from him. the u.k.'s prime minister expels twenty three russian diplomats from britain and the tally ation for the kremlin's alleged involvement in the poisoning governor former russian intelligence agent and his daughter despite police having declared you know they. speak no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr scrooge powell and his daughter under the vienna convention the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers. russia says the u.k. has offered no response to official requests in accordance with the chemical weapons convention to help the investigation earlier rejected

a midnight ultimatum to answer questions about the origin of the nerve agent. and human rights advocates call on the u.s. congress to reject donald trump's new pick for cia director over her involvement in the intelligence agency's torture program and. a warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky aaron now we start this hour with breaking news from westminster where u.k. prime minister to resign may has said britain will expel twenty three russian diplomats and suspend all showed bilateral meetings with russia it comes in response to the poisoning of an ex russian intelligence officer and his daughter in the city of seoul spree as the investigation into the incident continues well it's

not cross-line to us to see a church in our correspondent who's been following the speech in parliament and now can you talk us through the meeting please. well that nicki reason may has basically called russia culpable of attempted murder she said russia's response to the ultimatum and deadline announced by british officials was not mad she's cold it does stephen given the gravity of the events that said while an investigation into exactly what happened is still underway in terms of the measures that the british prime minister has announced that are going to be taken against russia she said twenty three russian diplomats are going to be expelled she said all high level cooperation is going to be suspended the russian foreign minister's visit to the u.k. is cancelled no british officials or members of the royal family will be attending the world cup in russia this summer let's take

a listen to what she said. mr speaker it was right to offer russia the opportunity to provide an explanation but their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events. they have provided no credible explanation that they could suggest they lost control within his agent no explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the united kingdom no explanation as to why russia has an undeclared chemical weapons program in contravention of international. leader of the opposition party labor party leader jeremy corbyn ask the british prime minister whether or not russia was given any kind of official request for information or an official notice whether any kind of dialogue with russia has taken suisse leading up to all this and what a fox have been presented to russia and this is of course that's been something that russia has been saying it would like to have seen throughout this whole time

and let's take a look to the exchanges that ensued there. as the prime minister taken the necessary steps under the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government how has she responded to the russian government's request for asylum full of the agent used in the souls return to run its own tests has a resolution trace analysis been run on a sample of the nerve agent and has that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of its perpetrators we gays the russian government the opportunity through the day march that my right on befriend the foreign secretary delivered to the russian ambassador here in london earlier this week to do just that they have not done so there is a consensus across the butt benches of this house yeah i am only sorry that the

consensus does not go as far as the right honorable gentleman to it you could do could have taken the opportunity as the u.k. government has done to condemn the culprit in the series the russian. well loved russian this whole time had said that it had nothing to do with the incident involving surrogates for paul and his daughter they've said that they would have liked to have seen the nerve agent used to be able to analyze it and take a look at what exactly is being talked about it would have liked to seen an official request or notice being sent from britain which is usually typically the case in diplomatic situations like this and we've heard earlier from the russian ambassador to the u.k. say that russia doesn't deal with ultimatums let's take a listen to that. everything what is. acceptable to the city to the future. we believe that the you know i do keep the full week international and none of them under this obligations to him.

given the weapons they have to present the request to the organisation and we're happy to consider this within a few days this is the international law and of course we're not yet ready to. to talk you know we the ultimate. well we've also seen a reaction from nato to all of this they said that this is the first offensive use of a nerve agent on alliance territory since nato is founding but no further steps will be taken in this regard on their part we've also seen the foreign office publish the travel advice especially in light of the world cup coming up in russia the some are calling for brits to be aware of anti british sentiment and harassment so certainly lots of developments there we are expecting more reaction from moscow of

course but to take a look at how we got here 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 it 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 his 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 on march twelfth 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 do 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 just was actually administered i called home and told that this is all we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect that is still 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 when moscow is expected to give its response to the british prime minister within the coming hours russia's foreign minister said earlier that the u.k. hasn't officially requested moskos assistance in investigating the incident and

accordance with the chemical weapons convention. with. the we haven't received any official request from london based on its own obligations in accordance with the chemical weapons convention we've told britain we are ready to respond if they file the request instead of filing the official request the u.k. continues to pull political stunts. let's bring in i guess now let's cross live to form a mare of london ken livingstone mr livingston thank you for joining us on the program so we have twenty three russian diplomats who will be expelled from britain they have one week to leave what do you make of the measure. well we are at the beginning of our local election campaign and the tory party is very far behind in the polls so i think the way this has been exploited in the media and this coverage of our prime minister taking this strong and stable stand up against putin and

russia may very well and this may be a big part of it but i just have to tell you only it could turn out all that is true the trouble is we've been lied to all my life and with the passage of twenty or thirty years the truth eventually comes out i can remember back in one thousand nine hundred sixty four when america started bombing north viet nam we were told it was because the vietnamese had attacked an american battleship twenty years later we were told that wasn't true figure literally politics is a dirty old game and i think the simple way this has been a mad rush to make all these decisions we should be waiting for the full police inquiry to come out with a report it could very well be that russia has no involvement in this it could be a rogue russian agent was behind it but you have to ask one thing if russia wanted to kill this man they could have killed him when he was

a prisoner in russia why have they waited this long and why use a chemical weapon that makes it definitely is so russia is behind this the many simpler easier ways of killing someone without leaving all these fingerprints all over it and absolutely and there are so many unanswered questions with this case i find the investigation as you said is still ongoing given that don't you feel the measures are premature. i think they are and i think we've had over these last few years a sort of paranoia in europe about by president putin and his strong defense of russian interests every country defends its own interests when we had the situation in the crimea virtually no one on the british media was told that crimea have been a part of russia for centuries it was overwhelmingly filled with russians and it

was only when that then president khrushchev back in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. changed the boundary that it came under ukrainian control and no one was told about this and i've never seen any british media reporting in detail about the predominance of russians in the crimea and of course at the time i made the ukrainian government was taking some very unpleasant measures and frankly i can well understand that russians in crimea don't wish to be under the control of the ukrainian government they would rather be under the control of the russian government that's reason i also pointed out that m.p.'s and members of the royal family will not be attending a fee for world cup in russia this summer what kind of impact if any will that have or is it simply symbolic but it's absolutely no impact at all if to resume a was serious about taking action against russia you'd be looking at

a big ramping up of economic sanctions but the course that would damage the west as well any trades important between russia and the rest of europe and so on so i have ceiling a lot of this is about trying to build up the image of theresa may who did very badly in the last general election and this is trying thing i think trying to create the impression here we have this strong stable leader who can defend their interests simple fact is nothing good is going to come out of this. oh joe's a marine who is on board to be one of r.t. special world cup hosts is now coming under pressure to refuse the job but why do you think sports and politics are being merged together here and why well i mean if you think back to the moscow olympics back it was nine hundred seventy s. where i can't remember now i think it was one hundred eighty or eighty four i can remember that we were told i mean we shouldn't our three shouldn't be going there

but young men like said who now heads the international olympic organization they all refused to. become part of that politics they were determined to go and they did go and i think frankly our athletes should be free our football should be free to go and take part in this i mean it's not politics the nerve agent used in the poisoning or not nobody chalk could in theory be produced by anyone and as we've everyone's been saying the composition of this nerve agent is no secret do you think again that other players have prematurely been ruled out. at this point too soon. oh undoubtedly very literally and i the police and i was responsible for policing in london for eight years and we are very good very disciplined and actually finding out the facts on something like this but

it will take many days if not many weeks before we can have a very good idea about who might have been involved in song and if it turns out some russian officials were behind this then we should seek their extradition we should put them on trial by the simple fact is if the world is awash with dangerous weapons like this and literally that the chaos under yeltsin very theme i wouldn't be a tool right back in the ninety's a lot of this stuff was sold to other in other countries. and the russian embassy in the u.k. had said called for measures unfounded something you would agree with. as i said at the beginning this might all turn out to be true and it so it would have been a disgraceful act on the part of russia but i don't think we should be announcing a and condemning people until we can have some evidence and some truth in all of this as i said all my life in politics i've watched governments all around the

world do pretty terrible and pleasant things and also lie to their own people about it. just died twenty four hours ago no less a new cake counter-terror police said they are yet to declare any suspects and now we have british politicians insistent that russia was responsible for the poisoning is there any case where police would not to lay their findings to the public. oh no the police will produce their report the government will have it and i think it would be completely impossible for the government not to publish that and have a sister date about it but i would be very surprised if it did identify simply who was behind the sex can be very difficult and it could be many i mean when i was elected to parliament thirty years ago the first speech i made i exposed the fact that a british army captain had taken road men over the border into the raploch of ireland

to murder the most popular. rock band in ireland at the time the miami showband in order to undermine the then labor government was trying to do a peace deal with the iraq so it could be axed by a rogue element of doubt about that but i would find it very odd to think that the president of russia is sitting in his office deciding who to kill someone who is no threat in the longer basically now retired in britain i would guess that mr putin's got more important things to do than that telling stern foreman there of london thank you for sharing your thoughts on the matter and we do appreciate it. on the way rittenband century took three right away not to miss but there is anger over allowing radical preachers on terrorist suspects into the u.k. we've got that story for you after this short break stay with us.

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betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back the u.s. president has opted for a major shake up on capitol hill the new face of american diplomacy will be the incumbent cia director mike pompei oh within the donald trump says he has good chemistry. we are very good relationship for whatever reason. whatever watching people get my vote rights to get this one i got the well with my son. well with my pump am now preparing to take the reins of the state department his position at the cia will be filled by gina hospital now she's a veteran intelligence agent who controversially played

a role in the organizations torture program on t.v. ghost on us now takes a closer look at the appointment and the implications. hawks nesting in washington might bump 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 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 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 torchy 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 the 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 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 hope aeration 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. both appointees will now have to go through senate confirmation hearings before taking office however rights groups have called on congress to reject both nominations human rights watch says that given

a track record pompei are both likely to endorse abusive practices john kerry aku who was the fastest cia officer to expose the agency's use of torture and to late assess jail time following the revelations for the pointing dana has bill as head of the cia is that one of chance finest decisions 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 bush should be in the dock at night in the director's office of cia do you know has all 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 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 that's out there is

a fact that specifically banned exactly the kinds of techniques that you know has was overseen. my pump ai will take over from the current secretary of state rex tillerson at the end of best month reports that donald trump had been considering stocking his top diplomat had been circulating for months due to the numerous disagreements over government policy some lessons when move on was announced on twitter by the president and the abrupt move has got all those on the social network sharing some of the stories of rejection and let them to come up with a new word.

in other news now a right wing canadian activist has been detained in france and banned from entering

britain lauren southern was held at a british border point in calif 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 posters said is a gay god officials describe the twenty two year old as a threat to u.k. public policy south and says she was interrogated in the french port 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 where 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 of the right wing activists have been barred from britain for similar reasons austria's martin seles and american commentator brittany pettibone with this month detained for three days before being deported cell had been shared jewel to speak as

a free speech conference in london's hyde park. last week and from the u.k. for various reasons 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 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 tube and twitter. the bans have caused the anger in some quarters supporters are saying that while the right wing activists are being banned radical islamic preachers have been allowed to speak freely and 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 please of the local communities why the same the very same country let's radical muslim extremists just freely enter the country they have all these muslim grooming gangs but still we are the main threat and we are kept out of the country i think is just ridiculous carried out he would love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories they do get in touch by following us on social media are we back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines i'll think of that. this is. the church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the do

graphic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot were the previous standards not the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end of that's known as the end and then i think you'll hear that it used this out and. it's felt. for a world cup twenty eighteen coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous is a huge tournaments and the huge amount of pressure come out you have to go meet the center of the pole with you and we will show you all the great grit if you are the

rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down going left go. alone. and i'm really happy to join that to fall of two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet the special one i was also. needs to just take the radio p.r.t. teams latest edition to make up a bigger than a better jersey. hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered i'm peter lobell it appears in a highly likely these are the words used by u.k. prime minister to rest.