a tough week for the british prime minister as she faces calls to resign over her hanging of the grunfeld tower tragedy and protesters take to the streets. of moscow divans explanations from washington over it shooting down of a syrian fighter jet as russia responds thereby tracking u.s. and coalition aircraft as potential targets. and we now know the four teams through to the semifinals of the confederations cup as germany win and truly do enough to progress in their deciding games we'll have a live update from our special studio in sochi.

you're watching the week emus round up here on r.t. international thank you for joining us i'm kate partridge. under start in the u.k. were at least six people including three children have been injured after a car plowed into predestines outside a sports center in the northeast city of new castle a woman who'd been celebrating the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan and was driving the car that hit the crowd outside the westgate sports center the center had been hosting the celebrations police say a forty two year old woman has been arrested but they don't believe the incident was terrorism that it becomes a week after a man drove a van into people leaving a mosque in london an incident that is being classed as terrorism. well meanwhile hundreds of people in london have been evacuated from their tower block homes that made fears of a repeat of the ground felt disaster more than thirty blocks have failed fire

safety tests across the country all the ground fell tower disaster britain's deadliest firing over a century claimed at least seventy nine lives if i was only put out rules and twenty four hours later and prime minister to resume a admitted government hadn't done enough to respond to the disaster but her apology didn't stop hundreds of protesters from across the u.k. demanding justice for the victims. the support on the ground for families in the initial hours was not good enough people were left without belongings without ribs over their heads without even basic information about what happened what they should do that was a failure of the state local and national to help people when they needed it most as prime minister i apologize for that failure and as prime minister i've taken responsibility for doing what we can to put things right and i think that is really it was only later. when they fly arrangements a little did i meet my lady when they. arrive it is nearly an hour let me i make

sure it was what it. was. was a key thing after this massacre that i could just by people and everyone's going to shout serious say you know this is mean justice and los needs to be trying and why is the house ok in a way with this sort of. the fact. the very little i was there was really treated like that what do you think two to reason why i should take all the blame for this we all introduce remote through all those people in the house of parliament and got a good part to play for us over in terms of the grenfell tower blaze may have been exposed not only to smoke and fire but also to a highly toxic gas that's according to expert analysis of the tragedy hospital report say they were treating three people from cyanide poisoning one of the most

dangerous forms an expert has claimed the insulation boards used on the tower produce a deadly gas when burned the cladding which was highly flammable material used on the outside of the building is also under scrutiny. well the reason may has ordered a public inquiry into the tragedy and pledged an initial five million pounds to help the victims and us to say a check and i went out in london asking whether the u.k. should rethink its spending priorities the british government is spending this money on certain things which things to think they're spending. with thirteen billion to the n.h.s. social care and then the seventy million user to social care and that's what they're spending on that. they're spending three hundred seventy million only for second thoughts insight in your charge here and this is how much is going to the survivors right. it's actually shocking when you see like.

five then yeah. yeah. that's the fun of it but they can spend three hundred seventy only been in politics this book impose really need refurbished really. just says. it's shameful shameful. well so this week the u.k. marked one year since it voted to leave the european union though the actual divorce talks have any just got underway the referendum results caused a political earthquake the altar shocks of which are still being felt today. i will move a motion in the house of commons calling for a general election to be held on the eighth of june driesum eight wanted to strengthen her and embrace negotiations with european leaders she needed a mandate for her standing his divorce from the e.u. breaks it corrects it for two reasons breaks it means giving up access to the e.u. single market and customs union in full control of u.k.

borders compromise on the free movement of people but instead of a mandate to reason may go to hung on the white criticism of the brakes position the deal for britain is fresher than a. still no deal to a very very bad out. now with brittany so what counts and you break the planet which is not easy with a divided parliament in the democratic unionist party which may hopes to form a majority with opposes the heartbreaks it well the u.k. position leaves more questions the nonces some fear the negotiations which have already started will bring little progress so we wait for second breaks that referendum not likely even labor are resigned to this break up later except respects the result of the referendum involved me off you know come leaving. the conditions of the divorce agreements and now even more uncertain than ever and in

secret go from the normal messy and takes. well the process officially started when brussels received a letter from to reason may finally declaring the intention to leave the block when a british citizen still strongly oppose the decision and some once again express their anger on friday artie's poly boyko takes us through the twists and turns of britain's rocky road to the breakup. it was a very changed the course of history the forty eight percent who voted to stay were outraged although the others they were delighted to show me has risen. to become a national bank holiday we will call it a. night of firearms may have been jumping the gun there his so-called independence day is still a distant prospect the referendum result killed the political career of david

cameron and allowed home secretary to resume aid to step up to the plate in the run up to the vote she had been a quiet remain but the desire to lead post brags that britain forced her to reconsider her position bricks it means bricks it and we're going to make a success of it it's a year down the line that sounds like something from an alternate universe considering that the reason may called an election in order to strengthen her hand in the braggs it talks but ended up refueling in the polls and losing her parliamentary majority her atrocious result meant that politically her weakened government limped into negotiations with brussels earlier this week and bear in mind these talks were never going to be a walk in the park chum. but it. can be

concluded quickly. threats against russian. but been issued by european politicians commission was trying to bully the british people arguments over whether the u.k. would pay the e.u. one hundred billion to gregg's it vill guaranteeing the rights of citizens in the u.k. and who would get custody of gibraltar what we thought any issues but there is aroused took a back seat when britain was hit by a wave of terror for terror attacks in the space of just three months to be precise and many britons held to resume a direct plea responsible because she'd been head of the home office for six years before becoming prime minister. and with all the security and political chaos few people even notice that earlier this week brings it negotiations officially kicked off but not in the way that london would have hoped the british government's

already been accused of caving into brussels over the brags that schedule and opinion polls now show that if the country got to vote again it would reject leaving the u. so just like two reason may the plan for braggs it went from strong and stable to week and within the space of just one year. moscow announced this week that it's halting military cooperation with washington over syria after the coalition shot down a syrian war plane last sunday russia's defense ministry warned it will now track any u.s. led coalition aircraft in western syria as potential targets and russia's foreign minister says the americans have some explaining to do. yes the idea is. because at least there was a mechanism to avoid syrian airspace incidents between russia and the us that is

now suspended after the us shut down the plane we have requested a detailed explanation through the ministry of defense we expect that it will be provided by the us. well the pentagon earlier claim to touch shot down the syrian jet in self-defense after it bombed the u.s. backed militants but damascus says its plane was attacking islamic state. well the syrian jet was damn near there i saw held city of rock which is under siege by the u.s. backed local troops it's not the first time the us led coalition has targeted pro assad forces in the war zone last month in southern syria the coalition also bombed pro-government forces several times after accusing them of violating so-called de confliction zones well arty's and he said now he takes a closer look at the latest round the u.s. shoots down a syrian plane over syria in self-defense the only action that we have taken

against pro regime forces in syria and they've been to specific incidents have been in self-defense let's imagine a random guy comes into your house with a gun and shoots your dog and then he's like it was just self-defense i wanted to make sure there was no why lin's going on here d. as coalition speaking of deescalation after this self defense move the situation couldn't be worse russia and now considers all u.s. led coalition planes in the area a potential targets and are tracking them all of this happened as both the u.s. and syrian government backed up by the russian air force were fighting isis in the stronghold of iraq are now washington and moscow have locked horns in syria again focus has shifted and isis is probably breathing a deep sigh of relief while watching syrian fighter jets crash in flames on the horizon good job superpowers you're not so super slick and tensions flared even

further on choose day after the u.s. led coalition shut down another syrian aircraft and unmanned drone the pentagon claims the armed drone had been advancing on u.s. backed forces in southern syria and once again the coalition said the downing of the aircraft was motivated by self-defense i'm list washington is playing a dangerous game. did the americans react to the syrian threat as a source or were they trying to assert sovereignty over syria if you think about it really ever since the early one thousand nine hundred ninety s. have been used to it's been able to patrol what they regard as enemy skies with impunity and they now feel threatened but also that the allies on the ground are threatened so there is a risk that in fact they may try to assert themselves against any syrian or russian limitations on their activities over syria and that of course then could spiral out of control who has a very dangerous situation although some people in washington are saying are the russians will never stand up to us well maybe not but what if brygada are we going

towards you know more suspension of cooperation i think that's what some people in the u.s. administration actually won so they don't meaning they don't want to have the cooperation between the u.s. and russia thought maybe not necessarily trump himself but i think you do have figures who are very anti russian in the administration a step by step but a trump is bearing down to the anti russian voices which could mean some very bleak scenarios for the future well the tensions on the ground in syria are accompanied by anger at home at washington's latest military moves president trump's administration is facing criticism for breaking its pre-election vows to scale back foreign interventions. this is illegal war at this point then there's a practical question the practical question is doing anything you want killing every perceived enemy in every perceived leader of chieftain of five people and so

misbegotten village is it helping trump made it clear that defeating terrorism and putting an end to the trend of u.s. interventions in the middle east were top priorities so he opted for granting more power to the military what i do is i authorized by military we have the greatest military in the world ok but if it helps eradicate eisel what's the problem well first we have the us training and giving arms to a bunch of anti-government forces one of them the new syrian army would really like to topple assad then there's the syrian democratic forces largely consisting of kurds who would really love to grab more power from the government and eventually become independent so once i suppose finish we will have fully trained armed to the teeth forces controlling significant chunks of syrian territory partially hostile to the government what could possibly go wrong so it seems in its effort to defeat beisel the u.s. could in fact be fanning new hotbed of tension if you like washington has a case of tunnel vision trying to solve only one problem without seeing the bigger picture sound familiar and should iraq anyone but history teaches us nothing

clearly not even past tweets such as this one from donald trump to then president obama in two thousand and thirteen he warned that nothing good would come to the u.s. from attacking syria apparently hindsight isn't twenty twenty one to get to the white house ducking guga r.t. washington d.c. . the cia chief now claims russian meddling has been going on following that than previously thought that story coming up after the short break. it's.

called the future we go down. everyone in the world should be a period. and you'll get all the old the old. the old according to just. look up the modern world come along for the ride. welcome back cia chief mike bump a.o. claims russian meddling in the u.s. presidential elections was just a part of

a decades long efforts to undermine american democracy or russia has always denied any interference while pompei a statement comes in his first t.v. interview after taking up the post of cia director in january. can't talk about the details of the intelligence but we have the intelligence committee has said that this election was meddled with by the russians in a way that is frankly not particular ritual they've been doing this for an awfully long time and we are decades into the russians trying to undermine american democracy. joining us live from new york city discuss this is journalist and writer charles alltel charles thank you very much indeed for joining us this evening while we've become used to hearing accusations of russia's meddling in elections but now we're being told it's been going on for decades no evidence will be released to me what you make of all this. well listen i think that countries around the world our own included have strong preferences when it comes to elections oftentimes as

to who would be the preferred outcome now there are laws on our books that are quite strict but in theory don't seem to be all that well enforced concerning you know when foreign nations go over the line and actually try to let's say by election i don't think pompei is suggesting that but i think what he is suggesting is that the cia may have evidence that some actors perhaps allied to russia may have been exerting influence to tipped the scales one way or the other in our election but the fact that that may be true other nations may have done it too but i think the facts are overwhelming that the upstart candidate donald trump fought off the establishment sixteen or seventeen in the establishment republican wing to get the nomination i think the facts are clear in the public domain that the democratic national committee tried to it may well have rigged the primary for hillary and did their level best to tip the scales in the election so you know i

think a lot of actors tried to exercise influence in the in the election i don't know the specifics of what russia may or may not have done and what other nations may or may not have done but i think the bigger issue but far bigger is the degree to which the obama administration seems likely to have tried to tip their hand heavily in the favor of installing hillary clinton as a successor to barack obama that's something that really needs to be investigated i'm not point talking about the democrats i mean even some of them say it's high time that talks about russia stops i mean that's going to listen to what a high representative tim ryan had to say on this. i worry sometimes that we get so obsessed in angered by donald trump which is ok but you can't hold onto it people in an ohio don aren't really talking about russia or michael flynn or putin or anything else they're worried about paying the bills what's happening with our pension how much does it cost to send a kid to school well having heard that i mean do you think we'll see any changes in

how the u.s. deals with this particular and ongoing issue. well i hope so i think you know what you're seeing is that the american people are far far more concerned about the degree to which jobs are not coming fast enough back to our country had good high paying wages with benefits that's what we really care about in the impending fruits are going to blow up of this obamacare system which was a disaster from the beginning that's what americans really care about and when we think about our foreign issues i think people who think deeply about the issues should look back over the last eight years the last sixteen years to think about you know why it makes zero sense to reflexive and go after russia at every turn when in fact our interests america's interests and russia's are far more closely aligned through in many conflicts portions of the world and i think it would be behoove the trouble of ministration and the putin administration to try to ignore

this sniping and stay focused on the core issues where we do share common interests . and on that note we'll leave it that generous and right a chance hotel in new york thank you very much indeed for joining us. well the final group games of the twenty seventeen football confederations cup have determined the two last semifinalists chile and germany went through a laugh ace portugal and mexico and with the latest harvey and stan collymore. to soar to the semifinal lineup is now complete let's cut to the chase is germany and it is chile who will complete the final four alongside me stan collymore you made some predictions earlier alongside nick come on come on let's let it go we did because paul the octopus back in germany in two thousand and six was very good to the buried. germany as we expected when the first game you both thought was going

to happen was out yesterday germany three cameroon one very good camera work in the first off apply very aggressive very youthful but the german quality came through kerry during by t.s. off annoying his first appearance of the conflict called first draw team of her and watch out for this draw in the next twelve months he will be in the germany squad. for the world cup when the germans come back here is for the first time a german high school two goals in the confederations cup and then of course it again chile against australia almost completely wrong to actually would have this fairly comfortably a very strong chile and saw it against an australian side which is very useful for this exchange maybe for the game and a really creditable draw from the australians let's just you know play some juice here nick the bear went from australia victory which was on the cards for the first forty five minutes so if i was a betting man and i'm not i would have german a still against chile following germany get to stay in sochi which is what they

wanted to be pleased with that ok let's bring in now mark bosnich former australia aston villa's so many of the chelsea seven of the teams he playful and you know what he's an all powerful team and you're so let you speak to him first brazile what's happening some. good evening meal good evening stan good to hear from you mate. great to hear from you you obviously watch the game you've been in russia for the last couple of days that start with a football for us. very creditable australian performance today soggy their best performance on the today new manager for a very long time that was better than chile in the first half and they more than match them during the second half as well chile to be fair stepped up again second half and equalized rodriguez but overall a strike and feel very very proud of their performance there for a while there it looked as though the great upset was on obviously a lot of people especially in the west of australia very very concerned about traveling anywhere these days and i was different to come in here but i was

wonderfully surprised that i live here in moscow which is. absolutely mobbed the city the culture the architecture everything that bad is just first class but st petersburg i was there for nearly a week and that was absolutely outstanding as well and the main concerns that obviously people are asking me about in australia is number one the security and security second set on it's absolutely plus the food has been fantastic the people have been very very helpful and so many people i know in australia now dying to tell me for the world cup there's only one thing that i think is wrong is that the taxi drivers drive too fast. let's just really allow you to appreciate what this place has to offer summer and winter destination if you want to go on holiday beautiful beaches at the same time will now need a noisy sunday to see how long that was going to try to get from the stadiums the arenas the sea level wonderful sea level attractions to the olympics. we went by taxi we went by train and quite so much of this. this is

a resort he says that's why i like it so much it's very walnuts and i think we've been in this in the bit to my. i was thinking when funds come here we should show them the whole experience what they can do some of it on the beach we know the watch the football let's show them what it's like up in the mountain even on some cool refreshing as well and good for. the u.s. media over the. right stuff going to go to the train station train station speak english yes what's your name for a month from accommodations. are you looking forward to you excited to the looks of foreign people are going to come to people and fortune that they really like to it it's historical and they like it so it's many people understand english guns legally speaking when they come and i think people understand that because a lot of. pop olympic games i think people want to spend more

let's go to memphis in the kids to thank god. they are actually pressuring why is that i think that's just money for east the we can tell you gaining altitude to feel. this it grows it has to get so the scope. of this is from. sunshine fresh. juice when to resume you go to stadiums them very well food sacks it's been well listen to hours of minutes to go from the beach which is about to arrive the very

top of rows of data this is stunning i mean a study where we're almost at peak level now i know right behind you to run. now we're starting to see snowed. three hundred sixty degrees of the old school. well i'm going to see if she's hot i. really hope all this for a place to push the confederations cup for two thousand three hundred twenty seven the. globe let's go and get some snow got some nice people to make it easier to make the school so you're trying. to do you feel like i said a lot about. and this is one of those moments where you don't need any words. that saucy international it's was

a part. of . fun while culture while some part of the middle east was never short on crisis but the recent spat between the gulf states has and if yet another frontline to the already task they battle for breaking all dominance.