us crude and hall style that's how moscow has described britain's decision to expel twenty three russian diplomats who now have a week to leave the country is part of a series of measures set out spotted british prime minister theresa may who accuses the crime in. a tries to metaphor was by in england using a deadly nerve agent for russia has warned it will retaliate. michelle has

interests has these rules. leading thing is to climb than british prime minister theresa may's as well she is guilty of poisoning a former russian story and his daughter missiles result in england. night deadline to provide an explanation has come and gone. fools in the uk to send moscow clothes okay message. that responses demonstrated complete disdain for the privacy of these events agenda for the meeting of the national security council. where we agreed to meet his actions to dismantle russian espionage network in the uk? urgent work to develop new powers to tackle all forms of false onstage activity. and to ensure that those seeking to carry out such activity cannot enter the uk. del includes the explosion of twenty three russian diplomats now have one week to leave the country. high level contacts with the criminal suspended. british royalty and government ministers will boycott the football world cup in russia later this year. and russian state assets will be frozen wherever there was evidence

of a threat to the uk. the crewman which denies any involvement. cheryl's the russian embassy in the uk slanting the news isn't unjustified whole style action. everything. the. we believe this is. real. this brook asian and of course willis ready to. to to. in we the. and still is between the two countries he will blossom russia has issued a chilling warning. telling britian's to expect retaliation for its like his actions. well you and you attenuated terraces a cold the use of a nerve agent in person unacceptable here is usually council is meeting now to discuss the crisis. in the uk it's telling me to get millions moscow is responsible.

cheers. from the told wishes yet they provided no credible explanation. which could suggests they lost control of the innovation. mister president we that'll have no alternative but to conclude. that the russian state was responsible for the attempted murder of mrs group all and his daughter. i'm police officer nick brady. after threatening the lives of other bridges citizens in salisbury. and after some months lukewarm support from the united states earlier this week at the us envoy to the u. in and out says that the u. s. teaches that view. the united states stands in absolute solidarity with great britain. the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on to people in the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agen. no two nations enjoy a stronger bond than that of the united states and the united kingdom farce is truly a special relationshi. our friends in great britain

face the challenge. the united states will always be there for them. always. and british authorities will now be revisiting the deaths of at least fourteen other individuals who died so in the uk. at this that may be linked to the crime and erin okay takes it back suspicious deaths of you can also uk sort of high profile ex russian agents spies. and critics of let me vision. great britain is becoming an increasingly dangerous place of exile for former russian agents and critics of vitamin a prudent. the poisoning of seriously powell and his daughter you leah is just the latest in a string of suspicious deaths. or times at the lives of high profile russians in the united states. in two thousand six images of alexander litvinenko bald and frail due to exposure to radioactive substance splashed headlines across the world. the former kgb agent and putin critic who had fled britain died weeks

after his green tea was spiked with highly radioactive polonium. while he was still on his deathbed he blamed vladimir putin for his eventual fate. while russian officials denied the accusations a british inquiry concluded that ladder prudence likely approve lifting and his assassination. alexander paraplegia would be next the forty four year old businessman turned whistleblower expose the involvement of russian tax officials in an extensive money laundering scheme. well he died of what appear to be natural causes traces of a rare plant poison were later found in his stomach. in twenty seventeen new evidence suggests that he may have ingested poison soup shortly before he died. though police later said they were unable to confirm his suspicion. just one year later russian businessman boris berezovsky was found dead in his western london home. once known as the godfather of the kremlin he fled to the united kingdom where he was granted political asylum after spat with vladimir putin.

a fierce critic of the russian president he made numerous enemies but the coroner in his case was unable to determine whether he was murdered or committed suicide. and the saga continues just days after saturday scruples poisoning british counterterrorism police are investigating the suspicious death of nikolai loose off. a russian exile and former associate of boris berezovsky. well that efficiently while has been visiting crimea in the run up to sunday's election russia annexes surgery for me crying three years ago from seeing international condemnation and sanctions. today inspected construction of dobbs patients rage which links the territory to russia frustrated was thomas love is on the campaign trail. very very. soon. stage just upon me.

to the several thousand. the taking. a historic decision to bring crimea. the land. russia. is. the people here. some of the people that we spoke. also. this is. no doubt. hold the support. this meeting is really to rally support behind that. not just in crimea. i was well wake images. tonight is riding. people see the strings on the nightly news. have a great deal of support already around seventy percent over the last couple of months intentions. and that's really dislike. he's coming in these elections. as the saying tonight three held on his neck from the people.

now the problem also the hisses he's ready to resign as a political crisis sparked by the murder of a journalist and his wife continues. ravi said he served three consecutive times says he will step down if the next five instead comes from his leftist aussie. tens of thousands of slovaks rallies last week to them on the government's resignation and the president others key sketch has revised that they must be are the major changes in the government or an early election. in syria and suicide bombing raids by syrian government forces on the russian allies killed twenty five civilians in eastern ghouta this wednesday including three children. comes is aid agencies continue their efforts to try and reach civilians trapped inside the rebel held territory at twenty five truck convoy carrying food and medical aidees it to into the town of dina. lost called right to eastern ghouta was stripped of medical i since the syrian authorities don't want them to fall into rebel hands. tens of thousands of students in high schools across the united states have been staging seventeen minute walk house one minute

for every student who was killed a month ago today. in parkland florida is hardly campaign to step up pressure on lawmakers to tighten up gun control. and reduce the influence of the powerful national rifle association on congress president trump does seem to be backing away from pages he made about sizing up the rules on firearms. mass shooting after mass shooting. many americans have as their lawmakers what will be done about gun violence. now by walking out of their classrooms thousands of students across the united states are holding together representatives to act quickly. the demonstrations lasted seventeen minutes one minute for each student killed at the part when shooting in florida exactly one month ago. in washington dc some students protested with their backs turned to the white house. a symbol of their dissatisfaction with president trump's and actio. is it will set up stop accepting money from the nr.

because if all the deaths that have occurred are enough to convince him. now. we want a stock banned. assault weapons bans all states who are congress people stop taking money from the nra and finally most importantly. we want. the. background checks to be read for. in many cases the students were joined by equally outraged adults. here new york governor andrew cuomo in state education officials protest alongside teenagers. elsewhere students protest from places that know the damage of gun violence all too well. like here at columbine high school. across the country be it through their silence. or through their chance. the message is the same they are fed up with gun violenc. the national walk out has been fittingly baptized enough.

these students are persistent another rally in washington dc has already been planned for march twenty fourth. we'll stay in the us senate election that is sending alarm bells ringing full republicans the state of pennsylvania which donald trump won easily in twenty six states has apparently voted democrat democratic candidate call them is declaring victory after tights. congressional race against his republican opponent rick said cutting. there is still no official results christ rice could set the tone for the mid senate shins it's take place in november. republican house speaker paul ryan has called this race a wakeup call for his policy. beans is withdrawing from the international criminal court i what president retreated has eight goals outrageous attacks. he has repeatedly dead the i cc to die tim and says he's willing to rot in jail over his war on drugs. is killed thousands and people on this

is a national has cooled. misguided and candidate. this was angela merkel has been sworn in for full sent off to she was reelected by parliaments and the months of political stalemate that has both and i can final stand could prove to be have most challenging. grip on power has been weekends and she will now have to manage a fragile coalition russia harsin tests as the story. yeah i have visited yes mister president i accept the results. this is the movements angela merkel was reelected as german chancellor. taking the country's reigns for a fourth term with little make is giving the green light three hundred sixty four votes to three hundred and fifteen. later on wednesday local soon enough to being fully appointed by the german president's. in the half of the federal republic of germany all i appoint angela merkel has chancellor discounts of and. it took six months to show

to the political deadlock. fall to the locals conservatives to the butchering and september's general election she struggle to former governments facility ucsc alliance once again join forces with the center left social democrats. the to get the spd on board local has handed a key portfolios. the top team is full of new faces in the foreign finance colony interior ministry's. i'm following us it's not enough to simply. in order to win back the trust that has been lost. this government has. renewed and different way. the veteran politician is walking a tight rope and she still is a fragile coalitio. merkel must spend of the rise of the far right a if he will service learning her conservative base. the german chancellor must also find common ground with phones and of the european powers. shaping the future of an increasingly

deliberated you. that should be survey pouring into the british physicist stephen hawking who started the age of seventy six. leicester the rare disease make very complex ideas accessible hawking broaden our on the standing of black holes and quantum physics. is also a bestselling author he suffered for years of the debilitating disease but it never held him back. today he pasta way peacefully at home in cambridge. there. thank you very take from scientists to world leaders tribute to the late stephen hawking began pouring in on social media tuesday. astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson to hot to follow signs junkies using the definition of a black hole is a metaphor for the empty space created by hawking stuff. his passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake but is not empty think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeating the fabric of space time that defies measure. now also remember hockings an ambassador of science on

long to universe of possibilities. place here i come. british prime minister theresa may describe holding as a brilliant an extraordinary mind adding his determination to get the most from life was an inspiration. indian prime minister narendra modi's meanwhile wrote that it was his grin to not three that inspired people from all over the world. in tokyo hockings tax replaced on functionals as admires poured into this bookshop to remember his extraordinary discoveries. shing he had in mind that no ordinary person could saddam. i wonder if he was able to convey everything that he wanted to his research. more people. wanted him to present more of his drilling findings social. i am saddened. john and ash. this is in bustling although died early wednesday at his

home in cambridge at the age of seventy six. stephen hawking he died today at seventy six much enough to around the world as you can say that i was ready me nows not in what he's a professor. of astronomy at darren at university in the united kingdom thank you for being with us on france24 tonight. now and told me through this if you will as stephen hawking didn't discover black holes of course in physics did he but he did very much. ruled in our understanding of them. yes that's absolutely correct be the concept of black holes. and several centuries that she but that was a mathematical concept rather than physical concep. and i'm an old sittion astronomers so i i try to find black holes and study theubble telescope what stephen data. was looking to the theory behind that calls there's been a misconception that she very simple things. as you say mas or weight. speeding rotation and charge

possible negative and that's it. but we'll see even discovered is there a bit more complicated than that. and they can in fact begin to gradually disappear the time the so called hawking radiation. i i understand he met seven festival looking at dario spoke kind of conversation did you have. well it was a bit tricky. i met him when i was young research in cambridge over many decades ago now and at that point he was able to speak but his speech is very slow. and so and we you know what it's like we on a policy and. things very loud unity catch every so the second off the worst of it tricky you have to sort of. make the most of what you can get and it was a bit what i felt like it was at a. reception and and so we didn't discuss signs but i mean i'm i'm just glad that i had to. choose meeting at least once that i was his work time. in the with the a and m. right

if i wasn't and he was such a well known position wasn't any. thank you everyone that had a price. that stage is the one i think the answer is pretty simple actually certainly nothing to do with intellectual ability it's just that the noble prize is awarded. when something is being proved by observation by experiments and is working radiations pretty weird stuff. it's like it's in a quantum mechanics and gravity. in explaining ten seconds or even. ten years apps anyway. that you have to observe the. problem walking radiation is it has not yet been observed. is possible in a hadron collider large hadron collider eventually they may be proof that very sadly nobel prize called the awarded posthumously. yes that stay and rolling television news isn't made discussing how to visit our site. i wanted to ask you a bit more about his activities if it said in a that he wanted people to buy his books in

apple's this wasn't someone who. who wrote dusty pages we did but but he didn't just want these type read by faces another side to see really wanted to? to to to give ordinary people and understanding of all these very very complex issues and and that in itself is a a real talent wasn't it. he's essentially no secret because he said himself that one of the reasons you wrote the history time sold ten million copies was financial you don't get a lot of mone. getting gold medals and awards asian meltdown that frankly he needed some money and so writing a best selling book was one roots in is indeed. it was a best selling book it is often said it's the of the most. bold is never be right because it's quite a quite to austin meeting with you have this is not an easy read. what have all the shows? also this is a not a he also paparizou's not just that but all the books and i think one of the tribute to that side of his career. is that some there is undergraduate students in anchorage has said how they were inspired by his

writings and the students are often a story is the students or linguistic students or. politics students and not signs is that he did reach out. and it wasn't a goal just black holes he had his own views about eighty in life which quite interesting actually yes and an artificial intelligence and and most of the major issues of the day he also and the it was in favor of. the human race. moving to another one day. he was very keen on this it is he he said the the the possibility that these oscar winners climate change being hit by a huge role spain's for disease. evil that was a real problem and if we could manage to colonize say malls or even beyond that would give us. understand in case the other destroyed but he was also worried about extraterrestrial life people that if we were to be contacted. we should hear a radio signal maybe we shouldn't reply this he was a bit worried ty might come and. and exploit this and we did of course many centuries ago with the south arican

indian. on another forty three that that was one of his concerns is that we shouldn't necessarily was on for any signals. and eight talks about. wanting to know the mind of god he referred to go along with what he said do you think the like einstein and like many scientists in fact he had these kind of ambiguous. religious beliefs or had some ambiguity about the origins of the universe. he did i think sometimes you use the word goal to be provocative is a metaphor really for understanng everything i'm not sure he really meant it. in this of the day it's the sense by the way just as a called me coincidence and with people realized today is also the the birthday albert einstei. that's because we go in sees only one in three hundred sixty five channels. they ego. in even death on signs the. very interesting and very sweet it must it will thank you very much indeed. but it is a disease of laid

out kate radiohead at not to tell us about quantum physics i believe. the revolving door of the white house it was right to listen yesterday and that dumb from has set takes and you economic adviser off to gary code went public weeks ago right exactly that appears to be the case and we. haven't had a formal announcement on twitter yet which is of course what his administration is best known for about larry kudlow has confirmed. that he's been offered and accepted the post as the trump administration's top economic aid replacing gary cohn. color is a conservative voice to advise ronald reagan back in the nineteen eighties he's champion what he calls a pro growth economic policies like cutting taxes and regulation. and boosting free trade he's now best known as a commentator for eat cnbc business network you can see him there and he did not support the tariffs on steel and aluminum. which is in fact the issued it reportedly pushed khan on the door but in recent days on his network kudlow was notably less critical at

welcoming the confirmation at some close allies would be exempt from those measures take a listen. or take it off camera and the nasco thousand worst part for me to allies economic impact steel small. autos destruction infrastructure. this is a. decision by the president maybe gerry conhecimento i don't know that they got it together. america those few days ago on cnbc has reportedly heading to the white house he could be announced as not the head of the national economic council. in the coming hours. the european union is continuing its efforts to win win one of those exemptions me wild washington's planted terrorists on steel and aluminum ports. which are set to begin next week lock is still preparing possible retaliatory measures if it doesn't succeed. and ease trade commissioner said she believed it from administration was motivated purely by economic concerns. rather than at the national security considerations that have been cited. meanwhile the eu council president urged all trump not to

undermine long standing trans atlantic ties. attention is still a lot of the oceans between the u. adams selective. the last thing we need to the great wall. so we started fighting with each of the u. s.. we should go back. folks. make a flow to office the president. allies consider turning to the world trade organization for support over those brewing trade tensions united states has lodged a complaint of its own the us trade representative's challenging export subsidies in india. drug companies to sell their goods more cheaply abroad. the complaint says the subsidies create an uneven playing field and asks you wco to hold trading partners accountable by vigorously enforcing us right under our trade agreements. by promoting free and reciprocal trade a lot of focus on wto despite the from administration's very vocal dislike of that organization they are now

turning to it for support. and has written seven weighing on global stocks wallstreet close firmly down dozens dropping over two hundred points by the closing bell. boeing shares pulled back about two and a half percent as well a nasdaq and s. and p. also closing below the flight line. made european indices also closed slightly lower just attacks managing a positive close eight was boosted by adidas shares of the german sportswear giant jump eleven percent. as announced a share buyback. here in front seen i called mr edges unveiled a draft law to overhaul the national rail operator. sncf is struggling under a debt burden of nearly forty seven billion euros. part of which the government is expected to take on. most controversial proposals the sncf workers lose their privilege employee status. new recruits not eligible for the early retirement and generous pension schemes which had been a known. perk for workers at that organization president now

plans to push to changes in divorce by decree avoiding parliamentary debate. transport ministers at the french system with thirty percent more expensive than comparable ground that works in europe. that changes will seek to improve service while protecting workers as much as possible. our objective is simple. about the public rail service as a good price the passages in taxes pay is forty complete robina. the to see once more efficient and more unified sncf. provides all the same assets as rivals drug and cross use have already expressed fears opposition to those changes strikes can be expected. units are expected to join a nationwide strike over broader reforms next thursday. further disruptions could follow laura as we know rail strikes in france to have a very long history of lasting for a very long time in particularly destructive to the public absent kay thank you very much

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