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
join in. i don t see this now i think. we won t take an active role there but you might know this one of our ships has already been deployed say an accompanying ship of the does u.s. destroyer in the mid to rainy and but more than that i don t think we will see an active role by germany here ok now how do you view the possibility that a u.s. strike could lead to a direct confrontation with russia. well the stakes are high and dangerous out there again first i hope we won t see anything like that that this will not be necessary first being a second thing is you know from the language from the rhetoric that we see from putin that he s backing baking op the little bit so i don t think that there was see you strong escalation on the other hand you see that the eruption of basser to