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

broadcasting live from moscow this is r g international thomas certainly glad to have you with us 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 to explain his decision by saying the two did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. let's talk about. gun. rights but. when you look at. iran you know i think that there are. those that want to break. the. will trump to use 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 thank you ok very slowly thank you were they were. really 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 tourist had 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 were very late for whatever. whatever it was. people get my vote right. was i got well with by far 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 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 thinking perfection so maybe this last move is

trump getting closer to his perfect view of the world a former cia specialist to john kerry our code told us that the president wants his advisors to serve as his echo chamber including on his view of the nuclear deal with iraq i don't think donald trump ever won it anybody around him he 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 the president is set a number of times that he wants to just do away with it without really an end 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 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 viewpoints he doesn't want them he doesn't listen to them and i think that's the mark of a failing presidency rex tillerson will remain in office until the end of this month and event will effectively step away from politics or his you got is done off has more on my pump a oh the new face of american diplomacy and his successor at the cia. hawks nesting in washington my ponytail the new diplomats 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 instead of rethink the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic korea trump and pompei all share common spite towards iran and north korea both of them like to call torture enhanced interrogation and they are 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 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 them 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 torchy chieftains at the cia in two thousand to ask bell 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 hospital reports that the 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 hope 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. were also supposed to cia veteran ray mcgovern he says gina hospital is not exactly the best pick to head up the agency gina hash bill was in charge of the black sites in thailand where she not only waterboard and otherwise tortured people who were brought there in two thousand and two and around then but she destroyed the evidence she destroyed the videotapes that showed how these torture sessions including waterboarding were carried out in other words if you destroy evidence if you obstruct inquiries then you can move right ahead and i remember my friend john kiriakou who is persecuted and prosecuted and served two years jail time for what for revealing torture or not for doing it he commented when cina hash bill was named deputy director he commented that this is really

really bad what will this say to the troops in the ranks it will say you can violate laws it will take care of you. moscow has said it had nothing to do with the poisoning of former russian intelligence agents or gas creep all and his daughter in the english city of salisbury. but i see you're moving to russia is innocent we're waiting for the united kingdom to respond sure requests that we filed in accordance with the very same convention about the necessity to provide those with the substance in question and the necessity to make the whole investigation open to the us because we're talking about a russian citizens. well authorities in the u.k. are still investigating the poisoning of sergei screwball 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 the substance have been detected at the restaurant where the two ate before they were taken ill and found

unconscious on a park bench nearby artist who has the latest now on the escalating dispute between london and moscow where 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 souls vary from each other russia's rejecting britain's ultimatum effectively while at the same time boris johnson who is so 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 of what's been going on and if they can come up with a convincing explanation then clearly 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 they couldn't then clearly the government will come food measures a response that is

a commune troop but with the us 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 resume a pointed the finger squarely at the kremlin when she was talking about the nerve agent used in the attack in seoul's brace 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 script we are not going to be the right result and we possess a considerable rage of offensive cyber capabilities which we will not hesitate to deploy good stuff if it is necessary we've all agreed to russia is a two person danger and 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 all of the 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 that no details are being revealed about the investigation while it is ongoing. i understand there is the public interest in this case however with such a sensitive and public so far you'll understand that i cannot say anything that 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 was actually administered i called comments on that at this time well despite 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 there will be an increased nato presence on russia's border and that further sanctions could be imposed on the country another suggest senior russian diplomats could be expelled and that u.k. politicians could boycott the upcoming fifa world cup some say the assets of oligarchy 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 many to too many unanswered questions about that 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 to blame russia. before all the facts are in and that's politics i think to stand up and. 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 with all. the reasons that are looking to do ruth little boys and there is nothing to do with even with russia released to put on a very strong willed performance right now the russians develop 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. capability but 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.

say that they are investigating the death of a man in london is understood to be a russian exile nicholai a friend of the late oligarchy boris berezovsky which cough was reportedly found dead at his home in the british capital late on monday night and london's metropolitan police say counter-terror officers are looking into the case as a precaution because of his 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 the british authorities have said that there is no evidence is jeff is connected to events in salisbury. talks between the u.s. and north korea may now be on the table but some americans are not fully convinced they are still prepping for nuclear war details on that and much more after a short break you're watching our international.

commies 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 war so you know a lot of times people make that argument but any time you have. people exchanging goods from one country to another. that are predominately the u.s. dollar the u.s. dollar being all those are thirsty is a trade war in a lot of. 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 on crave of eastern guta and says they left through a humanitarian corridor and were sent to temporary accommodation the evacuation comes out 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. we will also be able to leave if they guarantee safe passage to civilians. and eastern 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 the fighting intensified there last month and in recent days the syrian government has regained a large portion of the territory essential driving the militants into just three

pockets but situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains a 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 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 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 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 lace accuse the government and according to our data on the fifth of march the only terrorists used chlorine in eastern injuring thirty people. up to sixty people have been detained by russia's ministry of internal affairs in the region of moscow they're suspected of forging documents and illegally smuggling eisel supporters to syria and iraq those arrested are also suspected of helping illegal migrants to russia from central asia the website of the russian internal affairs ministry has published a video of the operation the video shows detentions and searches as well as a large number of seize the documents such as foreign passport seals of border stamps bank cards migration certificates as well as money and there are both men and women among the detainees one of them claims that he is working legally in

a restaurant and another one admits that she works as a courier and transports documents and that she has been earning money for a year by selling migration certificates. so there may currently be a fall under way in relations between north korea and the united states but the american public is likely to take. a little more convincing than a survey held the last month showed that a whopping eighty two percent of the u.s. public sees north korea as a critical threat to america pyongyang has also surged to the top of washington's greatest enemies list and that has many americans preparing for the worst case scenario but one retail giant in the u.s. has been selling a survival kit that can keep a family of four sustained for an entire year and it costs about six thousand dollars but if you're planning on sitting out any nuclear apocalypse on your own there is also a cheaper one thousand dollar option to keep one person well fed if not just

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 the radiation demand for the medicine has increased to the point where many outlets have run out and while fears of nuclear devastation 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.

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hello and welcome to cross talk or all things considered i'm peter lavelle it appears and highly likely these are the words used by u.k. 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 flaunted 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 top roles in effect that means.