thoughts of russia steps to try to help civilians and he's going to. we were not part of the discussions around the humanitarian corridors however you know any any initiative you know alleviate the suffering of people you know we force well. you know our primary goal is that there is a cessation of hostilities that there is a humanitarian cause that is long enough for us to be able to deliver assistance on a regular basis what we call for and what we continue to call for is thirty days at least thirty days desperation of hostilities so that we can deliver assistance to people in need in. other procedures particularly areas in syria what what's important is that most all parties on the ground warring parties and. respect and protect civilians whether there are humanitarian corridors or not so civilians must not be must not be targeted should be allowed to flee whether through humanitarian

corridors or not if they wish and if they wish to remain inside their homes and they are not to be targeted that is clear according to international humanitarian law. russia's military meantime is said just to only two children have been able to leave the league and play through the humanitarian corridors established it says the militants been opening fire on anyone attempting to escape and are using civilians as human shields. what you see here indeed is the dramatic moment images showing the moment those youngsters managed to flee the area of what must they be going through deeply shocked of course. comforted best they could by by syrian government soldiers we hear after reaching a military checkpoint the fate of their parents the family remaining unclear listen as they had a minute to try to get a handle on it calmed down a bit our colleagues at r.t. arabic spoke to the children for what they'd literally just been through

a little while before. recently he. would also as she say also. know. mr lewis well i don't. have any. sister you only have left his car so you know. they never smile you will. now developing story want to alert you to because we're just hearing about it as well here at r.t. new center two people are in critical condition in the u.k. seems after being exposed to an unknown substance in a candy will cheer the b.b.c. british broadcaster is reporting that one of them is a former russian intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for great britain

more than a decade ago and that's got the headlines going let's go to london our correspondent the u.k. b.c. yeah very we don't actually know much about this i've just got the b.b.c. reporter myself it's still pretty scant of information nonetheless the headlines are running riot what do we know for fact. well so far what we know is what the police have told us to sensually from official sources which is that a man and a lady were taken ill at a shopping center in in wiltshire which is about one hundred miles or so away from the capital london and they were found sitting on a bench kind of slumped over and it's thought that they had been exposed to some type of known substance now the gentleman hasn't been named but according to the b.b.c. and sky they say that their sources report that the gentleman is scriptural who is a sixty six year old man he was a former colonel in the russian military who was convicted for handing over

information about russian spies to my six the british foreign intelligence agency and for that he received a thirteen year prison sentence but he was released in two thousand and ten as part of a prisoner swap and that was under the former russian president dmitri medvedev when he was president and so he's been living in the united kingdom since then and it's thought that he's the man who has been found on this on this bench now it's also important to add that the police also haven't named or said what this substance could potentially be but that hasn't stopped of course the media from drawing potential power levels with the case of the former russian spy alexander litvinenko who was poisoned in two thousand and six so while the media here are perhaps jumping to conclusions the police are being very very careful and saying that

information at this point anyway is still very scant you. know it from london let's get the thoughts that talking about next. an x m i five intelligence officer sean annie nice to see you we thought your best place talker this you see the basic details of this story what's your gut feeling here than. my very first response was that this might just be some sort of drug instant there have been numerous stories over the last couple of years in the u.k. of the spread of. synthetic cannabinoid called spice which seems to create the same sort of symptoms that were reported in this case or indeed the spread of synthetic opioid problems particularly across america but also in the u.k. too which leads to death things like sentinel cough until we see more even stronger i believe that car that sense of self has been ruled out so my first instinct was it might in something like this people who. dissipated because they've been

involved in a spy swap for example their lives are forever changed there's a long history of people in that situation self medicating with substances i think might what might happen my very first instinct was that this happened they were taken to hospital they were identified their names were fed into the system and as soon as there their names are fed into the system there's some alert around the fact that this guy had indeed been involved in the spy swap in twenty ten suddenly became much more much more news where he became much more alarming potentially the police as well if this was a former russian spy might there be foul play involved we don't know but i think this is where this story is built from and we were looking at the background here again it seems are the b.b.c. is reporting some witnesses neighbors and sold most of place i'm sure you know you saw. recently lost his wife so you know the maybe a lot more to this be on the scene where you don't know what it was going through of course thoughts open to that here the lady was found with not on the bench on cultures are both going to be ok but as you say it's easy to jump to conclusions i

supposed of there was no russian connection here the headlines would really reduce it for them or they would burg. i think it had been reduced to just two local news reporting. of course it's very tempting assume is anything to do with russia now in this current sort of russia case environment. suddenly oh let's have a case where we complain the russians for poisoning expire or something but bear in mind this guy was swapped for the ten russian illegals alleged russian illegals who were swapped out of america in two thousand and ten for convicted spies in russia so the russians would not have handed over this guy back to the west if they still felt he could have caused damage so there seems to be little motivation to do anything against him or cause a very different case from what was alleged to have happened while the us was going to talk a lot of litvinenko time to drag all that back to the surface cope comparisons being made he was a former russian intelligence agent killed by radiation poisoning in london was over ten years ago now again it's time to drugs especially at

a time of course maybe a connection maybe no connection at all with just couple of weeks of this big presidential election here in russia good juicy time to come up with it all. extremely yes and you know bear in mind the case between this guy who was spice walked so he had been working for and i six and had been convicted of espionage in russia and was spots for the illegals from the american state back in two thousand and ten that's a very different case from that in the end who had at actively fled and at the time of his death was actually working for m i six in the u.k. so you know he was much more potentially of a target than this guy who had you know been convicted giving up everything you could given and being sent back to you kate the effect of your retirement the one point here though is that even if that were the case the m i six still had a duty of care for their former agent when he was relocated to you k. so if someone you know yet another one of their agents has been killed in u.k.

they have some serious questions to answer not a good point i haven't thought of you're ok we'll only thank you for putting your perspective on it from where you've come from you've got to know but the most four or five intelligence officer on the line there from brussels and i think you are now talking a curious story is it sounds like a plot works like the last one a plot straight out of a hollywood movie only it did in a russian village the story is a mix up of the maternity ward forty years ago left two mothers literally raising each other's children they didn't officially know d.n.a. tests of no confirm the suspicions that the family has been harboring for decades seen the loving upbringings of an issue sethi picks up a story. it's a tell of heartache confusion and attempts at mit and has taken two women almost forty years to find out they were raised by the wrong families in a village hospital near the oval mountains for women beth on the same day in march

nine hundred seventy eight but who knew about this left with the wrong babies this is the monica had blue eyes for a suspicions with a number logical father he thought his wife had cheated an assumption which had terrifying consequences of course he didn't love her that much one day i came back from work in my mother told me she saw him covering veronica's face with a pillow i was ironing when i next saw him i threw a hot iron at him i said if you touch the child again i don't know what i'll do to you eventually he abandons the family meanwhile growing up nearby was tanya again raised by a couple believing had to be their right and that there was no family resemblance the team of this met to discuss their doubts. i have a birth certificate how can i give up my baby and i have an aunt that will more suspicions when from it became at the age of take she was diagnosed with an inherited disease

a condition which no one in the family had but years later went for and because mother went back to the hospital fraunces old medical records had been destroyed and then to tend towards itself no longer existed forty years on and the families finally took d.n.a. tests. i always thought i looked like grandma when i found out i was shocked i thought they wouldn't love me anymore now that they found their real daughter. the veronica has always asked that question mom why do i not look like you why do i have a different character she's so calm and even tempered her face is different from ours i used to joke you must have been switched at birth. it's been a long painful path for both families they say they have never gretz the mother is the one who brought you up not the one who gave birth and that would just. when you were a huge reason why i would. never speak though is it. if you think your face of the.

bush. then yes. that veronica is still haunted by the suffering she saw on you of you i feel sorry for my mom because i have seen her struggling for all her life not everyone can deal with it not everyone can be like her for the sake of her children she has forgotten about everything she would go to the end of the world only for her children to be safe and sound but i would go to court for moral compass sation at least because we're so we should birth because i feel myself guilty for her in life and that my father left her. the families have now come to terms with what happens and even say they've gained more than they've lost tanya yuliya my grandchildren we're all a big family now we're all relatives he can turn back time. battle goes on with us go fighting but now against calls for tougher foreign controls and in

view of recent events the national rifle association has come under intense scrutiny of course since that awful school shooting in florida again but in a promotional clip new thing for a new t.v. show a spokesperson for the group issued a stern warning to the media. we've had enough of the lies we're done with your agenda to undermine voters' the will and individual liberty in america so to every line member of the media to every hollywood phony your time is running out the clock starts now. cheerless discuss the story here for investigative journalist dave lindorff over there in philadelphia show you got your views on it dave as we just heard enter a spokeswoman. cusick gun control activists of spreading lies and undermining the will of voters and slagging off the media to it and i'm going to listen.

well i mean it shows a sort of a desperation on the part of the n.r.a. i think that they're resorting to these kind of it's a very scary commercial you know with a black background and she looked like you know the queen in the in the disney snow white the floating head and the. wizard of. time are running out and saying your time is up and when you say that and you're the gun organisation it sounds like there's an execution coming for journalists and media people and it's designed to be very intimidating and i see it as a sign of desperation and this is the most powerful lobby along with the pro israel lobby apac in the country and they suddenly are seeing company after company huge companies bending them and not offering their members discounts of things because of fears of a boycott i mean apple and amazon are worried now about

a boycott those are two of the largest companies in america yet we seem so when it is a light pulling their advertising in name it they don't want to be trying to do that anymore is this latest florida shooting actually going to change anything though because of course every time we see these horrors unfolding we see these mass killings the argument kicks off but it will quieten down again to the happens the next time and so on so on year in year out. this seems a little different to me i mean we haven't seen these kinds of boycotts against the n.r.a. we haven't seen republicans backing away from the n.r.a. and we haven't especially seen a mobilized mass of articulate people like these high school students i'm sort of thrown back to the sixty's when i was a teenager myself and was opposing the vietnam war and you know really it was kids that. were behind the movement against the vietnam war teenagers eighteen nineteen

year olds even seventeen sixteen year olds at these marches when i was involved in so and and that's what we're kind of seeing this question millennial source suddenly out there are. mobilizing on social media so maybe times they could really see if you know you well of course the other thought of why this media attack mather's that recent double page ad in the new york times listed almost three hundred members of congress who received money from the n.r.a. listed their phone numbers to come in naming a big naming and shaming thing. that's why this turn on the media now yeah i think what's happening is you know we saw a weakening of a pact to recently which is a new thing i think what's happening is that there's a popular movement that's been growing to really get congress to be more responsive

to the public part kind of midterm election in america to just suck up money. yes and then they've been pretty immune from public pressure because all people do is write you know e-mail messages but i think things are getting hotter now members of congress to be more responsive to public will. see this morning investigative journalist dave lindorff on the line there from philadelphia pennsylvania thank you . ok try to twist in terms next in the yemen by a little bit of good news story coming out from it three years of civil war in that country continuing to leave deep scars which will take the country decades to recover from however one artist bringing a bit of creativity little bit of light there is trying to ensure that the victims are not forgotten by painting murals in their memory all around the capital.

better than i was the feeling of safety of peace destruction is everywhere blood the killings crime all across yemen a lot of crime. was up for just a like is a painting dedicated to victims especially children. what about a mile or so sometimes it's a challenge to find the war some people don't want my paintings on their houses or official buildings but when i receive people support it encourages me a lot. of memories

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