the british prime minister is expected to reveal reprisals against russia over the poisoning of a former double agent and his daughter. russia says the u.k. still has not replied to his doctor to help with the investigation or its request for access to the chemical used in the incident bosko earlier rejected a midnight ultimatum to answer questions about the origin of the nerve agent used. human rights advocates call on the u.s. congress to reject donald trump's choice to be the new cia director of her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program. and welcome to block chain of mill we hear how the technology that helps underpin the security of

the online currency bitcoin could be the foundation of the entire cities in future generations. hello and welcome you're watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron good to have you with us this hour. now the british prime minister will shortly hold a national security council meeting which is expected to decide on reprisals against russia moscow earlier rejected to resume may's midnight all to mason to answer questions about the nerve agents used to poison a former double agent and his daughter the kremlin has again reasserted that it had nothing to do with the incident and there britain's yet to respond to its offer to help with the investigation the investigation into the poisoning is ongoing but the

or thorazine believe surrogate script powell and his daughter yulia were deliberately targeted with a nerve agent first produced in the soviet union traces of the substance were detected at a restaurant where the two had eaten before they were taken ill and found unconscious on a nearby park bench we can now go live to westminster and artie's and see a check and for more details now announced and now some of the high stakes diplomacy going on here the russian foreign minister has been speaking about this group case was even saying. certainly you know making it seems that the surrogate case is reaching a crescendo we're expecting of course some kind of major developments throughout the day because of course as we've seen the united kingdom continues to demand answers from russia russia says it has nothing to do with this case britain says come forward or else and to this the latest statements we have from the russian foreign ministry are that sergei lavrov the russian foreign minister has said that

the surge is cripple case has is essentially not seeing any progress but rather regress that russia has not even received an official request from london yet and according to all normal diplomatic standards this certainly should have been done and he said that the fact that this hasn't happened seems to indicate london's feeling of self importance he has said that what is playing out is essentially london coming up with some kind of political scenes he said that moscow would send their response within ten days if they were to see an official request from london and importantly something that many seem to have forgotten about is the russian foreign minister talked about motive he said that russia couldn't and didn't have any motive in this poisoning and that basically only people who are interested in fueling the phobia against russia would be behind this incident let's take

a listen to some of those comments. sure there are even those of me both the russians and the international media that would have been saying that russia did not have a motive for the poisoning of. a monkey but that those who want to continue a russophobe campaign in every possible sphere did. well though this diplomatic standoff is of course going to continue throughout the day as theresa may the british prime minister is expected to make statements on the steps that london plans to take next and for more on how this whole saga unraveled let's now go to our report 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 her majesty's government will respond appropriately and robustly. russia says it has no information and offers to help in any way it can 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. the script and ultimatum is given to russia come clean or else while russia asks for proof evidence and facts we are of course getting many questions regarding how and where that move i did was actually with us i called home and told that this is what we are 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 security analyst and former u.k. counterterrorism officer charles bridge believes it's fall so early to be blamed for the poisoning. according to the legal system for example in the u.k. for it was that a person being accused of a crime they would be entitled to 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

a chemical agent could have been produced elsewhere for example we know that. it's not in the ninety's the united states itself was helping to clean up plants not in russia but in this 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 premature 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 action in other words take some punishment against you when i give ations that russia is highly likely to have been behind the poisoning of the former spy is things that are theories or phrases to use if you're not exactly confident in the evidence at hand. the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible

for the arctic and said ok to the script so how likely is it the twenty eighteen alexion is going to be compromised by russia it's hardly likely that they will be doing something we just don't know how much and when whether. in the high confidence assessment that was released this past october the intelligence community made very clear that this was activity directed by the highest levels of the russian government. what russia was doing when it khan comes to side with not only that interference not proven in the american presidential campaign probably in the referendum last year we didn't have the evidence for that. the conclusion that the russian state was probably involved in the merger with mr litvinenko is deeply disturbing.

i speak us now donald trump has a fine it's the us secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director and my pump a zero to the position instead he announced the surprise that racial follow on twitter the president later explained his decision to reporters saying he and tell us and did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. let's start something about this problem so. we got along really well but we disagreed on what you look at the run feel i think it's terrible i said it was ok i want to break something. else a little bit different so we're not really like this. right right they are we have a very similar story from. the well read the first that i like read a lot really the bit but. i'll be thinking directly over.

rumors that tennis and was heading for the door have been circulating for months in the news with reports of disagreements with the president rex tillerson will remain in the job until the end of the month and the millionaire businessman will then effectively step away from politics. don of has more now on my pump a.o. the new face of american diplomacy and also it is the excess there at the cia you know house bill. bork's 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 know most everything the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic korea. was. very good relationship or whatever. but it was. 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 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 ones 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 all 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 tortured chieftains of 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 against the wall water boarded him deprived of sleep and kept him in a coffin like box and it was the 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 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 hanssen not just interrogation techniques a diplomatic routine too but appointees will now have to go through the senate's confirmation hearings before taking office however there have already been calls on congress from rights groups to reject both nominations human rights watch says the track record of plan pale and hospital demonstrates that both are likely to endorse abusive practices john kiriakou who was the first cia officer to expose the agency's use of torture and the latest served jail time following the revelations there's appointing gina haskell as head of the cia isn't one of china's finest decisions. this is one of the worst moves i've ever heard of at the cia when i

sort of i couldn't believe it because you know haskell should be in the dock at the hague not in the director's office at the cia do you know has pull 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's that 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 fence authorization act that specifically banned it riveted exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has will was overseen by abrupt firing all threats to lessen as here as secretary of state through twitter has got others on the social network sharing that story of how they were kicked out of the thumb of the mana and they've even invented a topical term for it. i. think.

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running as an independent this time on a platform aimed at boosting russia's economic growth with three times under his belt he has is fresh air of experience but critics accuse him of not being tough enough on corruption there 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 are living here and our children and grandchildren will live 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 you should treat your partners with respect and then you will be

respected it's a clam. when you can hear 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 of the country to concentrate only on problems can even be dangerous because that might lead to destruction we need construction at doing investigations . 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. i will work as hard as i can if of course voters give me a chance to serve one will. they are profiling old the presidential election

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