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sessions i've had with our allies that we have a consensus with us it was clear from the remarks that were made by park benches across the whole of this house on monday that there is a consensus across the thought that she is all for this house yeah i have only sorry that the consensus does not go as far as the right honorable trying. very. very much. you. could have taken the opportunity as the u.k. government to start condemning the culprit in this year was. the prime minister of colorado overwhelming body of the house of commons with a nod of the government all the foreign office what available to be interviewed on this program what you can stand to stand on the wall of some the house of commons itself with a time have a well asked domestic and international commentators about their reading of the
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current crisis. they're not ones out. on the flu so often i don't want to have snakes on the definitions and i'm by any. means somehow. taking the city. down. and yet when you play. only think i'm. moving right now i think. oh yeah nice beach yeah i. mean this just really miss one meaning the left just like you know the deep. he's just numb tokyo find it he's going to go. him.
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at. his work with because. combination of. very artful policy. where he's established great relationships with food and a killer an american mistakes i think in dealing with russia that this relationship between russia and china. quite a lot can be quite thick and would be quite difficult to undermine. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and
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better guarded than for knox customs. is controlled by them and they impose the opening times. if the forms are plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecan so i'm modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in that it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet stealth but also discreet because they concern fraud. 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's a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business.
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welcome back to the summit statement on the measures to be taken against russia on the chemical poisoning of the scruples received overwhelming and cross party support in the commons and i welcome the prime minister's statement tire conclusion about the culpability of the russian state is an immensely serious one and that in addition to their breaches of international law or of the use of chemical weapons but also there's a cult continue disregard for the rule of law and for human rights must be met with unequivocal condemnation here as the prime minister has stated the attack couldn't miss a script and his daughter was an unlawful use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom and i say that i and my party fully support the prime minister's statement really great clear that almost unanimously across the house there is support for my right shoulder my friends proportionate and right for sponsors to
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this crisis nearly unanimous support for the prime minister's position in the house of commons some commentators they're not of the same degree of certainty to look further into the market world of espionage i'm joined from brussels by an emotional a former m i five officer at the national welcome to the alex salmond thank you i mean marshall when it was determined that it was the soviet developed now know the chalk that was a sponsible for the poisoning of mr screen and these dr wasn't a prime minister entitled to think it was a slam dunk there was russia who did it. i think it's clear from her very carefully worded statement in parliament that she did not immediately say it was russia as a state power she said either is russia as a state power or that they had not protected their nerve agent sources adequately and it might have fallen into the wrong hands and i think that's certainly an
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avenue that we need to look at but russia of course have the means and some would argue have the record of the sort of thing isn't there for a reasonable conclusion that they would be suspect number one of course they're going to be suspect number one it doesn't mean that they are suspect number one or they should be convicted by public opinion and the media which is what has been going on for over a week now there needs to be an ever chain evidential chain built up by the police and they do need to cooperate with our russian colleagues to try and get to the bottom of this case does any organization really have the capability of conducting such an operation the most key point in this investigation in my opinion is to find out exactly what scripture has been involved in over the last eight years since he was relocated to the u.k. so we have a situation where a man betrayed his country for ten years he was working as an m i six agent he was caught he was tried he was convicted and he was sent to prison in russia for that
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treachery and then he was pardoned by the russian state and released in the spy swap of two thousand and ten with the american sleeper agents including a chapman and then he was sent to the u.k. and was given a pension by an i six and has been living notionally under their protection ever since so in terms of an intelligent asset this guy was rinsed clean by both sides before he got to the u.k. so i can't see that it would necessarily be related to his spy work in the past so i think the motive is probably going to be found in what he's been involved in since who has been working with. his contacts are so i would assume that the intelligence agencies have acquired a warrant from the home secretary they've gone and collected his computers his phones and their trolling through all his records to try and build up a picture of what his current life has been because that is where i think the indication the motive for this type of attack will be. but the police investigation is ongoing what international bodies of those who can assist with those
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investigations and bring about an international consensus on who was responsible well it's very much down to the police and intelligence agencies of the u.k. to try to salvage what happened to one of their spies who is living under their protection in the u.k. what happened to him yes they can call upon expert bodies around the world yes they can try and bring in experts in chemical warfare particularly but of course they have porton down the british chemical warfare center only about six miles down the road from salisbury and we've seen as well from reports until the forensic case has been made until they can find the most of it for why this attack happened i think it's very dangerous in this diplomatically fragile times to point the finger at another state actor when bear in mind this agent's novacek was developed in the eighty's by soviet russia and appears to be news no tack in the u.k. in twenty eighteen now you could say it's russia therefore seems a little bit disingenuous for example the brother of kim jung un the head of the
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north korean state was assassinated last year in kuala lumpur met malaysia with the use of a nerve gas called the x. now this was developed by the brits important down in the one nine hundred fifty s. does that automatically mean it's the brits that assassinated this guy i don't think so i mean marshall thank you so much for joining us from brussels today. i joined by many of the jet ski the right of a broadcaster who has substantial experience of these matters including three years as a foreign correspondent and moscow welcome to the examiner show me a look at the exchanges in the commons the prime minister seems pretty sure of a ground has taken the vast majority of the commons of the stronger her words the stronger the action the greater the support is going to be and i think one of the reasons for this is because people remember the alexander litvinenko killing and one of the ways they remember it which i think is not actually accurate but one
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of the ways they remember it is that the british were soft on the russians and this is used as an explanation to say why the russians tried it again surely the russians are very least the number one suspects and they have top of the top of the list of the the there is a distinction between something which is ordered from the very top from the kremlin with full authorization and something that happens either by sort of rogue operators or by say a cabal of a small group inside part of the security services yes you know that doesn't say much about the authority of law to me a port that maybe people can do this freelancing is a possible given everything we were told about while to be a polygamist saw a guy who owes people feel and says well i think this is one of the things that has been got so wrong in much of western reporting about russia which is the idea that
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put in concert in the kremlin and snap his fingers and lo and behold something happens all over russia one of the things that i think has been so frustrating to putin right through the time that he's been in power in russia is the fact that there are institutions and there are individuals and there are parts of the country which are simply out of central control which it very. difficult to make all of russia do what you want it to do and that could include bits of the intelligence services no the macabre asked for more evidence they got pretty short shrift from the prime minister and the did from his own backbenches both jeremy corbin's call for more evidence and the russians call for more evidence. in a way has i think forced to resume his hunt that this is actually going to international institutions but of course that is not such a nice simple argument to present in the commons as saying our evidence is that
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russia did it and we're expelling twenty three diplomats presumably to recruit solid support from friends and allies. where you think we stand with that at the present moment it's not so easy for britain to gather that support that it was always so used to and i think this may be the shape of things to come clearly the government drew back from any suggestion of withdrawing links football team as opposed to royalty and government ministers and going to going to russia to a finger on the pulse at all of the public are making of all this my feeling is that there's much more questioning among the public at large as saying well you know maybe there's a hole in this argument maybe it's not quite as cut and dried as people think it is or as it's being presented to us and i think one of the origins for this is the enormous amount of mistrust that you have munger public for the political establishment you know we've seen it over the last ten years or so. that people
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simply do not trust the people who are governing them what's the likely response what's going to come from vladimir putin to the measures most batteries are yes that well we saw in the last set of well publicized expulsions when president obama expelled russian diplomats just before he left office pool. turned round and refused to retaliate which donald trump of course said was a smart move. and as it were set the tone for what putin and probably trump both hoped was going to be improved relations now there is no such calculation to be made here relations between britain and russia are i mean it's hard it's hardly possible to say they're worse than they have been before because relations have been so bad for most of the last twenty years so i don't think there's anything in it for putin to be seen as being soft on the u.k. so i rather suspect we're in for one for one television movie j.f.k.
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one thing is for appearing on the family unit title two a quick. which is gallic for a loving cup the whiskey in a quick and then you administer the first among your friends and ok only your close friends and only scotch whisky ok thank you so much we're ok thank you i host this independently produced television show which is broadcast on the international one the broadcasting laws which normally put in this country i can say what i like about any issue and so can anyone of my interview guess of included government heads of state and government as well as past prime ministers and presidents m.p.'s from different party biomass is lords and knights of the realm not a single one of them has complained about being silenced because not a single one of them has been i hold no brief for the kremlin nor am i required to have no one has tried to influence the content of the show in any way shape or form
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whatsoever by definition after years not been a propaganda station because it's regulated under u.k. license by offical yes it had breaches of the of concorde but so have sky i.t.v. and the b.b.c. for some however independent regulation is not enough. newspapers who objected to even the mildest statutory regulation of the oil industry know think that independent regulation is somehow inadequate for broadcasting and should be replaced by effective state censorship the chemical poisoning in souls but it was a heinous crime and should be universally condemned the best way to deal with crime is to take the suspects when identified through the courts domestic and international the u.k. government is totally convinced that the russian state is involved another effort entitled to take a range of additional measures diplomatic and economic of course it's much more
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effective to operate in concert with friends and allies to succeed the evidence has to be overwhelming in the case cast iron as the leader of the opposition correctly pointed out to the prime minister you don't get much support for making that point the house of commons but that does not make them wrong pursuing the case internationally is essential and you're unlikely to succeed at the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or the united nations or for the production of such conclusive evidence when the u.k. government produces an evidence then the russian government will have no alternative but to answer it well you know lateral domestic measures which could still have a real impact are those which follow the money but it's the magnitsky act or something even more ridiculous and far reaching which tackles the ill gotten gains of the few instead of the gentle sanctions which are the many but don't shut down t.v. stations because your standpoint is so uncertain that you must exclude other perspectives
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between monday and yesterday the the prime minister sensibly do but from that proposal but nor should this be attempted by indirect pressure on an independent regulator to censure will make it through adversity of the concept of nation speaking on to nation a mockery of freedom of speech that would put an image of a country lost in self doubt it would also straight if it all bargain. liberal democracies don't succeed and international confrontations by sacrificing the dearest held values of freedom of speech until next week i hope. goodbye from the.
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by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these living on accountable and we're just getting more and more to the. destabilizing global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for cars were. told five thousand people leave syria's military controlled on claims of eastern guta with many more expected to make it to safety by the end of today. frankly. should go away it should. be a case defense secretary were to diplomatic language as tensions between london and moscow increased no over the poisoning of. his daughter the investigation into the matter is yet to produce any concrete evidence with u.k. police say it could still take weeks to establish the suspect. and also had the.
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ukrainian. top government officials were involved in organizing the deadly. shooting in kiev in twenty forty. why they could even ten pm tonight here in moscow you're watching r t international with me kevin i would he would like to slide thirty minute update before we get to well those stories of breaking news just coming in literally the last few minutes from the united states seems a well you can see the pictures there what loose. like a pedestrian bridge crossing a road has collapsed in florida reports indicate multiple vehicles were crushed near florida's international university campus with some cars still trapped it's believed several people have died there others injured it seems that bridge wasn't due for completion until twenty nineteen just this week an elevated spam has been put in place over the to miami trail as it's termed in an effort to try to provide
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florida international university students a safe route to cross that busy roadway as it wasn't due to be completed yet it's been touted as an instant bridge and we're very pleased with its design but as you can he said has gone horribly wrong where it's collapsed or that wasn't in use and the damage has been done on the road below it it appears people were caught there maybe in vehicles or maybe walking as that vehicle as that bridge then collapsed on their latest pictures through from miami they will go back to the little bit later and try and give you another handle on what's happening since at least eight people were transported to the trauma center at the kendall regional medical center this is according to the miami herald reporting this now happened just before two o'clock in the afternoon local time and again no immediate explanation as to what has gone so badly wrong here but as you can see this protest room bridge has collapsed onto the road a number of casualties and the number of dead thoughts of those close to one of the injured in the course of friends and family come back to that later. all right next
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significant development to tell you about from the syrian on close of eastern ghouta eleven thousand civilians is said to escape the rebel controlled area of a humanitarian corridor that's been established by russia and syria got those pictures that are coming today from the area earlier on obviously the russian defense ministry center for reconciliation in syria believes up to thirteen thousand people will have got out of the. escape by midnight tonight this is the latest syrian government initiative to try to evacuate civilians. from that embattled region many people till now have been unable to leave as the militants have reportedly been shelling the humanitarian corridor or that have been established there with the latest from there r.t. arabic correspondent brooding no reporting from eastern go to. the left on my record when i do need it dozens of civilians are living good or right now by the humanitarian corridor you can see behind me the passage has been recently opened by
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syrian forces it's allowing crowds of civilians many of them are children to leave them battle area people are coming from different districts and many civilians were telling about the suffering the thief from militants also said they were previously prevented from when we left eastern guta you were so difficult when we tried to leave earlier but we were not allowed as it was controlled by terrorists but i doubt if the army advanced on the town and asked us to leave thank god we are safe and sound and we have arrived here. used to go to which is close to the capital damascus came under rebel control back in two thousand and twelve since then forces have been trying to recapture the area of fighting intensify the last month the militants have been trying to divide the been driven rather into three pockets now you can just see it animating on the shoulder the state of play at the moment logistically the syrian government now holds large parts of that territory but the situation for civilians trapped in the embattled areas remains dire people have been caught in the crossfire and there are still big shortages of food and supplies
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let's get the latest from the red cross is regional spokesperson joining us on the line they know you're busy thanks very much for taking the time seems that thousands of people despite it being a slow start will have got out has it been a success this humanitarian corridor as you're seeing at last. good evening to you kevin and to your viewers well we're glad that some people were able to come out safely what's important to do in any humanitarian corridor with regards to civilians inside is that they are allowed to leave and they are not targeted and they are allowed to live safely if they wish to do so and if they wish to stay in their homes in eastern order they also have the right for protection and safety that they are not targeted from any of the parties. do you have any details to suggest how this evacuation is going tonight is there any more i mean this is
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been this is to explain to our viewers will be more about why midnight tonight is important all lists corridor will remain open tomorrow what is the latest there on the ground logistically. we'd like to note that the international committee of the red cross is not part of or is not part of the facilitator and process of the simulator in corridor we were not approached by the parties to help in the evacuation of the civilians therefore we are not present there today however today we were present in eastern water in dumas particularly and are the president of the of the international committee of the red cross was there on the ground overseeing an operation delivering humanitarian aid to over twenty five thousand people inside the dome successfully we have been able to complete this operation and now the warehouses of the syrian arab red crescent in dumas are full of humanitarian aid that we were able to offload from the trucks and the load into the warehouses i mean that was
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a step forward in itself because it was so badly needed just just a week or two ago was near you colorful you're going to be able to distribute all that stuff there i guess some of it's perishable goods are you going to be able to get it out to every need in time for those warehouses. hopefully our colleagues at the syrian arab red crescent and duma will be able to distribute these humanitarian packages to the people inside we are hopeful and we we keep on calling that that the international and international humanitarian azazel's are allowed again and repeatedly inside is not all doom and other places to be able to deliver humanitarian aid however so far we have no information on when we will be allowed again once the parties agree to allow us to enter again to deliver humanitarian aid very frustrating if you try to do what you're doing the best for people day and thank you for your time thank you for the update
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appreciate it the red cross bridges spokesperson. defense secretary told russia to quote shut up and go away over moscow's alleged poisoning of the former spy service crippled and his daughter as the diplomatic fallout over the instant continues. it is absolutely atrocious precious and outrageous what russia to insult we have responded to that frankly russia should go away should shut up we've certainly raised eyebrows because to begin stiffs and feel a little bit surreal when this kind of language starts being used in this kind of language comes into play especially if you're expecting to be taken seriously certainly in the world of diplomacy if u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson today talked about how there is quote overwhelming evidence that russia was behind this cripple incident although however when he also was asked about his certainly a certainty on a scale from one to ten he described it to be at nine point ninety eight and he
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talked about russia being full of smug sarcasm we also heard from nato secretary general talk about this whole ordeal let's take a listen to those i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and something by the way in the kind of smug sock stick response that we've heard from the russians to to me that indicates their fundamental guilt. has taken place against the backdrop of a reckless pattern of russian behavior. over many years we do know that the u.k. has plans to provide a sample of the nerve agent that has been discussed and revel in in connection to this poisoning to the organization for the prague bishan of chemical weapons which russia is also a part of but it's not providing a sample to russia despite requests and messages multiple times from russia
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throughout this past week to be able to analyze this nerve agent and try to assess what exactly it is and we do know of course the foreign ministry in russia has been saying they would like to know what the substance is we've heard from foreign minister sergey lavrov said russia that russia will definitely retaliate in connection to the expulsion of the twenty three russian diplomats certainly a quid pro quo scenario is sort of traditional in these kinds of scenarios but he did underscore that russia will continue to use diplomatic language this is a chicken reporting from london so does it germany france america and the u.k. have no issued a joint statement on the poisoning which they say was highly likely to be orchestrated by the kremlin it requests that provides the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons with information about the novacek nerve agent program it comes following the british government's decision of course on wednesday to take return.

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