shock and agile used in that attack was actually developed in the soviet union decades ago and the o.p.c. w. officially confirmed that russia had concluded the destruction of its entire chemical weapons stockpile last year but apparently it was not only russia that had access to research labs and the scientists working there in his back to start for example which became independent after the break up of the soviet union it was the pentagon that helped to demilitarize the facility it was in that very facility that never chalk was tested so they didn't even last the gerbils 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 the 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. how has she responded to the russian government's request for a sample of the agent used in the soles reattack to run its own tests apparently no response and no sample why the secrecy if this is such an open and shut case. as that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of its perpetrators hundreds of offices as you would expect him to work around gathering evidence to identify those responsible we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect at this bono 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 you look definitely is so rushed behind this that very odd to think that the president of russia is sitting in his office deciding who to kill someone who is no threat in that basically now retired in britain i would guess that mr putin has got more important things to do than that but the reason maine says russia has 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 for tat action approaching means the diplomatic damage has already been done and it's too late to undo. there is a power struggle in berlin but this time it's between the authorities and the criminal underworld it's claimed that are a crime clans are in for treating the police and undermining their reputation and

the media sees they are proving successful here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. a parallel society with parallel justice being meted out by a mafia don the arabic clones of underworld have 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 their confidence in state power is dwindling the latest method being used to the power of 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

once it's out there it is very difficult to dispel it people see corrupt cops in hollywood and think yes that could happen 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. for. the sake. of going to talk about your thoughts. and believe. the police point out this real life is far crueller and violent than anything. the 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 berlin eighty percent of

the time it's clans we've seen police officers testify. against clan members being threatened right in the courtroom. if you stand against them 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 jewelers and the theft of a one hundred kilo gold coin from the boden 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 all the unemployment benefits available to be driving a lamborghini here and say it was a gift from his brother even though the real money is coming from criminal

enterprises. with the police feeling strong by allegations against officers and the crime groups. we have to ask who is in the increasingly called battle for the streets of berlin peter all over. donald trump scalp designs on a military unit that's literally out of this world but the internet's got its own ideas about the president's proposed space force as our two reports often break. when you don't. see the teacher you are. not. claiming to know. that. if you speak french.

he. joined me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or. i'm show business i'll see you the. very welcome back to the program there are just a few days left for the russian presidential election candidates to try and win

over voters they're doing the rounds on nationwide t.v. debates one such discussion on wednesday made the headlines for all the wrong reasons though after it the send it into an ill tempered slanging much. i would have put in them and you bought it from annoy yeah by disputing. nitish that makes it a lot of. money to buy a new movie absolutely and i think that says me as the chance to fight the idea that you're in this you tube so much you're just yeah it was even my disease feel like i mean yeah. yeah yeah that's right you would only go if you really really was going to feel you ill going you know you. already did. i'm going to see what you said. yeah yeah. yeah yeah put it over here yet you never know the color of the images that you and me have so here we go right

that was. the scene was it was the last moment is your chance of a. sport succeed you put a rush it's of do you know the old if you. believe you have it was not this is. video that feels good. to me and you purchase. is. just more than. he merely a problem he had. and he did stuff and 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 vladimir zhirinovsky is the leader of russia's liberal democratic party and his role in all bar one presidential election since they 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 all employment and illegal immigration his critics though say he's pandering to easy populism and that his party often votes in line with the kremlin in parliament anyway here's where he stands in his own words. it would seem to me we must be strong and even those in the president should be tarred with such a foreign policy that will make everyone scared of others so is that and they can respect as usual and no one will dance to close russian schools i don't see the press russian language for me i will move death to stop our journeys it's not 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 allow one 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 yeah you'll get them immediately you know my waiting there's lots of a confusion of when you will increase pensions for all veterans and you give bonuses free service trip that i will protect all of you see a way 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 be friends with somebody who did those who are we going to be friends with no risk of nato forces our orders it would take you five minutes to fly to st petersburg to get a ball in seven minutes to moscow to the moscow that's our genuine enter afghanistan they are planning to destroy our country and they won't stop and you'll remember exactly you were travelling to get a shingle visa and get better economy by your kind of economy and told them 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 serve as an ordinary civil parties yes i knew and they want to become president so that's a disgrace and it would change a lot of so and you weren't see this political garbage at the net imagine when you make it brought up a lot of here sure enough skating while we are profiling all the presidential election candidates here on our team international over the next number of days from saturday night our special election coverage kicks off all red square and continues right through polling day as we receive those all important results and reactions. ok time to hit the heights because donald trump the latest speech to the military in the u.s. has stirred the emerging nations of saif i phones he said a new frontier for america i first place a special space force to go with it but as our team 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 a full things aren't enough in the battle for world dominance it's time for new developments and donald trump isn't short of a day if space is a war fighting domain just like a land air and sea. we may even have a space force develop another one space course we have the air force one of the space wars 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 still in 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 has been proposed many times in the past and it's always been rejected by the do something that people have been promoting again recently i think i 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 both the us defense and asked 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 see is 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 set of military bases and out of space and address other costs make

concessions well there the us has previously blocked or abstained from the un effets to regulate space weapons. since at least the past twenty years have not. the united states has had no interest in any discussion of space arms control over though it's hard to tell how since a trump is at this point one thing is fishel trying fails the force is with him. staying in the skies get this tones of gold have rained on an earth port in northern siberia for the doors of a cargo plane carrying the precious metal failed the plane was carrying nine tons of gold worth nearly four hundred million dollars from

a mine in the region according to local media hundred seventy two gold parties have been recovered so far police have not cordoned off the runway as i would expect in the russian city of. searching for the rest. you never know what's going to rain down on top for you to hear more great programs right ahead susan. there's nobody that's keeping goober ization tommy we're all working from a low minimum wage at the end of the day if you factor in the ecological devastation of dancing chicken effect and all the cruelty eggs coolest scapes this nightmare we call post-industrial is post ironic post. then to say sion and infantile is ation narcissistic cause i reale.

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welcome to worlds apart of the recent series of advance on the north korean track has attended many diplomatic conventions but only have the south koreans become the unlikely mass injuries between pyongyang and washington they've also become spokespeople for both. trump supposedly acceptance of kim jong un suppose that invitation photogs break these decades old stalemate well to discuss that i'm now joined by a. professor at the university insult professor good to have you on the show thank you very much for your time thank you very much and we've just witnessed a major turnaround in how north korea and the united states approach one another

just a few weeks ago the world feared to break out of a nuclear war now we are discussing the potentiality of the first ever face to face meeting between the two leaders since the korean war what do you think accounts for these dramatic shift. i would say cynically. because or was the last year u.s. administrator or pretty well let's say more there's been more but a size president trump himself has walked a very hard to create an impression. seriously considering. nobody but president trump himself. was a he was really going to strike. or it was all bluff bluffing to create such a then pressure on him to get you to go diplomatic results reza sincere a lot. of pressure fry and they walked.

or was september suddenly changed its attitude to. historically it was a remarkably deal locked up and. against north korea barred from august of september chan they probably and somebody guards tougher than the united states so they try to shore they're working very hard so essentially what you're saying is that donald trump managed to change the calculus of not only the north koreans but also other parties to this conflict but the north koreans do not have a reputation of being particularly feeble minded in fact i think they have a reputation of being very tough negotiators and trying to get as much as possible for as little as possible and yet all of a sudden they show this openness for one sided concessions agreeing to suspend military and ballistic tests while not asking the americans to suspend their

military exercises is that a measure of how frightened they are or perhaps a calculation on their part that they may get more in return later on bourse. bridges sure that in the long run as the north koreans deal our smart america. because you know i've been studying the history and this is you see a history of how well. and his father and especially his grandfather many people ated russians cells americans jeff aeneas and they always view or vigorous but right now they are still frightened because i mentioned the cheney ascensions is there yet to produce impact but in due time situation is likely to deteriorate and of course the door involved to be shot at as they understand in case of war they get in free a great deal of damage on the u.s. and their allies by they also understand that in the end of the day they're going

to suffer much more so the dogs want a shooting war and eve the presume that this is what is going to happen if they don't stop well they decided to stop is a methyl fact exit actually is they introduce them on their missile tests. nuclear launches not now now they just confirmed it for all practical purposes they did it in late november and they also floated a possibility of being open to discuss the so-called denuclearization of the peninsula now i know from your own writing that it sounds big but it doesn't carry much at least in your view but do you think there is anything that could actually prompt young young to take this issue seriously and consider it i don't see any say that here. vich would probably make deals to seriously consider. their current statement basically just. many people forget by the

according to the night is sixty eight treaties signed by all major nuclear powers including can ita states or russia and share that and france and united kingdom all this countries are under obligation to a venture to surrender the nuclear weapons. american or russian military is documents you see this is not exactly was there of working hard to achieve so just a leap service or north korea's can easily do is to say they can is it to do what their american so russians have been doing for decades just to see involve beautiful point in a very distant future probably the will surrender nuclear weapons not know precious a link of you mentioned the belief service and i think it's also become a bit of a diplomatic ritual to in-doors the denuclearization of the peninsula but if you look at it through politic lances do you thing regional powers like russia like china actually want pyongyang to fully disarm absolutely because it's

very often is under stuart budget russian government has over it's been deadly against nuclear north korea and this say or even more is a political bow to china you know or russia is now flooded. visit and ten american feelings so that if people say vowels their gaze the light is straight they're good guys they have supported them not because in the end of the day first of all russia be economy vice the cousin and your peer countries needs nuclear superiority even more and it has no interest in merchants offering you nuclear powers because that i view because pickets know it's last year tomorrow it may be scary as they are discussing a serious the vietnam and the more nuclear power with iran on their list military significant russia becomes and its only part of the story and as a part of the story is just all good proliferation. norm to be part of her rate

as well but the counter-argument to that would be that the north korean partial nuclear arsenal provides security guarantees not only to the regime itself but also to its neighbors against a military intervention the breakout of a major war on their borders and as you pointed out in one of your recent articles nobody wants to see a replay of the libyan events in east asia so my question to you is whether they're north korea having a short nuclear stick not a fully developed but some some blunts of a nuclear weapon doesn't dod provide a certain guarantee to both russia and china that the united states would not intervene that recklessly on their borders no security going to use for russia provided by the russia nuclear and missile force or spirit all countries if they develop nuclear weapons they create in the long run increase instability i'm not saying that we can do anything about north korea nuclear weapons i'm just saying

that from the point of view of the russian the national interest it's not a good use look now it's more scary but if north korea becomes nuclear it will become all you logical for south korea toward your korea as well. because yes no not say and probably believe they need nuclear weapons for defense but the us not forget it was in north korea invaded in one thousand fifty and it still official line is that does not exist so our study is in the us occupied territory to be eventually liberate it's ruled my cheapie did but if according to the north. this is a situation sort of what should not do probably develop nukes and if that happens what about japan what about what about vietnam all this country's have a lot of nukes by the way most cases against china and this is it is only by

chinese so i'm happy about north korean nuclear program russia is a bit unhappy chad is seriously unhappy because if it's not stopped in ten feet twenty s. time channel you'll find itself surrounded by small really hostile countries and beatrice reason to hate cherry now going back to many centuries and each country has a nuclear weapons professor i heard you say that the north korean regime is likely to be accommodating as long as it believes that the us administration could be reckless enough to launch a strike against said despite all the potential ramifications for south korea as well as for the region in general how much mileage do you think the trombetta ministration can get out of it what's the maximum that they can potentially extort from pyongyang by using these scare tactics. would say a lot of what they heard the last of the two it's basically is that they can get much more than i areally stickily expect because.

the north koreans a century except it is a good military exercise will behalves is the same situation i just discussed and they are talking about does of their nuclear program because if they have. that is a noise that can do nothing about joint military exercises non-sale is for the last few months it did look like the future deal if you include it least something about this scale or continuation of frankenstein of the joint exercises and recently north korea's essential assert military exercises cavies us we don't care we don't worry about it rishi is was a pretty mess of concessions so i would say that say about a year ago three years ago i used to say and many others observers said well sooner or later north koreans probably will see him and start talking but they are going to extract a lot of every scene from the united states all interested parties now it

seems that the. major condition is just to make sure that americans will not start shooting second to have some of their recent socials lifted as soon as possible before it will strike the economy and they're not going to port much more demands for the time being now professor link of there is a lot of discussion in the united states especially among those who do not support the idea of the presidential summit that it would be encouraging and north korea for its bad behavior but i think the relevant question here is also whether it would encourage trump for his bad behavior because you mentioned that he's policy of essentially blackmail has worked so far if that summit indeed takes place. wouldn't that make bellicosity on the american part more acceptable form of foreign policy i know that for the time being both russia and china are endorsing the idea

of the meeting between kim and tran but i suppose they would be just as happy to have trump threatened in the same manner of us there might she have to russia and china has much more force in march war. they're much more capable or biting back and nobody would trade a xerox hold chance of a saw oh yes it's a kind of a bad example but let's face it norsk ideas for details confuse same blackmail tactics for me it's a bit funny to see how the same traits if for decades have been favorable to use of kenya and now used business same efficiency as the countdown is a bit funny to see when basically you're not blonde tramp try to outdo john in the huge honor himself it's a bit for funny all this fayyad funi and all the stuff i don't think is going to be .