with your remote. for special coverage of the russian presidential election exit polls opinions real time results monitoring and much more. coming up calling for good chemistry donald trump removes america's top diplomat rex tillerson saying they didn't see eye to eye with cia director mike pompei are there for said to take over reckless and seat of the state department and gina hospital is known for her role of the cia torture program taking over the agency's reign so it's all moved like comment on my. head to moscow says it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the former double agent surrogates crippled in the u.k. last week. americans prepare for doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers some continue to fear in the north korea nuclear attack.

good morning just to midnight here in moscow says r.t. live from r.t. h.q. with me kevin now in the first of all the lot of changes and some of the top jobs in the u.s. to tell you about donald trump has fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he's the first to fall in washington after president trump promised to shake up last week saying he was seeking perfection in his administration trump explained his decision by saying the two didn't really see eye to eye on a number of issues. let's start talking about. gun. rights but. when you look. around i think there are. those that want to break. their will trump used twitter to announce a few new appointments this morning so secretary of tillerson secretary of state

rex tillerson will be replaced by a cia director mike pompei now tillerson has admitted that he doesn't have a twitter account and he has all of trump's tweets printed out for him so that's apparently how he found out he got fired and that's according to steve goldstein undersecretary for public diplomacy and tillerson has just returned from his africa tour so not exactly the best welcome home but a spokesman for tillerson said that there hasn't been any direct conversations with trump regarding the decision however rumors surrounding tillerson departure have been floating around for months now thanks to a very very slowly thank you were they were. really going to the right of the right. going commenting on the new appointment trump said that he until or some had a number of disagreements ranging from of iran deal to negotiations with north korea and the tiller said reportedly even called trump a moron

a report that the former secretary of state hasn't even denied but the back and forth ended with trump challenging tillerson to an i.q. test and according to reports the president wasn't too pleased with tillerson body language either he was said to have slouched in a rolled his eyes during meetings with trump so now a former cia director will be the nation's top diplomat but trump spoke to journalists about it and he was all praise for pompei o a man he said to have had a great understanding with since the beginning we are very late for whatever. whatever it was. we're going to. vote right. now and i got to go with backbone and just to remind you this all happens amid talks with north korea so i'm not sure how pointing a former cia director to the highest diplomatic position in the country will affect diplomacy with the d.p. r. k. but in the past trump has also criticized tillerson for being too establishment but

what's more establishment than the cia and that's the question left on our minds but last week trump promised a more cabinet shake up saying he's seeking perfection so maybe this last move is trouble getting closer to his perfect view of the world. correspondent in washington they're all reckless and will remain in office until the end of this month and then will effectively step away from politics is the latest from him it goes down of a correspondent has more on these new appointments hawks nesting in washington might bump the new diplomat in chief for the iron fist to lead america's state department he's had the president under his spell for a while already the to see eye to eye on normal most everything the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic career trump and pompei all share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and their fans of the n.s.a.'s warrantless bulk data collection where they stand on whistleblowers is one of the few things that trump and bone peo don't quite agree

on well they have to differ on something. it's time to call out wiki leaks for what it really is a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like russia . i can't think of a thing that has put america in a better position as a result of this deal we're a year out from the agreement and every single action the iranians have taken has been bolder and starker than the one they took before the agreement. a very real danger. by hardly ever escape a day at the white house without the president asking me about north korea and how it is that the united states is responding to that threat it's very much at the top of his mind they are ever closer to having the capacity to hold america risk with a nuclear weapon this is the man elevated to america's top diplomat and descending with him is his former deputy gina hospital will be the first woman to lead the cia

with her boss's impending departure she worked undercover and in secret for years she clearly likes being out of the spotlight and it could be for a good one. isn't she was one of the tortured chieftains at the cia in two thousand and two halfs poll ran the operations of an agency black site in thailand where two terrorist suspects were tortured one of them was nearly killed during these so-called interrogation agents slammed his head against the wall water boarded him deprived of sleep and kept him in a coffin like box and it was has spoiled reportedly who later gave the order to destroy the tapes which recorded the torment along with other evidence given trump's pledge to keep the guantanamo bay operational and he's advocating of waterboarding everything falls into place it seems now the state department and the cia will have plenty in common you know in hansing not just interrogation

techniques but a diplomatic routine to. it goes down after a correspondent that's good if you know from a former cia worker unless i whistle blower john kerry ad goes on the line hey thanks for your time to day is going good i can't wait to hear what you've got to say about you know how spores nomination as cia director but first let's talk about the new secretary of state might pompei o in your view good choice or not well it depends on where you stand on these issues that you've raised in the last couple of minutes iran north korea true liberation. you can disagree with my pay or as i do on ninety nine percent of the issues but we probably ought to recognize that he's going to be the adult in the room at the white house he graduated first class from the military academy at west point he graduated from harvard law school he's no dummy he wanted to sit in he did you ever meet him in person did you work with

not. no in fact he was a nobody killed seven years ago he was only elected to congress seven years ago and did returns from kansas. ok what's it going to mean first off for these forthcoming north korea talks and we have not officially but from north korea but i certainly invite trump immediately when all for it looks like there will be talks at some point i guess is he the man with trump to be doing the job well i think that he's going to have to take trump's lead on this track meet a decision that he's going to talk to the north koreans and that's the end of the argument so i think that at least on this campaign is going to take a second seat on iran however they're in agreement that's where we ought to be we're that's that's where i think we're going to see our next confrontation i couldn't be well back or something yeah i think so the president has said a number of times that he wants to just do away with the with and pompei that supports that the president also has very strong support among the gulf monarchies

against iran and certainly among the israelis and so i think that he thinks that this is the right thing to do to remind our viewers that might propose taking a very hard stance on will so blows to remind our viewers who you are so long time former official her and whistleblower so you know funny or is really. you know i'm not expecting a warm embrace from my plant there you know what about gina has spilled you know come in contact with her and your time there she is of course accused proven of being behind enhanced interrogation techniques that i know used to feel very strongly about she had the deputy job now she's been made the boss there if it all goes through again good move for the cia or not. you know this is this is one of the worst moves i've ever heard of why cia when i heard it this morning i couldn't

believe it because you know has bush should be in the dock at the hague not in the director's office at the cia as you noted and has been noted in the washington post in the new york times and other outlets gina has pull i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program you know out of our use of the roof by the president so though somebody above her well the president is is certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so. trump's been quite vocal about his support for enhanced interrogation practices as well so i guess with jeanne the house bill at the helm given are they just being said again. it's a a city there i could say there is indeed and the only thing that's stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment it was an amendment to the national dance authorization act that specifically banned it it exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has

full was overseen to what extent is trying to think now with these new appointments if they go through surrounding himself by yes men and yes women. i think that was the point all along i don't think donald trump ever won it anybody around him who was going to offer contrary advice he wants to be bucked up he wants people to say yes mr president what a great idea mr president let's do it your way mr president and so slowly that's what we're seeing happening is that what you need on a presidential table jim need a bit of a counter to it you need a buffer or in some ways rex tillerson was described as the moderating influence is it bad news now for given everything we just said that he's gone. yeah i think it is bad news because really to be successful you need to hear all alternative viewpoints and donald trump is not going to get alternative it wants he doesn't want them he doesn't listen to them and i think that's the mark of

a family million dollar question i wonder how long he'll be in the job do you think or maybe you won't be putting any money on it. you know i said a year ago scandal after scandal after scandal i don't know how long as a country we can we can make it through this i can't imagine. is going to the president beyond two thousand and twenty while a follower trust terms like your input their junkie arko former cia analyst a whistleblower on the line of a good day thank you. clipped leak a moscow said has got nothing to do with the poisoning of a former russian intelligence agency ok script on his daughter in english city of solsbury wiltshire. but i see you're not in the russia is in this and we're waiting for the united kingdom to respond sure request that we filed in accordance with the very same convention about the necessity to provide us with the substance in question and the necessity to make the whole investigation open to us with us

because we're talking about a russian citizens first authorities in the u.k. are still investigating the poisoning of circus crippling his daughter yulia earlier this month they believe the pair were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the soviet union traces of that substance have been detected at the agency restaurant where the two eight before they were then taken ill and found unconscious in that nearby park bench next polyploid has the latest on the escalating dispute between london and moscow. well we have a situation of a real diplomatic standoff right now where both the u.k. and russia are demanding more information about the nerve agent used in the attack and solsbury from each other russia's rejecting britain's ultimatum effectively while at the same time boris johnson who is gay lover of british counterpart here the foreign secretary he's reiterating the ultimatum take a listen we want the russians to give an account to what's been going on and if

they can come up with a convincing explanation in full disclosure needs to be given to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or chemical weapons watchdog in the hague we give them into big night tonight to do that. if it can't then clearly the government will come food measures a response that is a community group but last where you heard the word robust there that's been a word that's been deployed by the british government in relation to measures towards russia throughout this kind of diplomatic crisis and it has turned into a diplomatic standoff yesterday to resume a pointed the finger squarely at the kremlin when she was talking about the nerve agent used in the attack in solsbury she spoke about it being a weapons grade and from the knob family which was secretly produced in the soviet

union in the one nine hundred eighty s. but in the ninety's it was information about it was leaked so technically it's a recipe that's out there and could have been used by anyone but the reason main parliament said that it could have only have been produced in russia so this is an attack that was either sanctioned by moscow or moscow has lost control of are prohibited and dangerous chemical weapon now practically all the politicians in the house of commons in the u.k. agreed and supported to resume a's intended course of action in relation to russia take a lesson the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the to go and do the script we are not going to be the right result and we possess a considerable range of offensive cyber capabilities which we will not hesitate to deploy good stuff if it is necessary we've all agreed that russia is

a q a present danger we have got to be fully organized to meet that danger now the home secretary amber rudd has chaired another emergency cobra committee meeting today she was getting updates on that investigation into the spy poisoning which. some people might be forgiven for mistakenly thinking had stopped but that investigation is still ongoing there's still lots to uncover that and under rudd the home secretary has also announced that following media allegations that the deaths of other russian dissidents of businessmen may have been suspicious she's instructed the police and m i five to assist with looking into the alleged russian state involvement in the deaths of up to fourteen more people on u.k. soil polaroid one of a team in london there were lukas top counter-terror offices says no details are being revealed about the investigation while it's ongoing. i understand there is

public interest in this case however with such a sensitive and publication you will understand that i cannot say anything may impact on the whole work of the process being made we are of course getting many questions regarding how and where the nerve agent is actually with us i told comment on that to this to spite no evidence of moscow's alleged involvement having been provided some news outlets nonetheless have been speculating how the u.k. could respond now one british papers been suggesting will be an increased nato presence on russia's border and the for the sanctions could be imposed on the country another suggest senior russian diplomats could be expelled and the u.k. politicians could boycott the upcoming fifa world cup some say indeed assets of all agog should be frozen we spoke to a number of analysts they told us it's wrong to blame russia at this point as there are too many unanswered questions about what's happened here. there is a political agenda driving this process this incident not only the instant as

itself but the timing of it just before the russian elections is really falling into the hands of those that want to drive further problems between for example britain and russia this material of this chemical agent could have been produced elsewhere and of course there may be may be freshly produced or there may have been stocks that are still outstanding and still being used course it's massively premature for the government to be saying to russia or any suspect you've got to forty eight hours to respond or else we're going to take action in other words take some punishment against you the russians developed this in the one nine hundred eighty s. the old soviet union it doesn't necessarily mean that as a consequence there are people running around the globe in this nerve gas on our own people no i do think we need some caution here and be aware it is not just the russians that have this sort of stuff in the capability to have no concrete evidence yet and i think that's very important if we have conflict concrete

evidence then yes something should be at acted upon but until that point i think we should be more cautious i think corbin's right in saying we don't want to be ratcheting up this rhetoric meantime counter-terror police in the u.k. say they're no investigating the death of a man in london he is understood to be russian. coffer friend of the late boris berezovsky klitschko who is reportedly found dead it is home in the british capital late monday night london's metropolitan police said counter-terror police are looking into the case as a quote precaution because of his associations to scott claimed asylum in the u.k. in two thousand and four after serving a five year prison sentence here in russia for fraud british authorities have said there is no evidence his death is connected to events in seoul spring. syria no later there this morning the russian defense ministry center for real reconciliation says almost one hundred fifty civilians half of them children have been able to leave syria's rebel held on claim of eastern ghouta it says they left

the humanitarian corridor that's been set up when they were ten sent to temper accommodation the evacuation comes as part of a deal struck by that center and rebel leaders in the insurgent held region as part of the agreement some of the fighters there will also be able to leave if they guarantee safe passage to civilians he said go to which is close to damascus of course came under rebel control back in twenty twelve since then government forces have been trying to recapture the area fighting intensified there last month and in recent days the syrian government's regained a large proportion of the territory again essentially driving the militants into just three pockets you can see animating over his shoulder to say but the situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains dire people have been caught in the crossfire and the suffering shortages of food supplies. meantime america's envoy to the united nations security council has said that washington is prepared to work unilaterally and intervene in the conflict against the syrian government. we also warn any nation that is determined to impose its will through chemical

attacks and any human suffering most especially the outlaw syrian regime the united states remains prepared to act if we must in the past sixteen days there have been three separate allegations of chlorine gas attacks this is no ceasefire this is the assad regime iran and russia are continuing to wage war against their political opponents the grass that when you marry we understand that the goal of this decision from asian campaign is to manipulate public opinion and convince people the syrian government is using chemical weapons issue but we have reasonable concerns that there are preparations to stage a fatal chemical attacks in order to later accuse the government and according to our data on the fifth of march terrorists used chlorine in east and injuring thirty people. may currently be a form the way in relations between north korea and the united states but the

american public it seems is likely to take a little more convincing a map a survey held last month show that a whopping eighty two percent of the u.s. public see north korea as a critical threat to america also surged to the top of washington's greatest enemies list and that's got many americans preparing for a worst case scenario so cashing in on the one retail giant in the u.s. has been selling a survival kit the innkeeper family of four staying for a whole year and a pretty penny there about six thousand dollars if you've got a spare if you're planning on sitting out a nuclear apocalypse on your own is a dreary thought there's a cheaper one thousand dollar option to keep one person well fed if not a tad lonesome people are just stocking up on food though there's other stuff that people are after in great numbers it seems other retailers are selling potassium iodine pills which help ward off the effects of radiation in fact demand for that medicines increased so much that many outlets are run out and while fears of nuclear devastation continue to rise doomsday preppers wearing underground.

this project will accommodate somewhere between six and ten thousand people when it's completed it's a city that's going to be the largest survival community on the planet. is concerned everybody has got level feelings and they're all feeling something's about to happen. are people that are. currently there with.

presidential election is just days away and here on our t.v. we're profiling not only the candidates who are off the kremlin's top job but also meeting the voters who will make that decision we travelled nationwide to meet russians for all walks of life and tonight we meet medical workers to hear what they're seeking now for their country's future.

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prime minister to resume pinning blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british claims are made and threats of course without evidence. crosstalk in the poison attack in britain i'm joined by my guest alexander macarius in london he is a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com also in london we have charles shoe bridge he is a security analyst and a former u.k. army and counterterrorism intelligence officer and in brussels we cross to any much shown she is a former british intelligence officer and writer or across time pros in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate alexander macarius i'd like to go to an article that you just recently wrote and the title is very telling. now demands russia provide prove itself innocence and that's a very curious form of jurisprudence in.