during his visit to the hague last december the u.n. secretary-general was very impressed by what was being done in our city in this domain. all the more reason to continue along our chosen path, path in which, in my view, has also another purpose. which has to do with the other side of the digital revolution and establishing boundaries. rules about what is and what is not acceptable. it is clear that the digital technology is changing our world in countless ways. nothing stays as it was. this also means that measures need to be taken to present -- prevent these technologies from falling into the wrong hands and are being used in the wrong way. or to put it more strongly, it is vital that applications of artificial intelligence, big data and quantum computing are way that will a benefit mankind. the hague is delighted to offer a platform for that. this is also something that we are very capable of doing. first and foremost because the vast knowledge and expertise available in our city. and i am referring not just to the hague itself, bu

w but the request has been rejected or it is bitter all reports now from the hague . and the day started with russia's permanent representative i'll extend the should again putting forward russia's proposal which was for what he called a communal a inclusive. investigation involving all members of the the o.p.c. w now that was dismissed by the by the executive council it was voted down by by fifteen to six with seventeen abstentions however russia's representative he was speaking to us just behind me now at the embassy here in the hague he said it's also the emotion didn't go through it did show that more people didn't support of that they were actually in favor of it. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the british and americans voted against it and then nato and some e.u. member states and u.s. allies followed suit for twenty three countries which are huge one way or another take this western view that's more than half of the executive council that was viewed very differently by boris johnson the

but that request has been rejected artie's peter oliver reports now from the hague . and the day started with russia's permanent representative i'll extend the should again putting forward russia's proposal which was for what he called a communal a inclusive. investigation involving all members of the the o.p.c. w now that was dismissed by the by the executive council it was voted down by by fifteen to six with seventeen abstentions however russia's representative he was speaking to us just behind me now at the embassy here in the hague he said this also the motion didn't go through it did show that more people didn't support of that they were actually in favor of it. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed two thirds of votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then nato and some e.u. member states and u.s. allies followed suit but twenty three countries have a huge one way or another take this western viewpoint that's more than half of the executive council well it was viewed very differently by boris johnson the b

the opcw has been holding an emergency meeting at the hague,— an emergency meeting at the hague, at russia's discuss the poisoning. the government has strongly defended its belief that russia was behind the nerve agent attack in salisbury after the head of the porton down defence laboratory said it could not confirm the precise source of the substance used to poison sergei skripal and his daughter. anna holligan reports. what was the substance, where did it come from and who planted it? theresa may told parliament the attack involved a military—grade nerve agent and that the only plausible explanation was that russia was culpable, an allegation moscow has repeatedly denied. yesterday, the head of britain's military research centre at porton down confirmed it had identified the highly toxic novichok but was unable to prove where it had been produced. investigators from the opcw visited salisbury and collected samples, they‘ re expecting to have the results of independent lab tests within a week. as a signatory of the chemical weapons convention, russia has the right to request a meeting. 13 q

ok four hours of talks but not much gilding thanks very much for that in the hague thanks. well let's get some reaction now from a political commentator and journalist john white into the program. a few things that have been developing in the past few hours so from wind back a little bit if i may first of all that tweet that we talked about a few minutes ago the foreign office tweet that said pull downs lavage confirm the nerve agents origin as russian they say that tweet was a blunder now dissipated how do you read this. well it's worse than our blunder it's an absolute scandal and it's a scandal which has seen the government's entire narrative since the script of us were poisoned in sorcery and beginning of march unraveling at warp speed i mean this is the biggest and most serious political scandal to go for the u.k. on foreign policy since iraq war though you would never guess it given the the say the lease of jude means stream media coverage of these explosive revelations from the scientists that porton down and the reason that the media coverage has been source of jude

however russia's representative he was speaking to us just behind me now at the embassy here in the hague he said this also the motion didn't go through it did show that more people didn't support of that they were actually in favor of it. unfortunately we didn't manage to get the needed to church votes for the resolution to pass obviously the brits and americans voted against and then nato and some e.u. member states and u.s. allies followed suit but twenty three countries have issues one way or another take this western viewpoint that's more than half of the executive council was viewed very differently by boris johnson the british foreign secretary he referred to the motion put forward by russia or is being ludicrous and said that it was defeated because of that he said that this is being put forward as an attempt to divert attention away from an investigation that was actually focusing on russia this was also backed up by a very strong message from the european union as well the representative from the nation saying that russia has provided basic information to the united kingdom that

misery a nation in the hague has. seen a steady start of this year and up to this day has sent over one hundred ninety notes of them to the technical secretary of the the c.w. no i leave my home. would be. fine and then i mean they would handle my that and now you have info to say one more said how well much while there aren't groups of terrorists planning how to organize the how will be have. an incident to provoke. and which. after which the syrian army and the syrian government shutdown. more who are using chemical weapons we have provided with our notion you know what's a word to the secretary of health and kenya and showing all the lace meant the locations of chemical warehouses. where bitter old mean their use chemical weapons have been though roll into the country it will brush advised terrorists who ordered a yeti had. one measurement of my every time they sky ends of incidents happen when we hear statements like this can or you to him we hear is that there legations story we hear that the blame is always alwa

meeting at the hague what do we know about it and what has russia been saying so far. well according to the british delegation to the o.p.c. w. arrived in damascus by saturday still waiting to be allowed to visit the scene of last week's chemical weapons incidents in duma now the brits say that they're not being allowed to go by the russians and the syrians and the u.s. delegation to the o.p.c. w. has already said things that perhaps russia has been tampering with the scene in duma so we're having pushback to both of those accusations from the russians the russian delegations the o.p.c. w says that this accusation from the u.s. side is basically just you know the u.s. trying to undermine the integrity of the fact finding mission before it's even got to the site and made any assessments and against the u.k. allegation well the foreign ministry here is said that actually the reason why the delegation is being delayed is not because of anything the russians are doing but because of the airstrikes that were launched by the united states france and the u.k. over the weekend

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it's been a very long day here in the hague but it's been very short when it comes to answers to some of the questions that we were perhaps hoping for we don't hear. many of those remain up in the air and open questions as to just who was behind the poisoning and thirty three power and who will be taking part in the investigation and how that will permit out ok thanks pete for the update there or furthermore the u.k. stable of the o.p.c. w. meeting contained number of arguments to back its case against russia some more controversial than others going by the reaction britain brought up a chemical incident in syria first off which took place a year ago to the day and led to u.s. president donald trump taking military action against syria the u.k.'s former ambassador to syria peter ford spoke to us he thinks this shows the u.k. struggling to find strong evidence to blame russia the british authorities jumped to the conclusion that they wanted to see a seized on a pretext and then invented the evidence to justify that. was circumstantial evidence that russia might have been involved and t

international chemical weapons experts met at the hague today at russia's request.vidence linking the nerve agent to russia. it is still reeling from the expulsion of more than 100 diplomatic staff from over 20 countries. all based on material shared by britain with its allies. but visiting turkey, president putin said he hoped a line could be drawn under last month's poisoning in salisbury. britain's chemical warfare research establishment at porton down has inadvertently thrown moscow a lifeline. in an interview yesterday, its chief executive said his scientists had identified the poison but not its source. opponents of the government say this is somewhat at odds with earlier assertions made to german media by the foreign secretary. how did you manage to find it out so quickly? does britain possess samples of this? when i look at the evidence, i mean the people from porton down, the laboratory... so they have the samples? they do. and they were absolutely categorical. and i asked the guy myself, i said, are you sure. and he said there's no doubt. visiting a nurser

wu is expected to shed more light on the case as it meets in the hague. and american photo journalist who was once held by al qaeda in syria says he was betrayed by the f.b.i. he claims the intelligence service used him to track the terrorists and didn't try to help him. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me and good to have you with us this hour now countries around the world are looking to the international chemical weapons watchdog today for answers in this group power poisoning case the o.p.c. w. is meeting as we speak to discuss the attack on the former spy and his daughter in southern england a month ago ahead of the talks the chief of a british military laboratory may have partly debunked the u.k.'s core assertion that moscow was to blame he said that they couldn't tell where the nerve agent used was produced. we have not verified the for say source but we provided the scientific information to the government but you have not been able to establish porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide

right let's bring you right up to speed now let's go live to the hague where the o.p.c. w. meeting has now concluded after a few hours of talks peter all of us there hi there peter bring us up to speed on what can you tell us this hour. hello. well what we understand is that the russian permanent representative to the executive council alexander shogun issued a proposal this morning now that was for what is being called a. joint constructive and civilized investigation joint investigation along with other members in the united kingdom that has been rejected out of hand by the u.k. side we saw that in a tweet coming out from the u.k. representatives to the o.p.c. w. just behind me they said that offer was both perverse and designed to be diversionary now that was also followed up just a short while ago by a statement from the e.u. now that was delivered by the bulgarian ambassador here who said. that well the e.u. doesn't agree with the proposal that was put forward by russia that russia did not provide information to the united kingdom when it was requested to do so that ru

me as a legal i had hoped it would have been tested my decision in the international court at the hague i was there needed counsel for the united kingdom with nine other nato countries and regrettably unhappily they did not to take take a decision on the legal situation all i would say i know that are some academic lawyers who disagree with my decision all around the world from yale to oxford academic lawyers have a great tradition of disagreeing on many many issues but i would play paid eight one of the good way to study english lawyers. former supreme court judge in his book the rule of law the only comment he would make he did not discredit a doctorate he did not a tax a doctor what it said it's a controversial doctrine and it is controversial and i wish there was a decision by the international court at the hague which would have dos what i have done and what the government has now done here but the fact that they didn't endorse your decision because of is in effect a verdict is really not a verdict that's the that's the problem we were trying to fight about is what was established

charter article two paragraph four what happened in the hague or yugoslavia sued nine countries trying to get an injunction in order to stop the bombing they failed to do so the quarter germans did not take a decision i had hoped within a year there would have been a decision but nothing came from yugoslavia from the from the court presumably because yugoslavia was no longer in existence but i would have loved to have a decision to confirm a situation where there is a vacuum palaces and the united nations is an able of the. willing to act and that's what you do i mean. there were hundreds of thousands of people suffering from ethnic cleansing murder the fact leave the mass. law as you for virtually general know clearly why did theresa may not use what you are about to tell me about the dreadful circumstances in the former yugoslavia as part of her legal justification for what it did in her statement she quoted she quoted don't let clear the words from my book but she did say i am following exactly the precedent of what was done in kosovo and those are linked from her statement and i us

russia has lost a vote at a meeting of the international chemical weapons regulator at the hague, calling for a fresh inquiry into the salisbury nerve agent attack. russia has demanded an emergency meeting of the un security council to discuss the uk allegations. meanwhile, boris johnson has accused jeremy corbyn of siding with the russian spin machine after the labour leader said the foreign secretary had exaggerated a claim that moscow was behind the attack. our diplomatic correspondent james landale is here. the foreign secretary there really on the attack againstjeremy corbyn, but the foreign office itself is facing some embarrassment having somewhat overstepped mart in some tweets it has been making. what's happened is the british government has gone into a muddle. the basis of its assessment that it was highly likely that russia was responsible for the nerve agent attack in salisbury was always based on a bit of science and a bit of intelligence. the science saying this stuff is not a jot, a nerve agent from russia, and the intelligent agent saying the russians have stockpiles and a

to mold wasn't hit by gas attack taking a group of syrians to the chemical weapons watchdog in the hague. thousands protest across spain after five men known as the wolf pack are cleared of gang rape and pump load. come to the program our top story north korean leader kim jong un is on his way to historic face to face meeting with his south korean counterpart which is due to begin in around two and a half hours in will host kim in the south korean border village of puntland jom on friday morning they'll discuss a broad range of issues including nuclear and missile programs north korea's state news agency says kim will open hearted lee discussed improving into korean relations and achieving the peace prosperity and security of the korean peninsula so let's look at how the day is set to unfold kim jong un will travel to the demilitarized zone on the tight security to meet and making him the first north korean leader to cross the border since the korean war kim will be flanked by nine officials including his sister who led delegation to this year's winter olympics after meeting in the morni

spent eleven and furious in the hague that tension unit this star will be included in toe his sentence which means that he is a also formally free. voting is just closed in a contentious not presidential election in azerbaijan results will likely extend to crunch it will have president and how many of you seeking a fourth consecutive term in office election was boycotted by opposition parties who described it as a sham they've accused the government to preparing to rig the vote u.s. republican house speaker paul ryan says he won't be running for reelection ryan says he will serve out his current term before retiring in january is announcement follows a series of regional election wins for democrats and mounting republican concerns about the possibility to hold on to its majority in the house of representatives president donald trump to eat at the raw and would leave behind a legacy of achievement i really do not believe what or i stay or go in twenty nineteen is going to affect a person's individual race for congress i really don't think a person's race for congress is going to hinge o

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farmers from all over the world have gathered in the hague like percy schmeiser from canada. had allegedly found genetically modified rapeseed in his fields for which there was supposed to pay license fees. the farmer refused insisting he never used months out of seeds. it was really seeds client and who really owns the gene supply and that's what it's all about and in the end this report a can of the rule that we had we did not have to keep. any money had we had five years or seven years of court battle which i have. through. their part we have to pay our court costs right. we'll continue these underhanded practices. and as i already certain may twenty sixth seen there will also manage the new operations according to our standards by a stance for transparency for liability and a different style of debate is. a different style of debate meaning. we intend to deal with our customers and other interest groups in a way that is based on our values in a way that has been the company's policy for many decades you know. monsanto and virus dismissed the event as a circus. but the tri

meeting live to the hague our europe correspondent peter all of us there first of all bring us up to speed on what this meeting is that russia's call. the meeting taking place just behind me well and the way now it's been ongoing since this morning a few tidbits of come out but it is closed to the press that's why i'm speaking to you from outside right now but it was certainly given a. real impetus by that news coming out of the u.k. last night that porton down the u.k.'s chemical weapons lab or a tree wasn't able to link the nerve agent that was used to try and poison. to russia they did confirm though that it was a. chalk type of nerve agents that had been developed in the soviet union though we heard before this meeting from russian president vladimir putin who said that he hoped. what would come out of these talks was would be able to put to bed some of the allegations being made by london. q was there were you do it amazes me how fast this anti russia hysteria has come about we're calling in o.p.c. w meeting to get the facts straight on this whole situation which we have propose

the time for that for now peter all of the hague thanks for that update from the o.p.c. w. meeting that concluded a couple of hours ago we can get more now from believe a man who is the former vice president of the pan european security group the u. s. c. assembly have a welcome to r.t. again good to see you judging by britain and the e.u. response there intent on giving the cold shoulder to russia yes it's been accused but is it right to entirely freeze russia out of this process. i think we should be quite aware of something bugs is happens to a private citizen and his own government would behave in such a b. as the british government is behaving i think we will we would cause this state a mafia because it is against all you will be an international falls into galatians was a british government behaved in such a criminal case with the guard to another country and when you do this under normal circumstances this is an operation which is a major danger to international peace and that is exact what supporters are doing we have as your beans we have experience with the britis

that's why then notice the meeting taking place in the hague behind closed doors already u.k. and russia are all of russia wants a joint investigation the u.k. says no way on they say they absolutely would not allow it and the u.k. is standing by its position it says the evidence is too overwhelming and it's interesting to see that the e.u. and other countries other international countries are still standing by the u.k. so if you the british government is pretty confident that there is an art information and evidence out there to back its claims or minus again kitty what is the government's evidence that establishes a clear link to moscow and why don't they just make it public. this is the big question and this is what a lot of people are asking now asking for more detail the government says it's not just about what the scientists at porton down lab continued it's it's also about intelligence sources it's about historical context for example the latino vote it's about the police and expressed a geisha which is extremely detailed and of course ongoing still it's as if all it if

as he had seen, that organisation is meeting in the hague today. thank you for talking to us. are blocking access. we have heard from the russians that the team can‘t access the site because of the air strikes. based on your experience, what is the answer like you to be? it is very difficult to really get a clear picture. it is a tough one for me to answer. clearly, one of the primary issues that needs to be resolved is the safety of the inspectors, because clearly if they are hurt they cannot carry on. the issue will be to try to get the guys and girls to these locations is a safe manner so they can start their investigation process of interviews and sampling. let's look at the issue of safety of the field team, the inspectors. when you are in situations like this... i am afraid we have lost that interview. apologies, we will try to... i think that he is back with us. sorry, we thought we had lost youth. intermodal —— in terms of the safety of inspectors, when you are in a place like syria, what sort of people does the local government, in this case the syrian government, ass

anna holligan, bbc news, in the hague.jured in a shooting at youtube's headquarters in california. a 36—year—old man is in a critical condition. 0ur north america correspondent, dave lee, joins us now from san bruno in california. we understand this is a lone shooter but as this unfolded there was understandably panic and concern about how many people would be involved in this? absolutely, naga, lots of panic indeed. you might not be able to see it from where we are but behind me is the youtube building where the attack took place and up the road on the right there isa and up the road on the right there is a courtyard where people met to eat lunch within the headquarters and that's where the gun woman appeared and injured three people by shooting them, and then we're told by police, she then turned the gun on herself and took her own life. that all happened across a period of just a few minutes, police say, they we re just a few minutes, police say, they were on the scene incredibly quickly, in around four minutes, to deal

brussels also accused russia of being unwilling to cooperate reporting from the hague here's our europe correspondent peter all of us. well the special meeting of the o.p.c. w. got on the way on wednesday with russia's permanent representative tabling a motion to say inclusive unified in what was called a constructive civilized investigation this was dismissed out of hand by both the united kingdom eighty years representatives we heard from the british side they referred to russia's proposal as perverted and of the ten to divert attention away from the investigation if they also when told to say that it was in poor taste for russia to put this forward on this day saying it was one year since the chemical weapons attack on a town in syria which left over one hundred people dead the u.k. accuses the assad government of carrying out that attack and accuses russia of covering up and stopping an investigation into that he said it was content for the lives that were lost that russia puts this forward on this day he was then followed up by a representative from the european union he said the e

international chemical weapons experts met at the hague today at russia‘s request.vidence linking the nerve agent to russia. it is still reeling from the expulsion of more than 100 diplomatic staff from over 20 countries. all based on material shared by britain with its allies. but visiting turkey, president putin said he hoped a line could be drawn under last month‘s poisoning in salisbury. britain‘s chemical warfare research establishment at porton down has inadvertently thrown moscow a lifeline. in an interview yesterday, its chief executive said his scientists had identified the poison but not its source. opponents of the government say this is somewhat at odds with earlier assertions made to german media by the foreign secretary. how did you manage to find it out so quickly? does britain possess samples of this? when i look at the evidence, i mean the people from porton down, the laboratory... so they have the samples? they do. and they were absolutely categorical. and i asked the guy myself, i said, are you sure. and he said there‘s no doubt. visiting a nurser

and france so go has more from the hague. well the only evidence that we've managed to see here in the press conference is really videos and effects witness statements that they say were present at the hospital when the alleged attack took place but what was quite striking is that the video and picture evidence that they presented was accompanied by their own take on it which was talking about evidence for example how it couldn't have been real picos the damage didn't fit the. the attack had been described and there was a lot of condemnation of the of the white helmets condemning the message as a terrorist group supported by the u.s. and the u.k. without any other evidence backing that up as well but what was quite striking about the statements that were provided by the seventeen syrians that were brought including that of a young boy son was that they were all quite sure they were very similar in terms of what they were saying a lot of the people that were presented there were working out the hospital and it seemed to follow

a defeat for russia at the hague. . global chemical weapons watchdog has voted against allowing it into britain's investigation of the nerve agent poisonings in salisbury last month. in the end, only china, azerbaijan, syria, and iran joined in backing the motion. 17 of the members abstained. >> many countries feel that it is necessary t to use legal instruments already provided by the opcw in a civilized manner. of members of the executive council refused to offer full support for the u.k. or u.s. position. reporter: but the deputy british ambassador to the hague saw the vote very differently. >> i think russia will be disappointed with how today has gone. they needed 28 votes for the resolution they put forth to pass. they got just six. the international community has firmly rebutted yet another attempt by russia to frustrate this process. reporter: the use of a weapons great nerve agent against a former russian double agent sergei skripal and his daughter has led to a crisis -- a diplomatic crisis. dozens of diplomat

russia brings witnesses before the world's chemical weapons watchdog in the hague with a different story on what happened during april's attack him too much. and the scars remain but the resilience is astounding we return to the scene of the deadliest attack in somalia's history. final preparations are being made for an historic face to face meeting between the leaders of north and south korea moon jay in will host kim jong moon in the south korean border village of panmunjom on friday morning they'll discuss a range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs it's hoped the meeting will help ease tensions on the peninsula ahead of a meeting between kim and u.s. president donald trump planned for may or june. diplomatic editor james bases in pan jus that's on the south korean side of the border. the final rehearsal took place in the south after noon body doubles playing the role of supreme leader kim and president moon both sides very keen but the choreography is just right because of the camera angles and the images but also because of the important question of security

s meeting at the hague what are we hearing from the russian side. well the russians responders to the accusations both from the u.s. delegation to the o.p.c. w which is that the russians of a centrally being tampering with the duma site and also to the u.k.'s delegation to the o.p.c. w which is accused the russians of basically not allowing the fact finding mission to get to do me yet will both of those accusations of push back from moscow so far the russian delegation to the o.p.c. w says the the us allegations are essentially the u.s. just trying to undermine the credibility of the fact finding mission before it even arrives at the site and against the u.k. allegations the russian deputy foreign minister has said that if there is a delay of these inspectors arriving in duma it's not because of the russians it's because of the u.s. u.k. and french air strikes over the weekend that's what has delayed this mission but i think it's interesting to say that you know the russians have been claiming for many days now that duma is basically now fully under

in the hague and. from the hague the samples are sent to designated laboratories there are twenty two . in the world at the moment and they analyzed those samples. did have probes intelligent use of chemical weapons in syria before and i talked last year it's you had the russian envoy to the organization official going and he told me that some of those problems were stopped by the people by the specialist who tend to con from the friends of syria group and that group obviously is very eager to see mr assad out many of these samples and many of the testimonies were provided by turkey which is also not the neutral player in that war so if how can you have so much confidence in the process right now when in the past it delivered the results that russia clearly didn't agree with that is a very good question but. look you can trust to the results. only in the case when. i see. according to the chain of custody. that means. an inspector. came to the site. put it in the vial. not just close it but sealed it w

anna holligan, bbc news, in the hague. anna holligan is live for us now in the hague.ter of any dispute. i have been looking at the foreign office minister ‘s blog. he has been responding to this meeting inside the headquarters. he accused russia ofan the headquarters. he accused russia of an outpouring of disinformation, designed to pa ralyse of an outpouring of disinformation, designed to paralyse the international system. the uk delegation here tweeted this morning to say russia‘s proposal for a joint uk russian investigation into the salisbury incident is perverse. they described it as a diversionary tactic and yet more disinformation designed to evade the question is russian authorities must answer. this investigation is being led by the opcw. inspectors visited salisbury a couple of weeks ago and they are working to identify the samples. in the last 2a hours, we have had this concern that has been jumped upon by moscow by the head of the military research facility at porton down, saying that they could be sure it was a novichok nerve agent but they could not be s

in the hague and. from the hague the samples are sent to designated laboratories there are twenty two . in the world at the moment and they analyzed those samples. did have probes intelligent use of chemical weapons in syria before and i talked last year it's you had the russian envoy to the organization official going and he told me that some of those probs were stopped by the people by the specialist who tend to con from the friends of syria group and that group obviously is very eager to see mr assad out many of these samples and many of the testimonies were provided by turkey which is also not the neutral player in that war so if how can you have so much confidence in the process right now when in the past it delivered the results that russia clearly didn't agree with that is a very good question but. look you can trust to the results. only in the case when. sick. according to the chain of custody. that means. an inspector. came to the site. himself put it in the vial. not just close it but sealed

hague our correspondent there is ronde that is sometimes all some water does. verdict from the original one i will bring justice to the victims. yeah he has been found guilty for persecution on political racial and religious grounds of just grotz in avoiding a knot in boston and has to go in and gracious just in vojvodina it's a province in the north of serbia among others across to live as well as for their petition and forcible settlement before two years he has been acquitted of charges included murders stored cruel treatment the destruction of villages and religious buildings and pillaging of public or private property anybody prosecution has baze the indignant on shushes hate speech and his sending volunteers from serbia to croatia and bosnia and herzegovina also called chambre didn't prove a systematic attack against both prods happened but of the conclusion of the tribunal has the plan of a stop of the great serbia is just you know political project not crime and statements such as. these like the prosecution to conclude that the render judgment was in s

headquarters in the hague who it says prove their claim that that strike on april seventh was staged russia's foreign ministry has in the past weeks accused the u.s. and the u.k. faking the attack alongside rebel groups and rescue as in fact this is what a spokesperson had to say a little earlier. no but that's the crises the russian material show real eye witnesses those who saw the events in duma as you know as we all know the o.p.c. w. already contacted the eyewitnesses they have arrived in the hague and now they will personally talk with the member states to give them first hand information the video recordings and social media and internet blah publishing's who do not even have an art are those who use these materials as proof of the necessity of striking against the capital of a sovereign state they will talk to them in the hague alive they will say what's being done and how these fake videos are being made how they assign and appoint the roles they will talk about it today. in the hague i mean sunny or it's no surprise that russia is still saying that this wasn't a chemical at

were almost destroyed following his claims also to come more than a dozen syrians testified at the hague saying in the alleged chemical attack in the town of dubai it was they. who were scared they started to pour water on me i don't know why they did that vandeman as professionals we saw that there were no symptoms suggesting chemical weapons would be used plus hugs handshakes and history in the making the leaders of north and south korea agreed to rid the pinch of nuclear weapons during their first in a decade meeting and a fifth we got a surprise new rallies are up from friday with reports that twenty five palestinians have been injured in clashes with israeli soldiers. hello there welcome it's five pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now it has been revealed that the former head of moscow's anti doping gorder got a chunk of a key witness in the russian doping scandal failed to confirm a number of allegations against the country's athletes it came during the recent testimony of the court of arbitration for sport in february the court upheld the appeals of twenty eight

not but after all lewis carroll wrote satire using the genre of fairy tales which are talks at the haguedemonstrates that self-respect in adults do not believe in fairy tales so i guess her pal and his daughter yulia were found on conscious just over a month ago in the u.k. city of souls bree it was later revealed that they were both exposed to a nerve agent of a type produced in the soffit union called love a chalk to pal he used to be a russian intelligence officer before he was charged for revealing confidential information to the u.k. secret service says he remains in a coma with his daughter reportedly in a stable condition. the international chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. met on wednesday over the school pal case russia proposed a joint investigation but that idea was rejected. we will not agree to russia's demands to conduct a joint investigation into the attack in solsbury because the u.k. has assessed that it is highly likely that the russian state is responsible for this attack and that there is no plausible alternative explanation there's no requirement in the chemica