russia had concluded the destruction of its entire chemical weapons stockpile last year. how has she responded to the russian government's request for a sample of the agent used in the soulsby attack to run its own tests apparently no response and no sample why the secrecy if this is such an open and shut case so they didn't do most of goebbels up against good schools in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. western special services recruited a number of our chemical specialists their names are known they also brought some of those documents and continued research in this area including in the us in the u.k. the results achieved by those countries in creating new poisonous substances that for some reason classified under their common name in the west are confirmed and represented in more than two hundred open sources from nato countries we have all the references we're ready to provide them with the investigations that in its early stages other crucial evidence which could point to the perpetrator of this

crime is a lacking. has that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of its perpetrators hundreds of officers as you would expect him to work around gathering evidence to identify those response we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect that this is. how does committing a heinous act on foreign soil on the eve of a presidential election and months before the much discussed world cup knowing the diplomatic fallout benefit the kremlin 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 the russians behind this that very old to think that the president of russia is sitting in his office deciding who to . someone who has no record that basically now retired in britain i would guess

that mr putin has got more important things to do than that but the reason may be says russia's been given a chance to disprove its guilt until proven innocent despite many unanswered questions the mass expulsion of diplomats the freeze on the high level talks tit for tat action approaching means the diplomatic damage has already been done and it's too late to undo. moving on there is a power struggle in berlin but this time it's between the authorities and the criminal underworld its claims that are a crime clans are infiltrating the police and undermining their reputation and the media's ses they're proving successful at it here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. a parallel society with parallel justice being meted out by a mafia don the arabic. underworld has apparently gained so much influence

that they're challenging the power of the state and that it's got alarm bells ringing in the city prosecutor's office the damage is already done now the clans are making sure that confidence in state power is dwindling the latest method being used to the polls the police while cementing their own is to use their power base against the police the strength lies in drug trafficking protection rackets and prostitution and it's the latter it's being used to attack the reputation of police officers. rumors have been spreading about police and prostitutes aiming to show police officers in a bad light for example that they have given drugs to prostitutes for information and once it's out there it is very difficult to dispel it people see corrupt cops in hollywood and think yes that could happen i would even if we have very clear evidence to prove it's not true. the arab clans have become such

a part of the tapestry of the german capital that they were recently featured in the hit t.v. show. mention could. have taken. because they're going to talk about us. and believe that. the police point out the real life is far crueler violent than any fiction. trans main weapon is intimidation but just recently we saw a passer by shot and injured in a shootout between gangs if you hear shots being fired in. eighty percent of the time it's clans we've seen police officers test. against clan members being threatened right in the courtroom because you stand against them and expect to be visited by them and for threats to be made against you and your family. the clans

have become emboldened over the last few years being linked to or investigated in more and more ambitious crimes like the daring heist on an upscale cooed jewelers and the theft of a one hundred kilo gold coin from the boat a museum but how to open up a group that uses violence to guarantee silence and. we need to track the money like they did with the math here in italy we should make it so people have to prove where the cash comes from now a person can claim or the unemployment benefits available could be driving a lamborghini it here and say it was a gift from his brother even though the real money is coming from criminal enterprises are. with the police feeling how many strong by allegations against officers and the crime influences on the uk we have to ask who is in the increasingly called battle for the streets of berlin peter all of a. more news in ninety seconds.

joined me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics. i'm showbusiness i'll see if. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the problem. and the great game the great you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get the ball going let's go.

alone. and i'm really happy to join that for the two thousand and thirteen world cup in russia meet the special one and was also appreciate me to just take the reader p.r.t. teams latest edition to make up a bigger. book. hello again doldrums a little speech to the military in the u.s. house stirred the imagination of scientists find he's announced a new frontier for america space on a special space force to go with it but as. he explains while some have a field day with jokes on the internet others are warning of the dangers of space militarization. the army navy and air forces aren't enough in the battle for world dominance it's time for new developments and donald trump isn't short of ideas

space is a war fighting domi just like the land air and sea. we may even have a space force develop another one space force we have the air force well the space force we have the army the navy trans comments have captured the imagination of twisties as with many wondering whether help become the guardian of the galaxy or will he be training in all me of power ranges all stone trip as ready to file a says at any extraterrestrial threats. and even some of the president's general seem to be a list same page or planet there is no war in space just as there is no war in cyberspace there is only war and war can extend into any demain not a new idea it's been proposed many times in the past and it's always been rejected by the do something that people have been promoting again recently and i think that

would be a very negative move actually because it would create a constituency whose natural interest then is is used to further the weaponization of space and create a greater danger of actual war in space but not all the way both the us defense and as for secretaries have labeled the space plan as a necessary prayer critic and costly and the house in fact spin a space command's for if they say yes is part of the u.s. air force and carries out intelligence operations and make sure space isn't militarized then there's also the nine hundred sixty seven outer space treaty no small obstacle to any american ambitions to put weapons in orbit it was created to stop the setup of military bases and out of space and address other costs make concessions although the us has previously blocked or abstained from the un effets to regulate space weapons.

since at least in the past twenty years if not beyond that the united states has had no interest in any discussion of space arms control over though it's hard to tell how sincere trump is at this point one thing is facial trunk fails the force is with him. back on earth there are just a few days left for the russian presidential election candidates to try and win over voters and they are doing the rounds on nationwide t.v. debates but whedon says discussion made the headlines for all the wrong reasons after it the send it into an ill tempered slanging much. humor would have put him on you but if some annoy yeah by disputing you just to make it it would.

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just move. he merely a problem. well as we continue our profiles of the candidates let's tell you about one of the people who really got stuck into that on earth spot. is the leader of russia's liberal democratic party and his role in all bar one presidential election since it began in russia in one thousand nine hundred one he wants to introduce a progressive income tax. system instead of the current all round flat rate as well as pledging to tackle poverty unemployment and illegal immigration his critics though say he's pandering to easy populism and that his party often votes in line with the kremlin and in parliament anyway here's where your a lot ski stumbles in his own words. it would seem to me we must be strong and the president should be tough with such

a foreign policy that will make everyone scared of others and make him respect as usual and no one will dare to close russian schools press russian language i will move death to stop our journey six lawmakers turkeys and no one will dare to kill our ambassador because i will do everything to make russians and our language respect your. yes i choose to go on russian citizens to be proud of our country not be proud of sausages or smart phones is disgusting there are hewing overnight to buy a new phone it's not that's not what price even though i promise all military officers new ranks and the new no one will be left without flags and you'll get them immediately you know my waiting there's lots of vacant flannel when you will increase pensions for all veterans and you give bonuses free to restrict the i will protect all of us the away and we will be proud of our country. does not see that we need to have

a strong army out of that know what actions here do to be friends with somebody who are we going to be friends with no risk of nato forces and also borders it will take you five minutes to fly to st petersburg to get aboard seven minutes to moscow to moscow that's our genuine enter afghanistan they are planning to destroy our country and they would stop and you'll whimpering only you will travel to get a shingle visa i will get better economy by your kind of economy he told him you're sorry if they bomb the hell out of us tomorrow that we're security is the first. these people shouldn't even be allowed to so. yes i knew and they want to become president so that's a disgrace and it would change and you were you see this political garbage at the new dimension when you need to put out what we are profiling all the presidential election candidates here on our to international over the next few days from some of the night our special election coverage kicks off on red square and continues right through polling day as we receive those all important results and reactions.

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welcome to alec salmon show in a dramatic week where the poisoning in the english city of sell spray has developed into a full blown international crisis. the identification of the soviet to developed nerve agent another chalk as being the substance which poisoned the double agent circus cripple and his daughter yulia turned to issue from the attempted murder to the u.k. government have turned an act of state a creation this is what the major players have had to say over the course of this week with commission mr speaker it is now clear that mr script al and his daughter were poisoned with a military grade nerve agent of the type developed by russia this is part of a group of nerve agents known as noted. based on the positive identification of

this chemical agent by world leading experts at the defense science and technology to poetry at porton down our knowledge that russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so. think i. think something like that it's going to get going thank. goodness we got the facts straight and we're going to be speaking with the british today we're going to reset make today as we get the facts straight if we agree with that we will get them right whatever is a big but i had that bugger all agree subducted later will be asking commentators both domestic and international with exactly this escalating confrontation is likely to lead but first over to alex for discussion as someone who's been on the receiving end of many human rights abuses of touch all shot the problems in the

bellman's the byelection of going to eighty three one of the most controversial and bruising confrontations of the political side which of. but this is not with his story ended he has pursued for half a century a worldwide campaign for l.g. bt and other human rights and that's been greatly to his personal cost peter tatchell joins benaud you're welcome to the alex i'm unsure good to join you give me an idea of the sort of attacks you've heard over the long period you've been campaigning for for human rights well over the last fifty years i've been violent yourself over three hundred times three hundred three hundred times more than fifty van tax upon my flat including three arson attempts and a bullet through the front door. it's been very very very tough and the people targeting me. homophobes far right extremists supporters of various tyrannical regimes around the world who i've challenged. but i'm not the featured bias and the

way i take the attacks as a backhanded compliment obviously i'm doing something right i'm running those who are abusing human rights and this is their reaction so you know i take it with a pinch of salt you've taken your campaign to many countries but you've also taken it to russia and maybe taken so to me your experience when you took your campaign for able to be relates to russia. well you have been several times but in two thousand and seven i went there at the invitation of russian and human rights activists to support the right to hold a gay pride parade in moscow now under russia's law and constitution. the right to peaceful protest is guaranteed so that if you were asking for anything special or illegal but the protest was banned and i went with a russian delegation to try and deliver

a letter to the moscow city mayor and we were then violently attacked by the riot police and by neo nazis who i believe were acting in coordination with the police i was almost beaten unconscious the police stood all around watching me while i was being beaten by ultra nationalist the neo nazis and the noise when i was about to lose consciousness they stepped in and arrested me while my assailant were allowed to walk free and when i was in the police van i saw at least one of those assailants the guy punched me in the eye and caused me permanent damage i saw him approach the police line show some kind of id be waved through so the suspicion is that he was actually a plainclothes police officer or someone working in collusion with the police to attack me and the other gay pride marchers. a number of occasions still competing what would your message be to vladimir putin and to the rest of the russian

leadership in terms of their attitude to gay rights. well i love the russian people love russia as a country i want to see good relations with russia but essentially today russia is a police state you know protests are routinely banned and violently attacked by the police the media is largely under state control and subjected to extreme censorship we've got many examples of opposition politicians and critical journalists who've been assassinated this is a lawless police state and the. latest development with the allegations about this by in britain being killed that's really an addition to a whole litany of terrible things that the russian state is doing i do think that with any human rights abusing regime where that be russia or any other country the international community needs to take a stand and i would like to see the universal application of the minutes of the act

to the act on financial transactions which will load the targeting of specific individuals that's right under the magnitsky act human rights abusers not just russian but anywhere would be subject to the seizure of assets travel bans and other kinds of financial penalties i think we need to take a stand against all human rights abuses and i'm not saying that britain united states have a blemish free record but what russia has done to its own people and what it's done in chechnya georgia ukraine and syria are clearly violations of international human rights law and we need to take a stand in terms of upcoming events at the commonwealth the world with the summit which is just coming up and the calm of day we've just had this week and the calm of games of course starting next month for the gold coast of australia what do you

see a campaign as worth the calm of group of caucus. well there are fifty three member states in the commonwealth and thirty seven of them have a total prohibition on homosexuality. nine of them have life imprisonment in parts of two countries two commonwealth countries the people can be put to death that is completely in violation of the principles of the commonwealth charter which guarantee universal human rights and which all those members states of signed up to so again the commonwealth needs to wake up it needs to stand true to its principles and we need to ensure that the one hundred to two hundred million there's been gay bisexual transgender people who live in ca most countries where it's criminalized that that criminalization is ended and their protection and it's discrimination and hate crime lastly it is it possible to use events for example like the games to send a positive message and are the prognosis duty bound to make sure that

happens. well absolutely the become of the founded on principles of human rights there is a commitment that every com wolf this isn't a matter which country or who they are has full and equal human rights but it's not just l g b t rights that are being violated in the commonwealth many other human rights are also being violated and we just need to say i think to come of countries if you want to be part of the commonwealth you have to live up to its principles and you know what is shocking is that commonwealth leaders completely ignore human rights abuses they're having a summit in britain in april and i bet that human rights won't be on the agenda and one of the reasons is of course so many come other countries violate human rights and that has got to change. it's been a long campaign pursuit as i said great personal cost over the peace over the the half say you were relatively pleased with the progress that's been made or

alternatively you think the so much still to be done but undoubtedly there's been huge progress and that's a tribute not just to people like me activists but also the many members of the public in this country around the world who have rallied to the support the principle of human rights for everyone and so on and optimistic and but also mindful of the work that still needs to be done so i've been doing this for fifty one years i'm hopefully going to carry on for another twenty or thirty. to me human rights are a fundamental principle of our humanity and everybody in every country deserve them . look at your best known obviously for your work and their g.b.t. rates domestically internationally but that really doesn't do justice to the full range of your human rights to tell us about that i'm striving to support democracy and human rights campaigners in many different countries including russia syria saudi arabia iran and pakistan these people are really heroic defenders of human

rights. it's many of them are suffering credible abuses by governments and i think it's really important to stand with them although i'm a critic of religious homophobia i also campaigned to defend religious minorities christians persecuted in pakistan sunni muslims persecuted in iran to me human rights are universal. actual just one more thing for appearing on the alex salmond show you are entitled to the quick gallic for a loving cup you know you know the drill the whiskey and the quick pass that road only of course close friends and of course only scotch whiskey thank you very much alex i will treasure it like a silver just. dominating the headlines all week has been mere reaction to the chemical weapons poisoning in souls but these are the exchanges from the house of commons yes the big eyes are this was

a direct act by the russian state against our country or conceivably the russian government could have lost control of a military grade nerve agent and allowed it to get into the hands of others 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 that could suggest they lost control of then the 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 law. instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in europe with sarcasm contempt and defiance. so mr speaker there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was

culpable for the attempted murder of mr script and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick bailey has the prime minister taken the necessary steps under the chemical weapons convention to make a formal request for evidence from the russian government under article nine point two. how has she responded to the russian government's request for a sample of the agent used in the sols reattack to run its own tests. has high 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. it was clear it's clear from the conversations i've had with our allies that we have a consensus with our own eyes it was clear from the remarks that were made by

backbenchers across the whole of this house on monday that there is a consensus across the butt benches of this house yes i am only sorry that the consensus does not go as far as the right honorable chance. you. could have taken the opportunity as the u.k. government has done to condemn the culpability of. the prime minister the overwhelming body of the house of commons where for over night of the government or the foreign office what available to be interviewed on this program which instead to stand on the words from the house of commons itself when with the time however will last domestic and international commentators about their reading of the current crisis.