medicine as many as forty six trucks with enough food for twenty seven thousand people this is by the way the first time this has happened since the un has called for a month long truce in syria the aid it self was delivered during a cease fire the day he unilateral ceasefire established by the syrian government and russia its purpose was to provide a safe window every day for civilians to flee guta by a special crossings but it seems is the missed rebels had different ideas they're doing what they did in aleppo they aren't allowing any civilians out at all and the shelling those crossings therefore the syrian government has allowed this aid to go in but the u.n. says it didn't get to take everything it wanted certain items like field first aid kits the sort that could be used by militants would take it off the convoy anything

of military value jewel use is being blocked nevertheless this is big it is a significant development at least those civilians trapped in east ghouta will now have food if the rebels don't do again what they did in aleppo and hold it all in their warehouses fighting also hasn't debated russian monitors in damascus say that islam ists in east ghouta have not stopped shelling the capital the syrian government in turn has kept up its own offensive on the enclave forty percent of it has now been retaken by government forces in an operation that has gone on for the last several weeks we've asked representatives of the u.n. and the red cross for their views on russia's efforts to help civilians in eastern good. we were not part of the discussions around the humanitarian corridors however you know anybody any initiative you know alleviate the suffering of people you know

we of course well we you know our primary goal is to 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 station of hostilities so that we can deliver assistance to people in need in. other procedures hard to reach 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 and 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 the international

humanitarian law. meanwhile the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov says the syrian government has the legal right to continue its offensive against terrorist groups in eastern could. live under the u.n. cease fire resolution it is entirely legitimate continued the fight against terrorists we have mounting evidence that western powers including the united states are trying to shield the al nusra front which keeps changing its name but not assessments and seeking to use it as a backup plan to overthrow the government of syria. a former russian spy is reportedly fallen critically ill in the u.k. that story much more still to come stay with us. good politicians do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or

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back you're watching our team international now two people are in critical condition after being exposed to an unknown substance in the u.k. one of them is believed to be a former russian intelligence officer who was convicted of spying for britain more than a decade ago i sally is in london with the latest. well so far what we know is what the police have told us the 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 if you recall back to two thousand and six

that was when a man named. alexander litvinenko was poisoned and died a slow horrible death immediately people's minds go back to alexander litvinenko in polonium two ten in everything 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. sources in the u.k. emergency services have been quoted as saying the former spy may have suffered a prescription drug overdose his symptoms apparently pointed to the use of a powerful painkiller called it fentanyl it is a hundred times stronger than heroin and has a similar influence on the body overdoses caused at least sixty deaths in the u.k. in two thousand and sixteen former m i five officer gave us her views on the case so this might just be some sort of drug instant there have been numerous stories over the last couple of years in the u.k. for the spread of synthetic kind of annoyed called spice which seems to create the

same sort of symptoms that were reported in this case 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 this happened they were taken to hospital they were identified their names were fed into the system and as soon as their names are fed into the system there's some alert around the fact that this guy has indeed been involved in the spy swap in twenty ten suddenly became much more much more news worthy i think this is where this story is built from. sounds like a plot straight out of a hollywood movie only it happened in a russian village a mix up and a maternity ward forty years ago left two mothers raising each other's children d.n.a. tests have now confirmed suspicions that the families had been harboring for decades and it has the 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 wrong to have blue eyes or 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 tania again raised by a couple believing had to be their right but there was no family resemblance the team of this met to discuss their doubts it was to have a birth certificate how can i give up my baby and i have an aunt that will most

suspicions when for monica 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. 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 of both families that they say they have never gretz the mother is the one who brought you not the one who gave birth and that would just. when you

were a huge reason why you would. never speak though if it had. just. hit the me you. should bush. could then yes though that veronica is still haunted by the suffering she saw. 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 ation 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 happened to them even say they've gained more than they've lost time you know you hear my grandchildren we're all a big family now we're all relatives you can turn back time. on the

football know our t. has made another world class and signing for our world cup coverage manchester united coach will say more neil is joining us mourinho excuse me to give us his unique insight right through out of the tournament here in russia which is now just one hundred days away from disappointment. r.t. has unveiled a major new signing to its team of broadcasters the people who are going to be helping to cover the world cup the summer that's of course taking place in russia and it is a marine you know the world famous coach of manchester united which is a british team is one of the biggest teams in the world it's one of most famous most historic teams here in the u.k. and marino is a man who coaches some of the world's best football players and now he's going to be joining r.t. to help cover the world cup marino himself says he's thrilled and that he's looking

forward to attending the world cup in russia this summer and sharing his insights into the games the news has been picked up by the british press here some of the newspapers couldn't help but take a bit of a swipe at marine years new part time employee but marino isn't the first heavyweight footballer to will walk through that r.t. studio doors stan collymore former england player he helped to cover the confederations cup for r.t. last summer and he has his own show on the channel as well he got a bit of criticism for joining r.t. when he did when that was unveiled we're going to see if jerry's a marine here comes in for any of that criticism as this news progresses. but not just stan collymore and marino of course very recently he signed the legendary goalkeeper peter schmeichel and he will be covering the world cup alongside jerry's

a marine you know this on r.t. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage when you've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all but there was one more question by the way who's going to be our coach. alone. and i'm really happy for joy and for the two thousand and thirteen world cup in russia. this special one was also appreciated needs to just read the review p.r.t. teams latest edition make it up as we go. to look at. india to discuss the new addition to the team with legendary goalkeeper and r t world cup host peter schmeichel he thinks managing experience will add an extra and invaluable dimension to the coverage that really is an incredible add on to the program to the show that we can bring someone of his stature in the knowledge that

he has a football he couldn't he can come in from a coach none of us perspective and to be. put a little bit of spice on a football match that people like me or most people who's never been coaching that we don't know about the and also his knowledge i mean he they think the characteristics of marine you it's great he's an entertainer he's he's one of the i mean i've never seen him in the role as a as a broadcaster but you know he's in front of the media all the time and when when he wants to he's incredibly entertaining so i think you know it's incredible that we've managed to sign him. yemen is in the grip of a full scale humanitarian disaster after three years of civil war and saudi air strikes at least ten thousand civilians have been killed in the conflict according to the united nations and one artist is trying to ensure that the victims are not forgotten by painting murals in their memory around the capital.

i am. better than i was the feeling of safety of peace destruction is everywhere blood the killings crime all across yemen a lot of crime. which are just alike is a painting dedicated to victims especially children. what about the mouth of god so sometimes it's a challenge to find the wall some people don't want my paintings on their houses or

official buildings but when i receive people support it encourages me a lot. higher than. that does it for me this hour i'll be back in thirty three minutes with a full of introduced and it's. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good. enough for in the early going to me. is the place of students in this business model for college i was born now and

i'm extremely well. higher education the new global economic war. focused on ending the war and that's not intermingled the humanitarian concern which is the bombing of hospitals of all of civilians the shelling of damascus by rebel groups that's lot and also the body that every year as i was not sure if it's a mix of that with the political objectives which some people may still have. with lawmakers manufactured and sentenced to for public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime and merry go round to be the one person. to ignore middle of the room signal. from the real news.

jamie diamond no matter how much he tried to talk down because i no matter how much he tried to. get his buddies in washington to outlaw this guy and it they mean the fact is he's lost he has lost the battle of big client these guys now come crawling back to the market in say you know what the whole banking industry has been fundamentally change we need to adapt. in welcoming across that we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle tells

the u.s. to come. back to earth challenging washington's yuna polar ambitions also calls to end the illegal war against yemen and why arming the cambrian is a recipe for disaster as well as the return to trade wars. across talking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst and we have dmitri bobbitt she is a political analyst with spook nick international originally crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated first of all we have to go to putin speech on russia returning to nucular parity with the united states and we have to comment about the erosion of arms control regimes that are very important here mark and looking at the major cable stations in the broadsheets they don't give much of a background why this speech was given and its significance go ok well there's two

speeches the first part of the speech was a domestic state of the union speech saying this is what i've accomplished in my years in office so far this is what we haven't accomplished this is where we want to go this is our obstacles and this is how we think we can get there and it was a very good the majority of the speech it was a two hour speech the majority of it was the voted to domestic matters lots of facts and figures he's clearly on top of his game knows this economy inside out though is where he wants to take it. focus on. increasing g.d.p. per capita and also science technology education spending. the other part of the speech was a reply to the u.s. it was a reply to two things one the u.s. unilaterally pulling out of the anti-ballistic missile treaty that was the bedrock of the nuclear. peril. the global strategy of mad mutually assured

destruction and the other one was that pull out was under the george w. bush administration back in two thousand and one russia yelled about it at the time and said the measures they would take and they've now announced them the other thing was a direct response to trump's new nuclear posture review which came out a few weeks ago we've talked about it on the show it has almost been ignored in the western press very very slight amount of news certainly nothing on the talk shows and russia is extremely alarmed by it and they've made clear how alarmed they are by it and they've made clear reiterating their strategy and i would i would say replying in kind to the u.s. to the grounds course it's completely differently that russia is aggressive on the international stage here but mark is absolutely right if we look at the larger pretty picture here we had parity was out of sync that was the entire purpose of

these nuclear armaments agreements to keep a sense of balance to make sure there was massive destruction where you wouldn't attack another country on a first strike now what the russians have done with this speech and with the introduction of these weapons is to bring that balance back into into place absolutely and i agree with mark that speech was a response to the nuclear pulse to report to the united states and i would like to point your attention to the fact that a region that he was supposed to speak in december he postponed the speech until know why because it was a response to your digestion of the nuclear posture and that maybe i will disagree a little bit when you clear up every kid russia is not seeking to have the same amount of nuclear weapons conventional weapons will see the west they really is impaired in the sense we're there we can give you discourage that have the sort of stability of any little bit of nuclear families north they want to be able to.

the aim is to have enough capability to inflict and unbearable damage at dissuading damage that's why i put in said you know showing all these new weapons and they're under want to draw old he says that i'm not going to produce a lot of them the aim is to the weapons that can overcome the american baby and don't insist that we can inflict the damage markets deterrence is all about deterrence and that's what all of these weapon systems are all about i mean again it will be spun in a very naive simplistic way but this these are all defensive measures of course i mean defensive measures to get past the u.s. anti-ballistic missile shield which russia is worried about because of first strike capability which u.s. geo political thinkers have been salivating at the thought and openly voicing that they now thought that they were getting nearer to a first strike capability and he's not just replying to the pulling out of the

treaty he's replying to the deployment of anti ballistic missile shield sections in poland in romania alaska california south korea nice easy in that he highlighted some thirty one destroyers a number of cruise ships that that form part of the money it just is going to be worthy is it going to work oh it is russia's reply going to oh yes of course the reason why is and this is a key to the new arms race and for those who haven't been paying attention russia didn't start a new arms race the arms race has already been going on for two decades because of the u.s. pulling out of it all the major powers russia china india the e.u. the u.s. have all been developing hypersonic weapons underwater drones all of these things but it is much much cheaper easier to build and deploy miss.

souls that can a vague missile defense then and then to create a new missile defense that can counter those well it just. doesn't there's all the problem what we need a smart war heads and i think paradoxically it was a conservative speech putin ones that want to return to the safety to the period of say four years he said when u.s. has to come back to earth absolutely and he mentioned it in an interview that the united states actually destroyed the arms control system when they went out of there and they but it took me so to create a signed in one thousand seven hundred two the whole idea of the treaty it was it's a very american idea you know to call boys are facing each other with its folds and none of them has avoided profer west so they won't stop shooting because each of them on the stand is going to be the death for the importance of a.b.m. anti-ballistic missile treaty mark is that it was the foundation for all the other new treaty greenman so ok the one that we're have one as the new start to grieve

and this is one of the things that was meant to didn't mention in the speech he did reach out made it very clear to sit down pretty obviously with the united states here. to negotiate a new generation of agreements that's that's very important something that wasn't mentioned as a very important cause of the anti-ballistic missile treaty was the foundation upon which these other agreements were built now one of the reasons for putin's announcement and this is a direct successor to putin's two thousand and seven munich speech a speech that in order to understand modern geopolitics i think everyone needs to read he warned of the consequences then he's now warning what we've done and where we're at now and both of these two major treaties arms control treaties the intermediate range nuclear forces in the new start treaty are due to expire in just the next few years one in one thousand. one thousand two thousand

nine hundred other one in two thousand and twenty one so he's actually making a plea here yes sit down at the table he said directly you did not hear us then well listen to us now now before it's too late or it's too late to change gears here gentlemen i made a promise to our viewers here that we would keep an eye on what's going on in yemen a grossly unreported story in western media deamon we have a move in the u.s. senate to call. the white house to stop its involvement in the war against them and that's led by saudi arabia this is something that we talked about last week about the authorization of military force is going to go anywhere i'm afraid of the current she's going to continue and it's just unthinkable that all all of the western media is talking about eastern ghouta what you have ok maybe a few dollars and sell thousands of people in here and you have to weigh in to

seven million people and sixteen million out of them have no access to potable water and insufficient food supplies and they're being borne by them also and we have to deal with. very systematic a blockade here implicate continuous since november two thousand and seventeen because not been which the u.s. has participated absolutely where does this come from is this. a red herring here that suddenly congress is waking up to its responsibilities about the authorization of use of force essentially they have the right to declare war where does this come from no not i'm afraid this is a partisan shot across the bow. first of all obama started this war as we're going to allow that to your yeah yeah and he participated in saudi arabia never would have launched the war without us permission and help and constant arms supply and refueling in the air and sea for i.s.o.

our intelligence spent. forces on the ground drones everything u.s. has been kneedeep in this they're not just supporting they're an active military participant that was started by obama and no one objected then no one objected to obama's proxy war in syria no one objected to his destruction of libya right now truck comes along continues at this point he's only continued what obama has done and suddenly bernie sanders finds the courage with one another republican mike lee you know to stand forward and say oh we just remembered that we have. congressional powers to declare war over the executive branch it's a shame you couldn't remember that just last month says he wanted to go there to have only that a little they're telling the world as they are they have some kind of conscience but it won't have any impact on policy you know or why they suddenly discovered that. because the guardian suddenly reported that the soldiers opdyke getting portable water supplies that i get to.