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this is day eight of leaders live from berlin britain expels twenty three russian diplomats and the fallout from the poisoning of a former double agent temperatures oil prime minister theresa may gives them a week to leave the ukraine's largest diplomatic expulsions for thirteen years and also on the program. a new government that takes office at last nearly six months after the election and america will be sworn in for a fourth term. school students across the united states will walk out of class calling for tougher gun laws and remembering the seventeen people killed at
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a florida high school four weeks ago. i'm still gail welcome to the program. britain's imposing fresh sanctions on russia after it failed to meet a deadline to explain a poison attack against a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. moscow has pledged to retaliate so prime minister to resign my outline the u.k. she responds in parliament including the expulsion of twenty three russian diplomats the withdrawal of an invitation to russia's foreign minister and a limit on bilateral contacts with moscow the case the shuttle for discussion later today at the united nations security council has theresa may speaking in parliament . there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script and his daughter and for threatening the
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lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick daly this represents an on move full use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. under the vienna convention the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence offices they have just one week to leave this will be the single biggest expulsion for over thirty years and it reflects the fact that this is not the first time that the russian state has acted against our country. through these expulsions we will fundamentally d. great russian intelligence capability in the u.k. for years to come and if they seek to rebuild it we will prevent them from doing so let's get more on this now from quite impale those are your panelists chatham house think tank and london. correspondent emily a show and joins us from moscow welcome both we'll start with you quentin pale who
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are these twenty three people that mrs may is kicking out well we haven't had a precise list yet as she said they are under cleared intelligence agents and i'm a little surprised if you like that the list is so short that i think that the staff at the russian embassy is probably in the order. and i would think the geography of those would have links to russian intelligence services so i think she could have been tougher but as it is it certainly tended to be a big gesture i only fear for her sake it's not going to look quite as strong as she wishes it to i why why would it why we might effect be weakened. well. they've been building up expectations in britain ever since these poisonings happened and the media year is in full cry in the
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expectation of sort of drastic should clearly the russia today television channel is one suggestion and maybe a really radical plan on all the russian money laundering that has been going on through the city of london for years well it's not clear if that's going to happen or not she left it quite that she said we're going to tighten up on people who are guilty of human rights violations there's a lot of russian money coming through london that might not look like human rights violations but is certainly dirty money and we show it in moscow russia says it will retaliate since the kremlin saying how. there has been a foreign ministry statement and they called the measure is unprecedented and they call them a crude provocation as well they also said again that these accusations against russia are false and that the u.k. has clearly opted for
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a further escalation excuse me as collation of tensions and they also said they will respond with their own measure assume we don't yet know what measure as they mean but specifically the statement also mentions those twenty three russian diplomats and in previous cases when russian diplomats were expelled including from the u.k. russia has reacted with a tit for tat a tit for tat there and has expelled diplomats as well so we'll have to wait and see what the foreign ministry decides decides there but it looks like tit for tat and of course russia continues to deny any involvement and accuses britain not just of russophobia but also of ignoring international agreements. yes absolutely they are responding by denying any involvement and they also said that they would be willing to cooperate with the investigation the foreign minister sergei lavrov said today that britain has provided no access to the facts in this
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investigations or to the samples that may have been samples of this nerve agent that may have been involved in employed in the poisoning and today also went further he called this part of russophobia campaign and that's very much the rhetoric that we've been getting out of russia also from other politicians it's very much seen here this whole case as part of an anti russian campaign that the west is waging and that's good this is kind of part of a pattern that we've seen often with accusations against russia russia usually takes this three pronged approach that we also saw for example with the doping scandal it denies the accusations and it questions the kind of investigation or the facts of the investigation and also it usually portrays the accusation as part of an anti russian campaign that's exactly what we're seeing here clinton people in london i wonder why britain has chosen to react so strongly this time when the evidence against russia seems circumstantial when russia poisoned alexander
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litvinenko in london twelve years ago the evidence was much stronger but britain's reaction was much more muted. i think they took a long time in the litter been yanked her murder case to get absolutely on top of it and be quite sure what it happened whereas in this case it's happened extremely big quickly do that. was a former russian spy that worked for the british he was supposedly in safe keeping so to speak and so day four there was a huge media response and political response and this isn't meant when the british government is feeling very shocked that for all the brit sit. ins with britain to leave the european have left the british government looking very weak and as a result i think they really needed to take strong action the question is will this go down as being seen as
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a strong enough for the popular press quentin pale in london thank you ma'am we show in moscow our moscow thank you to apologise for some of the sound quality in that interview for now here in germany chancellor angela merkel has sent the european union boss aport the british government's position in the poisoned spy case she was speaking after being sworn in as head of a new coalition government the chancellor took the oath of office in the german parliament the bundestag but lawmakers voted only narrowly to me a letter to her fourth term. the german chancellor has been trying to form a government for nearly six months now the tough negotiations are over i'm glad that he took an oath on the german constitution. i swear that i will dedicate my efforts to the welfare of the german people promote their benefit protect them from harm and do justice to will so help me god so volumnia what. her
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election as chancellor was closer than expected matters conservative and social democrat supporters actually had a solid majority but her margin of victory was only nine votes including her own thirty five members of her coalition fav to support her that's hardly a dream start. or dr i'm going to america dr angular medical has been elected chancellor i ask you do you accept the result yeah i have a surprise event i do thank you with that america was officially elected to a fourth term as chancellor and it's her third grand coalition with the social democrats it took a while from actually to win the s.p.d. over but in the end the junior coalition partners offered their congregations. and the chancellor remains the chancellor and that's cause for happiness and i think this is good news for the citizens of our country and good news for europe.
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who do not wish for all. it's the first time actually to spend your hymns our attendance his wife's election and max's next cabinet is also new in many respects her new government is noticeably younger and includes more women than previous ones its main priorities. escape in the in the we need to ensure domestic security and the welfare of society we need to figure out how to positively tackle the challenges of global competition. after the bundestag vote actually was sworn in by german president. i was then came here fifteen minutes this time i offered dr praise for the new government if you come and welcome to the government it's about time. the president called for more than just repeat from actual enter new ministers. one fellow in this photo and a mere version of the old will not be enough to win back lost trust in. these of
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this government must prove it is new and different than. the n. tire government has now been sworn in among them the new finance minister all of charlotte's the new interior minister paul c. hoffa and the new justice minister qatari now badly one hundred seventy one days after germany's national election last september the country finally has a new government and. is again in charge. as are some of the other stories making news around the world renowned british physicist stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six his family say he passed away peacefully in his sleep in the early hours of wednesday stephen hawking will be remembered for his groundbreaking work on black holes in general relativity he also defied expectations living for more than fifty years with motor neuron disease. in the united states democratic connor lampholder raise a family and i closely watched
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a congressional election in pennsylvania with a result still too close to call his greatest surprise strong showing in a republican stronghold over republican candidate rick succumbed other voters see it as a litmus test for donald trump's republican party ahead of mid-term elections in november. the high school students across the united states have walked out of their schools in protest against gun violence and to call for stricter gun laws in the capital washington students marched to the white house and staged a seventeen minute silent protest one minute for every victim of the mass shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school last month student survivors have dedicated themselves to fighting for stronger laws and have been joined by others around the country. the w.'s washington bureau chief alexandra phenomena is the student walkouts i spoke to her a short while ago. yes we are here on the capitol hill were approaches still on the way and this is of course i am short on the walk out today because
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students wants to press their lawyer to tighten gun control and i'm joined by a student from maryland and good men hi thank you for being with us why is this important for you to be here today. i think first and foremost it's important for me to be here because i can there are a lot of people that either because there's too much on the line with their school on national doesn't support them they can't or because they're too far away but you know people across the country are speaking out today and i think it's really important for me to use my frivolous as someone who you know has only endangered as much as every student is in danger and not targeted more because of. my research socioeconomic status. to be able to use my of my relative safety and my voice to make this happen i also think it's really important that we're here. today even though we've got out like in addition to being out here two weeks ago and again
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next saturday because i think that. the consistency in student effort especially in the wake of parco and is something that we've needed for a long time on this issue and we haven't seen in the wake of other issues are you hopeful that the politicians are going to listen to you because it's not the first time that there is a movement for stricter gun control laws i am hopeful. like i was saying i think the consistency. issues of gun violence because it happened so often but i think right now in the wake of parklane like like we're out here continuing and like bringing this consistent that is showing up every few weeks not letting it go both for parkland and for like every other. like shooting of innocent people in this country thank you and i thank you very much for being with us and as you have heard . the students here are determined to keep up the pressure on their lawmakers to
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