the british prime minister launches her strongest attack yet on russia over alleged meddling but gives no examples of moscow's supposedly interference in the u.k.'s affair. the head of the world anti-doping agency admits it is almost impossible to separate sport in politics after moscow slams waters decision to uphold the suspension of russia's and i drug agency. and we hear from an animal rights activist who was jailed for terrorism after releasing thousands of minks from her farm. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top

stories with our weekly program this is r t international now the u.k. prime minister pointed the finger at russia in a speech on monday accusing the country of military aggression and election meddling but she offered very few details and apparently the stalled bragg's at talks are far less pressing chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it the day after may's a speech a group of researchers claim to russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the brakes and vote artie's point boyko looks into the story corps. in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the

brags it talks on the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia was enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more yeah i believe there is some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's fire. if russia did use. the idea about four hundred twitter people will affect the movements of millions as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is absolutely

laughable the prime minister's spokesperson has said that downing street didn't have any evidence of successful interference in british electoral systems and this was the way the foreign secretary posted it on. the loose. but that doesn't matter because if you ask a member of the public care if russia did magill the answer is most likely to be down. to these or me and other leaders are doing across the west is trying to divert attention from their own responsibility for the for the enveloping crazies political crazies are taking place at home and abroad too in this context they don't need evidence russia is seen as an easy target may was later asked to

clarify her attacks on moscow and apparently she hadn't intended to imply that russia had actually meddled in bragg's it they like to look at the speech i gave on monday they will see the examples i gave of russian interference when not in the united kingdom. and the head of the world anti-doping agency has admitted it is almost impossible to separate sports and politics craig really these comments came shortly after russian sports officials have said that water upheld the suspension of the country's anti-drug body on political grounds but it's a sort of. impossible dream isn't it because to afraid. to rely on sports is such an important part of people's lives on thursday russia's sports drug testing agency was denied reinstatement by the world watchdog water claimed it had failed to meet the two key criteria here is how the russian olympic committee

juve commented on this shortly after its. relevance to restart his book. according to what russia failed to admit to the allegations made in the mclaren report the agency also said russia refused to grant access to closed laboratories in the country a russian sporting officials have questioned the mclaren report saying it lacks conclusive evidence they cited a recent decision by water to clear ninety five athletes who had been accused of doping in the mclaren report on the basis of in sufficient evidence now the latest move from wada was raised has raised doubts rather over whether russia will be able to compete at the two thousand and eighteen winter olympics the russian national team has lost some of its key figures in skiing alone six russians have been banned for life from all international olympic committee competitions and stripped of

their medals the decision has prompted some in the world of sports including the most successful ever winter olympian norwegian biathlete. to voice their reservations and biathletes said that he would like to see some justification as to why the russian athletes have been punished beyond doll and went on to say that he hopes scratches on the viles would not be announced as the reason behind the ban adding and adding it that if they were he would be afraid to take any doping test himself and a top german coach who trains are two of the suspended athletes believes politics is behind the crackdown on team russia. at the beginning i was doing good it's not the political things. for me it's my opinion. more and more political so. i don't know we thought about it through the russian would be good to talk to for skiers currently suspended here is what one of them thinks about the latest back.

to. i mean if we really didn't mean that the allegations surfaced eleven months ago during the sochi twenty fourteen olympics no one could have imagined that anything like this would happen to us three years later it feels as though we've been living on the volcano for past eleven months this situation has thrown us of balance both psychologically and physically it's very hard to keep training not knowing what will come next whether you'll be disqualified or not when i learned the news i burst into tears i called the president of our federation i told her we are not at fault she replied i know but there is nothing we can do. scotland's former first minister has launched his new talk show on r.t. alex salmond was slammed in the press for joining the channel with headlines such as these but he is confident that he made the right decision. are you not afraid of been hosts in the rush of the program taking into consideration all the

publications. haven't disappeared the question i thought it might be from the sun the daily mail but a bit on the other side i'd a quick scan through the. russia today broadcasting and i counted fifty liebert m.p.'s thirty eight tory m.p.'s fourteen s m b m p seven liberals felician seen today you'd be in the green. on russia today programmes so. if it's good enough for john mcdonnell. john redwood crisp and blunt. for you and black for vince cable and carville and lucas then i can probably. stand there the criticism that the they experienced as well in his first show alex salmond spoke exclusively to the former president who was sacked in october and is now facing charges of sedition and rebellion in spain issued an international

arrest warrant after he fled to belgium where he is currently on bail speaking on our team recalled the region's referendum day and shared his vision for catalonia future you can watch the full programme on r.t. dot com. thousands of people took to the streets of paris on saturday to voice their anger at president social policies a crowd was blocked by police as it moved towards micron's official residence the l.s.a. palace protesters rallied against a growing presidential powers and his labor reforms which he claims will spur growth and cut unemployment earlier one hundred members of my friend's party and march announced that they were going to quit because of his betrayal of democracy these events were the latest in a string of protests across france against the president. people ports. what we have with thousands of people who have decided to join this march which was set up by the trade union some of the three biggest trade unions in. frogs called on their members for a day of national action and this is one of

a number of protests taking place across france. a nice some of the damage to the shops that we're seeing along the street where this protest is going on this is that a transfer western union shop and this is one of a number of shops that we've seen a small group of individuals taking part in this protest trying to break and smash what they're using around them is not just rocks on the street but it's when you take a look down here these are the great they're pulling up from around the trees and they've actually been trying to use those to ram into the shops to cool some of this damage. it was seemed to be very tall the tates very angry stopping the crowds and in fact in the suv that we were trying to film that she broke talk camera and frightened us and said you know you not allowed to film us doing this because they concerned about

the police being able to work out what their identity is well apart from that we've been speaking to some of the protesters about what this protest was really about because it will get at this thing that the way mccomb pasta low by executive order is an attack of democracy one that there's a clip where very angry because this law is not for employees they simply lose all of their rights apply not quite in a complete package even micro month to liberalize optimize and destroy all the security of workers he wants labor costs to be at a minimum and we're here to denounce this policy which is not in the interests of workers with you they also want to school measure the people here are hopeful that the fact that the code to divide and the fact that although much has signed this and given his approval it still needs to be debated by the parliament here in france and they're hoping that by holding protests like this by show. how many people are unhappy and concerned about these changes that they might be able to get

parliamentarians in france to change their minds coming up we'll hear from an animal rights activist convicted of terrorism that's after a short break you're watching our international and the weekly standard. here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us is it just. the only show i go out of my way to you know what it is that really packs

a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of party america is going to say we are apparently better than to see people you've never heard of love jack to the next president of the world bank so take. it seriously send us an e-mail. there will be back this is the weekly on i t international an animal rights activist in the u.s. is calling for legal reform after being jailed for releasing thousands of minks from a fur farm kevin johnson spent three years behind bars on charges that included terrorism he told us his story two thousand and thirteen a close friend of mine tyler lang and i and thirty east for coming grants. in northern illinois for thirty six years this is

a facility that was imprisoning and killing mink killing children within the sight and smell of their mothers all for fashion and so we entered the facility we opened all the cages in the facility to free two thousand mink and save their lives and we painted the words liberation is love on a barn to demonstrate that we weren't trying to threaten anybody we were trying to have a message of compassion when we were arrested we were sensed under state law for possession of burglary tools we were already doing time for the crime in illinois state and the federal government intervened to indict us under this terrorism legislation you know which ended up being a nightmare and i was in prison for three years. the corners excuse me the controversial law under which kevin was jailed was passed in two thousand and six it bans actions that interfere with organizations dealing with animals if an individual causes more than one hundred thousand dollars of damage they can face up to ten years in prison kevin johnson gave us his views on being treated as

a terrorist court essentially found was that the government is permitted to apply the label terrorism to virtually any activity that it doesn't like in this instance the court said it was not quote utterly unreasonable so that's their standard for determining whether the government can call something terrorism and he's always telling you worry about with employers landlords it's a serious thing even if people look at it and they say that's kind of silly whatever at the same time they take pause which was the entire purpose of the federal government when they passed the law even if people look at it and say well that's silly they still take pause people are nervous i think that it's incredibly cynical for legislators to try to use the rhetoric of terrorism you know in order to simply repress activists on behalf of industry and finance. you know terrorism we all know we've all experience in this country sadly terrorism is the killing of civilians in order to intimidate their populations. you know it's it's a desecration. of the victims of terrorist attacks and you know an

affront to the concept of what terrorism is. this week saw a stalemate at the u.n. security council over a chemical weapons probe in syria it resulted in three blocks resolutions in just twenty four hours with russia and the us clashing in a war of words all right it all began when russia vetoed a u.s. draft resolution to extend the probe into a toxic gas incident in syria's italy but province in april moscow's own draft resolution was then blocked a later japan president presented its own resolution to the council which would have extended the mandate for another month however russia blocked that attempt as well and russia and the u.s. both wanted to prolong the investigation however the u.s. backs the existing investigation into the chemical attack whereas moscow believes it needs to be completely reviewed in october the joint investigative committee conducting the probe released

a report blaming the syrian government for the incident russia criticized those findings and one of russia's main concerns is the reliability of the samples used as evidence that is because experts carrying out the probe did not visit the site of the attack and receive their data through third parties which had transported samples outside of syria the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. did not hide her frustration with the outcome of the vote with the unity of this council or alone and under strain about russia's obstructionism we will continue to fight for justice and accountability earlier the russian representative to the u.n. suggested that the council is trying to remove russia from syria's political process international affairs commentator jonathan steele told us this atmosphere is not helping the situation on the ground. russia is a crucial player in this syria in this war in syria and. parties around in the sense that it supports the syrian government but then western

governments including the british government parties are on the move those supporting the armed opposition so that somebody cannot take part because supporting one side or the other is absurd we want people who are involved in the problem to be at the solution so all people should be there including russia and the united states. british school teacher has been suspended for praising his students joshua sutcliffe congratulated his math class by saying well done girls but that upset one teenager who now identifies as a male the teacher insists that he apologized immediately the student in question. came in did very well and i said well done girls started really well and i was met with a fierce rebuttal. and eyes i sincerely apologize. i then found six weeks later that i was going to be under investigation for mischief

and drink within the community and initially for one day transpired to be two days and then three days and then it's now been six days where i've been sat in a in an office not being able to teach my math lessons. joshua believes he is being singled out because of his religious beliefs. i think i've been bullied really for you know for who i am within the school setting up a bible club and then it being shut down with an iron fist really having so many people coming along to the bible club and being interested in the bible i feel like i've been discriminated against within the community and i think that's a trend. nationwide is that christians are able to. live out their faith in a professional setting incident has provoked a debate over whether the school is overreaching it was not intentional he hadn't meant to cause offense so i think that his suspension is disproportionate i

think that the school should obviously point out to him that he made a mistake which of course he doesn't recognise and then get his assurance that it won't happen again i think that is the end of the matter transgender agenda he's got a much much too much influence in the british media and embrace society there are very small minority i feel sorry for anyone who thinks they are trapped in the wrong body they should be treated with respect and tolerance but where is the tolerance for this man he's a christian but of course you're not allowed to be a christian anymore are you in modern britain say that he's done anything wrong actual the majority of people in the u.k. i'm sure will agree with me. in light plane crashed in eastern russia on wednesday killing six people but amid the tragedy there was the miraculous story of

a three year old girl who became the sole survivor. alas fame kills the crew it is a show to the girl with a body she was far liner in the she nearly had just lost and was just a child whether. we're lucky that the miracle happened.

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one hundred thousand were forced to leave new orleans falls into chaos and power. cuts tied up. in the neighborhoods hit by the floods criminality exploded. especially on the eastern part of the city where murders happen on a daily basis. so simple citizens like brandon gear up to defend themselves. keep a lot of this stuff handy just in case again something crazy happens active shooter . a young millionaire sidney torres fights to increase security in the tourist. is what. those little connect to the electric. field is that was happening and that's you know i'm looking on the g.p.s. .