but. calling for good chemistry donald trump removes america's top diplomat rex tillerson saying they did not see eye to eye with the cia director mike brown peo set to take over a tillerson seat in the state department possible who isn't known for her role in the cia's torture program will take over the agency's reign. moscow says it had nothing to do with the poisoning of the former double agent sergei screwball in the u.k. last week. and americans prepare for doomsday by purchasing survival equipment and underground bunkers as some continue to fear a north korean nuclear attack. are

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our two international sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now donald trump has fired u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson he is the first to fall in washington after president trump promised a shake up last week saying he was seeking perfection in his administration trump explained his decision by saying the two did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. but this is really when you look at iran i think it's terrible i guess. i was. there for well trying to use twitter to announce a few new appointments this morning so secretary of tillerson us. secretary of

state rex tillerson will be replaced by a cia director mike 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 rumor surrounding tillerson is departure have been floating around for months now thank you. very slowly. very. slowly. really to the very very. commenting on the new appointment trump said that he until or scene had a number of disagreements ranging from the 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 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. but whatever. whatever it was going to. vote. i got. with and just to remind you this all happens amid talks with north korea so i'm not sure how appointing 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 established. than the cia and that's the question left on our minds but

last week trump promised a more cabinet shakeup saying he's seeking perfection so maybe this last move is from getting closer to his perfect view of the world rex tillerson will remain in office until the end of this month and then will effectively step away from politics and you go to donald has more on my pump a.o. the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia gina. hawks nesting in washington my ponytail the new diplomat in chief of the iron fist to lead america's state department has 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 don't pay or 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. i 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 bosses 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 reason she was one of the tortue chieftains at the cia in two thousand to asp all round 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 spilled reportedly who later gave the order to destroy the tapes which recorded the torment along with other evidence given trump's pledge to keep 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 that nomination of my palm pale could also bode ill for the iran nuclear deal as pompei it was known for his harsh criticism of the agreement reached with tehran in two thousand and fifteen earlier on tuesday donald trump reiterated his a potion his opposition excuse me to the deal everywhere we go in the middle east it's a rare ran around behind every problem is iran's well with dealing with it in a very serious. one of the worst deals i've ever seen was the iran deal one hundred fifty billion dollars we gave them for what. we can now go live to colum cavallo so here professor of political science at bluefield state college of com thanks for being with us here on r t international. so what do you think about this replacement of tillerson with pompei o was it

a surprise. to you or is it something that is rather expected. mr thomas there is a been down disagreement between trump and his secretary of state rex tillerson since he was appointed and many people looked upon rex tillerson the former chief executive of exxon as the same allied being voiced within the trumpet ministration he was in favor of maintaining the joint comprehensive plan of action with iran and he's been replaced by pompei of the cia director who is an opponent of strong so you could ask yourself this trump just want a gas man at this particular time or is there something afoot this trump has some plan in the near and one thing that not only does the every year

and pompei go as the second city but he's also nominated this year a deputy director for the sake of the cia and feeds already compromised because she's been involved in a lot for dirt and cover up in thailand where you bring up an excellent point that pompei out is in fact a harsh critic of iran's nuclear deal now what consequences can we expect for u.s. policy towards iran are we going to see things heat up there i mean is this a chess move if you will to kind of instigate some sort of. reaction from iran. well mr thomas when the j.c. feeling it was twenty fifteen the u.s. congress passed legislation that requires the president to certify every minute that iran is in compliance with this agreement and it isn't the best interest of

the us to stay in this agreement trump has done this is the last on the thirteenth of january of this year that means the next time in comes a nondairy will be april third thing and by that time pompei will be the most sec kerry and it's more than likely that our four will be head of. though if anything is afoot and does their fellow who want to yes man then i think april might be an interesting turn to look at let's go down the rabbit hole if you will if you don't mind in april april thirteenth coming up how do you think the european signatories to the deal will react if the white house now calls for it to be canceled. well you've got russia china and germany. u.k. find on to this agreement well or they will not approve. any type

of the with iran or. this comprehensive plan then. but i think. one of the proper. record right now they're not going to are going to really consider them. but i think the main accompli and probably permanent do something and they don't want to i don't know nobody probably. and probably the. more you wait all right very interesting to hear your thoughts and we'll be anxiously waiting to see what happens in april calling cavell associate professor of political science at bluefield state college thanks for being with us here on ark international. switching gears now moscow has said it to has had nothing to do with the poisoning of former russian intelligence agents are gay scripts paul and his daughter in the

english city of salzburg but i see you in the in the rushes in this since we're waiting for the united kingdom to respond should request that we filed in accordance with the very same convention but the necessity to provide those with the substance in question and the necessity to make the whole investigation open. because we're talking about a russian citizens first authorities in the u.k. are still investigating the poisoning of sergei screw pala and 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 a substance have been detected at the restaurant where the two ate before they were taken ill and found unconscious on a park bench nearby or his body boyko has the latest now 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 is rejecting britain's ultimatum effectively while at the same time boris johnson who's gay lover of british counterpart here the foreign secretary he's reiterating the ultimatum take a listen you want the russians to give an account to what's been going on and if they can come up with a convincing explanation clearly full disclosure needs to be given to the organization for the provision 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 commune troop but robust well 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 reason may 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 why in 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 reason mase 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 we are not going to be the right result and we persist considering suv sorry but 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. the home secretary has also announced that following media allegations that the deaths of all of their 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. the u.k.'s top counter-terror officer says no details are being revealed about the investigation while it is ongoing. i understand there's public interest in this case however with such a sensitive and public for me you will understand that i cannot say anything that may impact on the whole work of the progress being made we are of course getting many questions regarding how and where the nerve agent is actually a minister i told comment from left at this time was by no evidence of moscow's alleged involvement having been provided some news outlets have been speculating about how the u.k. could respond when british paper has suggested that there will be an increased nato presence on russia's border and that further sanctions could be imposed on the country another suggests senior russian diplomats could be expelled and that u.k. politicians could boycott the upcoming world cup some say the assets of all the

guards should be frozen we spoke to a number of analysts and they told us it is wrong to blame russia at this point as there are too many unanswered questions about the attack possible that these these agents these weapons have spread. after the collapse of the soviet union who knows who might have got hands on some of these things she did blame russia. before all the facts are in and that's politics for i think to stand up and do face russia to face politically to be strong is very much the trees of your political interests rates how we could see simple political trouble at all she has the reasons that are have nothing to do with the poisoning nothing to do with even with russia really to put on a very strong willed performance right now 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 called for concrete evidence then yes something should be i 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 meanwhile counter-terror police in the u.k. said say that they are investigating the death of a man in london he is understood to be russian exile nicholai cough a friend of the late oligarchy boris berezovsky who scoff was reportedly found dead at his home in the british capital late on monday night now london's metropolitan police say counter-terror officers are looking into the case as

a precaution because of associations he had claimed asylum in the u.k. in two thousand and four after serving a five year prison sentence in russia for fraud british authorities have said there is no evidence his death is connected to two events in salisbury. talks between the u.s. and north korea may now be on the table but some americans are not convinced they're still prepping for a nuclear war kill them after a short break stay with us. for all economies a trade war that's the way trade is it's not it's trade what sometimes gets extremely hostile if you will and actually leads to hot wars you know a lot of times people make that argument but any time you have people exchanging does from one country to another and currencies that are predominately the u.s. dollar the u.s. dollar being all those are thirsty is a trade war in a lot of. good

hope to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to listen. to going to be press which is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested in the waters of. this. welcome back this is our international now the russian defense ministry center for reconciliation says almost one hundred fifty civilians half of them children have

been able to leave syria's rebel held enclave of eastern ghouta and says they left through a humanitarian corridor and were sent to temporary accommodations evacuation as part of a deal struck by the 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. eastern ghouta which is close to damascus came under rebel control back in two thousand and twelve since then government forces have been trying to recapture the area fighting intensified there last month and in recent days the syrian government has regained a large portion of the territory essentially driving the militants into just three pockets but the situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains dire people have been caught in the crossfire and are suffering shortages of food and supplies. meanwhile america's envoy to the united nations security council has said

that washington is prepared to act 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 end human suffering most especially the outlaw syrian regime the united states remains prepared to act if we must and 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 continuing to wage war against their political opponents for the cost of when humans will definitely understand the goal of this decision from asian campaign is to manipulate public opinion and convince people the syrian government is using chemical weapons but we have reasonable concerns that they were all preparations to stage fake chemical attacks in order to later accuse the government and according to our data on the fifth of march the only terrorists used chlorine in eastern

goods that injuring thirty people. there may be currently a fall under way in relations between north korea and the united states but the american public is likely to take a little bit more convincing a survey held that last month showed a vet a whopping eighty two percent of the u.s. public sees that north korea as a critical threat to america has also surged to the top of washington's greatest enemies list and that has many americans preparing for the worst case scenario and one retail giant in the united states has been selling a survival kit that can keep a family of four sustained for an entire year it costs six thousand dollars but if you're planning on you sitting out any nuclear apocalypse on your own or there is also a cheaper one thousand dollar option to keep one person well fed if not a bit lonely now people. are not just stocking up on food though there are other options as well other retailers are selling potassium iodine pills which help ward

off the effects of radiation and demand for the medicine has increased to the point where many outlets have actually run out and while fears of nuclear devastation it continue to rise doomsday preppers are also securing their own underground bunkers . 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. the whole world is concerned everybody has got global feelings and they're all

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