Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday that Britain believed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government was responsible for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria's Idlib province, despite his rejection of culpability.
Speaking in his first interview since the incident, Mr Assad said he gave "no order to make any attack" in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhoun and claimed 'even if we had (chemical weapons) we wouldn't use them'.
But Assad insisted it was "not clear whether it happened or not, because how can you verify a video?"
"You have a lot of fake videos now, and you have the proof that those videos were fake, like the White Helmets, for example", he alleged. "Were they dead at all".
Assad said the West and the United States made up the attack because they are "hand in glove" with terrorists.
He added that videos showing children dying from the attack were "propaganda" created to prompt the retaliatory U.S. missile strike days later.
The US, UK and France reacted angrily on Wednesday after Russia, Syria's key ally, vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council - the eighth time it has done so over the Syrian conflict.
"We gave up our arsenal three years ago", he said.
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Akdag pointed to concrete evidence of the use of sarin gas in the attack found in the victims' blood and urine samples.
A misdirected airstrike by the USA -led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the US military said Thursday.
He added that "this outrage is abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth and protect the Syrian regime" form consequences of using chemical weapons. "They fabricated the whole story in order to have a pretext for the attack", he said.
Russia, one of the Assad regime's most important allies, has aired doubts that chemical weapons were used at the site.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has a standing fact-finding mission on Syria to investigate alleged chemical weapons attacks, but does not apportion blame.
Doctors in Idlib province note symptoms indicating a likely chemical attack, including dilated pupils, convulsions and foaming at the mouth.
The post Syria's President Assad Attacks Trump, Says Chemical Attack is "100 per cent fabrication" appeared first on SIGNAL. "We will insist on this", state-run Russian medi reported its Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov as saying on Friday.
Wicker also pointed out that hundreds of thousands of Syrians have died in the country's long civil war from the use of barrel bombs, which has resulted in no action from the U.S. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday he and Tillerson had discussed the USA strike and agreed "such a situation should not be repeated".
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