from nato countries we have all the references we are 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. has 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 response we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect at this time. 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 very old 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 tit for tat action approaching means the diplomatic damage has already been done and it's too late to undo. next night a well known ukrainian lawmakers been accused of plotting a terror attack on a parliament building in kiev where the country's top prosecutor it comes after a day or publicly made his century claims about the events in twenty fourteen that

culminated in the overthrow of the country's government so chances of four helicopter navigator who was sentenced to twenty three years in jail here in russia after being found complicit in the murder of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine she was later pardoned and exchanged for prisoners of war so chunka was initially hailed as a hero in ukraine when she returned from russia before now facing increasing criticism nicaea and discuss the scandal with madeira chewed her. stories had so many twists and turns and this is yet another one yes. well basically ukraine's general prosecutor has asked and called for her immunity to be stripped in order to arrest and the reason for that is that they claim that she is behind organizing a terror plot her intentions apparently were to blow up parliament using grenades. now this call to support immunity happened after she spoke out at a press conference and she made some very bold accusations indeed according to her

she's claiming that a number of m.p.'s ukrainian m.p.'s were responsible for organizing sniper fire at both sides of the crowds about me and the authorities and the protests at the twenty fourteen mass protests and those protests of course with the trigger of the government being overthrown so that's what she's saying a little bit of a tit for tat situation let's have a listen to what she said. i said that i saw a van people with weapons were coming out of people who are in parliament people who gave orders who committed crimes who were 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 these are extraordinary accusations are very bold words indeed and a complete u. turn of course she's gone from hero to enemy of the state we can take a quick look at what her profile is.

your precondition. really. sparked interest to make use of. the law for almost two years in a russian prison a ukrainian pilot is back home and so quite a significant moment there for the polish the president and the ukrainian nation germany she's a hero country ukrainians release will only reinforce that. she was previously

accused of being complicit in the killing of two russian journalists and served time there and she was also part of a prisoner of war swap and during that swap actually she was met by president bush and herself. and she has enjoyed a very successful political career but she doesn't have that support now what is interesting is that her whole story has commanded an awful lot of international media attention but will this new turn attract as much attention as she has had in the past coming up the russian presidential election of course just around the corner of the candidates get fired up. not more than a little overheated to some of the t.v. debates as repurpose show you will become but. the. other dropping bombs brings us to the chicken hawks forcing you to buy the

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again this is not the seventy minutes past eight of moscow now saving donald trump's latest speech to the military in the u.s. has stirred the imagination of saif i found this is a non-story new frontier for america outer space on a special space force to go with it but next as a nation sethi explains while some other field day with themed jokes on the internet is 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 new developments and donald trump isn't short of ideas space is a war fighting domain just like the land air and sea. we may even have a space force develop another one space force 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 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 has been proposed many times in the past and it's always been rejected by the new 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

the air force secretaries have labeled the space plan as unnecessary where critic and costly and the house in fact spin a space command's for if they see is is part of the us as 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 cosmic concerns well they're the us has previously blocked or abstained from the un effets to regulate space weapons. so it's at least the past twenty years of not beyond the united states has had no

interest in any discussion of our space arms control so although it's hard to tell how sincere trump is at this point one thing is for sure chung feels the force is with him. just three days left for before the russian election candidates know to do their final bids to win over voters and in the run up to polling day we're profiling the presidential hopefuls for you today that are not ski who's the longtime leader of russia's liberal democratic party he's run for president in one election in fact since the first began in russia in one thousand nine hundred one of late he wants to introduce a progressive income tax system is the headline for him instead of the current all round flat rate as well as pledging as well 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 in parliament anyway is what. it is

own words. it would seem to me we must be strong the president should be tarred with such a foreign policy that will make everyone scared of us and make him respect no one will dare to close russia schools press russian language to stop our german lawmakers to seize and to kill our ambassadors i will do everything to make russians and our language respect your. russian citizens to be proud of our country now be proud of sausages or smartphones is disgusting overnight to buy a new phone that's not what price promise or military officers knew ranks no one will be left without you will get them immediately. waiting there's lots of vacant i will increase pensions for all veterans and you give bonuses free to restrict the

i will protect all of you see a way and we will be proud of our country will. see that we need to have a strong army out of that know what actions here do three friends with somebody who are we going to be friends we know it's going to nato forces our orders it will take you five minutes to fly to st petersburg to get aboard seven minutes to go to the mosque that's our genuine enter afghanistan they are planning to destroy your country and they won't stand your whimpering like you were travelling to get a shingle visa it gets better economy by your kind of economy and he told them you're sorry if they bomb the hell out of us tomorrow at work security is the first . these people shouldn't even be allowed to serve in ordinary civil i knew and they want to become president i thought that's a disgrace and it would change the loyalists and you weren't see this political garbage at the net imagine when you made your proud always outspoken vladimir zhirinovsky there was well as the candidates were also meeting voters from across

russia as well to hear who they want in the creditors top job now going forward today we're heading to the polls. it can be a limo but give them a break richard bush will give it a million ways to follow you to an area that we can laugh about speeding. mean should be mean. to near zero for troy you'll be just as from

a lobbyist even though i'm not going on the rolls you know he had a law school though more just because frederick. douglass never though the. more you get used to what i want more we'll see. if i do you mean with the league a new video of you really are stupid able to suck good legal kharkiv stems from there's nobody doing the great insta work. but this feet are some muslims in the muslim or the purple structure distress if there fredricka i've got to put it quite see if it actually scared us consecrate did so probably emphasis above the little church of course i had to go until. i got all cynical and i would have the stories no news i mean you must know it's a good last question back up what i see but i started seeing precious things that concluded in some. way with michigan half respectable family with no notion that i would on the fijians easiness into you're one of the little side dish most of them are sustainable so. the look on the public thus far from useful is

a mark of its own the most honest people to put on the solicited hostile in my. one runs at a loss of muscle in little. by the woman last fall from the business. storm isolated incidents of pretty soon the city's singing and of nice to see members in they've got all the scrutiny and. so that's a snapshot of the people here in this great country they're going to be going to the polls on sunday meantime eight more of the presidential candidates here of the next few days and from some of the evening we've got special election coverage kicking off on red square and continuing right through polling day as well as receivers all important results are reactions. just a couple of days until a big vote in russia will be fully across it for you as promised but the present for now is kevin over here in moscow saying thanks so much for watching this update

on the program's going to be for you right after the break. thanks guys or financial survival. when customers go by your dish to find. bin elf well reduce and lower. that's undercutting but what's good for market is not good for the global economy. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the science is

controlled by them and they impose the opening time so if. it was abducted from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse so that's where the report comes in it covers a deal which are naturally discreet commercially discreet step but also discreet because they concern fraud from some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business.

greetings and salutation so you can bet your bottom dollar that the sun will come out tomorrow unless of course of sunshine week then 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 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 calm commander general joseph botha all about our refueling support of saudi arabian air strikes in the war torn country of yemen killed many civilians she asked the general does sun come track 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 in the patent start of 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.

as it's good to see if you. like you know that i got. this. week so. welcome over the watching the world with the girls and their. top of the law lists. soon we. don't know whether we should be shocked or or not every year i feel like it becomes a bigger and bigger sign that just says they're not telling us something and them being who ever the secrets if it's not you know the media not asking enough questions or the government or people within an administration or departments

censoring that aim for information either from the outlets or from average citizens just trying to learn the truth and going to be better i don't think it's not going to get better especially when you've got to you potentially have you know lucy i had to who. tortured folks or them tried to move on from that like you're going to see that censorship i don't think subsided you time 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 how things are done in the motivations you know behind that and what your government is doing kind of 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 and 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 at the oil and they're difficult i understand you know but our investigative journalists who do it right exactly it looked out new york see it would like the article comes out of whatever it is a member of the oil request comes back and it's like more redacted than the screen before anyone could have seen the savoy 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 a question and that's a big because asking questions is wrong all 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 of 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 this 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 that you know when documents were released so that twenty percent two thirds of cases they were heavily heavily censored. i mean but there is that page behind you really are you know it's a velvet up and then the one thing was that they broke another record twenty seven minutes 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 let you know they're there 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 birthplace of thirty three percent says they're either ignorant or or. really 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 the 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 or the british

britain's foreign and commonwealth office the up c.e.o. had illegally withheld six hundred thousand historic documents from the public most of these documents were about colonialism and i think a whole of the so you gotta hold government accountable in 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 and churning 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 chill schoolchildren across the nation walked out of class to shame the governments do nothing demagogues and to action our team is on a par hole 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 was 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 i. 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 him at 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 in people like in our lobbying people just to have the guns in this country that make people unsafe this is like 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 all in danger of gun violence and we need to be safe in our schools because school as our schools are laying and vironment this is where we develop that's where we grow and we need to do it in a safe environment this isn't 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's just insane how often this is allowed to happen and 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 it 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 teen. always powerful to see those kids out there even if even if you disagree with the message or you disagree the protesters see you know. the youth in the streets exercising their freedom exercising their constitutional protected right speech that's a beautiful thing to see 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 of 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 structural members

up there like always know up there that's like no i know that career politicians like that they're just in it for the photo op you know so you know they don't have the milky way right to say i don't like it so 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 his not a poll 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 arms you know 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 i do you know if you have milk if you have a billion the billions of dollars on 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 you

know better.