The gloucestershire old spots, one of britains most famous pig breeds, from extinction. And coming up in the sport on bbc news chris latham wins a bronze for britain in the mens scratch race at the world track cycling championships, bringing gbs medal tally to two in two days. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The syrian president , bashar al assad, says claims that his armed forces were behind a chemical weapons attack on a rebel town last week are a 100 fabrication. Instead, he claimed america had worked Hand In Glove with Terrorist Groups to stage the attack as a pretext for american air strikes. And he questioned whether tv images of dead children were real. A warning that our report from James Robbins contains distressing images. Nine days ago, these pictures shocked the world. Children and babies struggling for breath after a suspected chemical weapons attack on the rebel held town of khan sheikhoun. Other pictures, to horror flick to broadcast, Should Fire Crews H
Don t want to give it more oxygen. they let it go. it goes viral on social media. and fox picks it up. the swift boding became a reason he lost. now you see it with trump. what we are seeing it a kind of extraordinary ability to create a rumor. and then tirn it into a fact. and turn it into something that discredits somebody based on nothing. when you have investigations that prove the opposite. of what you re saying. let s turn to syria i want to play the president today describing what s happening. we re doing very well with turkey. we have isis totally under guard. you have the kurds who we re dealing with and are very happy about the way thins are going. we re in a strong position.
that couldn t be permanent s influence in syria. a place it will use to drive all the kurds that it doesn t like out of the area. they used to live there and have positions there. it will put in to that buffer zone all the syria refugees that it doesn t want. which will cause chaos. because they are not kurds and entering a curdish area. and it has forced the kurds to
Pressurized. one very powerful republican leader, probably the most powerful, who has been willing to take on the president is the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, until now. he has come out publicly against the president s decision to withdraw troops from syria, allowing turkey to attack the kurds. much more on that straight ahead. you want to stay tuned. and as always, there is rudy, rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer. cnn reporting exclusively tonight that giuliani was trying to get a u.s. visa for ukraine s former top prosecutor viktor shokin, who was pushed out of his job in 2016 at the behest of western leaders, including then-vice president joe biden. giuliani has told cnn that shokin promised to reveal dirt on democrats, including biden and his son. when the state department denied shokin a visa, giuliani tried to
Take things a day at a time and slow down here. you want to see the evidence first. well, i want to see what the articles of impeachment are. got it. that the democrats are going to deliver. and, look, let it get over to the senate, and let them do their job. but we have a long way to go before that happens. there s going to be plenty more witnesses, and maybe it will become clearer and clearer that you can t look the other way on this. so what would the other thing be? would it be censure because obviously you think that the evidence shows now that this was wrong, right? you said that. i m saying if i was in the house, don if i were in the house and i had a vote, i would vote to impeach and to move it forward. got it. got it. now, does a quid pro quo, is that the only evidence you see? well, we ve got a long way to go. like i say, these text messages where it appeared as though they were questioning one another, well, do we withhold this aid, to me, that s the thing