having fallen sick it's the poisonous fumes from the masses massive rubbish tip well let's go to dan hawkins now he's at the demonstration for us dan good afternoon i'm just describing the situation there at the moment. is a fairly small town just outside moscow about twenty thousand people but for most of the morning the square behind me was packed with hundreds of protesters many unable to get in because of lack of space shut down shame where the power here with the shards echoing through the square referring of course to the yard or landfill site near the town that's been there for quite a number of years but it's only recently that the situation has deteriorated very rapidly noxious gases chlorine sulfide have been thrown up by the land full of hope that i made it very difficult for residents to breathe causing medical problems for many of them as well so now the authorities do admit there's a problem they say gases are in excess of normal levels residents say that's only half the truth they say that these fumes are dozens of times higher than the acceptable norm the situation is so crit

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interesting to see now what impact this will have on investigation sure ok thanks dan i was there dan hawkins there with the day thank you. so the nice afternoon the israeli army has hit six hammers targets in response to what it describes as terror activity in the northern part of the gaza strip the strike follows a day of palestinian protests along the border. well three people were reportedly killed and almost nine hundred wounded during friday's rallies according to the palestinian health ministry the protests are part of the six week great march of return generous in the diary visited a local hospital after the latest on rest. we are in the central hospital in gaza strip where this hospital received all the injuries from the fat fans fans area from the five locations that are protesting that the fifth friday of the great great march of return this is up another injury that's came just right now from the fans there have been severe injuries in the had and in the legs. in the post minutes we received at least ten people with severe injuries to the stomach and they were doing in the minutes

dan hawkins there were author and russia analyst martin mccauley thinks there's nothing special in the so-called revelations that a lawyer sometimes works for the prosecutor's office this agrees ation that the television. is very criminal agent doesn't stand up because as a lawyer she can give advice to the prosecutor general's office and meet members of the prosecutor general's office and as a lawyer that's quite legal there's nothing there's nothing illegal about it and you can go to the united states and represent a client it's just another meeting and tribe jr met her. and he said it only lasted twenty minutes they didn't speak about very much if the opposition of robert miller then can find evidence. they were conspiring together they were trying trying to undermine hillary clinton so it's up to them to do that but on the face of it just not me bt. would have to prove that it had other. rover objectives in the meeting and it find it very very difficult. to prove. now it's fifteen years since one of the darkest chapters of the iraq war three massacre that was when u.s. soldiers ope

made the announcement at a party meeting according to the state news agency with more details is dan hawkins . now that nuclear ization is complete and verified circumstances we do not need any further nuclear tests medium long range an intercontinental missile tests what we have from the korean central news agency the official state agency as kim jong un has an out from the april twenty first the country to be suspending all nuclear tests and all ballistic missile tests shutting down one of the key nuclear testing facilities and focusing instead its resources according to the north korean leader on building a strong socialist economy and mobilizing people to increase the country's quality of life they've also added to that of course a clause. that was likely to be one stating that north korea will never use nuclear weapons unless there is a nuclear threat or nuclear provocation to the country so that is the clause we have to bear in mind here they've also said they're willing to intensify dialogue and negotiations with both neighbors and the international community so that's the context her

daniel hawkins hi dan good to see you again on the much more can you tell us about this surprise announcement well it's pretty big news kate obviously in fact i can't remember when such a straight forward about sort about north korea's nuclear program was made last sort of the thought of relations back in twenty fifteen what we heard from the korean central news agency the official state agency is kim jong un has announced from the april twenty first the country to be suspending all nuclear tests and all ballistic missile tests shutting down all of the key nuclear testing facilities and focusing instead its resources according to the north korean leader on building a strong socialist economy mobilizing people to increase the country's quality of life they've also added to that of course a clause. that was likely to be one that north korea will never use nuclear weapons unless there is a nuclear threat or nuclear provocation to the country so that is the clause we have to bear in mind here they've also said they're willing to intensify dialogue and negotiations with both maybe and the internat

russia for the election certainly that will raise some questions as well sure ok thanks dan that was a dangle hawkins' there for us. all the joy now for the reaction of martin mccauley he's an author and russia analyst to we need to hear now good afternoon to you martin we were just talking there were down you'll remember how significant is the timing of this because it does come hot on the heels of the. the announcement that there was no collusion between trump's campaign and russia. well if you're a democrat you still cannot accept the fact that don't trouble won the election so therefore you have to keep banging away that he did it by cheating in collusion with the russians but others and of course the senate has now said we can't find the evidence there's no evidence there and so and so the democrats and the liberal the liberal press which supports. the democrats and hillary clinton they will keep banging away and keep. me to destroy told this this agrees ation that the television it's chaos is in fact a criminal agent doesn't stand up because as a lawyer she can give advice to the prosecutor gen

hawkins thanks very much for that. those who reported on the alleged attack and it was dan was just saying there some have question marks hanging over their credibility has more i guess they have explained . reports of a chemical attack first appeared strange enough it's almost the precise moment the battle had ended when the syrian government and rebels were negotiating on how to evacuate the latter reports first appeared on social media twitter facebook and spread like wildfire while my colleague kendall anian and i have learned today that the u.s. now has blood and a year in samples from some of the victims of this attack in syria last weekend and that those samples according to u.s. officials tested positive for chemicals sources the usuals why the helmets who service rescuers islamists and syrian rebels also the somewhat less known syrian american medical society savin's together with the white helmets they were cited by the washington post the new york times c.n.n. virtually every western media outlets reporting on this chemical attack on saturday april seventh amidst continuous bombardment of residential neighbor