allegedly 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 the 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 were not declaring a person of interest or a suspect that this. 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. 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 russia's behind this very odd to think that the president of russia is sitting in his office deciding who to kill someone who is no threat to them 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 tighter action approaching means the diplomatic damage has already been done and it's too late to undo. as a power struggle in berlin but this time it's between the or thirty's and the criminal underworld it's claims that arab crime clans are infiltrating the police and undermining their reputation and the media says they're proving successful at

it his idea of correspondent peter. 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

but 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 i'm going to talk about your thoughts. and believe. the police point out this real life is far cruel and violent than any. crimes 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 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 on bishops 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 device that 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 doing so. we have to ask who is in the increasingly equal battle for the streets of peter all over. donald trump scott designs on a military unit this literally out of this world but the internet's got its own ideas about the president's proposed space forth as r.t. reports after the break. w. on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chickenhawk forcing you to fight the battles that. you stopped by to tell you that would be gossip and tabloid reporters. tell. by.

all the hawks that we all know what. nor make this manufacture consent to public worlds. when the ruling class is protect themselves. merry go round let's be the one. nor the roots to. welcome back donald trump's latest speech to the military in the us has stirred the imagination of science by fans he announced a new frontin year for america outer space and

a special space force to go with it but his artie's had nations that the explains while some had a field day with themes jokes on the internet others a 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 a new developments and donald trump isn't short of ideas space is a war fighting domain just like the air and sea. we may even have a space force develop another one space force we have the air force one of the space corps 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 inspectors but not all the way both the us defense and as for secretaries have labeled the space plan as a necessary where across to 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. so it's at least twenty years of. the united states has had no interest. of spirits around control so although it's hard to tell how sincere trump is at this point one thing is for sure trying feels the force is with him. a member of the ukrainian parliament has made groundbreaking claims about the events

in twenty forty they called an eight in the overthrow of the country's government and shortly after her revelations the or thirty's or cues her of plotting a terror attack on the parliament building the lawmaker in question is now judged. she was sentenced to twenty three years in jail in russia after being found complicit in the murder of two russian journalists in ukraine she was later pardoned and exchanged for prisoners of war south chain co was hailed a hero in ukraine when she returned from russia r.t. if there were more on this now thanks for coming in adair what more can you tell us on this yeah i mean it is an interesting story and it's got lots of twists and turns but the ukrainian ukraine's general prosecutor. has called for her to be stripped of her immunity so that they can arrest and what she's been accused. of organizing a terror plot to blow up parliament with grenades quite dramatic. the call to

arrest her happened after she returned to ukraine she was actually on the trip in brussels acting as a ukrainian m.p. and when she returned she talked to the press conference where she made these very bold accusation she's. claiming that a number of the ukrainian and. even the channel prosecutor were actually. responsible organizing this fire at both sides of the crowds at the mass protest in twenty fourteen of course those mass protests triggered or. the turn of the government at the time was enough time was victor and luckovich what we can do now is have a quick listen to what she said at that press conference. but you do you know i said that i saw a van people with weapons were coming out of it people are in parliament and i saw the current speaker of parliament bring snipers to the hotel those people are in parliament now the people who gave orders who committed crimes who will always look

for a scapegoat the prosecutor general needed to become the prosecutor so that he's crimes against the ukrainian people are never investigated well these are incredibly serious accusations are they really are in a complete u. turn you know she's gone from a hero to enemy of the state she was previously imprisoned in russia she was accused at the time of being complicit in the killings of two western journalists. and she also was hailed a hero by the international press with her russian stance. personally matter during this prisoner exchange that happened between russia and ukraine so she has enjoyed a successful career following all the media attention. but now she seems to be very anti the current ukrainian government she was seen as a warrior in her own country she actually had the backing of this government but obviously not any more what is interesting is all the attention she's had in the

past from the international media so it's going to be. interesting to see what happens now with this latest twist get as much of that attention indeed it seems like a spectacular fall from grace doesn't it thanks for coming in and give us those details that artie's majority leader. well to get in touch and share your thoughts on our stories by following us on social media i'll be back at the top of the hour with the latest headlines for you then. it will become all your lordship getting it toward your career as well but. it was the most scary year. nine hundred fifty. official line is that. not exist so i will study is in the us occupied territory to be pretty liberal right software should not sell a study else to probably develop nukes and if that happens what about japan. to get

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greetings and salutation so you can bet your bottom dollar that the sun will come out tomorrow unless of course of sunshine week that it will be every day yes this week march eleventh to the seventeenth is sunshine week one week a year where we get to celebrate the public's right to know the one week where we thank our investigative journalists across the land and we highlight celebrate and fight for open government and freedom of information at the local state and federal levels. and trust me who this year we could really use that kind of sunshine more than ever because the united states had a record setting year for censoring and withholding government files from taxpayer taxpaying citizens and media outlets the associated press reports the people who asked for records of the freedom of information act received censored files or nothing in seventy eight per cent of eight hundred twenty three thousand requests

a record over the past decade or. and when they are not censoring or withholding information from the public our government officials plead ignorance take the recent senate armed services committee hearing when massachusetts senator elizabeth warren asked us some concommitant or general joseph total about our refueling support of saudi arabian air strikes in the war torn country of yemen killed many civilians just the general does some come tracked the purpose of the missions it is refueling to which the good general responded senator we do not. yeah. that old ancient military maneuver of burying one's head in sand i think patton started that because remember we didn't ask we can't be held responsible or accountable. so let's celebrate sunshine week hold some people accountable and start watching the hawks. to.

get the. real thing. as it were to pull out of it. like you that i got. this. week so. welcome aboard to watch our side of the world with girls and on top of the law lists. soon really i think i don't know whether we should be shocked or are not every year i feel like it becomes a bigger and bigger sign that just says they're not telling us something them being who ever is but i think the secret so if it's not you know the media not asking enough questions or the government or people with and administration or departments

censoring that aim for information either from the outlets or from average citizens just trying to learn the truth and i am going to get me by. i don't think it's not going to get any better especially when you've got what you potentially have you know a new cia had who. tortured folks and then tried to move on from that like you're not going to see that censorship i don't think subside anytime soon but tell with i think the question at hand is. can a country this doesn't just go for united states any country in the world that censors information that does deals in the dark and keep citizens from knowing why the things are done and how things are done in the motivations you know behind that and what your government is doing can a nation called so free if it's always keeping secrets no absolutely not they're not parents this is the problem with this idea that somehow i don't know when this happened obviously very slowly over the last you know ten fifteen years is that it's as if people are begging for a nanny state begging for a surveillance state and the sad part is we know what comes with that and it's not

a better life it's not a safer country if if every day since september eleventh two thousand and one hasn't shown you that that is not keeping us safer that they're using our money and they're a lying there and that makes me question everything else so yeah i mean it's ridiculous when you see these for your requests when like you know people whether it be individual citizens taken the time to fill out the paperwork and dirty oil and they're difficult i understand no other investigative journalists who do it right exactly and then taubman you always see it would like the article comes out of whatever it is a member of the foyer request comes back and it's like more redacted than the screen behind you would have seen savoyard of course was just a black mark across the entire page rollerball what was the point of that beyond almost just thumbing your nose that's what they're doing. and that's the thing because asking questions is wrong together don't ask questions or if you don't ask only ask the questions we think you're supposed to good point so this is it

according to a.p. the u.s. government turned over everything requested in roughly one out every five requests that's only twenty percent so we get twenty percent transparency and i can't blame this on trump because this has been put in place for many many many many years started with bill clinton and slowly worked its way into becoming more entrenched with you know. the bush's and then again with obama it was a lot about holding things from the press it was a lot about punishing people who weren't and a lot of times they said you know what documents were released so that twenty percent two thirds of cases they were heavily heavily censored. by fairness that page behind you really are you know it's of double it up and then the one thing was that they broke another record twenty seven has wanted to give the feds a prize they spend forty point six million dollars last year in legal fees defending its decision to withhold federal files sort of like news organizations or

whoever says like you know you always these files that you know they're you can't they're top secret we can't yes you can just know we can't we'll take it out or ok and then in a third of those cases they had to admit in court and admit it on their record that they were wrong to keep referencing on the part of thirty three percent says they're either ignorant or or. handling i love some of this is not just a u.s. problem too not just a u.s. problem because you know we're constantly promised over and over good all the time like oh you know all these people were behind this thing and these are the you know these are the enemies and like all that kind of thing a little you know the truth comes out usually but it's like top secret you don't actually get to know what you know and when you know what you want to step out and say we know this we did this we always so in the case of u.k. you know. it's a little again a little harder to trust you know when you're not entirely you know being open because like look at the u.k. the guardian uncovered twenty thirteen the guardian over the british the british

britain's foreign and commonwealth office of the c.e.o. had a legally withheld six hundred thousand historic documents from the public most of these documents were about colonialism and the whole of the so you gotta hold government accountable the way we do that is demanding information because at the end of the day our money pays for the paper it was printed on. one month ago the united states was rocked by a mass shooting of unfathomable scale marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland florida since then the nation's cable news and political world ensuring through yet another round of gun control debates i mean n.r.a. has become one of today's most controversial and culturally charged public organizations but and then you need display of solidarity tens of thousands of chilled schoolchildren across the nation walked out of class to shame the governments do nothing demagogues and to action r.t.s. on a particle caught up with some of the demonstrators in washington d.c. . this slogan today is enough is enough as students around the country have staged

a mass walkout from class their message is simple they're fed up with congress is in action on gun control and say no student should have to live in fear that their school could be next at georgetown university's walkout three minutes of silence were observed to demonstrate just how quickly a gunmen murdered seventeen students in parkland florida just one month ago equipped with an a r fifteen semiautomatic rifle we can start with commonsense things such as background checks ban on assault weapons has i don't think any citizen needs such a high powered weapon in their hands or five years ago my cousin victoria soto is a first grade teacher who was killed at sandy hook school in her first grade classroom so that kind of was the spark that motivated me to get involved in the movement. and that was over five years ago not a lot has changed we believe that change starts here at the younger level and we came out here to support the students who are fighting for to end gun violence and

to protect the younger students i have a younger brother i don't want him to be scared going to school anymore so this needs to stop now i am one of the organizers for women's march youth empower and i'm organizing this action because it is time that our youth stand up for our own safety congress and the adults and. our lives have not done enough and so now we're saying enough is enough their target audience was obvious every legislator in this country i hope that my senator chuck schumer hears that i hope all our members of congress and our state legislators hear this message that we are sick of feeling unsafe in our schools we want them to ban assault weapons and expand background checks to be universal on all gun sales was across town around one thousand students teachers and administrators carried their rallying cry to the steps of the nation's capital a student shouldn't have to be afraid that person will shoot on a school that's not ok so i thought i'd come here to show my opinion because we're

going to be the next generation to vote when people were like in our lobbying people just to have the guns in this country that make people unsafe this is not right several members of congress stopped by chance erupted in admiration for months senator bernie sanders when he paid a brief visit to the crowd in a show of support for the young students were in danger of gun violence and we need to be safe in our schools because school as our schools our language vironment this is where we develop that's where we grow and we need to do it in a safe environment this is an ok i think enough is enough and shootings happen way too often just last week there was another shooting at a mall near our school and it just insane how often this is allowed to happen i think that the suffocating reality of the situation is that you know our students are all vulnerable to attacks like the ones apartment and other places there really could be any of us and i know that you know even something as far as florida really hits close to home it's estimated over three thousand schools participated in today's action and while their call was

a loud and clear their hope is that it will reverberate not just across campus but in the halls of power as well in washington on your part until our team. always powerful to see those kids out there even if even if you disagree with the message or you disagree the protesters you know. the youth in the streets exercising their freedom exercising their constitutional protected right speech that's a beautiful thing to see just what if anything else it's a great film on the nose of the people who love and politicians on capitol hill because think well children shouldn't be making decisions they shouldn't be there and most you know these are just kids yet those kids are going to build a vote these are high school kids you got a couple years and those are the voters and to me a politician should be writing policy for tomorrow yeah not today and i hope that this isn't just the photo op thing because the thing that really you know when i saw some of the pictures coming back it's like you know suddenly is chuck schumer's up there and like all these now up there that's like no i know that career

politicians like that they're just in it for the photo well you know they know they don't have that melts away right because that i don't want to show what the kids one even the president going to the president backed off and buckled to the n.r.a. last week and it was the same thing you said well it's not a lot of political will for his on a pole lot of political poll will tell you that every single poll is saying that over half of americans want to deal with this situation and using guns as they say i think just using guns as second moment we talked about that's non-lethal weapons are also spoke to arms and you're only saying i'm going to protect you know nobody's protecting me with. regulating or deregulating non-lethal weapons that i can use to protect myself you know you know if you have milk if you have a billion the billions of dollars in lobbying great but these kids have the power they can be just as strong as a lobby oh yeah and you know and i think this is one of those issues too that there's so many different great facets to this issue because you can talk about.