cleaned out if there was any evidence of this attack so that is a pretty significant thing that o.p.c. w. which is the organization for prevention of chemical warfare has been asked by the regime and the russians to go but it cannot been blame on any party and that's what the united states and others wanted that it should be able to say not only was chemical attack inducted but by whom that is of course the key question now we're hearing reports of rebels are leaving the area if they are read are they going and when if i'm going to fall and as you indicate it is likely to if there's going to be a game changer for syria. well indeed he absolutely is a game changer to come to the second part of your question first because if it is as russians see a completely under regime control and it's quite believable then barring a pocket and hum are one in daraa and the live rubble or switch are on severe starkey border protection what's on the ground the regime pretty much has all of syria's standardly in its hold excluding the kurdish areas but then the region has a very different understanding with the 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 syrian government control and that russian military police are patrolling the streets establishing law and order well what do you know on that day that o.p.c. w inspectors are supposed to get to duma and start their work there

o.p.c. w. days after the event it collected all the chemical and biological samples itself and then hundred the samples to the o.p.c. w. which goes against regulations. what is for certain is that russia is being shunned from any investigation despite being the accused it's being told nothing which makes it hard to defend yourself well if you get the feeling that they just don't want to let russia near the investigation bog area speaking for the e.u. recently said russia is guilty because there were no other explanations no evidence no investigation they just accuse us of committing a crime that we did not do we don't understand. british position the more transparent the investigation the fewer questions the international community has including russia. this is just when the u.s. military moved out the six tourists moved in. and now. fatherless children is growing up here. i sense. that. the. site isn't the first time the t.v. crew fumes you want and takes you for a night answer is that it's real or. that's it. my god. you can take. it you can take the girl. or woman you know. like that you like. it. you never know what's ar

o.p.c. w. days after the event it collected all the chemical and biological samples itself and then hundred the samples to the o.p.c. w. which goes against regulations. what is for certain is that russia is being shunned from any investigation despite being the accused it's being told nothing which makes it hard to defend yourself well if you get the feeling that they just don't want to let russia near the investigation bug area speaking for the e.u. recently said russia is guilty because there were no other explanations no evidence no investigation they just accuse us of committing a crime that we did not do we don't understand the british position the more. the investigation if you would questions the international community has including russia where again as the of. if you go through st mankind it's been a cruel and destructive over and over again in some our cities have come back and many are quite beautiful and wonderful places. if you look at the middle east in places like syria it's it's i agree with you it's totally depressed. and i wish that the political issues involved with it could be resolved but i think until

been in touch with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons on this matter the o.p.c. w which implements the chemical weapons convention to which syria is a state party is gathering information about this incident from all available sources through its fact finding mission following the completion of its investigation if m. were reported findings on this alleged attack to the state parties to the convention mr president there is sadly little to be said today that is not a ready been said the use of chemical weapons is an justifiable those responsible must be held to account. that these views have been stated before on many occasions does not lessen the seriousness with which such allegations are regarded by the secretary general. nor does it listen the truth behind them which is what we are seeing in syria cannot go unchallenged by anyone who values the decades of effort towards bringing about the disarmament and nonplus ration of weapons of mass destruction as the body charged with the maintenance of international peace and security the council must unite in the face of this

consistent with that poisoning rather than over chunks those claims were directly contradicted by the o.p.c. w. which said it was discovered and controlled rather than the actual samples do you think the bees at stories closed by now and do you think it was appropriate on the russian side to present the information in a way that was presented well to be frank with you i believe that the explanation. is quite satisfactory they can do special control samples to make sure that it is. determined by both laboratories and they know exactly what. the russians were right to use the confidential information that they i assume received through some intelligence sources in such a way that would put the o.p.c. w.-o. on the spot because russia does need the goodwill and called ration and of of the international body wasn't bad undermining that goodwill. right now. in the situation with without any evidence so what should russian. the game. russia hundred percent loser from the beginning russia is supposed to use any keys any facts any evidence to protect itself and to fight in this particular game well here sayin

o.p.c. w. days after the event it collected all the chemical and biological samples itself and then hundred the samples to the o.p.c. w which goes against regulations. what is for certain is that russia is being shunned from any investigation despite being the accused it's being told nothing which makes it hard to defend yourself well you get the feeling that they just don't want to let russia near the investigation bog area speaking for the e.u. recently said russia is guilty because there are no other explanations no evidence no investigation they just accuse us of committing a crime that we did not do we don't understand. position the more transparent the investigation the fewer questions the international community including russia where guys do you have. a. clip of most definitely wasn't a victim. of any kind of a federation or attack from the russian side because it was both really destroyed russian kind of debility as far as exchanges sort of concerns and they are dependent on it because they certainly have to get their people back if they get into trouble. you never know what's around the corner you never know what'

consistent with that poisoning rather than over chunks those claims were directly contradicted by the o.p.c. w. which sat it was discovered and controlled rather than the actual samples do you think the bees at stories closed by now and do you think it was appropriate on the russian side to present the information in a way that was presented well to be frank with you i believe that the explanation. is quite satisfactory they can do special control samples to make sure that it is. determined by both laboratories and they know exactly what. the russians were right to use the confidential information that they i assume received through some intelligence sources in such a way that would put the o.p.c. w.-o. on the spot because russia does need the goodwill and called ration and of of the international body wasn't undermining that goodwill. in the situation with without any evidence so what should be rushed. do. the game. russia. from the beginning russia is supposed to use any keys any fact any evidence to protect itself and to fight in this particular game well here saying is that desperate times call f

o.p.c. w. days after the event it collected all the chemical and biological samples itself and then hundred the samples to the o.p.c. w. which goes against regulations. what is for certain is that russia is being shunned from any investigation despite being the accused it's being told nothing which makes it hard to defend yourself well you get the feeling that they just don't want to let russia near the. ation belgariad speaking for the e.u. recently said russia is guilty because there were no other explanations no evidence no investigation they just accuse us of committing a crime that we did not do we don't understand the british position the more transparent the investigation the fewer questions the international community has including russia where guys do you have. in july twenty seventh seen on an attempt to freelance journalist watching this on t.v. militant shelling in syria. so on a second focus has established a khaled. they will recognize will reporters who often risk so to say because the truth comes through that piece you can submit to your published works in a video or written form go to a wall and on t.v. don'

his seat there came to light it upset washington by encouraging iraq to become a member of the o.p.c. w which would mean iraq having to destroy all of its chemical weapons well that was apparently view does not equal to the us intention to engage in military action in iraq in an open letter supported by starting many activists to demand to put world peace ahead of us you know that tourism is joseph studies account of what happened . when i became director general there were eighty seven members and when i left it was a hundred and fifty something countries so and in my last attempt to enlarge the membership of all of the organisation was convincing iraq and libya for example to join in and when i am no system member states it was a shock to the americans i believe. because the plans are ready to take some action military action against iraq according to fruition that i had it was obvious that. during the first iraq war everything had been destroyed and there was nothing left for iraq to be accused of still possessing chemical weapons the accusation was that my management style was not agreeab

salisbury the same time our british colleagues forget that by acting in the framework of the o.p.c. w. which we believe is the only correct way. they not only have rights but they also have certain obligations including the including obligations towards us as fully fledged members of the organization and we have clearly reminded them of that during the special meeting of the executive council of the a p c w that was convened yesterday at our request we proposed a draft decision on a joint investigation which it was blocked by the united kingdom and its allies which they immediately considered as a victory although the number of those voting for and abstained in fact exceeded the number of those that voted against this is quite understandable why does why does the great britain how it needed joint investigation if they've already established who's guilty before even beginning the investigation of these kind these kinds of investigation might destroy their their clear version based on such powerful arguments and words as highly likely overwhelmingly likely highly plausible. there's almost no d

support for the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons o.p.c. w which will investigate this past weekend's alleged attack the key issue though while the o.p.c. w. is empowered to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place it has no mandate to identify the state or non-state actors that may have been responsible. for the second russian proposal failed to pass and apparently non-controversial resolution supporting the work of the o.p.c. w. failed to get the necessary votes those opposed to pointing out the chemical watchdog was already at work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of this day so too it appears for the security council. i can are united nations. israel as annoying as forces were behind the attack on an airbase in syria on monday terror on says seven iranians were killed an airstrike on the task at military base and blames israel for the attack and homes and warns it will not go without a response israel's defense minister says television was not responsible. for me to cover i don't know what happened no who wa

o.p.c. w. days after the event it collected all the chemical and biological samples itself and then hundred the samples to the o.p.c. w. which goes against regulations. what is for certain is that russia is being shunned from any investigation despite being the accused it's being told nothing which makes it hard to defend yourself well you get the feeling that they just don't want to let russia near the investigation bog areas speaking for the e.u. recently said russia is guilty because there are no other explanations no evidence no investigation they just accuse us of committing a crime that we did not do we don't understand. british position the more transparent the investigation if you would questions the international community has including russia where guys do you have. for man are sitting in a car when the phipps gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it there's no possible way because the us did not shoot around a corner. if you go through history mankind is a little cruel and destructive over and over again in some our cit

support for the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons o.p.c. w which will investigate this past weekend's alleged attack the key issue though while the o.p.c. w. is empowered to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place it has no mandate to identify the states or non-state actors that may have been responsible. for a second russian proposal failed to pass an apparently non-controversial resolution supporting the work of the opi c.w. failed to get the necessary votes those opposed to pointing out the chemical watchdog was a review of work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of this day so too it appears was the security council. i can i'll just hear a united nations. global chemical weapons watchdog has accepted an invitation from syria's government to visit the sites of sas a suspected chemical attack and duma there was a sin for the prohibition of chemical weapons as a fact finding mission will be deployed shortly syrian aid workers said at least sixty people were killed many of them children and more than one thousand

into the o.p.c. w. which remains pretty much unanswered those questions include some technical details that russia has inquired to the c.w. asking them what sort of information the u.k. has provided to the un chemical body because this is something that london is not sharing with moscow and whether or not the o.p.c. w. in turn will be sharing that with russia so there's that element of this horrible incident what point does russia expect to get any answers on well in fact russia hopes to get the answers as early as wednesday because this is when the o.p.c. w. is meeting it is a gathering of it has been initiated by moscow and this is when sergei lavrov himself hopes to get some answers have a listen. in the belittling of our british colleagues to answer the questions only one think it's a work of fiction and be more specific. it's. his calling this is a provocation mainly because the block of countries who seem to agree who is behind the assassination attempt for them the investigation is not about who did it

his post it came to light that either washington by encouraging iraq to become a member of the o.p.c. w. which would mean iraq having to destroy all of its chemical weapons was apparently viewed as an obstacle to the u.s. intention to engage in military action in iraq in an open letter supporting bustani many activists demanded it but will pay south of us unilateralism it was one minute particularly against as it was standing being head of the o.p.c. w. john bolton at the time was the undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs he's since been appointed as the u.s. national security advisor shortly take up that position as a persone says his intentions to make iraq a member of the o p c w stood in the way of u.s. ambitions. i got a phone call from john bolton from washington the first time i had contact with him it said that i had his structures to to to tell me that i should resign from the organization and i asked him why he said your management style was not agreeable to washington to dick cheney the vice president cetera said no way i don't accept that so he

in salisbury the same time our british colleagues forget that acting in the framework of the o.p.c. w. which we believe is the only correct way. they not only have rights but they also have certain obligations including the including obligations towards us as fully fledged members of the organization and we have clearly reminded them of that during this special meeting of the executive council of the a p c w that was convened yesterday at our request we proposed a draft decision on a joint investigation it was blocked by the united kingdom and its allies which they immediately considered as a victory although the number of those voting for and abstained in fact exceeded the number of those that voted against this is quite understandable why does why does the great britain how it needed.

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 they put it being cleared out and russian military police were patrolling the streets maintaining law and order well there are reports on russian news wires today that fighting has broken out in the area and that given russia has pledged that it would guarantee the security of o.p.c. w. inspectors. two duma we see yes but it could well be used as justification from the russian side for delaying the visit even longer so having said that roy in the end do syria and russia really hold the cards for inspectors to ultimately get access to the site it seems as if they really have control of whether that ever happens yet they have absolute control of the area also they've been saying. y

support for the fact finding mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or o.p.c. w which will investigate this past weekend's alleged attack the key issue though while the o.p.c. w. is empowered to establish whether or not a chemical attack took place it has no mandate to identify the state or non-state actors that may have been responsible. for the second russian proposal failed to pass and apparently non-controversial resolutions supporting the work of the o.p.c. w. failed to get the necessary votes those opposed to pointing out the chemical watchdog was already at work arguing such a resolution was superfluous and at the end of the day so too it appears for the security council. mike hanna al-jazeera united nations members army has sentenced seven soldiers to ten years each for their involvement in the killing of ten men during a military crackdown on real hinge a muslim now the military says the soldiers joined police and british villagers in the killings in rakhine state last september meum us army has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing and demonstrators i

o.p.c. ws experts being sent there to identify evidence is not something which we see people eager to do we demand that o.p.c. w. verify all of those areas access is being probed is can be provided also information is surfacing that a ton for the camp american structures are instructors trained a number of groups of fighters and to stage provocations with chemical weapons used to create a pretext for a strike. it was clear to us that the attempt to to shelter terrorists and at the same time to to upon ish the regime so hated by some western capitals will sooner or later be undertaken speaking heads on television screens sought to repeat last year's last year's chemical attack against syria last year strike this morning there were strikes missile strikes against the two for airfield in homes province we are deeply troubled by such actions provocations in the. last years incident in honshu hoolan the unifying moment aspect is the fact that there is a planned nature of these attacks and also is of the u.s. operations prior to and after the incident in honshu when in april two thousand and seven shows that washingt

o.p.c. ws experts being sent there to identify evidence is not something which we see people eager to do we demand that o.p.c. w. verify all of those areas access is being pervasive can be provided. also information is surfacing that a ton of the camp american structures of instructors are trained a number of groups of fighters are to stage provocations with chemical weapons used to create a pretext for a strike. it was clear to us that the attempt to to shelter terrorists and at the same time to to upon ish the regime so hated by some western capitals will sooner or later be undertaken speaking heads on television screens sought to repeat last year's last year's chemical attack against syria last year's strike this morning there were strikes missile strikes against the two for airfield in holmes the province we are deeply troubled by such actions provocations in. the last serious incident in honshu hoolan of the unifying moment aspect is the fact that there is a planned nature of these attacks and also of the u.s. operations prior to and after the incident in honshu when in april two thousand and seven shows t

the o.p.c. w. which which where we support and the russians and the united states are actually on its executive committee is by its very mandate an able to attribute use of chemical weapons all it can do is tell us that chemical weapons have been used the body that was created the joint investigative mechanism that the russians actually shut down last year would have told us who was responsible and in fact in two thousand and sixteen the joint investigative mechanism told us that the syrian regime was responsible for their use at least on three occasions and right after that pronouncement the russians refused to renew its mandate so therefore even of the o.p.'s w goes in it is prohibited from attributing responsibility what should the world major powers be doing right now how how is it that progress could be made however small. unfortunately if you're referencing the russians really progress cannot be made at this point seven years after this horrible horrible war there seem millions of people displaced

committee and at least the full called it future elections becomes a playoff game now regarding the o.p.c. w. which you didn't refer to but i would do it we are pushing and we continue pushing at the un to get the idea for opiate he w. to do its job and to do it that quickly if possible without any interference because of the they are on the ground the un they've done what they can although they are not part of the u.n. in order to make sure that the job if quickly done it is important that we turned the page on the thing alleged chemical attack because of that we need to go back to the basics and basic this lower pressure political process and trying to avoid did that become a international area of playground of tensions because frankly night defeated the it you know frankly the world of that wife on that your discussions and your intention of going forward on the political process very important for i think reassuring thank you. thank you. so that's the u.n. special envoy stephan it to mr arar he's in moscow as you can see and he's there to push for a diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the war in

violations of all the norms which guarantee our collective security a violation of firstly of all international obligations viz of the prohibition of chemical weapons under the o.p.c. w two which syria is a party where the second this constitutes a violation of the very foundations of international humanitarian law namely the principles of distinction of precaution and of proportionality third this constitutes a breach of successive security council violations twenty one eighteen twenty two zero nine twenty two thirty five and thereby a breach of the obligations incumbent upon syria under the un charter and massively the use of chemical weapons against civilians was banned in one nine hundred twenty five under the geneva protocol this constitutes a war crime under the international criminal court to a statute. the united nations secretary general in august twenty third teen called chemical weapons use a crime against humanity this chemical weapons of war is a tool to accelerate a deliberate policy of submission through terror this is a policy which over the course of seven years has claimed the lives of four hundred thousand people led to the deliberate destruction o

o.p.c. w. meeting which was held and behind closed doors at the headquarters in the hague many of the delegations during that me that session were tweeting their statements and actually we got a steady trickle of what was going on even though it was a closed meeting including extracts of what the u.k. representative to the a p c 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

o.p.c. w. decision which if you look at all the membership it is a global member. ship but it was the people that wanted to make sure that russia wasn't part of the process either are a nato or in the european union lot an american asian they were they did know along with it all it's intensely politicized and so what is the case because i haven't been given any evidence yet ok but it seems like it's already gone to trial and the same people that brought to trial the jury go ahead patrick yeah it's a curious case imagine the prosecutor makes the accusations against the defendant but won't allow the defendant to see the evidence and is presumed guilty straight out of the gate it's absolutely incredible but you know let's look at this where did this term nova chuck come from and this is really interesting and this is something that's kind of casually glossed over by the media there is no there's very little evidence of any program or anything called nova trucks even back to the soviet union chemical weapons research and development days so what it is is a g.v. class w

o.p.c. w. in turn will be sharing that with russia bush has been asking these questions since day one since this whole incident took place which is what to get any answers to that well in fact russia is hoping to get some answers as early as this wednesday because this is when the o.p.c. w. members are meeting and this is a summit initiated by russia so this is why sergei lavrov hopes to get at least something out of the u.n. body on wednesday. in the booty of our british colleagues to answer the questions you want it's a work of fiction and be more specific. products and so in general the russian foreign minister has expressed concern about the bloc of countries who seem to have agreed to put in everything on moscow because in their in their opinion it seems it's not an investor. into who was behind the assassination attempt but more like how russia did give a direct order to its agents to go and assassinate surrogates for powell and his daughter or whether or not russia just lost track of the nerve agent mr. bush is going to respond to those claims well he said that russia has no motive in this russia that for at least a dec

which. donald trump sent fifty seven cruise missiles at the syrian airbase o.p.c. w. was on its way to duma to investigate we've contacted various groups including the world health organization they've cited but have refused to go into any details become not rule out the possibility that someone from within region wants to see the syrian state weakened or even toppled might stage something and what we know as well is that haitian islam the army of islam the militant group that was just ousted from duma they have possession of chlorine gas they used it and they acknowledged its usage two years ago in aleppo against kurdish militia they issued a statement saying you know we've done it what comes next no one can say whether the u.s. will go ahead with a preemptive strike or whether cooler heads will prevail it appears the lack of evidence on the alleged chemical attack is a concern for a number of journalists five i spoke to one of them his name was bast spelt he's from belgium he's traveled to syria itself to judge it for themselves. around two years ago i started to di

strikes in two thousand and seventeen in the wake of the use of chemical weapons in can on for which the u.n. o.p.c. w.-t. held the assad regime to be responsible in relation to the airstrikes against on him facilities the prime minister will be aware that the o.p.c. w. carried out inspections on both those facilities in two thousand and seventeen and concluded i quote that the inspection team did not observe any activities inconsistent with the obligations under the chemical weapons convention can the prime minister advise the house does she believe the o.p.c. w were wrong in that assessment or does she have separate intelligence that the nature of those activities has changed within the last five months and in the lights of the chill cause inquiry does she agree with a key recommendation about the importance of strengthening the checks and assessment on intelligence information when it is used to make the case for government policies given that neither the un nor the o.p.c. w has yet investigated the attack it is clear that diplomatic and nonmilitary means have not been fully exhausted while much su

of questions that he it has asked repeatedly but which remain unanswered pretty much russia even wrote an official mail an official letter to the o.p.c. w. the u.n. chemical watchdog which is sort of shares the investigation into the assassination attempt to those technically those questions are rather technical they are there and they include what information the u.k. has passed to the u.n. nobody regarding the investigation because this is something that london is refusing to share with moscow and whether or not the o.p.c. w. in its turn will be sharing with moscow russia's been asking these questions since day one since this horrible incident took place where does russia hope to get any answers to any of these quest while in fact russia is hoping to get some answers as early as this wednesday because this is when the o.p.c. w. members are meeting and this is a summit initiated by russia so this is why sergei lavrov hopes to get at least something out of the u.n. body on wednesday. the beauty of our colleagues to answer the questions you want it's a work of fiction and be more specific. products and so in general the russian foreign m

o.p.c. w. would not find anything of any significance now on one side where this argument is being made in the united states on the other hand we are being told that the mandate is limited which means that while the o.p.c. w in a weekend sort of check. whether chemical attack took place are not it cannot a certain it cannot be in the responsibility on any one so i'm not up both sides but arguments can be true if the russians have cleaned up the site that means that they should have no problems with having o.p.c. w. pin the responsibility on either party and if they haven't cleaned it up then the limited minded argument would stand meanwhile we are seeing a sustained u.s. naval buildup off the coast of syria and an increase in american activity what is a general view there on the possibility of military strikes. well the one that's on in washington now is how can the not hit russian assets be just hit the city in assets but that's going to be very difficult because over the last few days bashar al assad has moved. syrian assets on the russian bases the forces amount scattered now if you see we know that the u.s. need to store as a noun the mediterranean and they do have tomaha

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 had a chance to examine this so-called evidence but they encouraged a lot of their nato partners to do the same thing so they can for diplomatically to row back from this position particularly a very vulnerable

this script poisoning an investigation in which they would have more of a role they already tried yesterday to get the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w. to launch a new investigation a joint investigation in which the russians would have a key role that was voted down by the o.p.c. w. . we will have to wait and see what the united nations security council decides as perhaps the case that they might see the russians get chinese supports but there won't be much support of course from from the other members of the u.n. security council though the west of ireland ones. will they want of course to steer this in a direction that they can influence the russians to and i think that's why they're taking this to the u.n. security council clearly they believe that they have been locked out of much of the diplomatic maneuvering so far because the united kingdom has managed to build a fairly solid united front with its allies in the e.u. in the united states and other western nations and that has worried moscow it wants to try to chip away at that or possible our thanks very much for chalons in moscow . brazil's top court has ruled that former pr

o.p.c. w. visited to investigate the alleged attack the team collected samples which will be sent to a laboratory in the balance the o.p.c. w. is also planning another trip to the city however the u.s. britain i'm from still has not to wait for the official probe signing media reports on controversial activist groups the country's accuse the assad government of gassing civilians on this month launched air raids against syria us state department spokesperson heather now or explained washington couldn't afford to waste time. the o.p.c. view is something that we back strongly but it can also take quite a bit of time for the o.p.c. of you to gather its information and compile the report so i would ask you should the united states and her allies wait around for bashar al assad to use more chemical substances honest people should we wait around for that formal investigation that could take months and months you know lots of reaction to this we spoke to two political commentators who are usually on opposite sides of the debate about their thoughts on u.s. military action sometimes supporters are disappo

o.p.c. w. are going to investigate which begs the question why would the u.s. already threaten to use military force instead of waiting to find out the results of any such probe. well there is nothing apparently was prepared in advance. about three weeks ago the british began to scream that this syrians were going to years pours in gas what happened is that the tiger forces attacked from a new direction they overwhelmed the the terrorist forces and they captured the borders and gas chemical laboratory that was intended to be used to create a pretext or for. attacks on syria and at the time that it was done i said well i said there's been a setback for the british but you can guarantee that they are planning the next the next stage of it and sure enough here we are the syrian army has collapsed the terrorists defenses down to a very small area in duma and and do my is polling there already bustling ground terrorists to the other areas and so the war was where the battle the battle for good was won and then suddenly we have this these claims of poison gas. it is

o.p.c. w the u.n. chemical watchdog which is now sort of in charge of the vesta geisha there was a technical questions like for example what exactly what information the the u.k. has passed on to the body because the u.k. is refusing to provide any information to moscow and also whether or not the o.p.c. w. will be providing that information passing on that information to russia so this is these are the answers that russia is expecting and russia's is even summoned has called for an emergency for an emergency meeting of the o.p.c. w. on wednesday. source briefed on the investigation told c.n.n. they believe a move like that was too sophisticated for a rogue agent and likely needed kremlin approval now what we've heard right now is how the mainstream media is sort of reviving this story and what they're doing here as you can clearly hear is that they are citing some officials some some unnamed official a source which is tying the assassination attempt to kremlin not exactly clear why they're doing this because this is something that you know to reason may and boris johnson have been saying for a long t

o.p.c. w. 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 british foreign secretary he referred to the motion put forward by russia or is being ludicrous and said that it was defeated bec