MEP Mick Wallace has been accused of spreading fake news in the European parliament for denying that the Syrian regime use chemical weapons against the country’s own people  At a meeting of the parliament committee of security and defence, Wallace questioned the veracity of the findings of an international investigation into a chemical weapon attack in Syria in 2018.  For more on this we were joined on the show this morning by Leonie O’Dowd, member of Irish Syria Solidarity Movement.

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