Russia said its keeping a close eye on the fleet and the kremlin hit out a trumps handling of the situation. We do not participate in twitter diplomacy we support a serious approach we still believe that it is important not to take any steps that may harm the already fragile situation in syria we are also still convinced that the excuse regarding the use of chemical weapons in duma is made up and cannot be used as an argument for Military Action Russia has moved fast to establish itself in duma this Amateur Video purportedly shows Russian Police investigating near the site of the alleged Chemical Attack Moscow says it and the regime are ready to allow a probe but only one which shouldnt assign blame. Our correspondents Claire Richardson standing by In Washington and in moscow our bureau chief good morning to both of
you. If we could start with you russia is saying the alleged Chemical Attack is a fake and cannot be used as a reason for any kind of attack and if also all that. Well russ
Bangladesh the dawn of islamism and exclusive d. W. Report starts october eighteenth. This is due to be a news line from berlin deadly flash floods hit the spanish Holiday Island of new york out. Several are killed including tourists after turins of water carved out a path of destruction rescue crews are searching for dozens still missing also coming up more grisly theories emerge about the disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi the arrival of this black brown is seen as
a key indicator indicator that the writer may have met possibly a gruesome and inside the consulate. And also coming up living on death row many of those facing execution Around The World experience isolation and torture during their final days all thats the focus of this years of The World Today against the Death Penalty. Conway iraq thank you for your Company Everyone well we start our broadcast with Deadly Tarantula rains on the spanish Holiday Island of new york or at least nine people have been
the u.s. they typically spent more than a decade in prison before they are executed. during this time they re generally isolated from other prisoners excluded from prison programs and restricted in terms of visitation and exercise spending as many as twenty three hours a day alone in this cells. the united states is the only western country to still uphold the death penalty last year twenty three people were executed. but execution numbers in the u.s. are declining and they pale in comparison to some other countries in the world among the fifty six countries who still have the death penalty and use it iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan top the table. but the country with by far the most executions is china. chinese authorities don t release any figures regarding the
isolated from other prisoners excluded from prison programs and restricted in terms of visitation and exercise spending as many as twenty three hours a day alone in this cells. the united states is the only western country to still uphold the death penalty last year twenty three people were executed. but execution numbers in the u.s. are declining and they pale in comparison to some other countries in the world among the fifty six countries who still have the death penalty and use it iran saudi arabia iraq and pakistan top the table. but the country with by far the most executions is china chinese authorities don t release any figures regarding the death penalty. for television images like these of
a little different here we would have to know what kind of intelligence he has but of course syria at the moment is heavily surveilled by nato awacs that is rater surveillance with big planes so that would be a source for example for identifying aerial movement by the regime of bashar. al assad but we don t have proof of that that s probably what mcchrystal has in mind but we haven t seen it much hoffman in brussels thank you so much. in washington and child in the beirut thank you. not human rights group amnesty international says the number of reported judicial executions around the world fell during twenty seventeen the group is warning that the true number of people put to death is unknown since some countries like china treat execution numbers as a state secret and many of us carry out executions in full view of the public. in