inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's like most of the our business. buke a calls for an urgent u.n. security council meeting over the poisoning of a formal double for my double agent and his daughter the british prime minister is also expected to reveal reprisals against russia later this hour. russia says the u.k. still has not replied to its offer to help with the investigation or its request for access to the chemical used in the incident moscow earlier rejected a midnight automates and 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 over her involvement in the intelligence agency you take your program. and welcome to block chain ville we hear how the technology that helps underpin the security of the online currency bit could be the foundation of all time and cities in future generations. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with mina key aaron good to have you with us this hour now our top story the u.k. has called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the diplomatic standoff between london and moscow the british prime minister is now speaking live let's go over to her and listen to what

she's saying. i want to thank the prime minister for agreeing to meet with me to discuss the work at the cross party you fire the commission use violence is complex and needs long term solutions but some things can be done right now such as like just. eighteen to be sure that all nice and sharp instruments in shops are lots of why all stores behind counters showing no one can steal them and use them will she do this here the honorable lady has raised a very important issue and she says this is a complex problem and we need to ensure we have long term solutions for it by rajon befriend the home secretary will shortly be publishing a new serious violent strategy which will put an emphasis on n. interventions with young with young people but it's important we have tough legislation on naives but we also do need to. work in partnership with retailers we have recently consulted on new measures including restrictions on knives sold

online and in march twenty sixth ok we will be going back to to resume a later in the program to hear her proposals on how she may be responding to the situation with assegais script power let's now go to our correspondent in westminster a little see a child can know now and to see as some high stakes diplomacy going on there the russian foreign minister has been explained speaking about this group poll ks to what's he been saying. well that mickey a lot has been said in the last twenty four hours and we're certainly seeing the spy saga reach a crescendo as the british prime minister theresa may is expected to announce the measures that the u.k. plans to take following what's seen over here in westminster as russia's noncompliance to britain's ultimatum of course with the deadline of midnight having passed and russia having rejected the ultimatum put forward by britain of basically coming forward and admitting guilt in the poisoning of sergei script while russia

has said it has nothing to do with this case we've heard from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov say that russia hasn't even received any official request or notice from london and that it would reply to any such official notice within ten days but that did not happen and he's talked about motives of russia as well saying it hadn't and it wouldn't have a motive in this case let's take a listen sure. both the russians and the international media have been saying that russia did not have the most of. those who want to continue. well what kind of steps specifically britain takes next is crucial in these developments we do know that to rescind me will shortly speak and make those announcements so certainly a lot is at stake with this story having snowballed in just over

a week from what could have been a local incident to a huge international diplomatic standoff for more on that 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.'s 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 movie i just was actually with us i called home and told that this is all 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 associate you're going to r.t. london security analyst and former u.k. counterterrorism officer charles shear bridge believes it's far too early to attribute blame for the poisoning. according to the legal system for example in the u.k. if it was a person being accused of a crime they would be entitled to know what the evidence is against them and of course to be out to use their own scientists or 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 in not in russia but in his back it started 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 but i can say that russia is highly likely to have been behind the poisoning of the former spy is things that are a series of phrases to use if you're not exactly confidence in the evidence at hand . the government has concluded that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against. the script so how likely is it the twenty eighteen alexion is going to be compromised by russia it's sally 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 slide would be for not

only that interference not proven in the american presidential campaign probably in the referendum last year we did have the evidence for that. the conclusion that the russian state was probably involved in the merger with mr. is deeply disturbing. i would be us now i don't know trump has fired his secretary of state rex tillerson appointing incumbent cia director mike pompei ago to the position instead he announced the surprise way shuffle on twitter a president later explained his decision to reporters saying he and tell us then did not see eye to eye on a number of issues. i've been talking about this for

a long time. we got along really well but we disagreed on what you look out to run you know i think it's terrible i guess it was ok i wanted to record something. else a little bit different so we were not really think. we might like something or we have a very similar story from. very well read very good i like rex a lot really appreciate him it doesn't really. help me thinking director over. rumors but to listen was heading for the door has 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 the millionaire businessman will then effectively step away from politics on t.v. coast on of his more now on my pump a.o.

the new face of american diplomacy and also his successor at the cia do you know how spell. 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 normal stev rethink the issue that sunk to listen diplomatic korea rice said was. well. very good relationship whatever. whatever it was. 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 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 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 them 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 and two 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 a 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 to both appointees who will now have to go through senate

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 pompei and has spelled 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 he later served jail time following the revelations so he's appointing dean haspiel as the head of the cia isn't one of trump's finest decisions. this is one of the worst moves i've ever heard of at the cia when i started 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 dina has pull i has blood all over her hands she's the godmother of the cia's torture program but 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 hassle was overseen by abrupt firing of rex tillerson as the us secretary of state there are twenty i have got other on the social network sharing that stories of how they were kicked out and a similar manner and they've even invented a topical term for it. now

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politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. for something i want to press. you to go right to the press that's why before three in the morning people. i'm interested always in the lives of my. first super bowl. welcome back now as we countdown 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 speak to members of russia's vast agricultural industry to hear what farmers want for the future. it's. illegal. for the others in the a promotional items to accommodate this little person to talk about the north. to

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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 hayes 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 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 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. 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. will work as hard as i can if of course the voters give me a chance to serve one term we're profiling all the presidential election candidates here on r.t. international we're thinking more of those over the next few days as well as herring from russians nationwide about what will win them over come polling day

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that one person. nor the roots of. the. welcome back the u.k. has called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the diplomatic standoff between london and moscow the british prime minister is expected to announce reprisals against russia within the next hour moscow early have rejected to resume may's midnight ultimatum to answer questions about the nerve agent 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 britons are yet to.