as that revealed any evidence as to the location of its production all the identity of its perpetrators hundreds of officers as you would expect him to work around gathering evidence to identify those response we're not declaring a person of interest or a suspect 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 so russia is behind this that 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 russia is being blamed for the alleged poisoning through the investigation is still ongoing words take a look at the so-called evidence behind the accusations. i'm afraid the evidence is overwhelming that it is russia and that's something by the way in the smug. response that we've heard from the russians to me indicates that fundamental.

france britain's assessment that there is no other plausible explanation and reiterate. this is not an isolated incident russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program. has taken place. over reckless. russian behavior. over many years. it well known ukrainian m.p. is accusing top tier of officials of being involved in a shooting massacre that took place during the two thousand and fourteen made on uprising events led to the overthrow of the country's government after. went public with her incendiary claims she was interned accused of plotting

a terror attack on ukraine's parliament building. a former helicopter navigator who was sentenced to twenty three years in jail in russia after being complicit in the murder of two russian journalists in eastern ukraine she was later pardoned and exchanged for prisoners of war was initially hailed as a hero in ukraine when she returned from russia before facing increasing criticism and he discussed the scandal with our very own. 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 means the authorities and the protesters 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 but 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 you. really. make use of should. first two years in a russian prison a ukrainian pilot is back so quite a significant moment for the polish the president and the ukrainian nation germany she's a hero country ukrainians her 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 parsing south. 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 come on to the north for a lot of international media attention but will this new turn attract as much attention as she has had in the past. over to florida now world to turn people have been killed after a newly installed pedestrian bridge crossing a road collapsed local officials say vehicles are still trapped under the bridge and emergency rescue teams are searching for people buried in the rubble the exact number of victims is still not confirmed and the cause for the collapse has not been determined so far though a bridge was installed what in a week ago absolutely international university university said the method used in

the construction was supposed to reduce risks to workers and pedestrians and minimize traffic disruption. and the u.s. military says it has no idea how weapons it prove provides to the saudi led coalition in yemen are being used to we delve deeper into that story after a short break stay with us. let me tell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle for. the new socks for the tell you that celebrity gossip the tabloids are files of the most important news today. about tell me you are not old enough to buy their product. these are the hawks that we along with all of what.

combination of a very artful policy. where he's established a great relationship with food and they killed an american mistakes i think. with this relationship between russia and china. quite a lot can be quite tricky and would be quite difficult to undermine. i welcome back to the international now the u.s. central command has admitted it does not know how resources it gives to the saudi led coalition are being used in the conflict with yemen. does time track the

purpose of the missions that it is refueling what targets it strikes and the results of the mission senator we do not ok reuters recently reported on a saudi coalition air strike in late february that killed five civilians is centcom able to tell whether a u.s. fuel or u.s. munitions were used as part of that strike. senar no i don't believe we are ok. last month a group of u.s. senators introduced a joint resolution on yemen it aims to limit the president's power to wage war without an authorization from congress and to cut america's support for saudi arabia disentangling it from saudi involvement in the yemeni civil war the vote on the resolution is to be held soon. in two thousand and seventeen the u.s. and saudi arabia signed an arms deal worth almost one hundred ten billion dollars it has been described as one of the largest arms sales in american history i mean

while here are pictures of the aftermath of the saudi led coalition's latest air strikes in yemen doesn't air raids have been carried out against the airport destroying most of the planes war broke out in yemen three years ago with the saudi led coalition bombing campaign against the rebels claiming thousands of civilian lives the u.n. describes the situation as the worst man made humanitarian crisis in modern history kyra professor of international law at georgetown university in washington thinks that by feigning ignorance in the u.s. is trying to escape the legal consequences of its actions. there are a few men at the crime gulf war crimes against humanity it was crying for that are being committed to war. and the u.s. really cannot come in this case the u.s. is a supporter of this coalition. for the u.s.

to admit that yes we know what is happening i would choose a more likely. it is. it has consequent eager consequences in addition to their studies u.s. law that prevents peeling off u.s. weaponry to use it except themselves differently. committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. so there are legal liability both. nationally. just a few days left for the russian presidential election a candidate to try and win over voters and they are doing the rounds on nationwide t.v. debates one such discussion on wednesday made the headlines for all the wrong reasons though after it descended into an ill tempered slanging match. would have put him on you but if some annoy yeah by disputing you might just

make it a lot of. money to buy a new order and i think that says me as a chance to people like you that you're in this you tube so much you're just yeah if you want to be my disease like i mean ya usually i'm already yeah i do it only going to be easier for you or any of you it'll get in you you. gotta short you say did you know but i do know it's good. yeah yeah. yeah yeah yeah you never know the color of the same exact it was me you have somebody you know. it was. just you what was it was that last moment is your chance to. see new subject but it was sheets of you know the old as well as the candidates were also meeting voters from across russia and today we're heading to the pub.

police. believe. it to be a limo but give them a fair treatment which will give it a million ways from oh you get no money from love what you. mean should be mainly it is what the media source for you try to keep it will be just as from a lobbyist even looking up the walls you know he had a law school those were just such excitement that he was there for those.

oh yeah you get used to what i want to go to sleep. but if i do mostly deal with all of you really are still there but it's up to the guild kharkiv simply get them there's nobody during the pregnancy to work with us but this feet are some muscles in the most radical purple structure dismissive to frederick i've got to put it quite see if it actually stood out because of cricket so probably emphasis about the loose interest of the site i had to go until. i didn't ask them when i would have the stories in the news i mean you must know it's a good oscars in fact what looked awesome but i started seeing precious things that concluded in some. way would be shaping up as it will come up with no emotion that i want on the other it's easy to assume it's a good one else but i thought so i just missed the most sustainable so. the overlook on the album the score from useful is i'm not sure it's the most honest people to put on the solution of the style in law. one of the runs a bit of

a sense of a little. by the limited scope of the numbers it doesn't stand still or slow to its limits but with saddam it is sunny nice to see a little bit of the city. we are profiling all the presidential election candidates here on our t.v. international over the next few days and from saturday night our special election coverage kicks off on red square and continues right through polling day as we receive those all important results and reactions. right the spanish capital has seen violent riots tonight as people protested the deaths of a senegalese migrant. thirty

five year old man died of a heart attack while running away from a police inspection of street vendors witnesses said he was being followed by officers on motorcycles and response around one hundred protesters took to the streets burning garbage bins throwing bottles and clashing with riot police rioters also reportedly burned a bank building which mayor said the city would investigate the death and respond accordingly. and that does it for me i'll be back in thirty four minutes of the full picture news it's the such international.

there's nobody that's keeping goober ization commie are all working for minimum wage at the end of the day if you factor in the ecological devastation of the dancing chicken effect and all the cruelty prone eggs who escapes this nightmare we call post-industrial is post ironic post. fences ation and infantile ization narcissistic cause i reale. the firing of rex tillerson at the state department surprised a few tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions out of step with his boss donald trump the nomination of my comp a.o. to replace him is anything but plain.

twenty eighteen coverage when you've signed one of the greatest bill people is available to us but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you on the us he's a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the problem here with you and we will go through all the great game. you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get let's go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the team for the two thousand and three in the world cup in russia meet this special one come on both appreciate me to say the rio bianchi team so they just edition as we go so i need to just say look.

this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from right here in washington d.c. i'm partial to coming up we'll talk about the reaction to new u.s. tariffs with author and economist key is there a trade war in store we'll find out and alex mahela bitch tells us something fishy but not as fishy as some hold plus me examine a new report on the u.k. economy and austerity and how it is impacting people we'll be joined by laura merlyn of the center for economic policy research all of that coming up soon but first let's get to some lines toys store chain toys r us says it plans to close all four hundred seventy five stores in thirty three thousand thirty three thousand

employees will lose their jobs the plans were. in a court filing early today toys r us management filed for bankruptcy protection late in twenty seventeen and had hoped to keep perhaps four hundred stores open but their cash burn rate and we call it a season sales force them to regroup toys r us which is had problems predating online shopping have fallen to the number three u.s. toy retailer behind amazon and wal-mart the company hopes to keep two hundred stores in canada open if they can find a buyer while babies r us doors will close c.e.o. david branson said the babies r us web store will be maintained as an asset to be sold and gift cards will be honored for the next thirty days. and as another notable bankruptcy just filed a radio's biggest station owner i heart media and some of its subsidiaries have filed a prepackaged chapter eleven bankruptcy protection as part of

a deal that would see the company's debt drop from twenty billion dollars to ten a prepackaged chapter eleven proceeding is a cleaner less extensive and less time consuming bankruptcy procedure what does this mean for listeners of i heart stations we have a veteran radio consultant and host of the big picture here in r.t. america holland cook there are some eight hundred fifty stations that i heart owens and they're not going to go away so don't expect am f.m. radio to sound much different because frankly the bloodbath has been underway for years the reason you don't hear as much local news as you used to and the disc jockeys might sound like they're from somewhere else is because there are and the reality is that today most am f.m. broadcast hours are robotic the disc jockey is somewhere else and rush limbaugh is being piped in from a far so that all stem from deregulation and it won't change dramatically as

a result of this bankruptcy. the former. chief information officer for consumer credit reporting agency equifax has been charged with insider trading the securities and exchange commission in the us says that john yang exercise stock options after he learned of a data breach at equifax but before it was known publicly he reportedly reaped an inappropriate gain of nearly half a million dollars. the f.c.c. is also charged to lizabeth holmes the c.e.o. a blood testing startup thera knows with defrauding investors while pitching for seven hundred million dollars in capital homes and theran most enjoyed glowing media profiles until twenty fifteen wall street journal exposé raise doubts about the company's claims and management. and i told you alex mahela bitch had something fishy to talk about well a nightmare scenario reported back in two thousand and six seems to be coming true

fish stocks not stocks traded on an exchange but actual fifty's those stocks around the world are quickly depleting raising fears of an apocalyptic scenario in which the oceans will be empty by twenty forty eight alex explains from toronto alex i know i'm sort of kidding about the fishing is of this but it's a really serious issue explain it for us look this used to be a prediction that now it's turning into a reality this study was done by dalhousie university in halifax canada back in two thousand and six with a couple of partners around the world and seemingly it's not going in the right direction pretty much what they're saying is happening and we're talking about just twelve years later we're moving very quickly to that two thousand and forty eight prediction here's here's a quick graphic just a breakdown for you what is happening here we're looking at eighty percent of fish are being fully exploited and one fifth of fish caught illegally that's worth about fifty billion dollars so you can understand why people are doing it and ninety percent of predatory fish are gone this includes shark tuna swordfish cod and fish

like how a bit now is this is due to climate change some say but also it's due to have a tat loss which is a big one and of course pollution but this overfishing thing seems to be the number one thing that's going on here to look at just if we just take a look at someplace close to us look at the caribbean we're looking at countries such as barbados the fishermen in barbados or. say you know what our fish stocks since the one nine hundred eighty s. are about fifty percent less than they were back then and the world wildlife fund says other global level they have pretty much the exact same numbers a lot of this due to overfishing and illegal fishing some twenty to thirty percent of fish caught in the caribbean actually the boats aren't even from the caribbean they're coming in from asia they're coming in from europe and they're taking their fish and this is worth about seven hundred fifty million us each and every year that this happens a lot of exploitation and this can lead and is leading to

a worldwide crisis so what happens all the sudden you know if erratically and it's more than theoretical at this point but say it goes on like this till as you say twenty forty eight or the report says alex what happens when the fish are gone the ecosystem collapses that's one of the big things that we know if an ecosystem collapses while we're in big trouble as a species period but beyond that we're looking at the ready we see the acidification of the oceans we see a growth in algae within the oceans we would see our shorelines change these habitats that we need to protect what are our fish when that fish any more so i mean this is this is disastrous we're talking about not only a loss in jobs we're talking about a loss of food for human beings and a lot of people eat fish they rely on fish for sustenance so this goes on and on but here's the good news we can do something about it and some countries are actually doing things about it and it's just simply you know you could buy sustainable fish which is a move forward which is a plus but countries like china are taking this really really seriously in places

like africa where a lot of chinese goldfish the chinese government is cracking down on these boats that are fishing illegally that we know that the chinese government itself knocked off not one hundred eleven million dollars off a two hundred sixty four vessels in subsidies so if the you in the u.k. there she is saying don't eat the haddock and card change the type of fish are eating so that we can save these fish these populations of these bigger fish so this goes on and on we're talking. about you know about issues like economics and stuff we should be talking about our survival at this point and right now less means more and that's the only way that we can move forward r.t. correspondents alex mahela bitch thank you so much alex thank you. and now we take a look at their reaction to the u.s. imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs in the european union and elsewhere we're joined for our from our london studios by steve keen the author of can we avoid

another financial crisis steve thank you so much for being with us the trump administration is opposed to these tariffs as everybody knows on steel and aluminum and they were preceded by washing machines tariffs on washing machines and solar panels what kind of reaction have we seen and might we see in the future from the e.u. . well i've seen a lot of bluster and the on stage said that if the trouble is to do stupid shit we can do stupid in return and although it's talking in terms of retaliating and putting up tariffs and a matching while i'm on american imports into europe but i have a feeling this is one time that trumps negotiating style which seems to be crash through a crash i actually would because of course he has a lot of constituents in the areas where he wants votes who want to see a reduction in european food tariffs and him i will try to bit of the steel and alley minium tariffs for the eurozone against

a reduction of the tariff for america for the food exports and i've got a feeling that's what it will ultimately end up being but you know a lot of those tariffs and the restrictions on u.s. food into europe is based upon the genetically modified organisms the g.m.o. food and most of the the soybeans for example here like upwards of ninety percent have or are g.m.o. soybeans and the e.u. doesn't want them do you think that the e.u. would really you know give on g m o's coming in to europe. now that's that's that's where you going to find a sticking point because again america had a similar attitude towards japan's tariffs against importing american cars into japan not recognizing that part of the story was as well that japanese cars drive on the other side of the road and americans were willing to manufacture cars with the wheel in the right side for the japanese boz so it can come down to call the head of issues like that as well but they will be a fair bit of blood and then my set from sony want to grade a g.m.

a control in america obviously but he'll interpret that as a trade barrier and i think we'll see some sort of quid pro quo coming out of it if it's a trump needs to find a few wins for he's. just recently lost that you know what used to be an incredibly secure a public and say he wants to bring some winds back on on the wins on just putting up tariffs they bring other people to bring them down to some extent as well i just wonder how much you know all of this is bluster on his part but you know he came back and said look you know we could slap import tariffs on a b.m.w. than mercedes that you know a lot of us my first reaction was wait a minute we build those things in the states those are jobs we have here so do you think some in the e.u. are seeing through this or you think they're actually going to try to just play nice and accept some of these tariffs and enjoy what is currently a trade in favor of the e.u. with the u.s. currently. i've got a feeling it's more

a case of stronger. taking action against china because a lot of the focus is being unfair tried from china the size of the tri deficit they have and china you know you exploiting manipulating its currency and having its own controls against imports into its own country and having massive export. excess capacity of steel and i've got a feeling that's really what trump is going to say not so much that you go to a deal out of the european surges that tariffs on the other side that you've got europe to finally live up to its rhetoric about opposing china on unfair try let me ask you you know you're sitting there in london we appreciate you being with us so late over there but does that have any thing to do with the terror of said and i just think about will it be a different reaction from the u.k. as opposed to the e.u. . the bill of any stupid reaction you can think of i'm in and it's been.