prohibited purpose that it turns itself into a dangerous weapon. >> well -- >> so i'm -- i'm having a problem with this noun-verb distinction. why isn't the intentional burning, killing of another human being using chemicals the essence of what this treaty is trying to stop? i thought that's what it was trying to do. >> a couple points -- >> you want to add on the w

that keeps them from chemical weapons to chemicals isn't a verb. it is a noun and their malicious ways. if congress said there were ways that are weaponized they would have done better. >> we permit that in all kind of definitions of the criminal code. a dangerous weapon is anything you use to inflict harm on anything. i don't think my car is dangerous but if if use it for purpose that is dangerous it turns it into a dangerous weapon. i am having a problem with the noun/verb difference. why isn't the intention burning of a human being using chemicals the senessence of what this tre is doing. you want to add on the war-like purposes. but the treaty permits perceptions for peaceful purpose. >> you might be right the criminal law takes objects that are otherwise innocence and say they can be used in a malicious way and criminalize it but that is mostly state and local level and at the federal level you need something with a distinct federal concern. >> the treaty power. >> i don't think the treaty power especially with the disconne disconnect between

what i try to do in the synthetic lab is make the chemicals pure so we can see which chemicals are responsible for the smog. a lot of the chemicals have not been maid in the lab before. we are trying a lot. >> reporter: ever. >> ever. we are trying new things. >> reporter: once the chemical is created under the hood it's tested across campus in a different caltech lab. >> we are in the atmospheric labs, we bring the chemicals, synthesise them and put them in the atmospheric chambers and see what happens in the environment. this is the environmental chamber. >> reporter: wow. >> two big teflon bags where we mick im what happens -- mimic what happens in the atmosphere, we put in the chemicals that you find in a forest or city. we use instruments that we developed here in the lab to see what happens to them in the atmosphere. you can see it's surrounded by banks of uv lights, and that's the mimicked sun light. we let the rehabilitations in the as moss fear happen in here. only they happen faster. >> this is basically the laboratory version of the air over los angeles. >> over los angeles, over th

here we are 20 years later and no chemical has been banned yet.he doctors told me i could not back to washington to work, gundersen energy corp. announced that they had gotten drills for the grand mesa, which is the big top water that provides water for everyone on that side of the valley. and someone handed me the formula for what they were going to use when a fact -- they fracked, and i recognized a lot of chemicals, but there was one i did not recognize. i called my office and said, get me everything you can about this particular chemical. when i began to read about that particular chemical, i knew we were facing serious problems. and a year later, someone called me looking for me by the name of laura ams. she said, my house is within 350 feet of a well. i developed a very where -- a very rare adrenal gland tumor. it was horrible. chills went up and down the back of my neck. i know right where i was when she told me that. it will always be with me. and the worst part of it was that all the while she was beginning to develop this juror this tumo

, and because chemicals are poorly regulated in the united states, additional 1,000 chemicals are introduced every year. and we don't know a lot about the environment and health impacts of these chemicals but we do know that they are accumulating in the living organisms like our bodies and they are accumulating in the environment and due to the use of the chemicals and improper disposal. and often times it means that the products that contain these chemicals and so, our goals, are essentially twofold and one is to minimize health impacts to these chemicals by identifying and promoting safer alternatives and it could be safer practice or a product substitute and number two is to minimize the environmental impacts by creating an infrastructure for the safe disposal. and when we designed the programs, we look at two different things, one is that we understand that the tactics that we use have to be different based on the target audience and so when we work with businesses or residence we may have a different tactic and number two, we check in with our sister agencies to make sure that we are ge

a state of chemical weapons out the country and achieve so i think this is testament to the continued organizational capacity of the syrian state and it's worth contrasting with us general martin dempsey comments a few weeks ago. i would like to make a point here and ask him back another question because as we all know it took a lot of international diplomacy to get to this point and you know just looking at what's happening in the contrary well do you think serious compliance with the terms of the agreement in any way change its image and the eyes of the international community well there is this this strange phrase again international community which means many things to many people but generally tends to mean basically it will look very timely how will west how it's and they're not going to change their views about syria particularly you know we've seen how how dismissive they were of assets election in their church which again was a huge joke my position on state organized people that in syria and elsewhere completely dismissive of the results of the obvious popularity of their as

the iraqi chemical weapons most of them did not survive as stable chemical weapons in the environment very long. so there certainly are chem wal weapons and leakers there still. but they're much more dangerous to anyone who tries to get them than they had to anyone they could possibly be used on. the insurgents in 2004, five, tried to use a couple of these weapons as improvised roadside bombs and indeed, they killed no one. did no damage at all. so i mean it, i actually hope isis tries to dig through the facility and get access to them. they'll end up killing probably more effective than anyone else isis fighters. >> they're more of a threat to isis than they are to anyone else. that interesting. also interesting though, you know, the u.s. knew these things were there. so the question is, why are they still there? i want to play something that then secretary of state colin powell said in 2004. listen to this. >> not a figment of our imagination. he had chemical weapons. he had them at the time of the first gulf war. didn't use them. woo found those and destroyed them. >> he says we de

really the big headline today here on this story, chemical weapons. extremists fighters have taken a former chemical weapons production plant that still contains a stockpile of old weapons. in fact, you are looking at pictures. we went into the cnn vault today. this is back from -- a cnn crew shot this back in 2002. also the state department quick to shoot down the threat of these chemical weapons, saying it would be, quote, very difficult if not impossible to safely move the materials. but we did a little digging today. so according to this 2007 cia report, this facility is anything but safe. let me just read part of this report for you. quote, the most dangerous chemical munitions have been declared to the u.n. and are sealed in bunkers. although declared, the bunkers' contents have yet to be confirmed. these areas of the compound pose a hazard to civilians and potential black marketers. among the chemical agents once produced in this sprawling complex, you have mustard gas, sarin and vx. this is a nerve agent. bigger picture, arwa damon, let me bri

% of declared stock of chemical weapons. syria came up with a list of what chemical weapons it had. all on that list has been remo removed. they've got it on a tennis boat. they will now head out to see where they will head out to a ship that will break down those chemicals materials. is that all of syria arsenal, many don't believe it is. >> they're going to make the deadline because they go on the ship with special technology thoug that will break down ingredients for sarin and vx. they won't meet their officials deadline in one week's time. >> also from the united nations they're reacting strongly to the other story that we're reporting, that being the sentencing of our colleagues. >> absolutely. we've had a statement from the united states nations. she's put out a statement saying that she is un' with this verdict, condemning this verdict, so important coming from the u.n. on the situation and the verdict against three al jazeera correspondent. >> james bays, thank you very much. >>> well, lebanon is home to 3 million sy

firefighters try to contain the chemical fuel blaze but it's an uphill battle. the flames spread through the facility and find storage tanks of chemicals that erupt, causing a gigantic fireball. as day turns to night, huge bright clouds of fire rip through the dark sky. officials warn residents to keep windows and doors shut as toxic clouds of smoke billow into the air. the fire is so intense, shipping traffic on the nearby river is suspended for safety. it takes 200 firefighters two full days to bring the massive fire under control. fortunately, none of the 50 employees of the chemical facility or any firefighters are injured. >> you might want to back your units up. >> a train carrying propylene, a highly flammable petrochemical used in manufacturing blows up in texarcana, arkansas early in the morning, october 15th, 2005. a police car's dashboard camera captures the massive explosion. with no time to turn around, the officer throws his car into reverse and races backwards to escape the growing river of fire coming right at him. >> it was quite massive. just a

but this chemical didn't work. it was still growing. we have a statement from the cdc. >> in fact, eric, why don't you tell us. >> the cdc responding to this. this is the statement. quote, why this happened is a million-dollar question. we're getting to the bottom of this. these incidents can happen. the safety of our employees is priority one, and once this incident was realized, we moved swiftly to protect our workers. marc, you said the 2001 incidents, there was a woman, a hospital worker in new york, died. they thought maybe she got it from mailing or subway or something. >> eric, that's exactly what the level two lab does, and why it's important once they kill the anthrax, because they're trying to figure out how to identify anthrax. if you get a white powder in an envelope, how do you know that's anthrax? that's what the level two lab is trying to figure out, so health authorities can look quickly and say, that's not anthrax, don't worry about it. >> so the chemical didn't work. >> it worked for 24 hours. it did work for 24 hours.

how do you get rid of harmful chemicals?k with broccoli and sprouts. >> if you go to china, you will. this is from johns hopkins, they look at 300 chinese people who are living in areas of high pollution if give them broccoli sprouts and tested the urine and they produceed more carcinogens. they were getting rid of the bad stuff. when you talk about dex -- detox i think of drinks more water, getting massage, drinking more tea and coffee, pruett and vegetables, eating right, exercising a lot, sweating, maybe going for one of the massages with the herbal scrubs but that is it. if you overdo this, not the broccoli, you end up with the liquid diets or fad diets and upset what is going on in your colin. it is not good. >> i don't know where he gets a massage in china but this is about 50 miles from shanghai. the pollution is horrendous. what i like is there is science behind it. it was published in the clinical cancer prevention and they looked at 300 patients and some took this broccoli sprout and some didn't. what they found af

final batch of syria's declared toxic gas been handed over it is now out of the country the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms they will now be destroyed. cranium deputies admit to forty children killed in the government's military offensive while the new president goes ignored by state forces and opponents alike . also this hour to poland's foreign minister allegedly gets called out by a leaked foul mouthed conversation suggesting his nation paths to world merica. live from moscow eight pm says r t international with me kevin zero in on our top story his revelation shook some of the fundamental bonds between citizens of the state but instead of a nobel prize is efforts earned him a top place of america's most wanted list yes it is now a year since former n.s.a. employee edward snowden landed here in russia his asylum ends next month and still not clear what's next for him then while his whereabouts remain secret to your press cut off next looks at how snowden managed to slip through washington's fingers even though the world was watching. c.n.n. now has the word that edward snowden

of chemical weapons is over? it's a done deal? >> yes, it's a very big question, and does it mean that joint special mission is going to be wound up? well, it will come back to new york for debate on the security council which passed resolution. i can tell you there are some western diplomats that believe this saga is not over. some western intelligence agencies do not believe they have declared all of their stock. that will become clear in the next coming days. >> james bays in new york. thanks, james. >>> urging iraq's top shia leaders to form a more inclusive government, this comes as the rebels push to gain ground in the northeast. they are in control of the only road west to jordan and they're in control of tikrit andrea mad diand ramadi, which is the road to baghdad. in mosul members of the sunni rebel group islamic state in iraq and the levant have been guiding traffic and giving copies of qur'an driving by. the area was captured by isil two weeks ago. thewe have more. >> it's not difficult to imagine what

it's so risk. >> altering chemical structures is a common thing. >> when you are altering these chemicaltructures, it's very easy to do, something we do every day. the problem here is that we need to regulate because there is no control over how toxic these chemicals are and it's difficult to do that. >> thanks for sharing your expertise. now, kosta, coming up next, what phone? >> brand-new company has uncovered a way to track your phone through your wi-fi. >> we will see that coming up next. >> we want to hear what you think about these stories. join the conversation by following us on twitter and at aljazeera.com. >>> welcome back to "techknow." kosta, when it comes to tracking, we will see it in a spy film but you are finding it in a different context? >> companies are using your cell phones to market to you now. we went to toronto and visited a number of companies who are using your bluetooth, wifi signal, cellular that's sold bying a greg gat to explore where you are going and what you are looking at so they can market to you more effectively. let's check it out. toronto, canada. it

it's so risk. >> altering chemical structures is a common thing. >> when you are altering these chemicaltructures, it's very easy to do, something we do every day. the problem here is that we need to regulate because there is no control over how toxic these chemicals are and it's difficult to do that. >> thanks for sharing your expertise. now, kosta, coming up next, what phone? >> brand-new company has uncovered a way to track your phone through your wi-fi. >> we will see that coming up next. >> we want to hear what you think about these stories. join the conversation by following us on twitter and at aljazeera.com. >> al jazeera america's presents the system with joe burlinger observing a crime >> a shocking number of these eyewitnesses get it wrong >> how much would you remember? >> dark complected... medium height... you described most of the majority of the men in america >> sometimes witnesses get it right >> when you have an eyewitness to say i saw him do it, that is the best evidence. >> and sometimes sometimes they don't >> no one is listening to us... george is innocent... >> th

a wasteland of destroyed chemical munitions and unusable war-ravaged facilities."n the run-up to the iraq war they were looking for weapons of mass destruction's at the time. this facility did not fall into that facility because it was known to the u.s. and had been inspected and virtually dismantled by u.n. inspectors before the war started. jon: still not good news whatever that stuff is, it is in the hands of the isis folks. >> never good news when isis takes over military facility. jon: jennifer griffin, thank you. uma: when the irs commissioner on the hot seat taking tough questions from the furious lawmakers i house ways and means committee. refusing to apologize after claims lois lerner's hard drive was destroyed. e-mails have simply gone missing. all of it potentially evidence in the political targeting scandal. mike emanuel joining us from capitol hill. a lot of fireworks this morning. >> a lot of fireworks with john koskinen on the hot seat in a line of fire about the issues of missing e-mails. let's take a look at the house ways and means committee room.

bunch of syria's declared toxic arsenals been handed over it's now out of the country the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms they will now be destroyed. near moscow my name is kevin owen you're watching r.t. international it's good to have you with us with our top story this hour coming through in the last few hours anti-government activists in eastern ukraine have decided to join the cease fire proposed by kiev promising to lay down arms now until friday let's get more from acosta is on the line from the nets roman hi there what exactly is being decided to put more meat on the bones of this for us. well happy to say that we witnessed a first attempt at an actual dialogue between the warring sides no guns or artillery fire this time around and yes indeed the anti-government activists peoples republic of the gonski holds a republic have agreed to a cease fire which will last until it's wednesday seventh of june and till ten o'clock in the morning in fact the peace talks have been brokered by a trilateral up party that's goes. second president of ukraine always see representative. sw

the fact that syria's declared chemical weapons, 100% of the declared chemical weapons have been closedded on board ships to be disposes of under international agreement. secretary kerry is in baghdad with talks with the al-maliki government there to try to stem this violence that is convulsing iraq right now. we thought he might open with some comments about that. we'll continue to monitor his remarks and let you know what the secretary has to say. jenna: interesting business story coming up for you. the gluten-free craze. have you seen that in your grocery store? cookies that are gluten-free, something like that? it is a multibillion-dollar business. even though a fraction of americans need to eat gluten-free foods. we're behind the story and business behind it. an op he had of critical of president's handling of the crisis in iraq. how the media is covering it. we'll take a closer look yet. >> almost seems like you're accusing the president of treason here, saying he is intentionally bringing america down a notch. jenna: still to come, a boating trip taking a harrowing turn as a flor

batch of syria's declared toxic assholes been handed over it is now out of the country the global chemical weapons watchdog confirms they will be destroyed. this news even very good even if you just joined us is kevin oh and here it r t h q first as mentioned developments in ukraine to tell you about that just coming in the last few minutes antigovernment forces in the east have agreed to the ceasefire with the kiev military but they also accused the government of violating its hold with fresh offensive you have in turn blames the rebels for the failure of the proposed to cotton we hope to bring you the latest on this fast moving story tonight roman culture of our correspondent in about five ten minutes time in fact we just hear it now we've got the connection with roman cost or if either roman. very good to get you in this early stage in the program bring us up to speed on what's just been announced here this breaking news story that. well for the first time the warring sides of the have actually said down for a dialogue without any guns or a heavy artillery and the representatives all fa

chemical weapons are gone. it turns out the country that did arm the rebels the way john mccain and lindsey graham and all the rest wanted, thank god for saudi arabia, this new reporting at least alleges what happened to the group that they armed and funded is that that group became the frankenstein monster that, yeah, has done pretty well against assad in syria, but boy have they done great in iraq. they've done way better in iraq taking over whole huge swaths of what we used to consider to be the nation of iraq, but which now may be dissolving as a country. joining us now, steve clemons, editor at large for "the atlantic" and senior fellow at the new america foundation. steve, thanks for being with us. congratulations on this very scary story. >> thank you. well, thanks in a way. >> well, let me ask you about -- let me just ask you to extrapolate on what i just said and your broader findings here. the saudi government does not admit to having funded and armed isis as far as i know. but you're essentially repo

but don't blame them just yet. >> trees give off a bumpily of different chemicals. obviously, oxygen that's useful for us to breathe. >> a variety of other come points including i-so phrne. it's one of the main chemicals that gets emit and it is responsible for a lot of the smog that we see. >> here is how it works. when i-so prene mixes it causes ozone and other part calls for smog. getting to the bottom of how that works is what kel haven't is researching. >> we don't know exactly what pathways, what chemical reactions take place that convert i-so prene to substances that are sticky enough, e se serbcially to help form part of calls. those are the chemical reactions i am trying to figure out. >> this conversion from i-s i-so prenes comes out of plants to smog, that's what you are working on in this hood. >> exactly. what i try to do here in the synthetic lab is make some of these chemicals very pure so that we can see exactly which chemicals are responsible for the smog. >> joining us now is "techknow"'s phil torres. hi, phil. >> hi, john. >> so this is a very biz

chemical weapons. reporting that sunni extremist fighters have taken a former chemical weapons production plant that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, apparently. our nic robertson is working sources here. he has actually been to that plant years ago. he is going to join news a moment. jim sciutto is working the pentagon. we'll talk to all of them ahead. >>> the news headlines also today, president obama called a key moment for iraq, a moment when he says the fate of this country hangs in the balance. one last chance for the political leadership here to get its act together and somehow keep this country together. the president made it plain what is tearing iraq apart at its core is political. that's the long-term problem he believes, and it has to be the long-term solution. but because the immediate problem is military, sunni forces rampaging while the iraqi army cuts and runs in many cases in the north, mr. obama today offered military help and american military personnel, not he says to figh

>> it did have and likely does have a number of chemical weapons.hey are almost certainly heavily degraded. the facility was sealed two decades ago. everything is likely in extremely poor condition. frankly, anybody, including members of isis right now, that try to enter it through the earth then burns are going to need protective equipment and it is not clear at this point they have the capabilities to go in and use anything in there, specially if it is even useable. >> before i bring in buck, i want to ask you another question, seth. i know you have been researching in particular isis and the use of sarin gas, which can be devastating, a chemical weapon. tell us what you know? >> well, what's particularly concerning, even if isis isn't able to use anything at the chemical weapons complex, what is a little bit more concerning is that they have had at least for the past year probably longer an effort to build chemical weapons, particularly sarin production capability. we have had arrests in turkey and iraq, individuals connected with in aan al qaeda

not clear what would happen to the chemical weapons munitions there. but it's certainly somewhere that they can -- that they have control of. that there are hardened bunkers. that they can avoid at least an onslaught by tanks and artillery by the iraqi army. it's certainly somewhere that's got safe shelter for them from -- from ground base weapon systems. drone strikes, heavy bombs, tomahawks, missiles could have a more deadly impact there. >> nic robertson live for us in baghdad. nic, thank you for your reporting today. and from what you shared with us from 2002. >>> now, the outlines of the president's newly announced plan to send those military personnel, those advisers, back into iraq are firming up today. we have just learned that these first so-called advisers will come from u.s. contingents in iraq already. and they will be a boost to what amounts to an intelligence surge. they want to find out where isis fighters are lurking and where they hope to strike next. eventually they would be guiding iraqi forces toward militaryl l ground work for u.s.

she is upset about the chemicals on the food. she writes articles about symphony of the soil, raw milk the evil chemicals like tos fade. you want us to buy organic food and you do? >> absolutely. i think organic food is a win-win-win situation. >> what is organic food? is it organic chemistry is it filled with chemicals. >> it is two different things. one is organic the definition the usda has. the other organic is used lose lie by people like me. when i say organic is farming practices where the soil is restored and revitalized. >> and no pesticides? >> that he is right. >> what's wrong with that, john? >> first of all she just said something that is totally wrong. there were about 30 pages of usda regulations. >> explain? >> organic farmers use pesticides as much or more than conventional farmers. they are just natural. >> absolutely go on the internet usda bacteria and listeria doesn't mean it is less harmful. >> natural doesn't always mean it's less harmful. there are poisonous mushrooms and poisonous plants we can eat. there

weapons were apparently completely destroyed that's according to the two chemical weapons officials organizations what does that mean for the war and international attitudes towards the syrian government. that the syrian government has you are saying they have destroyed their chemical weapons that's right that's according to the watchdogs which we're following the process right so if the syrian government has destroyed destroy the chemical weapons i think they're just of fulfilling their the promises they made. me following international community moves forward with syria especially taking into consideration what we're seeing with isis in iraq. right this is the u.s. plan they don't care about chemical weapons or whether syria has them on or that's just an excuse to intervene and try to overthrow assad know with the invasion of iraq the u.s. is going to be more encouraged to replace a so they would say look these fundamentalists everywhere so we must invade syria as well and they will try to use this as a pretext to take military action against. all right assist me award winning wri

chemical weapons in iraq, that's the breaking news. sunni extremists fighter haves taken a former chemical weapons production plant that still contains a stockpile of old weapons, apparently. nick robertson is working sources and he's been to the plant years ago and will join us in a moment. jim is working the pentagon. president obama this afternoon call add key moment for iraq. a moment he says the fate of this country hangs in the bat lance. one last chance to keep this country together. the president made a plan tearing iraq apart at the core is political. that's the long-term problem he believes and has to be the long-term solution but because the immediate problem is military, sunni forces rampaging and the iraqi army cuts and runs in the north, mr. obama today offering military help and american military personnel not to fight but advice the iraqi military. after laying out the plan, he got a reminder as if any commander in chief needs one of the consequences of any decision to send americans to danger zones or back into them. h

i applaud what he did to get the chemical weapons out of syria. are you saying now that whatever reservations people had about u.s. leadership in the world, they have been reassured and it is no longer an issue? >> i cannot speak for them. i did speak to them, but i will not speak for them. i think they would probably appreciate that. i will say this, the notion that the united states is unprepared to use military force is belied by the facts. it was president obama who surged our forces into afghanistan. we are trying to bring to a close at the end of 2014 our combat mission in afghanistan, after the longest war in u.s. history. history. this president has been willing to use force to protect our interest. we have also used force collectively in libya to deal with the threat there. libya is having a very difficult time today. >> what is our role to influence libya? >> we have tried hard to help a government come to the fore that is legitimate and has staying power. for a while that was the case, and now they have had it a series of handovers from

chemical weapons facility? isn't that the one virtue of our having gone to iraq was to get rid of these stockpiles? how do they still exist? >> this was the largest chemical weapons facility, storage facility and when we got up there in 2003, of course, the weapons weren't used since the iran/iraq war. they have all deteriorated and are in bad shape, and my understanding is that the engineers looked at this and said this stuff is too dangerous to even approach. >> all the time we've been there, they were left there. >> i believe there,was a bad decision. somebody should have either buried this stuff or taken steps to -- >> where does it go on the list of bad decisions? >> we blew up one of these depots before. >> and it exposed a lot of troops, including me to sarin gas, so it's very dangerous to handle this stuff. >> what does that mean about their capability to use it? do they have the technology, and are they even stable enough to be used? >> i don't know. i don't think anybody knows until they get in there,

. >>> and i'll update you on the effort to get rid of chemical weapons in -- syria. ♪ >>> we begin tonightegypt, where three of our al jazeera colleagues have been condemned to spending years behind bars simply for reporting the news. they were accused of broadcasting laws, and aiding the now banned muslim brotherhood. what happened in court today produced shock, anger, and dis >> reporter: it was a verdict nearly six months in the making. the alleged crime, journalists doing their job. peter greste, mohammed fahmy, and baher mohamed have been sentenced to seven years behind bars. the journalists reacted with anger. and their families were in disbelief. >> i don't know how the judge came to that decision. i'll be very interested to hear his -- his reasons for giving that verdict. it doesn't make any sense. >> translator: it's clearly a corrupt and fraudulent verdict. the case is politically motivated and everything is wrong with it. >> reporter: the response from the australian government was swift. >> this kind of verdict does nothing to support egypt's claim to be on transition to become

and russia to destroy syria's chemical weapons. parties office and the west bank is trying to salvage its work after suffering a devastating raid by israeli troops the assault was apparently part of crackdown on local media centers and broader campaign against the palestinian authorities who are being blamed for the kidnap of three israeli teenagers so all of this forced their way into the building used by a transmission company for media where artie's office is also based while they damaged furniture technical equipment and completely destroyed computer hardware troops also confiscated some archive materials and r.t. asked the israeli defense forces for an explanation since the channel is not linked to the work on palestinian media the i.d.f. answers fell somewhat short. well first israel has already said the goal of the raid was the channel which is surprising since the chalice studio is based in another building so the i.d.f. tried again saying that no they were actually trying to search a t.v. eventually the i.d.f. admitted its

i want to go back to the syria chemical weapons situation. i know that the administration sees this as a policy victory, but i'm wondering if that's tempered at all given the fact that even if you've gotten all of the known chemical weapons out of syria, that policy has done virtually nothing to stop the civil war there, and that conflict is bleeding over into iraq. >> i guess the short answer to your question is, yes. we remain very concerned about the situation in syria. what's notable about this announcement today is that for a long time the assad regime in syria was one of the more conspicuous violators of the widely accepted notion across the globe that chemical weapons have no place, particularly when they're being used against civilians as they were last august. the fact that syria has now, you know, declared that they have chemical weapons, signed the treaty, and has cooperated with the international community to dispose of those declared chemical weapons is an important step. and there was some justified skepticism by people in this

didn't use chemical weapons and there's not a great deal of evidence to suggest they did use chemical weapons there is way of evidence to suggest that those whom the americans were supporting used chemical weapons so you know into this contradictory and confusing and rather tumultuous situation. the almost the black and white of u.s. foreign policy doesn't work doesn't work in their own terms. since most are talking about syria the issue of syria has been completely eclipsed by ukraine lately no one since to mention it anymore meanwhile the american administration is still providing arms to the opposition so could unleash a syrian yeah but could it be that could it be that united states is getting a free rein there wild russia is busy possibly possibly where the i read the other day that that there was there is going to be a non-lethal line lethal aid to some of the the opponents. of the jihad as opposing the assad regime yes. the world looks the other way and things happen i i think that's i think that's very possible where that is heading it is almost impossible to know. because my

number of freedom industries the company responsible for the january chemical leak that contaminated drinking water for three hundred thousand people across west virginia everyone in the media was all over the story vilifying freedom and calling for their head in the news media acted like they actually cared cut to a few months later and everyone seems to have forgotten about freedom industries but guess what they just spilled again twice in two days at the site where they're supposed to be cleaning up their mass they have a collection ditch for rainwater that overflowed for two straight days which sent runoff right back into the elk river again putting thousands of residents drinking water at risk for toxic contaminants but this time newsmedia is m.i.a. not only is freedom industries doing a sub par job of cleaning up their mess they're paying contractors big money to do it and here's the thing about that there are lots of people that were harmed by this bill and are seeking compensation there are people with lost wage claims out of pocket expenses for medical treatment and other bu