if you. doris sees the secretary of state surprisingly. the president say he's fired rex tillerson because they didn't see eye to eye. on the cia director mike pump to take over at the state department while taking the agency's reins will be gina who is known for her role in the cia torture program. the british prime minister is expected to another. against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter rejected a. questions about the origin of the nerve agent. and also coming. change will we hear how the technology helps

underpin the security of the. big. cities in future generations. coming from moscow every hour of the day this is our to international my names you know neil welcome to the program this hour's top story donald trump fired. appointing incumbent cia director mike pump to the position instead he surprised reshuffle on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he until they did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. press talking 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 so 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 going to the right and the right.

going commenting on the new appointment trump said that he until or seen had a number of disagreements ranging from of iran deal to negotiations with north korea and the turks and 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 we are very late for whatever. whatever it was to get a low blow. so it was. like 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 trump getting closer to his perfect view of the world you know what's your reaction coming in on this including from former cia officer ray mcgovern who told us about whether mike pompei would make a better top diplomat or not than rex tillerson on pay it will be a creature of trump and so he will be doing weren't true tells them to do. tillerson how to measure more stature independence but to loosen themselves was not

was a weak reed so it's very hard to tell what kind of substance to influence this will have on foreign policy it's hard to know about these folks they've been with the breeze and it depends on the whim of the president as to how this comes out or rex tillerson will remain in office until the end of this month and then will effectively step away from politics eager to down the cause more mike pump a new face of american diplomacy and his successor of the cia gina hospital. 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 there

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 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 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 against the wall water boarded him deprived of sleep and kept him in a coffin like box and it was hospital 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 a diplomatic routine to. well both new appointees will have to go through senate confirmation hearings before taking office gina hospital is likely to be us the but her involvement in a cia interrogation program we discussed her appointment with john kerr who was the first cia officer to reveal that the agency used torture and to later serve jail time following the revelations this is one of the worst moves i've ever heard of at the cia when i sort of couldn't believe it because you know has been should be in the docket not in the director's office at cia dina has bill i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program the president is

certainly a fan of torture he's come right out and said so and the only thing that it's stopping them from returning to this torture regime is one piece of paper called the mccain feinstein amendment wrote it was an amendment to the national and that's up there is a fact that specifically banned. exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has bought was overseen in one thousand. moving on britain's prime minister treason may is to chair a national security council meeting later on wednesday where she is expected to come up with reprisals against russia cheerily or gave the russian ultimatum to give a credible response to the origins of the nerve agent used the poison former double agent surrogate and his daughter named in their city of state with very russia declined to respond saying it had nothing to do with the incident the investigation into the poisoning is still ongoing but authorities believe the pearl were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the eighty's and the sulfate union traces all of

this substance were detected at the restaurant where the two ate before they were found taken unconscience on a nearby park bench. well moscow say's it has no connection to the incident if the u.k. has groans to believe the nerve agent came from russia it should share the evidence for now russia has received no access to the substance or the investigation we're reporting on a case of a spiraled into an international diplomatic crisis here's unless the see a target in just over we can incident in a quiet city in southern england snowballs into the biggest international spy scandal in years pushing ties between russia and the u.k. to breaking point. on sunday march fourth a couple are found slumped on a bench and souls bury reporters arrive at the scene for what was thought to be a local incident but soon after

a global media frenzy unravels with accusations allegations and speculation moving at the speed of light exposure to an unknown substance and her comparisons to the two thousand and six death of alexander litvinenko march sixth the u.k.'s counterterrorism police take control of the investigation the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson has this to say while it would be wrong to prejudge the investigation i can reassure the house that should evidence emerged that implies state responsibility then the majesty's government will respond appropriately and robustly russia says it has no information and offers to help in any way it can but this part of events is much less exciting for the media than the spy story unfolding before them by wednesday march seventh police confirm the use of a nerve agent downing street remains cautious in finger pointing it being too early to explain what actually unraveled but better approach will soon make a swift exit these headlines leave little to the imagination long before any

conclusions are drawn russia is being vilified the dots have been connected in the eyes of the world press details of the kind of punishment russia could face range from diplomatic expulsions to measures connected to the world cup to be held in russia the summer on march twelfth amidst a media hype and under pressure to take a tough stance from her government british prime minister theresa may is expected to provide clarity the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against and you the script. this highly likely comes with a pre-determined conclusion that can be no suggestion of business as usual in relation to our interaction with russia mr speaker this action has happened against a backdrop of a well established pattern of russian state. and the ultimatum is given to russia come clean or else while russia asks for proof evidence and facts we are waiting for the united kingdom to respond to

a 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 but the clock keeps ticking and the deadline set for russia to explain itself is wednesday march fourteenth all the while here is the u.k. police we are of course getting many questions regarding how and where that nerve agent was actually administered i can't comment on that so this is not we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect at least in a court of law this would at least mean a time out in the world of political game play apparently means very little and as i said you're going to r.t. london meanwhile counter-terror police in the u.k. are investigating the death of a russian exile in london he's understood to be one nicholai glue scoff a friend of the no deceased russian oligarch boris perfect whose cough was granted asylum in the u.k. and twenty ten after serving an earlier five year prison sentence in russia for

fraud he was reportedly found dead at his home in the british capital late on monday night given the current political turmoil between london and moscow the western media has been quick to link the case to the poisoning of the former spy and his daughter in sort of spree and while london's metropolitan police say kuntar terror officers are looking into the case quote a precaution because of associations british authorities say there's no evidence of a connection. well experts we spoke to believe that mayes apart and tough stance on russia is purely political. to stand up and face russia to face putin to be strong is very much in the trees of the political interests right now because she's and put political trouble at home so she had she has the reasons that are have nothing to do with the poisoning the

thing to do with even with russia really to put on a very strong willed performance right now and make this ultimatum according to the legal system for example in the u.k. if it was a person being accused of a crime they would be in touch with you know what the evidence is against them and of course to be able to use their own scientists for it came to a court of law to challenge that evidence perhaps to show that actually this material this chemical agent could have been produced elsewhere for example we know that. in the ninety's united states itself was helping to clean up plants not in russia but in is pakistan where this material was allegedly produced and so that's just an example of how this material could have come from anywhere in fact that there are so many very many questions still outstanding over this matter and of course it's massively premise your for the government to be saying to rush or any suspect you've got to forty eight hours to respond or else we're going to take

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devastated state. physicists professor stephen hawking has died at the age of seventy six he was best known for his work with black holes on quantum theory which he said could predict what happens on the beginning and end of time in one nine hundred sixty three at the age of twenty one he was told he only had two more years to live due to motor neuron disease he spent most of his life in a wheelchair but was able to communicate through especially invented voice the size or he was the author of several popular science books one of which a brief history of time sold over ten million copies. rightwing canadian activists has been detained in fronts from entering britain lauren southern was held to a british border point in cali the u.k.

home office told her she was being banned for distributing racist material in the town of luton last year one of the poster said is a gay gold officials describe a twenty two year old as a threat to u.k. public policy southern city she was interrogated in the french ports under the u.k.'s terrorism act. i got a knock on the door from the kent u.k. police who handed me this form and that's when things kind of went sideways it's the schedule seven terrorism act and they said you need to read this you are being brought in to be questioned under the terrorism act then they asked me about my religion and asked if i was a christian extremist how i would describe my christianity. and after that this is where things got really weird they said how do you feel about someone driving a car or a truck into a group of people

a group of muslims well over right wing activists have been barred from britain for similar reasons austria's martin so nurse an american commentator brittany pettibone were detained for three days before being deported southerner had been scheduled to speak at a free speech conference in london hyde park. last week and from entering the u.k. for various reason for me it was because i wanted to give a speech about freedom of speech on speakers corner and for me i am an american conservative commentator and i simply wanted to enter the u.k. of course i was going to watch martin speech but i was primarily going in to do some interviews i wanted to interview tommy robinson who is outspoken against islam and they essentially labeled him a far right leader who incites racial hatred and that's why they didn't want me to enter to interview him so it was very interesting why they suddenly are deciding to crackdown it seems like

a court unaided attack on conservative media that's what it really seems like to me that it's a huge crackdown of censorship but not only you know them banning us but also on the internet right now as we're seeing on platforms like you to been twitter well the bones of course the anger in some quarters with people seeing that while right wing activists are being banned radical islamic preachers are allowed to speak freely a known terrorist suspects are allowed entry into britain. the bit ridiculous if you look at us that both of us are as i called i'm acceptable characters for you if you pose a threat to the court again piece of the local communities wired to same the very same country lets radical muslim extremists just freely enter the country they have all these muslim woman gangs but still we are the main threat and we are kept out of the country i think is just ridiculous yes we are the ones that they target and this is the stuff they take you know dedicate all their resources to focus on it people like martin me and then our good friend lawrence southern who is also banned

and it seems like this government wants to protect its citizens not from terrorists or rapes but from challenging and difficult and one that i do years of characters like written in the. next as we count down toward sunday's presidential election here in russia we're introducing you to some of the voters choosing who they want in the kremlin and the candidates vying for their support today we get the thoughts of members of russia's vast agricultural industry and hear what farmers want for the future.

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day you're not but my tip of the. russian farmers think the candidate we are profiling today is hoping to secure his fourth term in charge incumbent president vladimir putin is running as an independent this time on a platform. russia's economic growth with three terms under his belt he has a lot of experience but critics accuse him of not being tough enough on corruption here are some excerpts from recent interviews and speeches on where he stands on the biggest issues facing russia and the wider world. we want to make our country bright moving forward into the future because our ancestors really actually when we leave here our kids living here and our children and grandchildren will live there we'll do everything for them we'll be happy.

and that's you sleeping so we have our own principles we do not let anyone interfere in our internal affairs and don't interfere ourselves that's our principle at the national should treat your partners with respect and then you will be respected but it's a qualm. when you can get they don't have a program of development for our country what i appreciate about them is they talk about the problems as indeed a good thing and that should be done but there's not enough for the positive developments on the country to concentrate only on problems can even be dangerous because that might lead to destruction we need construction at the investor touched . but i see that in the russia not only has to secure a place in the top five biggest economies in the world but also to boost g.d.p. per capita one and a half times by the middle of the next decade that's

a hard task but i'm sure we can do it. but i will work as hard as i can if of course the voters give me a chance to serve one term. or we are profiling all the presidential election candidates here in r.t. international and will bring in more of those over the next few days as well as hearing from russians nationwide about what will win them over come polling day sunday. all right granny fight club sometimes the title just sells the story its next.

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