went to the nusra front.st seven years, you've insisted that terror comes from those trying to remove president assad from power. the truth is you have become a defender of terror tactics, haven't you, not least in your own city. let's not forget you're an mp representing aleppo. i just wonder, as the mp for aleppo, how you felt about the consistent use of chlorine gas as a weapon by government forces during that offensive by the assad military forces in the fall of 2016 — how do you feel about that? look, stephen, when are you guys going to really leave this rhetoric, you know, this narrative, this really old narrative that doesn't sell anymore? we never used chemical weapons. we were never... you are entitled to say that, but all of the evidence suggests that the forces of assad... i know what i did! ..consistently used chemical weapons in 2016 during their offensive to wipe out the rebels in eastern aleppo... nonsense, nonsense! ..and you know it's true. you read the reports from human rights watch... no,

east ghouta is almost over ninety percent has been liberated by syria's government the army of islam nusra the al qaeda affiliate other mists they've lost opting to take the busses to rebel territories. the vast majority of rebels surrendered and negotiations are underway for the handover of the last weddle stronghold on the cusp of victory as is now tradition assad goes against all reason and logic he's won this battle and launches chemical weapons at civilians according to his enemies he contact helped put united states continues to use all efforts available to hold those who use chemical weapons in syria and otherwise a cannibal the regime's history of using chemical weapons against its own people is not in dispute. russia warned repeatedly that this may happen they had intelligence a month ago that rebels were preparing to stage these attacks why not if they can't fight if they can't win why not try to provoke an international intervention it's worked before that is not to say we're jumping to conclusions. it's been a day of violence in western fronts they began outside nons for the no

was in two thousand and thirteen i believe and you saw evidence pointing to the fact that jabhat al nusra wasn't possession of chemical weapons was the fact that the syrian rebels have chemical weapons ignore it and why is everyone always talking about damascus no i didn't conduct any mission. and i was assuming the group you know to conduct look. in august. two thousand and thirteen but we were keeping since the beginning of my mission in two thousand and twelve used to move it off in every sense of the two different. from contact trying to keep contact with all actors with all groups out of the groups we went with everybody who was involved. also to get information when it happened but you know all of this. sometimes a lot of conflicting information. about the. the sponsor. of course was how to get in front you know because when people in the wall of the drews ever think again although you know even the lies even a lot of things so this is why we said you know i said i suppose anyone involved in syria in the will see that it was the. evidence they know it was so. yes but that was exactl

in those videos they're seen mingling with terrorists for example this is an execution by the all nusra terrorist group and these are the white helmets volunteers clearing up the execution site so also in other videos they are seen just cheering and generally mingling with terrorists from other groups so possibly that is why roger waters chose to do that to denounce themselves publicly you're not the first celebrity is easy to talk about the white helmet but the other ones that have have taken a different stance well indeed the white helmets the sort of by the line line told . glory when it comes to how western celebrities are talking about them for example he's coldplay a very very popular british band endorsing them and calling them syrian heroes there's another star ben affleck also praising the white house and the list just of goes on really so roger waters he did not stop just denouncing the white house wants the also he also called on his fellow celebrities to stop indorsing the white house and to stop giving praise to them now roger waters is arguably the first person of such sca

helmets are known to work only on the territories controlled by the opposition, including jabhat al—nusrahelmets are known to be ringing the bell one year ago, which was a fake from the beginning to the end, and the white helmets are known to be financed among other countries by the united kingdom. well, that does not represent irrefutable proof. wait a second, irrefutable proof of what? you said you had irrefutable proof that a russophobic country, by which you meant britain, had worked with these white helmets to stage manage... why do you say i meant britain? don't put your words in my mouth. i did say a country that was trying to lead a russophobic campaign, please quote me correctly. so speaking of irrefutable facts, the douma event was agreed to be investigated by opcw inspectors. they moved to lebanon, they were told by the syrian government they would be immediately issued visas as they come to the border. seven hours later, the douma and the syrian territory was struck. what is the reason for going that way one day before the inspectors are about to arrive there? the us is pushin

reporting that the extremist groups that want to bring down the syrian government terrorists like the al nusra front other groups have been using chemical weapons but these reports are not being investigated and not being considered seems like he's not consider the possibility that if this attack did indeed take place it could have been carried out by other forces in the country at this point all eyes are on the u.n. security council the fifteen member body that leaves the united nations an emergency meeting has been called to discuss the allegations about these attacks now it's expected in this meeting that extreme statements and allegations will be leveled against the syrian government the syrian president however at this point we have a report here where it's actually question what motive my colleague in this report actually points to the questions of what exactly would be the motive of the syrian government for carrying out a chemical attack at this point take a listen to this report. east ghouta is almost over ninety percent has been liberated by syria's government the army of islam nuest

group or for example there is video of them this is the video so this is the execution by the all nusra front apparently and then moments later we can see the white helmets volunteers clearing up the execution site so there you have that so this is this is probably why roger waters is so against this group so outspoken and he's not the only celebrity there is the two spoken about the white house no but he's really one of the few to publicly denounce them instead of like promoting this group because so far celebrities of such scale they have been praising the white house as for example we have a british band coldplay advocating for them and endorsing them we have celebrities like george clooney and ben affleck and even bar grills the reality you sort of reality show star bear grylls also all advocating for them this is these are the tweets of course of the said celebrities promoting the ideas the white helmets are promoting now these revelations that i've been talking about. and you've been talking about we've learned from them from the e-mails about those the ascent to roach waters and

from there he went on to talk about the fact that anti government fighters terrorist groups like al nusra and others there have been occasions in which the territory has been liberated from them and it's been discovered that they are stockpiling chemical weapons and that they have in the past used chemical weapons against the positions of the syrian government was literally to put it as you heard the warnings but you consciously ignored them because they didn't correspond to the doctrinal arrangements of those who sleep and dream about the liquidation of the official government in one more arab country. now the russian representative said that russia would favor the creation of a new independent body to investigate allegations about chemical weapons and their use in syria now the united kingdom spoke up in agreement with russia's call and furthermore when the syrian arab republic took the floor they also spoke up and said they would favor the creation of an independent body to investigate the use of chemical weapons in syria from there we heard from nikki haley the representative of the u

federation he went on to talk about the fact that anti-government fighters terrorist groups like al nusra and others there have been occasions in which the territory has been liberated from them and it's been discovered that they are stockpiling chemical weapons and that they have in the past used chemical weapons against the positions of the syrian government. but you consciously good moved them because they didn't correspond with the no rain bands of those who sleep in the liquidation of the official government control from there we heard from nikki haley the representative of the united states she went on to blame the syrian government for the attack and from there she said that the united states intends to respond to this alleged chemical attack regardless of whether the u.n. security council approves of that or not she she says that the usa intends to take action now her remarks come after donald trump said the usa was in the process of making some big decisions regarding the chemical attack and. that. militarily. will be letting you know pretty soon as. well as that nothing's off th

the girl and her it's because the israeli government then denied that they're helping al qaeda or al nusra or any of these linked groups and obviously we invite more greg of the ambassador on the program but of course away from the middle east even the british air strikes british news is more concerned with what could be said to be an identity politics story in some ways because there are foreign ministers from the commonwealth government leave the bridges meeting in london today let's go through this from the home office destroyed when the russian landing card says staff and so there was this essentially a whistleblower. the u.k.b.a. and home office who's come out and said the landing landing cards of west indian immigrants who came here as british subjects and british saw themselves very much as british they were told they were british and were told they were needed here were asked to come over here because britain needed reconstruction after the second world war their landing cards giving records of when they arrived here were destroyed were destroyed very deliberately by according to t

was in two thousand and thirteen i believe and you saw evidence pointing to the fact that jabhat al nusra was in possession of chemical weapons was the fact that the syrian rebels have chemical weapons ignore it and why is everyone all a talking about damascus now i didn't conduct any mission i was in damascus and i was assuming the group came you know to conduct the huge one happened in august. two thousand and thirteen but we were keeping since in the beginning of my mission in two thousand and twelve i used to move it off in every sense of the two different areas of. syria to keep some contact going to keep contact with all actors with all groups out of the group so we went with everybody who was involved . also to get information when it happened but it's you know the power of the spot sometimes a lot of conflicting information and about the. response of course was how to get in front you know because when people in the wall of the druze ever think again that although the you know even lives in a lot of things so this is why we said you know. anyone involved in syria in the wall of th

example jihad is to sites for example being almost like they are embedded with terrorists with the nusra front also there are videos of them just genuinely rubbing shoulders and mingling with the terrorists too so they're a beautician is modern really and this is what journalists working in syria have been pointing out now roger waters. revealed those e-mails by sending them to to r.t. contributor max blumenthal by the way we have reached out to the white house and that's asking their comment on the situation we're still to hear back from them but as max blumenthal is pointing out roger waters is the first person of such scale to publicly to speak out publicly against the white helmets have a listen. for the first time a mainstream figure on an international stage on the eve of war has validated what we've been reporting how this western funded organization funded by western and gulf governments has basically been an instrument of encouraging regime change and it's not just a group of average volunteer rescue workers it's an international influence organization whose representatives show

organization manchuria was trying to cross the syrian border into turkey when he was captured by al nusra that time affiliated with al qaeda he spent two months in different rebel held prisons in aleppo in twenty thirteen he managed to escape becoming the first westerner to do so now he's written a book about his ordeal called the dawn prayer describing the nightmare of his captivity. well we managed to cut out with much ahead of the book's launch later this month. i write in syria eighteen days before my abduction during the time i was photographing the war from the free syrian army side i was the air force intelligence and come out to bell which were two of the most dangerous parts of aleppo at the time and on new year's eve after i got the photographs i went there for i was on my way out forty five minutes from the turkish border when i was abducted by the on the ocean front ok i'm in syria i didn't want anybody coming to rescue me there was no way you can land seals in the areas that i was in one prison yes it was out of the country every other one was in a lot so there's just no way

my name is ahmad i come from iraq and i'm twenty six i fought for nusra front later i was forced to fight for i asks. confirmed enough that i saw that i was always on the front we had kids with us eight to ten year olds and they found it hard to deal with the pressures of an offensive and mohammed would be some of them only a few said they wanted to go home to their parents as in the middle of the fighting . and they couldn't take the horror. some cried and said i want to go home i have to get away from here one also took the innocent as her mother the other. one if there had to be additional. but most of the kids had volunteered and some were at the front without their parents' knowledge and we didn't force anyone into it. at the ready. made for suicide missions you have to swear allegiance and volunteer children are usually the ones used in these cases with the from the awful. truth and so that i also saw adults behead adults. but numerous children volunteered to. all of us when they want to try it out but i don't have. the public now must have yellow and the heads of there are adults w

destroy the infrastructure of the syrian state no they didn't go after isis they didn't go after al nusra no they didn't what they tried to do is you wrote you load the sovereignty of syria and then the russians come in and bided in under international law and then all of a sudden you see the islamic state starting to shrink and of course trump maybe willingly or unwillingly takes credit for it ok there's no reason to believe the good intentions of the united states in syria when its aims are not clear and when you have someone like nikki haley saying we got to keep our eye on iran for maybe a moment she was transparent i'll let you finish your point michael go ahead. thank you peter i try never to interrupt the host because your vision is insightful but i think in this tiny bit of this place because you you anticipate you are you are insightful but you anticipated something that i don't think is going to come to pass i don't think we're going to have ten thousand twenty thousand fifty thousand troops on the ground in syria it's just not going to happen whatever the numbers state and i'll

fund a proxy guerrilla force and i know there have been allegations that they are cooperating with al nusra and you are going to what would be in the british interest to do that and then forge information that the russian military were engaged in atrocities it's a question to the british government you know the only thing that i want to say is that there were quite an interesting discussion you know debates in the in the parliament and the british government was ask you know how was two hundred million spent for so-called moderate opposition and so on they could justify only forty eight million all the rest they couldn't even find the answer how this money was spent and i'll tell you that a lot of m.p.'s were surprise and we were surprised but of that money went to the white helmets where the other one. so that's the question to the government on this the question was posed by the m.p. you know by the russians so make your own conclusions i know it's really late breaking news a bit. at the ministry of defense in russia and this all move that appears to say they received a call that the whit