i am. this is due to renewed life from berlin suspects are revealed in the case of the poisoned by afternoon exhaustive investigation british prosecutors charged these two russians with poisoning former spy sergei screwball and his daughter with a nerve agent prime minister theresa may says the suspects are agents of russia's military intelligence agency also coming up a growing international course warns the syrian government against the looming attack on the rebel held it live province the u.s. now doubling down threatening to retaliate if syrian forces used chemical weapons.

on little rock thank you so much for your company everyone british prosecutors have charged two russian men with a nerve agent attack on former russian spy sergei screwball and his daughter earlier this year the british government believes the suspects are members of russia's military intelligence agency and that their operation almost certainly received the seal of approval from the kremlin. these are the men british prosecutors have charged with conspiracy to murder alexander petroff and roussillon bosher off our russian citizens although police believe their names are probably aliases. the men are accused of attempting to murder

a former russian double agent surrogate scruple and his daughter yulia with a military grade nerve agent a police officer was also hospitalized following the attack in march in the english city of souls free. another couple also fell seriously ill after coming into contact with the nerve agent police believe through this bottle of perfume one of the dorm burgas later died. of the british who will face british justice that's what we will fight for. the international community obviously the government of the time we want them to see what we have managed to achieve to help british police have released c.c.t.v. images of petrol from bosher off arriving at london's gatwick airport two days before the scripts were targeted. this image of the man was taken at seoul's

pre-trained station a day before the attack and this at the same station on the day of the poisoning moments later they're seen on c.c.t.v. walking through the city. police say traces of the nerve agent was also found in their london hotel room where they stayed that weekend. in the house of commons the british prime minister claimed the men are two russian military intelligence officials. mr speaker repeatedly asked russia to account for what happened in salzburg in march and they have replied with obfuscation and lies this is including trying to pass the blame for the attack on the terrorists on to our international partners and even on to the future mother in law if you really a script out. they even claimed that i myself invented. british prosecutors saying they won't ask russia to extradite the man but they have obtained european arrest warrant the kremlin meanwhile has denied it played any

role in the poisoning. all right let's get you more on this from london were due to abuse a bigot most is standing by bigot as we just have reported the suspects returned to russia in the meantime assume soon after the poisoning took place what chance do the british police have to of ever getting their hands on these two men. well not really a big media chance there is no formal extradition request because british government says that there isn't really a chance that russia will cooperate with that as we have known from the case of alexander litvinenko who was found to be poisoned in vesta geisha has a british inquiry is find russians to be responsible about however they were never . extradited here to the u.k. so the british government doesn't have much hope that russia will in any way shape

or form help them so the only chance is really if they ever travel abroad that the european arrest warrant could help them all right that's a very slim sliver of a chance so where does this leave british russian relations. well it's really a new low in the whole history of these british russian relations have been strained really further since this screen paul case earlier this year the russian embassy had at some point treated. with the temperature going on minus twenty three zero something like that showing that the russian u.k. relations are really bottom however now it's believed that there is new evidence and the case for the u.k. to actually you know charge these two are suspects is going to be another nail in the coffin of the u.k. russia relations really the u.k.

might hope that there might be more international support against russia now that there seems to be more evidence and concrete names that they want to charge. the u.k. russian relations are really at a very low point the russian embassy for example said it really shows that there really is a different page when it comes to the screwball case they just gave out a statement i believe it was yesterday where they said well no one said we don't we're not able to break any consular access to to this revolt and british authorities are just holding them and we cannot reach them so really definitely a low point because most reporting from london thank you and i want to bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. u.s. secretary of state my pompeo is in pakistan where he's held talks with new prime minister iran hot bump a.o.l. is also set to meet the country's powerful military chief all ties between

washington and islamabad have plummeted in recent years over u.s. accusations that pakistan is doing too little to fight terrorism. german chancellor angela merkel is standing by her previous comments condemning the migrant protests in the eastern city of chemist's well after talks with the czech prime minister in berlin that america that chemist's demos quote very clearly revealed page one german far right leaders have accused chancellor merkel of exaggerating and he migrant violence in the city. the botswana government is disputing reports that some ninety elephant carcasses found in recent weeks were the result of poaching all the cherry elephants without borders so the animals had been killed for their tusks in what's got to be one of out for grabs biggest poaching incidents of its kind. it may be the final showdown in

the seven year long civil war in syria the united nations is warning of a bloodbath if syrian and russian forces move to take the last rebel held province of it live about three million people live there many of them refugees from elsewhere in syria the first big influx came back in december twenty sixth after government forces took control of aleppo then in two thousand and seventeen the last rebel fighters left the city of holmes and in march twenty eighth seen after fighting ended in a simple to more convoys headed to live while the u.n. has called forcefully for diplomacy between the major players to avoid a bloodbath in the u.s. has warned syria not to resort to chemical weapons on friday the leaders of iran russia and turkey are due to hold a summit that could determine the course for an offensive. dark clouds warn of an impending catastrophe the first strikes on the liberal

reported on tuesday these images posted by activists show bombings in villages close to it live city several civilians have reportedly been killed the syrian observatory for human rights says russian warplanes carried out the attacks on behalf of its ally syrian president bashar al assad. his regime is preparing its forces ready to close in on one of the last enclaves of rebel resistance. the united nations wants the assault to stop before it reaches the city of it live and its three million residents. we cannot have war and it because it's fitted to the brim with the internally displaced with civilians we have been for sanity now or at the end hopefully of this the worst or generation civilians hoping to flee to the nearby border with turkey may be met with force turkey has moved military hardware to block another mass influx of refugees. meanwhile in it live

a lesson in patience schools of carrying on with classes full some parents keeping their children close as they await the unthinkable. such scenes of normality could be erased after friday when regional powers are due to hold a summit which may decide the fate of the people of it lib rebels and children alike. art i'd like to welcome now professor daniel a server he directs the conflict management program at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies in washington a very warm welcome professor i mean this is starting to feel like a deja vu we've seen this before massive offensive is announced un warns of a bloodbath offensive goes ahead and the world moves on for the nearly three million people in this area what can the international community do because words like bloodbath they're meaningless at this stage i think the international community can do very little now it's

a lot of schools and tear on to restrain damascus and i don't see either one is willing to sacrifice much and ordered to do that iran seems to be wanting to fight in it with russia might prefer restraint but if the fight begins i expect them to support. us president donald trump has warned president assad not to quote recklessly attack the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley said this let's take a listen and we'll continue our conversation at the i think what you are seeing is the president saying to iran russia and assad don't go there we're not going to accept it it's not ok what you're saying from us and the fact that the security council wants to talk about it is do not let a chemical weapons attack happen on the people of it led. it's

a strong warning but what does it mean i mean all the rest is fair game massacre torture just don't gas your people. at least that is what it means and i don't expect them to use gas at this stage they have sufficient manpower to go into it live with conventional force. i think the americans have a very weak position here one that could. be their demand that chemicals not be used might be satisfied but i don't think they have much influence over whether a conventional attack occurs right now and let's talk about the role of the us in this theater because it's played a very insignificant role up to now do you see that role may be changing in the near future. i do not i wouldn't describe it is entirely in significant the u.s. has played a pretty strong role in defeating the islam and state especially in eastern syria

but the president clearly wants to get out the americans are looking for some sort of resolution that will enable that to happen it probably won't happen right away but i do expect eventually that the americans who would drop. do you expect me to we now and friday for disaster to be avert it. predicting the events of this sort. is difficult i'd be surprised if a full fledged salt occurs for friday but i won't be surprised if the person next week so. i haven't seen anything yet that would stop it professor daniel summer directs the conflict management program at johns hopkins university sir thank you for weighing in i thought i should.

and tennis now refound the doll has squeezed into the semifinals of the u.s. open after a five set test against dominic team astraea well the defending champion got off to a dreadful start but managed to outlast anything in a match that ended at two in the morning and lasted nearly five hours dominic team couldn't have asked for a better start the austrian punishment doll in the first set to hand the defending champ what's known as a bagel a six nil thrashing butts in the sweaty of rain or a flushing meadows nettlefold back in a topsy turvy encounter an adult took the next two sets to pave the way for victory only for team to once again cause him serious problems in the fifth and final set tame doggedly survived five break points before he went along with a routine smash to hand adult victory in the tie break just after two i am it was

game over in the epic confrontation. and that does it for us you've been watching the news on layla iraq and berlin on behalf of the entire team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour. make sure smart to be smarter with the. point. what you want what you want to. update. the story. you decide want to. find out more w. .