o.p.c. w. says russia provided evidence that the us produced and patented. chemicals said to have been used to poison so. i just don't. come to britain admits the written or the o.p.c. w. can confirm the exact origin of the nerve agent that's the spot claiming it was likely. also this hour mission sent to establish the facts behind the alleged chemical attack in syria comes under fire as it enters the enclave. says it was from british officials in the dish. an arabic speaker.

o.p.c. w says russia might have tampered with the attack site as according to a statement obtained by the voices news agency russia's foreign minister denies those allegations more on that now from correspondent jacqueline vogel. well he flat out denied those accusations coming from the u.s. envoy saying that he guarantees that russia did not in any way tamper or manipulate the site of the alleged attack the u.s. envoy is referring to the fact that just a few days after this alleged attack took place russian military did send specialists to the site and searched the area and they said that they could find no traces of chemical weapons there and since then of course russia has been calling for an international independent investigation to take place on the ground especially given that the initial reports of this alleged attack were coming from groups like the white helmets which has a very questionable reputation now the o.p.c. w. the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons did arrive to syria already on saturday but it seems that they have yet to begin their investigation now sergey

o.p.c. w. says russia has provided evidence that the us produced. as the chemical said to have been used to poison sort of a script and his daughter. news comes as within the law either it nor the piece you can confirm the exact origin of the nerve agent last the spike claiming it was highly likely moscow. so this our mission sent to establish the facts behind the alleged chemical attack in syria comes under fire as it enters the place. she's welcome it is sincerely shouldn't be. an arabic speaking youth and a film.

o.p.c. w says russia has provided evidence that the us produced. that's the chemicals said to have been used to poison sug script and this. news comes as britain admits the written nor the o.p.c. w. can confirm the agent has despite the barrels of claims it was likely. also headlines a mission sent to establish the facts behind the duma chemical attack in syria comes on the fire as it enters the enclave. suso was committed to see the man wearing jewish tradition.

saying that russia hadn't provided information it should have done to the u.k. already he also went on to say that the european union had concerns that russia could pull away from the o.p.c. w entirely also a representative from the european commission saying that that laboratory important down wasn't charged with the terminating where the chemical have come from only determining what chemical in. our understanding is to. the rule of the experts there was to identify the type of agent which used. source from time to actual what the experts have found the. agent has. destruct. and for the rest i would refer you to the march european council for your computer served to committee a position so we didn't get the answers to the many many questions that we may have hoped for out of this meeting we are hoping and should be hearing from the russian permanent representative in just a little while be asking him for more about what unfolded at this meeting here in the hague. the scots who for some junk called the midlands are really u.k. hey john london described russia's proposal than this joint investigation into the scruple cases perverse and we just heard xander shilled in the o.p

the watchdog says there are security issues that need to be addressed before its experts can head to the site of the alleged attack the u.s. envoy to the o.p.c. w. is quoted as saying russia might have tampered with the attack site in turn moscow's representative to the body noted that western strikes on syria may have created obstacles to probing the the alleged attack. well the americans are trying to prevent of proper investigation from going ahead there's no other way to explain the joint strikes with britain and france again syria at the exact moment when a group of expose was in beirut preparing to head to damascus isn't that an attraction of the investigation our american partners becoming worried the us representative gave a speech accusing russia of hiding evidence and helping syrian officials at the scene the incidents that i was gay she looks like they're trying to cover their own backs in case the exposed don't find anything to back up my claims but experts are now on their way there in damascus and this curious issues that need to be taken care of soon they will be there and they will start their work. the british newspaper the times has launched a vicious at

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 so this fact finding mission o.p.c. w. which of course was bitterly contentious from the start is continuing in out of acrimony it's also worth noting i think what do you know that this area doomer that was supposedly we were told anyway by the russians and the syrians completely under syrian and russian control in recent days that all the terrorists as th

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.u. didn't agree with russia's proposal for a joint investigation saying if russia hadn't provided information it should have done so the u.k. already he also went on to say

o.p.c. w. says britain will respond to russia's questions about the poisoning of a former spy by the end of monday so the next door to you were exposed to a toxic agent in the south of england on the fourth of march britain immediately accused moscow of orchestrating the attack but the o.p.c. w. and the u.k. military lab were unable to determine the origin of the poison used in today's sophie and co on r.t. sophie shevardnadze a former eastern bloc spy who successfully infiltrated the cia during the cold war he gave us his perspective from a script called incident. i. skip our most definitely wasn't a victim of any kind of operation or at that from the russian side because that would totally destroy the russian credibility as far as exchanges are concerned and they they are dependent on it because they certainly have to get their people back if they get into trouble delia i. there is certainly is some kind of scenario of. russian operations and. they just became a good opportunity. i. believe that if you really want to get out. you know how to do it till you move to a different continent you chang

the alleged attack because they didn't have proper protection well russia is saying that they will provide protection to the o.p.c. w investigators and chemical experts so they can actually go to the site of the alleged chemical attack now russia at this point is saying that they have questions about whether this alleged chemical attack in duma ever happened their experts their chemical experts and medical experts went to the site and they could not find traces of the chemicals that were allegedly used furthermore they could not find any victims or dead bodies they could not find any people being treated in hospitals they could not even find any locals who could verify that the attack took place so in light of russia's big questions about what's being alleged and what's being proport id around the media and in social media and by various n.g.o.s this is this is quite important that now we have this o.p.c. w. investigative team that will be enabled and protected by russia and able to actually go and visit the site and get to the bottom of the facts of what happened now it's quite important that you know recently we h

the russians have been on the ground and at the same time at the same time sort of say that russia is stopping the o.p.c. w. from finding out from pinning responsibility on people if russia would have cleaned up the site then why should they be in a sense afraid of our it's a logical question why should the russians be afraid of what we see to be finding out who is behind the chemical attack so having said that it should be important to find out what the findings of this team are going to be the results will be a winnable in a week or perhaps it would take a month it does give the diplomatic of it as issues around the world a bit of time to understand what's happening to have enough evidence before this strike happens because remember this is not just america strike hitting syria but we've had a russia u.s. face off so it's perhaps advisable to have more evidence in your hands before such a strike you are considering that faceoff you just mentioned washington has been dialing back the rhetoric as has russia could we see in the end a diplomatic resolution. well some experts now are hoping for such a resolut

people will be dragged in they were made to say coerced i suppose you've got to use your brain on this the something else that came in today the o.p.c. w. wanted russia not to go ahead with this today the o.p.c. w. wanted to wait until it had wrapped up its fact finding mission why would they say that why wouldn't they want every bit of information to hand both what they found on the field there and what russia had to say from the witnesses it put together doctors chemical specialists except for. well i know the o.t.c. w. didn't complain about. b.b.c. show alleged testimony from alleged victims in it live. who were making contrary claims through what we've just heard the o.t.c. w. were silent about that it seems to me they have perhaps been listening a bit too much to washington london and paris and begin to worry a little bit about the impartiality i mean when you've got doctors that purport to be on the ground there witnesses that purport they say they were most definitely there on the say as it happened caught up with it they describe how they were caught up in it was international reaction going to be to this are going to be ignored do you think

strongly worded statement that was put out by them and ultimately saying that they were concerned that russia would reject the o.p.c. w. out of hand now this is a very different outcome to war certainly had been proposed by russian president vladimir putin ahead of this meeting we can say what they have to say you know. what was the amazes me how fast this anti russia hysteria has come a prout's we're calling it o.p.c. w. meeting to get the facts straight on this whole situation which we have. proposed at least twenty questions for their consideration we hope a final conclusion will be reached there is to war happened in but of course we're interested in a comprehensive investigation. well there has been some support for the russian proposal we saw messages coming out of the meeting which was closed to the press which is why we've been getting information in this way just drips and drabs coming out of what's been going on there was a tweet from the russian delegation it said that fourteen countries in the open c.w. had supporters russia's proposal however. they said quite a few did not we also heard before this meetin

russia called an emergency meeting of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons it's proposal for a joint british russian investigation into the poisoning was rejected the o.p.c. w. saying its independent lab results will be ready later this week russia now wants the poisoning incident taken up tomorrow in the un security council where yesterday the head of britain's porton down lab said that his team had not identified the precise source of the poison now that flies in the face of what u.k. foreign secretary bores johnson said two weeks ago in an exclusive interview with. you argue that their source oh father snuff edge and the choke is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly that's driven by says sample something when i look at the the evidence i mean the people from from porton down the bardo they have the samples to do and they and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said as they died. or earlier today the situation took another strange twist the british foreign office delete it a tweet that contradicted the porton down labs statement in the tweet from march twenty second the foreign office say

o.p.c. w. at the hague to recount what they saw on april seventh russia says the syrian statements prove the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies strongly deny a young syrian oil was at a briefing. we were in the basement we heard cries in the street that we should go to the hospital we got skeered we went to the hospital through the tunnel they started pouring water on me at the hospital i don't know why after that they took me to a different place so when you 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 in june when the alleged attack took place but what was quite striking is that the video and the 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 supporte

russia's fault but the u.k. foreign office now is saying that it's asked the o.p.c. w. to distribute this report to all state parties including russia's sorry to all state parties party to the chemical weapon convention and the british side is making a big point now about how transparent and open it's being with these findings but in this whole square piles saga outside of the fact that it's believed that novacek now was used in this attack the british government hasn't revealed many details about why it's come to this conclusion that moscow was behind the attack and as moronic as day of explains the questions surrounding the case continued to grow there was no trial no discussion no evidence no proof there was only judgment and punishment is highly likely that russia was responsible be to hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder the pundits needed even less the name nuvi chalk sounds russian means russia did it establish that it is not a chalk and that is by definition of the translation of the name which means newcomer part of the program in the

its child victims as they were patrolled in the media saying that the evidence that russia has and watch which they've put forward to the o.p.c. w shows that this was and i quote sloppily staged we also heard from the syrian representative to the the o.p.c. w. he said that syria had destroyed all of their chemical weapons back in twenty thirteen you also refuted these claims that there was any type of chemical attack that took place and then we heard from the russian military representative who spoke dead equal could a lot of he said that if you look at the video if you look at the actual canister that in the video that supposed to show the delivery mechanism of this attack that logistically it would be impossible to deliver a chemical weapon in such a way we have to remember that we are led to believe that on the seventh of april to as many as seventy people were killed after a chlorine and sarin mix we used in a chemical attack on this town but then what we did hear from we heard from some of those people that were in those videos that have been circulated widely we heard from her son who's an eleven year old boy who's filmed

o.p.c. w. didn't assign blame or specify the chemicals origin in the statement to to the o.p.c. w. the u.k. declared with absolute certainty that russia was behind the crime saying quote there is no plausible alternative explanation than russian state responsibility for what happened and then be open c.w. seem to implicitly parrot the british government's narrative. now the d.s. tales analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report identifies the control of the origin of the agencies in this attack. the explanation for what happened in souls breathe and russian state for sponsibility but believe the only brusha had the technical means operational experience and the mates if to talk at the script files believe it or not it didn't even end there the british representative then proceeded to accuse president putin of being personally involved in the attack president putin himself was closely involved in the russian chemical weapons program when it you would. london apparently thinks the russian president has a whole big running chemical weapons programs in his free time city but i don't know whether you appreciate that you've crossed all possible downed trees so it appears that th

w was saying. with regards to russia what was said was apparently that they had carried out brazen a brazen this information campaign and attack the reputation and expertise of the o.p.c. . in the full statement and from what we can decide from the british side there was confirmation that there was no information about the source of the nerve agent used during the attack and we can have a quick listen to the british representative to the p.c. debate that. neither d.s.t.o. was analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report to densify as to control of the origin of the agent used in this attack. the explanation for what happened in salisbury the russian state response ability to believe that only brusha had the technical means operational experience and the motive to target the scribbles. and as you can expect there has been a response from russia. a rather strong response i might point out from the russian representative the o.p.c. w sure he's released a statement and he's effectively outlined what he calls eight lies that he says have been circulated by the british authorities in charge of that scriptural case including i will read some out to you now that russia has not been answe

were pointing the finger at russia and their allies syria for what they're saying what they're calling russia and syria hiding the facts and also trying to hamper the o.p.c. w. mission syrian regime has reportedly been attempting to conceal the evidence by searching the factories from duma to ensure samples are not being smuggled from this area and the wider operation to conceal the facts of the attack is underway supported by the russians i think we've seen that the russian government and the syrian government their whole goal in this is to try to cover up their goal is to try to deflect attention so if they could put this back on ass they would certainly like to do it so it's now worth asking the u.n. security team and the old p.c. w. team whether the russians and the syrians are genuinely helping them out on the ground and if the answer is yes that might put the brits and the americans in an awkward situation here. reports of the alleged incident emerged on april the seventh meanwhile more questions have been raised now over this footage filmed by the white helmets rescue group in a local hospital of the video apparently shows the aftermath of the chemic

o.p.c. w. didn't assign blame or a specify the chemical origin she declared with absolute certainty that russia was behind the crime saying quote there is no plausible alternative explanation then russian state responsibility for what happened and then the o.p.c. w.-a seem to implicitly parrot the british government's narrative. no other d.s. tales analysis nor the b.c.w.s. report identifies the control of the origin of the agencies in this attack there is no plausible to this if explanation for what happened in souls breathe and russian state for sponsibility who believe the only russia had the technical means operational experience and the mates if to target the script files but believe it or not it didn't even end there are things to an even stranger turn when the british representative went on to accuse president putin of being personally involved in the attack president putin him so it was closely involved in the russian chemical weapons program when we knew that you wouldn't do it london apparently thinks the russian president has a whole being running chemical weapons programs in his free time as you put it i don't

o.p.c. w. and the u.k. government being i'm able to determine the origin of the poison used in the salzburg attack london still doesn't says that russia is responsible claiming that only moscow could have produced the substance russia's representative to the o.p.c. w. said the u.k. is withholding key information which makes it difficult to establish the truth. russia will not accept any national or international results of any investigation without access to full information including materials from the british probe without consular access to our citizens and most importantly without the obligatory participation of russian experts in all actions to establish the truth that happened in saul's on march the fourth i would not comment from former by five asian dynamo seans she says that even though the u.k.'s position has weakened slightly london is unlikely to backtrack on its allegations against russia they sort of back and selves into a corner i can't see how they can they can rescind what they've already said because particularly not only did they expel twenty three russian diplomats that actually immediately before the w. had even h

russia apparently russia uses such substances abroad to exterminate enemies abroad it says that russia believes traitors are legitimate targets and also the u.k. claims it respects the o.p.c. w. and russia refuses to cooperate now russia did ask a quick key question here that was it true that the o.p.c. the report can't pin the origin of the agent and the reply was no it's impossible to pin it on a country now earlier the o.p.c. they held a closed door session at their headquarters in the hague and during the session delegates were tweeting their statements and we had a little bit of a trickle of what was going on behind those closed doors and also what the u.k. representative to the a p c w was saying and there was a power arch of accusations and we're seeing it from both sides as i said before russia responded to those leaks by releasing a rather strong statement off the back of those comments which perpetrates the u.k. representative to the o p c w and they said two other points during that meeting which was russia has altered all the questions that the u.k.'s asked with regards to solve three and the other point was that russia said that they provided proof that not a ch

were pointing the finger at russia and their allies syria for what they're saying what they're calling russia and syria hiding the facts and also trying to hamper the o.p.c. w. mission syrian regime has reportedly been attempting to conceal the evidence by searching the factories from duma to ensure samples are not being smuggled from this area and the wider operation to conceal the facts of the attack is underway supported by the russians i think we've seen that the russian government and the syrian government their whole goal in this is to try to cover up their goal is to try to deflect attention so if they could put this back on us they would certainly like to do it so it's now worth asking the u.n. security team and the old p.c. w. team whether the russians and the syrians are genuinely helping them out on the ground and if the answer is yes that might put the brits and the americans in an awkward situation here indeed so many angles this isn't there hopefully that the ability perhaps by the end of the week can shed some more light on what exactly happened in do more the seventh of april lot easier to. live with us here today. reports of a alleged incid

o.p.c. w. at the hague to recount what they saw on april seventh russia says the syrian statements prove the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies deny. they have been huge protests across spain after five men were cleared of the gang rape of a woman at the two thousand and sixteen pump loanable running festival the man who belong to a whatsapp group called the wolf pack were convicted of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and given nine year sentences alison ian journalist who was shot by israeli forces while covering protests at the gaza border has been laid to rest his same died on wednesday from injuries he sustained during demonstrations two weeks ago. all those are the headlines of one one east is coming up next and then ongoing coverage from doha on that historic north south korean summit. u.s. president donald trump has said he will slap new tariffs on imports of steel an alum in your bra five jeans off the days at times but ten times faster than we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost of this time on al-jazeera. almost

it's just gone five o'clock here in moscow now our top story russia's foreign ministry says that experts from chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. whave left for the city of duma where an alleged chemical attack took place last week unconfirmed reports of the incident were used as justification by america the u.k. and france to launch missiles against syria the u.n. special envoy for syria has said that peace efforts have to be read launched following the u.s. led assault we never expected this to be. very. very potential danger of. peace and security this is what this happened last week. and it's not a lot of time that sochi in geneva through by the three countries the u.s. the u.k. and france have not only bombed the madrid chemical facilities in syria but also bombed the geneva peace process well though no actual categorical evidence of chemical weapons being used has been put forward the assad government has been accused of gassing civilians and even before the watchdog could started surprise the u.s. the u.k. and france launched air strikes largely on the basis of social media reports. we cannot launch the united states canno

resolution russia has indicated that it wants to introduce a resolution that basically backs the fact finding mission of the o.p.c. w. now members are saying that well that commission is already doing its work there's no use for such a resolution russia may also introduce a resolution which it had circled the united nations a couple of months ago which actually proposes setting up an investigative body much along the lines of the us with one important difference that body would not be independent it would report back to the security council the security council would then be the body that apportions responsibility for any chemical attack that was a no starter a couple of months ago for that very reason it's unlikely to be a start in the course of today but you do have a scenario where you hadn't this before when the united nations the u.s. introduces a resolution russia exercises its visa veto russia introduces a resolution the u.s. exercises its veto that being said though the two russian resolutions if they are introduced may not actually go to a proper vote the u.s. may not have to exercise its veto because remember that russia would st

russia has been asking for to shed more light by the o.p.c. w in terms of this incident and we've heard the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov say that if no real answers come that russia is going to consider this whole story of provocation and this is something that moscow has said over and over again is that they want clarity otherwise the seriousness of the measures that have taken place don't seem to be reasonable according to them so again with these major this huge announcement that scientists here in britain have not been able to find a link to russia is certainly going to be raising lots of questions about where the british government certainty had come from many thanks unofficial could reporting from london for us. as. we go to the seven on the scale it's the speed so of course when right does give us a little bit across the story has just broken and i'm. very curious just to get to my new sure of this because it sounds very significant porton down saying that they can't be certain they can't prove that this was a russian chemical military grade chemical i mean maybe they're still sticking to highly likely exactly where do we stan

government and western media if you like laying the ground for saying that russia had already predetermined with the site before the o.p.c. w. comment so we can almost predict that if o.p.c. w find no evidence of chemical weapon use in that area the next line will be russia tampered with and sanitized and sprayed afrikaner around the site before a p c w could get there when i spoke to people in duma dr medical star in the same hospital in the medical point that received victims on that night they all also told me exactly the same thing as people are now hearing in the hague and also when i went outside and spoke to civilians only seven hundred meters away from the alleged attack they were also all saying the same thing to me that there was no chemical weapon attack. emotional handshakes and hugs wrapped up an historic summit between the leaders of north and south korea it was the first meeting of its kind for over a decade and it's been dubbed as the summit where peace broken out leaders announce that they'll seek the full. denuclearization of the peninsula they also vowed to stop all hostile actions against each other and

says send in o.p.c. w. mission to the area right now the armies of russia and syria are promising to protect the u.n. staff there are. no good decision for the prohibition of chemical weapons which said it's ready to investigate this matter should immediately morrow you go to damascus. surprisingly london did say it was a good idea not that as a result of the session we heard such a call being officially made in the meantime the official line coming out of the u.n. altogether is don't expect much from a. viewer so just as much in the dark is the most of those. you know we're going to decision at this point to independently verify the allegations well even if you want to vesta gaiters and up and let's hope it's not too late meanwhile media outlets haven't been holding back in giving their advice to presidents trump and mccrone on how to react to the situation we spoke to former us presidential candidate ron paul who's the chairman of the institute of peace and prosperity. in the time when a crime is committed in this country the stations when they're not sure they're careful they say this is allegedly

o.p.c. w. meeting in the hague britain called the idea of working together with russia on an investigation perverse that was the word that was used the o.p.c. doubling says dialogues a central hall i think a move forward unless people get talking how do you see this playing out now because there was a lot of entrenched positions in the hague over the past few hours. well i think we have to give great credit to the same to support indo in england the british chemical weapons chemical research laboratory for maintaining their professional integrity and independence avenue though they would have been brought under immense pressure to fall into line with the government's not a to the media narrative on this that russia was responsible and sort this a set of very positive in my view president when it comes to group b. c w because of newdow that he would be placed under a lot of pressure from not only britain but various western countries of the say that he must stand fast with the u.k. why because russia is the officially prescribed enemy of the west among the elites and the west and so the objective with that is to try and make that case among the general po

o.p.c. w. at the hague to recount what they saw on april seventh russia says the syrian statements prove the chemical weapon attack was staged allegations the us and its allies strongly deny. they've distributed fake footage sent out by the fake humanitarians called the white helmets we've seen it all we saw the a borat scenes of choking children choking victims of poisoning right after the seventh of april the grand propaganda machine of the western trio came to action the u.k. the u.s. and france. been following events for us out there hey sean what evidence have they presented for this claim that the alleged attack in duma was faked. 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 an

government and western media if you like laying the ground for saying that russia had already pretty tampered with the site before the o.p.c. w. comment so we can almost predict that p.c. w. find no evidence of chemical weapon use in that area the next line will be russia tampered with and sanitized and sprayed afrikaner around the site before a p c w could get there when i spoke to people in duma dr medical staff in the same hospital in the medical point that received victims on that night they all also told me exactly the same thing as people are now hearing in the hague and also when i went outside and spoke to civilians only seven hundred meters away from the alleged attack they were also all saying the same thing to me that there was no chemical weapon attack. united states is going to expand its fight in syria that's according to the defense secretary james mattis the move was said to be a response to the growing danger coming from i saw this contradicts president trump's recent statements and he was saying that he'd withdraw u.s. military forces soon but there have always been arguments about why they should stay. goin

o.p.c. w. the chemical body investigating the incident britain also dismissed russia's offer of help saying it was highly likely moscow was behind the poisoning of a former spy honestly reports who tried to kill the scruples weeks on from the incident there remains no determining piece of evidence that puts beyond doubt the question as to who was behind this. of course the samples taken from the scene could help british scientists determine what's the poison was but that isn't the same thing it was not a chalk they said but don't ask us which country it came from because it isn't our job we are one hundred percent certain that this is from the nova chalk family of nerve agents a military create nerve agent who provided that information to the police and to the government and that has really been our role in the us it's not for others to advise on who me who made the near vision or where indeed it came from. all of which is a bit embarrassing for the british foreign secretary who apart from comparing vladimir putin to hitler in recent weeks had seemed to suggest that he'd been told by the same

o.p.c. w. at the hague to recant what they saw on april the seventh russia says the syrian statement proves the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies deny it never level so right away. we were in the basement we heard cries in the street that we should go to the hospital we got scared we went to the hospital through the tunnel i started pouring water on me at the hospital i don't know why after that they took me to a different place. but it's lowered to me they've distributed fake footage sent out by the fake humanitarians called the white helmets we've seen it all we saw the a boran scenes of choking children choking victims of poisoning right after the seventh of april the grand propaganda machine of the western trio came to action the u.k. the u.s. 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 p

ashes into the group's russia says international inspectors will learn to do more on wednesday to investigate a suspected chemical attack the world's chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w held emergency talks were envoys traded accusations the u.s. accused russia of tampering with the site for moscow said the delay concerned security a fact finding team landed in damascus and saturday it will establish if an attack took place for one to assign blame the russian envoy to the o.p.c. w accused british intelligence of fabricating v. attack. we have serious grounds to believe that it was highly likely that this provocation was organized with the help of the british intelligence services. or list by that the syrian government allowed journalists went to duma as part of an organized media tour they were given access to a field hospital where medical staff told reporters no patients suffered from toxic gas symptoms other residents recalled a strong chlorine smell blamed the attack on rebel fighters the tour did not include the building where syrian activists medics say more than forty people were killed us president donald trump is personal lawyers failed in a bid to keep serv

o.p.c. w. out the hague to recount what they saw on april the seventh russia says the syrians statements approved the chemical attack was staged allegations the u.s. and its allies strongly deny. it was inside that briefing and is live for us in the hague sonia what sort of evidence was presented to back up this claim that the duma attacks were stage. well so far in this briefing really all they've been able to do so far is to vehemently deny that both the russian the russian ambassador. and the syrian representative at the a.p.c. w. stating that it's possible that syria had gotten rid of its chemical weapons stockpile that it had never conducted a chemical attack on its own people and that it had worked in fact with the a p c w two be able to get rid of its stockpile and instead said that they in fact other organizations terrorist organizations that called them that had indeed been stockpiling their own chemical weapons outside of syria bringing them into the country and using them instead and so far also what we've been managing to see in this in this press conference as well as a sort of a vid