back to join olympic chiefs they dismissed media claims as premature that the russian national anthem will be banned at the upcoming winter games. revelations about the offshore tax avoidance and money making schemes of the super rich become a goldmine for the media with many publications rooting out and focusing on links to russia. are broadcasting live direct for our studios in moscow this is our to international thomas is certainly glad to have you with us now the un back to joint mission investigating the chemical attack into syria is it believed the province back in april has found the watchdog says that they have looked into various scenarios questioned hundreds of witnesses and examined thousands up to the actual site of

the attack the leadership panel has identified ice add responsible for the use of sulfur mustard in. and the syrian arab republic that's responsible for the use of sarin at conseco and their studies showed that the samples from handshake koon match with a particular chemical from the syrian arab republic stockpile that is required to make sarin hard to correspondent and has more on the story. well immediately after hearing the report from the o.p.c. w. we heard from nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations now when she spoke she praised the joint investigative mechanisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons the opi and then she went on to urge the council to pass a new resolution prolonging their work investigating chemical weapons in syria she said that she was open to working with russia and china on drafting

a new resolution and the o.p.c. w. jim who is behind the chemical attack it also explains how it relates to how the team carried out this challenging investigation of experts who wanted it makes note of any irregularities it found in the information obtained from the meeting of the un security council and he was less than enthusiastic about the report he pointed out to many problems with the report and many aspects of the way the investigation was done relying on third parties as being rather on satisfactory this is russia's envoy to the united nations said. the investigators carried out their work remotely the report is full of omissions inconsistency and discrepancies a very mediocre quality there is a question as to the sound whether they are from syria toll it is unclear how the syrian was transported and used a visit to show iraq that airbase would be crucial to prove it's there and was there and to find out who was responsible for the attack in other words it was the

gym's task to find this. when speaking to the fifteen member body of the russian point did members of the gym visit the site of the attack in qana and they simply will live visit the site he urged the people of the world to consider a criminal investigation in which the site of the crime was never visited by those investigating the crime and trying to determine guilt was pointed out that in a case of chemical weapons it is essential to visit the site where the alleged attack took place furthermore. he had questions about the activities and the background of these third parties that were relied upon pointed out that one of the groups that was relied upon to give their testimony was the white helmets an ngo that has similar links to the al nasra terrorists now at this point we've heard from the european union the european union is calling for new sanctions against the syrian arab republic in response to today's report about chemical weapons so many

developments are in the works there's talk of a new resolution russia and china working together with the united states to draft a new resolution but as of yet it's not clear what's next for the o.p.c. w. or the joint investigative mechanism as they continue their work in syria we spoke to investigative journalist rick stirling who says several fundamental problems underlying the report. they've got a very shaky conclusion and even their report indicates that a number of various irregularities is definitely an understatement inside the report its signal which that there were fifty seven victims transported to five different hospitals before the attack even happened. so how do you have a big good look at the terror happens they acknowledge in the report that they cannot confirm that there were syrian chair over a country couldn't at the time of the incident if nobody oh showing syrian jets the syrian air force says they were not conseco and they were another town and actually

that u.s. radar tracking couldn't burps that syrian jet fighters past no closer than five kilometers from conseco so in addition to that any investigation an essential component of it is looking at motor who has a motive or a chemical weapons incident and in syria obviously it's the opposition and the syrian government has every motive to prevent or never to have that happen. the enter national olympic committee has dismissed reports that the russian national anthem could be banned from the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics the claim was made in the new york times ahead of the i.o.c. decision on what action to take against russia for alleged state sponsored doping tried to diminish the reports now from the want to cut corners in switzerland. well the article by the new york times suggests that unnamed sources from the international olympic committee have said that they are discussing

a possible ban on the russian national anthem at the winter games in twenty eighteen there also it says in the article discussing a menu of other possible penalties against russia including not allowing delicate and athletes to take part in the opening ceremony now we are asked the i.o.c. for a response to that report and whether those suggestions of those possible sanctions being discussed was actually true this is all premature speculation before the world and schmidt commissions have even completed their work and before due process to which any individual or organization is entitled has been followed when it all comes amid allegations of widespread duping following the sort she games in twenty fourteen against russian athletes that led to the the russian track and field team being disqualified and barred from the rio twenty sixteen olympics and the entire team being barred from the rio paralympics in the same year now the i.o.c.

is currently investigating some of the allegations against russian athletes from the start she games in twenty fourteen and so far they have removed two medals from russian athletes from the skiing events now the athletes in questions have said that they will appeal those decisions and their lawyer has described them as being a scandalous the i.o.c. is also due to decide next month whether or not the russian team will be able to participate in the next winter games in twenty eighteen responses board radio host alan moore from capital f.m. moscow he believes that the i.o.c. president knows that blanket ban is not right move. it's wrong he understands that in terms of human rights it's a wrong thing to bonnet an entire country because he knows himself and the insiders know that there's a very small group in every country who are able to facilitate this with their doctors who are their coaches so you know to ban people already as we know russia

have tens of thousands of athletes by and from competing from track and field especially so he knows and yossi movement knows well the early to move knows what a blanket ban is just completely wrong. excuses and embarrassment appeared to be the order of the day for some of the world's wealthiest people and companies it comes in the wake of the leaking of a massive trove of financial files the so-called paradise papers and expose where the richest are hiding their money and how they dodged paying taxes.

trillion dollars is held off shore and this remains that hundreds of billions of dollars worth of taxes go uncollected and you end up with what i would call apartheid but the billionaire class escalating we know this and meanwhile the poverty levels are continuing to rise because people are being gouged they're being ripped off and into the mix comes the social uprising more violence because naturally if you have everything stolen from you you have nothing to lose so you become violent well let's take a look at it for yourselves you can see there's a whole host of famous faces in the papers not least queen elizabeth she has millions invested in a fund in the cayman islands and then there is the u.s.

secretary of state rex tillerson he is named as a director of an offshore firm used in oil and gas deals does make sense as he is the former c.e.o. of exxon mobil next to him we have a very infamous named george soros a billionaire he used a law firm based in bermuda to help manage offshore companies and then we have a couple of pop stars veterans bano and madonna they only need one names to introduce who they are well they made investments in companies in malta and bermuda but for the mainstream media it is also about finding a political scoop among the mass of information now the member of the trump white house is now under scrutiny for his ties to russia there ought to be hearings and if he fails to provide a convincing and compelling explanation he ought to resign well it probably will not surprise you that a lot of news outlets have been trolling through the paradigms papers files in an effort to find enough areas links between russia and the us what he's doing to hawkins takes a look at how they've been getting on. it's one of the biggest leaks of private

documents in the world revealing the financial dealings of the super wealthy and powerful four royal families to global corporations but for most media the focus has been east putin's cronies kremlin meddling team trump's ties to putin's family all the elements to grab the reader's attention so let's break it down meet wilbur ross u.s. commerce secretary and investor now he has interests in a shipping company called navigator and one of that company's clients is russian energy seaboard now two of the shareholders there are fish alley under u.s. sanctions with another claim to be putin's son in law and those alleged ties to the russian president and his family could create a conflict of interest for ross now the commerce secretary himself left navigator's board back in twenty fourteen having joined it two years before that he's adamant

he's done nothing wrong i don't know when the of those individuals have never met them so there's nothing wrong with the fact that it happens to be a russian company does not mean that in the evil in it now it's important to note to see war as a company is not subject to sanctions and it's been left pretty buffel by the reaction bore. was there in saying certain. things and expresses its surprise at the politically charged interpretation in certain media publications of regular could push your activities over many years which from the outset were reflected in the company's published accounts now if all this sounds complicated and confusing it's meant to be offshore dealings through third parties often aim to avoid regulation and taxes but that's not the main thing find a connection any connection to russia and you. you have

a catchy headline now if you're still with me the evidence of russian influence goes even further from these airlines one might think the kremlin all but owns these social media giants but again let's take a closer look two banks controlled by the kremlin provide the cash to third parties or investment vehicles to buy stakes in some of the world's biggest companies russian tech investor you remailer is a key link in these operations and also invested in cards that's a start up founded by jared krishna donald trump's son in law surely there's a smoking gun on russian meddling and here's what the protagonists in this conspiracy have to say themselves we announced via an august twenty eighth the d.s. to global lead a round of investments in twitter they have since divested their interest from twitter in me twenty four toon the investment was made eight years ago and d.s.t.

global has since sold all of their holdings in facebook their stake ended five years ago when we went public and if russians apparently influence your social media they also control your music taste and your holiday bookings d.s.t. global's investments in facebook and twitter were just two of the more than thirty internet companies around the world that d.s.t. global funds have invested in including air b.n. b. spotify g.d. dot com the landfill and alibaba offshore financial market nations are seen by many as morally questionable at best this doesn't stop the wealthy and influential from engaging in them but money has the final say business is business unless you have any link to russia then it's political. hundreds of anti donald trump of protesters are out in force in the south korean capital to show their disapproval of the american president's visit at the same time pro trump rallies are also taking place trying to travel to seoul as the. second stop on his

historic twelve day or two and it got underway and where trump outlined what it appears to be the major topic of the trip the sale of u.s. weapons and it has left some asking if he is sticking to the exact same script from country to country. to pay and this is the amounts of military equipment as he should and we are for. to make the greatest missiles no matter what it is we have the greatest military equipment korea will be ordering billions of dollars of that equipment while in japan on monday trump asked congress in washington for an extra four billion dollars for missile defense in hand to counter the north korean threat and another billion to support his plans for the wider region so america now reviews trumps tour of asia so far. after meeting with trump the japanese prime minister said it was time to apply maximum pressure on north korea suggesting that intercepting pyongyang's missiles was

possible through coronation to which trump responded that if tokyo purchase arms from the us they'd be capable of shooting him down he will shoot him out of the sky when he completes the purchase of lots of additional military equipment from the united states he will easily shoot them out of the sky why because north korea is apparently a dangerous state most importantly were working to counter the dangerous aggressions of the regime in north korea. the regime continued development of its unlawful weapons programs including its illegal nuclear tests and outrageous launches of ballistic missiles directly over japanese territory are a threat to the civilized world at international peace and stability. we will not stand for that the era of strategic patience is over while

this is expected to be a major theme on this sweeping asia tour that it all sounds too familiar in essence almost identical to what he said throughout his middle east if it really is the here and we will be sure to help our saudi friends to get a good deal from our great american defense companies this past summer trump signed the largest arms deal u.s. history saudi arabia worth one hundred ten billion dollars but who's the enemy in this scenario for decades around has fueled the fires of sectarian conflict and terror threatening the region and causing so much of by alliance all nations of conscience must work together to isolate there is a growing realization among your arab neighbors that they have common cause with you and the threat. close by around then it is indeed there's no question about the solution sounds fairly simple by u.s.

weapons in the world a better place i would love to be able to get along with everybody right now the world is a mess but i think by the time we finish i think it's going to be a lot better place to live now in weapons and diplomatic outreach in egypt all tradition of us presidents the question is there for just adds to the fire. on our watch. nato is said to boost its mission in afghanistan with an additional three thousand troops bringing the total number of service personnel to sixteen thousand in the country here is what the nato secretary general confirmed our disappear over as more we have decided to increase the number of troops the current level the song thirteen thousand. the new level would be around sixteen thousand a role training assistance of the wise nato is set to increase their contingent on

the ground in afghanistan based troop increase had been rumbling along since may it also came alongside room is that each of the member states would be asked to kick in an extra one billion dollars to the the ground to nato part but that hasn't been spoken of any more just just at the moment we understand that half of those three thousand troops will come from the in from the other twenty eight member states that make up nato the three thousand extra september by u.s. defense there in afghanistan sixty nato have been on the ground there we have seen that in some areas the taliban have been routed out they've been eradicated in some approved particularly troublesome bible areas of the country the seventeen the taliban's claimed responsibility for around one hundred nearly a thousand people. glad

. well it's not just the taliban it's the people of the congress trying to kill them while on the other the u.s. forces both men and women in a house is a privilege and women were killed there were houses left. some homes with islamic state militants and those were hit by a u.s. drone strike during. the fight that is ongoing islamic state militants came and started the clashes they would stick. then u.s. troops go in the area so we left and came so an extra three thousand nato troops will be making their way to get us down we can expect that statement from u.n. stoltenberg to be rubber stamped and confirmed when the nato defense ministers meet

in brussels this coming thursday. right today we have been marking the one hundredth anniversary of the revolution that led to the creation of the u.s.s.r. and we have been running a real time news feed on twitter you can follow all of the latest by searching the hash tag nine hundred seventeen live that will show you how invents were unfolding minute by minute background on the timeline right now the seizure of power is nearly complete the numbers of the provisional government have been placed under arrest and the winter palace is now totally occupied by the revolutionary bolshevik leader vladimir lenin has given an address while those killed and injured in the takeover have been proclaimed heroes of the revolution all local press has been shut down except for socialist newspapers so that's what was happening exactly one hundred years ago tonight here is art is what i've done with more projects.

there's never been a revolution quite. like it the world of today was shaped by reddit tobar one hundred years ago in the one hand it borders socialism international borders as they are now racial and class equality woman's rights universal health care and education on the other hand it led to a bloody civil war nato and the cold war imagine living through such a pivotal moment in human history well you can almost feel ever dreamed of time travel brings you a digital time machine that takes you back to the thousand nine hundred seventy the year. we looked at the revolutions in syria and wondered what if twitter existed a hundred years ago lenin nicholas the second and dozens of the

biggest players of the revolution live tweeting as though the revolution was happening now. this is your chance to interact with them log on to twitter and tell lenin what you think about his plans he know not us but the russian telegraph of one hundred years ago has also been posting live updates until the takeover.

information is power and no one weaponized it like the reds the russian telegraph became the revolution retires and you needn't just read about it you can see it happen. seems from the past three hundred sixty degree videos short as authentically as possible will give you a taste of those monumental events events that largely shaped modern history in the world we live in nine hundred seventeen live history today.

you may be wondering why we're talking about the october revolution in november and that's because soviet russia adopted a new calendar after the bolsheviks took power on the twenty fifth of october one hundred seventeen that is november the seventh according to the guardian calendar used today in most of the world and here's a short recap of what happened in russia one hundred years ago. it's october nineteenth seventeen and russia is fast approaching one of the most radical turning points in its history the country had been turned upside down by the february revolution and exhausted by the first world war the whole country floundered in a cold and of anarchy enormous russia bearing the new world arrive in pain tsar nicholas the second living in exile in siberia with his family following his application seven months ago occupying the russian monex main residency the winter palace moderately liberal and aiming then their friend in me workers and soldiers

the two institutions are supposed to share power but in reality are competing for it and that's where the bolsheviks and vladimir lenin come in. it must be explained to the masses that the soviet to work his deputies is the only possible form of revolutionary government place power in the hands of the proletariat and the poor a structure of the peasantry the bolsheviks promises essentially boiled down to this power to the soviets peace to nations lands of peasants and bread to the hungry it took them just two days to come to power on october twenty fourth and twenty fifth they swiftly seized post offices key railway stations the state bank the port and other strategic locations across the city at a quarter to ten pm a blank shot fired from cruise aurora signaling the start of the storming of the

winter palace by two am on the twenty sixth of october. revolutionaries occupied and arrested the provisional government the new bolshevik government was formed with lenin at the helm. of the one nine hundred seventeen revolution is also being remembered outside of russia an improvised parade was held earlier on today in berlin there soviet era vehicles took part in a reenactment of the revolutionary regiment stationed in petrograd with communist flags and photos of historical leaders as.

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