this is d w news live from berlin as collating tension between russia and the duke a the russian foreign ministry gets back at london's response to a chemical attack on an x five on british soil we will ask the british m.p. about prime minister teresa mayes decision to kick twenty three russian diplomats out of the country. also coming up thousands of syrians leave the scenes teachers eastern good to as government forces close in the battle for the rebel held enclave has been one of the deadliest in the country's seven year civil war.

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us britain is getting international backing in its route with russia over an assassination attempt on former double agent sergei scrip all nato the us france and germany have all expressed solidarity with british prime minister theresa may who arrived in sounds very a short while ago to discuss the poisoning with local investigators her visit comes after she announced that twenty three russian diplomats would have to leave the country within a week and moscow for its part continues to deny any involvement in the attack calling britain's response crazy. until recently britain's prime minister to resign may had to tone being accused of not being hard enough on russia

on wednesday she got her redemption standing before parliament may and he quickly accused the kremlin of attempting to murder a former russian double agent living in the u.k. what followed were a series of punitive measures against russia the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers 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. with russia u.k. relations now soured london is rallying its allies for support. donald tusk has said he believes the attack was most likely quote inspired by moscow and will table the matter at an e.u. summit next week but it was at an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council that britain got its strongest backing yet the united states

stands and absolute solidarity with great britain. the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent russia though is sticking to its script denying any involvement in the poisoning the kremlin has now promised to hit back of britain. soon after the united kingdom announced unfriendly actions against russia were tallaght tory measures can be expected as we said on wednesday. but there are currently under consideration and will be taken in the near future just on the whole to study people to bring it to vision. while most who contemplates its response police in the u.k. are working to establish the events which led to the attempted murder. and for more we're joined now by conservative m.p. tom toucan hot the chairman of the parliament's foreign affairs committee he is in

westminster and london thanks so much for joining us this afternoon. as we've just heard there britain has announced serious punitive measures against russia is this not a little early considering that there is no proof of russian involvement or do you know something that we don't. there is proof of russian involvement this is a russian defector who's been threatened by the president on several occasions this is a russian made weapons grade nerve agent made in a large tree in moscow which has now been confirmed by british intelligence and ratified by american and french this is a very clear pass and we know in germany for example of russian information operations and indeed espionage operations that have been extremely active in recent years we know the invasions of ukraine the destruction and murder of several

hundred people in m.h. seventeen aircraft over ukraine yannick sation of crimea the occupation of georgia the attempted murder of the montenegrin from as i can go on this is part of a very long pattern of russian aggression and it's got to stop so it's not just about this one specific incident russia for its part it has actually just responded to this and i just want to bring and what sergei lavrov just had to say and he said the russian response will come very soon he promises us that he also said that your ak accusations are absolutely borish if british diplomats are expelled from russia do you care what is borish is to allow a chemical that although it's left three people in hospital and thirty people seeking medical treatment how did you know going on the london underground for example would have killed hundreds of people and to use it next to a children's playground where i have the children mean that it would have killed thirty or forty children this is this is a completely unacceptable war i can't buy

a violent and deranged regime that is weakening and lashing out this is a corrupt dictatorship that has to stop. i'd like you to respond also to something else that russia has said in response to your accusations russia has implied that theresa may is trying to look strong in front of her own people to distract from political problems at home is this true. no what is true is that the president of russia is knows that he has completely failed to rebuild the a russian economy he's stolen hundreds of billions of dollars off the russian people he and his acolytes not even his cellist has got assets but a few billion dollars and he didn't get that from recording rights got more money than elton john his son in law just had to hand over two billion dollars his only qualification was to be the son in law of the president or rather the accidental this is a man who has looted the russian people and destroyed the russian economy over twenty years and he knows it and so what he's doing is he is lashing out and he's trying to hide it by playing a hyper nationalist card we know this schoolbook we read this play before we've

seen the movie we've seen it in sadly we've seen it across europe of what we've got to stand up to it because the alternative is if we do not stand up to it now we will be forced to stand up to it in the future and when it comes to standing up to it we know that both the united states the french have come forward to back britain and its accusation accusations toward moscow how much is britain the overlying on its allies at this precarious time because we know for example and the united states when it comes to u.s. foreign policy that has often been shall we say in flux recently. the united kingdom has always relied on her allies we have been a very strong international player and not exactly will the kremlin is trying to undermine what they're trying to do is to destroy the multilateral system that has kept us safe for seventy years that has kept us working together so we are working with our allies we're working with countries like a stone year in germany and france and sweden we're working with the united states with the finalized community of canada and australia are we working with nato and

we are absolutely stunning together on this because we know that we are stronger than the sailing russian regime is a weakening state it's barely capable of deploying its military anymore as we saw in the world a second rate troll at that went through the english channel that calls itself the russian aircraft carrier we are seeing a failed regime and a failing government and it's a tragedy because russia is a great country and should have a great leader and instead it's going to be for a lion a woman to point to where it's india time to them had conservative m.p. for tonbridge and malling joining us from westminster in london we thank you so much for your perspective this afternoon well now we have to syria where it looks like the siege of rebel held eastern ghouta could be coming to an end and monitoring group says that at least twelve thousand civilians are now leaving the area and crossing over into government controlled territory this footage from a state run broadcaster purports to show hundreds of residents leaving the town of mahmoudiya as the syrian army closes in there or come seven years to the day since

security forces violently violently cracked down on protests against president bashar al assad beginning the war hundreds of thousands have been killed since then and the u.n. estimates fourteen million people have been displaced. and many families like those in our next report are living as internal refugees and fear that they will have to move on again they abandoned aleppo in twenty sixteen and are out now living in it live one of the last rebel strongholds in syria. musri is fifteen years old and he's already supporting a family of six his father was killed in an airstrike now fuad sells vegetables and it lives earning twenty euros a month that leaves no time to go to school. i have to provide for the whole family i read from morning to night to make ends meet . the war planes are

approaching a gun. is used to the sound of sirens. and shoot at us every day. good live is the last province in syria to be controlled by islamist rebels two million people live here many of them fled the syrian government's assault on aleppo. musser and her nephew fu escaped after wafa as husband died in an airstrike and she lost her three sons in the fight against government troops. now mainly women and girls are left they lead a meager existence for wafa musri the seventh anniversary of the uprising against president assad is not a happy occasion when the fed will lessen the risk if it has nothing to celebrate

it was celebrating when the uprising began because we had reason to watch and in the fall of a hurry i love the internet to the streets for our freedom but the regime responded with violence but i lost so much but i do have a little way out he will out of. the government sent in tanks to crush protests in twenty eleven. the civil war escalated across the country. aleppo was besieged in twenty sixteen and was cut off from food supplies amid constant shelling musri and her family got on a bus evacuating civilians. there were no horny but they brought us here on the green buses but we don't feel safe here either it doesn't feel like a home and we didn't know it and there was no what carol we've committed men of. now the family's new home is under fire from the syrian government and russian

forces. so have more. jets and tanks have been shooting every morning and evening for days when the wood where am i supposed to go on the floor when the through. this time there's no way out. and his family can only hope that this seven year war will finally come to an end. let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world slovakia's prime minister robert fico has offered to resign from office this after criticism of the handling of a probe into the investigative journalist siac could see i can his fiance were murdered as he prepared to his findings on links between top slovakian politicians and the italian mafia. finland is the world's happiest country that is according to a new u.n. report that ranked countries according to income health social support and other

indicators finland's nordic neighbors also topped the list germany came in at number fifteen and burundi in central africa was dead last. our next story is not for the fainthearted a lawn is a french climber famous for scaling the eiffel tower and the world's tallest building clude ing the burj khalifa in dubai his gravity defining obsession began at age eleven but it is a passion that gets him often into trouble with the law. and then is probably the closest humans will ever get to spiderman he makes scaling skyscrapers look pretty easy and this office building in paris is no exception it took just over an hour to climb the one hundred eighty seven needed building. he's a household name in extreme sports and is not slowing down any time soon. paul what you're doing for me to stop climbing one day that's out of the question

unless i had a very serious illness that prevented me from climbing if not i'll just keep going . just hope so reaching the top isn't even the most difficult crossed. it's incredible how he hoists himself each time how he goes from one story to the next you have the impression he's leveled but no he is vertical. how he does it simply uses climbing shoes some chalk and a whole lot of courage neither age he's fifty five nor the thought of jail can stop him from doing what he loves. to us climbing shoes and chalk absolutely incredible a quick reminder now of the top story that we have been following for you here at g.w. the u.s. and other international allies are backing britain as if retaliate against an assassination attempt on a former spy london says the kremlin was behind the nerve agent attack in the city

of salisbury and prime minister theresa may has expelled twenty three russian to. europe today thanks for watching. what does russia. hope for howie's freedom of expression fareed. you don't need for your leadership to go travels through russia before the election he meets the poor and the rich those who support the cause of those who oppose him and investigative journalists. should.