we are without a doubt that russia is responsible there is no plausible alternative explanation needed to one hundred diplomats expelled by britain myths allies and russia diplomatic relations hate rock bottom and then we get the chemical expertise from britain's own laboratory we have not verified the precise source you have not been able to establish porton down that this was made in russia as i said it's our job to provide eight you know the scientific evidence that identifies the particular near of each. it is so to be clear you're not able at portadown to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that you'd think that would at least slightly embarrassed those shouting loudest about russia's guilt now really it comes down to one particular job certain scientists now porton down say their job is to work out what the substance was never stablished that it is not a chalk a mat is by definition of the translation of the name which means newcomer part of a program in a soviet union in the late seventy's and eighty's the movie chalks dozens and dozens of different nerve agents

>> yes, that sounds plausible.olorful language like that and blunt language. he sometimes says things like that to put people off, to joke about things. i don't know what the context was, as you just pointed out, but that sounds like something vladimir putin might say. and, oddly, that they're joking about it is suggestive, probative, of some other thing they may have been talking about. >> okay. so now what you alluded to, i just want to ask your experience following what happened with vladimir putin and who he surrounds himself, would it be plausible that he would be at an event or have an evening and there would be hookers around as was suggested in the dossier at the ritz-carlton? >> again, you're asking me to speculate, so i want to underscore, i don't have any information about such matters. i think it's implausible, actually. i don't think vladimir putin would take part in an event like that. i just want to say some things i do know which is that the russian state, the russian government, the russian intelli

. so on is not that plausible. between complete denuclearisation and a little light arms control. andol. james landale, thanks. than five years in the first three months of the year. product grew byjust 0. experts had predicted. growth was reducing anyway. our economics correspondent andy verity reports. and the economy struggled to get going. going. of their lorries from the beast from the east. the east. the flow of money into the firm seized up. firm seized up. customer base, supplying many supermarkets. supermarkets. backlog we had from a couple of days of snow. of snow. dramatically and hit us financially very hard. very hard. it was the best part of 250,000 off our bottom line. 250,000 off our bottom line. the construction industry is in a whole. whole. official analysis, the bad weather only played a small role in that. only played a small role in that. retail were affected, but there was a wider slowdown going on. a wider slowdown going on. economic growth numbers in five yea rs. economic growth numbers in five years. years. transport is part of the economy's biggest sector. e

that doesn't seem plausible, what do you think? >> it doesn't seem plausible at all considering the russians and the syrians control all the air space. nobody else flies there. and the syrians have done this many, many times before. it's totally implausible denial. >> absolutely. and u.s. officials are saying the reports confirmed are clearly horrifying and demand an immediate response by the international community. do you think we can expect a u.s. missile strike like the one that followed april's last chemical attack. >> well, we did it last time. and if left up to general mattis, we would respond in the same way. but it is curious about what the president's response will be and whether or not he will permit general mattis to go ahead and retaliate with a missile strike. it will be interesting to see what happens in the next couple of days. every bets that there will be a strike to retaliate, but it remains to be seen whether or not the president wants to, wants to give the russians and the syrians a bye. >> this comes just days

probably the british presentation held high plausibility otherwise all the members of the you would not have decided to make. your lattimer's declaration but in the question of the sanctions opinions different because of course there was no clear proof on the one hand and on the other hand still also was to question whether it was very reasonable to react with sanctions under braking the dialogue between russia and the western countries. as one of those countries that is firmly convinced that it is necessary and will be less a series to keep up this dialogue and to talk. about all the matters security matters between russia and the west and the former swedish foreign minister carl bildt said austria's position is incompatible with e.u. membership while former alaskan foreign minister artie's sees this as a bad joke this is a quote is there risk asha's relationship with russell as well turn sour because of this i don't think so because all of the belgian government had a similar position luxembourg the country where the president of the commission comes from the same way as austria but a

afterwards said that there was a high plausibility for the case there was no proof and if there is no proof of course you also have to consider your reaction this is one side the other world is as always there will be in the presidency of the e.u. in the second half of this year and i think that it will be one of the major tasks of austria not only tried to make good contributions for the salvation of problems but also for the relationship to important neighbors and russia is one of them or is the most important neighbor for you and then so far it is was very clear for the austrian government not to take part that any sanctions or regime but try to keep up to the relations with russia critics say the n. ow selectively invokes its traditional neutrality whenever it feels that its interests are jeopardized do you feel that your country's fairly accused of being the e.u. security policy of freeloader i don't think so. it is a new to come through but all neutrality is only military neutrality it's not an ideological but i didn't see a logical problem in this question of course on the one

report identifies the control lab of the origin of the agencies in this attack there is no plausible to in this of the explanation for what happened in souls breathe and russian state for sponsibility but believe that only brusha had the technical means operational experience and the mates of to target the script files now the british representative proceeded to accuse putin of personally being involved in the attack. president putin himself was closely involved in the russian chemical weapons program woman if you wouldn't london us harm he thinks the russian president has a whole be running chemical weapons programs in his free time city but i don't know whether you appreciate the you've crossed all possible boundaries so it seems that the western conception that russia was the only state capable of producing or developing nova talk is pretty much irrelevant at this point considering that the russian ambassador also pointed out that no chalk was also patented in the us back in two thousand and fifteen and then lastly he outlined eight lies circulated by british authorities on the su

there's almost no doubt there's no other plausible explanation. russia was almost certainly to blame much high likelihood of russian responsibility russia is the likely perpetrator. boris johnson continues to convince everyone that the british side supposedly sent russia a list of questions to which it still hasn't received any answers and everything in fact is completely the opposite of you know as i said we never received any list of questions and i turned to the british side if you have such a list of questions please tell us please list those questions but the but please don't consider accusations in the form of an ultimatum and demand to. acknowledge it and to own up to being guilty as a list of questions. we on the other hand do have a lot of questions both to london to the open sea and also to france which all of a sudden for no reason and not based on what provisions of the convention immediately rushed to assist the british side in confirming the results of the british so-called death express investigation in response to our request the f

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 know whether you appreciate the you've crossed all possible around riis. so it appears that the western conception that russia was the only one capable of developing the nerve nerve agent is a pretty much irrelevant at this point given that to the russian ambassador brought up that it was also patented in the us back in two thousand and fi

is that a plausible recovery from a no b. chalk poisoning. well i don't know good evening. case to be with you i don't know specifically about recovering from another choke agent because we know very little about these and is there only being one other case reported some years ago what we do know is that people have recovered from poisonings with other nerve agents where they've been exposed to many times a lethal dose. and they have recovered after that equal treatment in some instances very prompt medical treatment and some have made a. complete recovery i mean this is it's surprising to us because i think i was in the newsroom solve the interview with the wash and scientists do now lives in the united states who says that he is the scientists to actually develop an invented no we joke and he said that it may not kill you but once it has impaired you there is no recovery from that so is he wrong is this or is this a different no bitch oh. well i mean it may well be a different kind of a chalk but. what we do know about diff

to a full peace agreement i mean is that something that these two leaders could could plausibly achieve in this summit. it's something they can plausibly achieve i don't think i may be proved wrong i don't think that at this very early stage they could sit down and sign a peace treaty to end the korean war here and now it is a bit more complicated than that anyway when you look back to nine hundred fifty three in the truce or armistice that was signed south korea didn't actually sign that it was signed by what i've described as the u.n. come on basically be united states and its allies and north korea so i don't think that could be done here and now i am prepared to be surprised and that would also that would be a very important breakthrough. to take place if it did take place among the other things that go to work out is how this process proceeds from from now on certainly the contacts between the south and north will continue they don't go to work out quite how things work with the u.s. and if you do have a process when do you bring in the rest of the international community in the pa

there is no other plausible area that could have come from. been pointing to jeremy come from. meanwhile labour have been pointing tojeremy corbyn is rather more cautious response to the salisbury attack. euro member, he questionjust how salisbury attack. euro member, he question just how reliable the evidence actually was —— you will remember. diane abbott said that more thoughtful approach, her description, jeremy corbyn should get credit for that. jeremy corbyn again this morning while stressing the need for what he called a responsible and cool approach to establish who actually was... or where the novichok came from. he also rounded on the foreign secretary, who has been very bullish on some of the interviews he has given and his conviction that russia was responsible, telling colleagues on five live last month that on a scale of one to ten, he was 9.98 certain that the novichok came from russia. this morning, jeremy corbyn was asked about some of boris johnson ‘s comments. this is his response. well, he claimed categorically, he used the

i would call it hacking, misinformation, disinformation, which are coming from cutouts and plausibly deniable intermediaries. if russia were to ever think about taking down and electricity grid using cyber warfare, that would be an act of war and the united states has the ability, the cyber abilities with its nato allies to a tally eight -- retaliate in a devastating way and send russia back to the dark ages on a cyber basis. i do not think putin whatever be so stupid as to do that. what putin likes to do is plausibly deniable, guerrilla warfare, asymmetric tactics which cannot be proven to be him and are sort of poking around the edges, but not hitting the core. that is where everybody -- we all live in a world of innocent until proven guilty and so on and so forth, and putin takes advantage of all that with this stuff. it is requiring us to change our tactics. it is very interesting in the u.k., they now publish, the u.k. government publishes a list of russian lies about different things in relation to the chemical weapons attack in relations to syria, because russia is so openly l

>> i have plausible -- >> we are grateful for the appropriation and the commitment to deploy that. once the budget is set, it certainly would have required an extreme collaboration to look at any recession issues in that area, and we would be very careful about that. we've not been participating in those discussions. >> we worked hard enough to get to the deal that we had for the loss of the new chinese pair ^-caretheywonder if you use somn the existing authorities i get calls all the time from my office about this and others in the state agency of agriculture supporting a crisis hotline for progress to repeal to the financial stress and depression and tragically thoughts of suicide. beyond the market production program on monday with the changes in the premiums included for budget act of 2018. how do you employ this is already facing enormous stress cracks that may sound like a parochial view, but you will hear from other states. >> there's no doubt, we discussed it over here that coming up with doctor johansson all of the agricultural sectors that i'm familiar with i think that t

. >> those are two plausible reasons. i have a third.go through your reasons, first perhaps they feel they don't have enough yet. they are continuing the investigation and they have not arrived at that conclusion. second, if they've decided they cannot charge him based on prior department of justice guidance, then he could never be a target because he could never be a defendant. but also third, plausibly, they're doing what good prosecutors do, they're being cautious. you are not going to indict a president or label him as a target unless you are positive. and that the investigation is ongoing, they may not yet be positive. >> okay. so there was some speculation in here that said mueller -- in the "post" reporting it is alluded that john dowd may have quit over this. they say may. it is alluded to but this idea that somehow -- be careful is a trap. you could go from a subject to a target and telling you this to lure you into the interview. >> not a chance. good prosecutors don't play games. good prosecutors care deeply about their reputa

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it seems a plausible theory.fter dicing and chopping up the data in a whole bunch of different ways, we concluded regulation is not a cause of this decline in dynamism. joe: let's check about -- talk about methodology because attempting to quantify regulation in the economy strikes me as a difficult thing. i guess you could do it by number of lines, but there is also qualitative elements. eveno you go about measuring the amounts of regulations in the economy in any given moment? alex: you are right. what people have done in the past is look at the regulation. what we did was using a database, we looked at the code of federal regulations and we broke it intowhat we did was us. in each chunk, we looked at the number of restrictive words. words like prohibited, must, shall. then, we counted up the number words and using a machine learning words and usina machine learning technique, associated each conch of the code of federal regulations with an industry. what that gives you is a measure of every year, how much a re

what is the best plausible outcome that we can see after this first meeting of donald trump and kim jong-un? >> well, we hope a number of things could be achieved. i talked about getting the release of the american detainees. and then we talked a great deal about what it might look like. hat this complete, vary fiable, irreversible mechanism would look like. when the two leaders are in a room together, they can set the course. they can chart the outcome. they can direct the teams to deliver that outcome. and the best outcome would be that. the two agree they're going to get there and charter their teams to go make that happen. >> i want to play for you something that the national security adviser, john bolton said, shortly before coming into the administration, right after this planned meeting was announced. this is what he said about negotiating with the north koreans. >> there's an all-purpose joke here. question, how do you know that the north korean regime is lying? answer, their lips are moving. >> that was obviously before john bolton became the national security adviser. he's now wor

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that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative check and the acting u.s. secretary of state went to far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans. what we decided was that we were going to set up a g seven group that would look at russian malign behavior knowledges manifestations whether it's cyber war or the dissent from ation this is the nation at times whatever it happens to be and collectively try to call it out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess turning attention to germany now we're an opinion poll suggests that the majority of people there see trumps america as a greater threat than russia that's j

that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative check and the acting u.s. secretary of state went to far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans. what we decided was that we were going to search on a jew certain group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money frustrations whether it cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g. seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess. switching gears now it's fifty days before their biggest sports event of the year before world cup gets going in russian artie's star studded tea

that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative check and that. the u.s. secretary of state went to far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans what we decided was that we were going to send a jew certain group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money for stations whether it's cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts what happens to be and collectively try and call this out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g. seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess. switching gears now it's fifty days before the biggest sports event of the year the fifa world cup gets going here in russian or t.v. star studded team is

that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative tech and the acting u.s. secretary of state went to far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans. what we decided was that we were going to set up a jew servant group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money frustrations whether it cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g. seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess. it's fifty days before the biggest sports event of the year at the fifo world cup gets going in russia and our t.v. star studded team is traveling ac

isn't that the next plausible question? where did this come from? he knows where it came from. trish: it's got me wondering about him and how slippery he really is. between that and sitting there with a straight face telling bret baier i didn't leak. i didn't leak when i'd called my buddy up at columbia university and he gave it to the "new york times." that wasn't a leak, ned? it's bizarre anybody is treating him with any credibility given he's lying to our faces. i'm sorry, that's a leak. ned: it is a leak. there was a letter from senator grassley to rod rosenstein in january of this year where grassley explained he had to go into a skiff, a secure facility to read the comey memos. and he said four were marked classified and he knew comey leaked four those memos to professor richmond. the thing that's amazing to me about all of this, trish, you have this guy who wants to portray himself as the last honest man in d.c., a boy scout for the ages. trish: the other thing that kills me is how the media eats it up. he was saying he would love to string u

that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative attack and the acting u.s. secretary of state went to far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans. what we decided was that we were going to sets up a jew servant group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money for stations whether it cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g. seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess. well let's talk about one of those the seven countries germany where a nationwide opinion poll suggests that the majority of people there see amer

, there is almost no doubt, there is no other plausible explanation, russia was almost certainly to blamee ryo ne borisjohnson continues to convince everyone on the british side supposedly sent russia a list of questions to which it still hasn't received any answers. and everything, in fact, received any answers. and everything, infact, is received any answers. and everything, in fact, is completely the opposite. as i said, we never received any list of questions. and i turned to the british side. if you have such a list of questions, please tell us, please list those questions. but please don't consider accusations in the form of an ultimatum and demand to acknowledge and to own up to being guilty as a list of questions. we, on the other hand, do have a lot of questions, both to london, the opcw and also to france, which, all ofa opcw and also to france, which, all of a sudden, for no reason, based on what provisions of the convention, immediately rushed to assist the british side in confirming the results of the british so—called express investigation. in response to our request, the fr

is explain to us in great detail why russia's responsibility is very probable and why there is no plausible alternative explanation and we agree with great britain's assessment yulia screen is now reported to be recovering from the attack sergei her father is still in critical condition and relations between the west and russia are now at their lowest point since the cold war all right in other news now the leaders of iran turkey and russia have met for a summit on finding a political solution to the syria conflict presidents a rich of tired to watch a host of russian leader vladimir putin and iranian counterpart hasan rowhani for talks in the turkish capital ankara all the three nations have emerged as the power brokers of syria's seven year long civil war and addition to peace they are looking to bolster their influence in the country all three nations have large but also competing interests in the outcome of the syria conflict. syria early twenty eight hundred. seven years of civil war and still no end in sight there are too many interests involved this war goes beyond the assad regime f

obviously consistent with russian behavior generally which is to kind of missed the space create plausible deniability as was mentioned the syrian regime has control of the site they could easily scrub the site what the evidence that should be looked at is the victims themselves ok khalid the america's putting together its strategy do you see one emerging right now. nothing but hopes only if you use this strike as a way to pressure to russia to get iran out of out of syria which is also very farfetched because they think that the video feed on the environment and that they call that over thirty by iranian backed shia militia so if that's the us that i think i think it's a long shot ok so you're saying this is actually directed against iran more than it's directed against the syrians very and directly ok tyson what do you think about that i think that we have now two data points we have the april seventeenth attack we have the attack from last night and what we can determine is that there is a very focused very clearly defined objective here which is to limit the deployment of chemical weap

raney inside that it would be of these really interest for example do you find these explanation plausible at all you know i think i think i wish the peace process the geneva diplomatic peace process would have taken hold much earlier i think obama drew a red line and never fulfilled his his threats i suppose are predictions. on the other hand i also don't support trump president trumps you know unilateral actions either but those of us who've worked on this crisis for the last five or more years a very frustrated and more long frustrated long before when the rebel groups in syria had to resort to violence to try to oppose bashar assad's really in you man cruel long time tactics of torture and an ugly behavior as a. dictator in syria and. i think. everyone has a little bit to blame i agree not sure what the united states could have done more you know we haven't done military action directly as we have the last year with president trump maybe we should have done that earlier but i'm in favor of multilateral responses not unilateral action and i must say we're also very critical of russia's

is explain to us in great detail why russia's responsibility is very probable and why there is no plausible alternative explanation and we agree with great britain's assessment yulia is now reported to be recovering from the attack sergei her father is still in critical condition and relations between the west and russia are now at their lowest point since the cold war. and a key logan is in london for us to talk about awkward how are british authorities dealing with these discrepancies yes this comes at a pretty bad time the u.k. government which is already under pressure about the missiles brain incidents the government has been out today trying to explain the context of these comments explained hold down is simply a lab where the scientists made the evaluation that this was not a top of agent that it did was originally produced in russia where they didn't say the precise source was russia but unfortunately or as johnson as we've heard there has been on the record in the past saying exactly that and there was also a foreign office tweet which indicated the sane porton down had said that t

. >> because i read that article but it sounds on the surface to be plausible >> look what his election got us it got us finally a unified government where we could take on these issues. >> so it's not anything to do with him. >> absolutely. i'm glad he's given us the chance to do fundamental tax reform that finally got done look at the regulatory relief. look at what the oil and gas industry is doing now that we have lifted the ban on exporting crude oil. look at all the fracking occurring. anwar now is back online we've been trying to get anwar, the arctic national wildlife for years. we are putting opec to the side. why? because donald trump got elected president with a republican congress and look what's happening. that's just one sector the basin, they have discovered oil fields as big as the saudi arabian fields in just one part of texas one sector of the economy has been locked. >> when are we going to see you again? >> what i'm trying to say is he's given us this incredible opportunity to get things done >> i want to talk about you. >> you're 48 >> i was going to -- you're in yo