seriously neither should anyone but when it comes to russia and proof well we've already heard the d.n.a. arguments in the election meddling scandal the historical practices of the russians who typically or most genetically driven to co-opt. protrude international law as being substituted for hashtags hash tag russia did it . highly likely. just to surmise highly likely is the term britain and its allies use in their joint statement to conclude moscow's culpability for the poisoning they also want russia to tell the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons about the nerve agent which was thought to have been used one graffiti artist has hit russia isolated simba see in london it's a diving up the russian embassy lists a mock menu that among other items includes navi chocolates a reference to

a nerve agent used against. his daughter we spoke to the russian ambassador to the u.k. alexander litvinenko about the poisoning instant in salzburg on the backlash it's triggered. since we're blamed the. under the british course we cation agent a two three four. is the russian region we asked the british officially by a note to share the sample so that in order to make our own conclusions and we would knight so all the investigation about the scruple is classified we don't have any information we don't have any access nobody saw even the pictures of that people in the hospital whether they alive or maybe the just in the good health. so nobody talked to the doctor you know the result absolutely no transparency in this case and this is worries us but whether we under the international or in the vienna

convention we have to get the access to these people because they're russian citizens and we are also being tonight so basically britain doesn't respect the international law and the way how they're behaving. is just. puts a lot of questions. well this lou all of allegations come just as russians prepared to go to the polls in sunday's presidential election our senior correspondent rockers the it looks now at high public funded broadcasters in the west appear to be doing what russia's been accused of all along interference. goodness there's this russia story keep going you go by what they say on t.v. russia has now meddled in to fear with then to corrupted practically every single letter of the us constitution and they expect more the threats not going to go where the russians are better that's a long time and i fully expect they'll continue to be at it do you have concerns

that they might try and interfere in the u.s. midterms which are coming of course good thing the cia is on and watch putin now expect to taste his own medicine a little of uncle sam's own meddling warring been happening for years you'd never believe how obvious they are about it the us government's own broadcasting board of governors its cold war offspring voice of america radio liberty current cetera these guys will apparently go pretty far to sow mistrust among russians. presidential campaign isn't going and people are saying some stuff today is valentine's day in russia it should probably be celebrated as more five lot more prudent and when people try to organize a demonstration or something against putin they tend to get arrested crazy stuff

and magine if someone n r t was this unprofessional it might be fair to say this would be considered acceptable by the western establishment remember how they accused russia of favoring a political candidates during the us election you'd think they'd never do that themselves. yesh and that's just over the course of one day but come on that's not fair. no valley isn't running what do they have to say about the other candidates will eight of them. on food if at all not be there when you sure can do that some mini me of was in line you know what he's ticked off globally but we're going to make one ciggie above good in the mood in the new one is deal. rather than

flee the movement i mean. with current time we get the message washington's preferred guys aren't on the ballot but this could be considered subtle compared to what's next court to see of the german international broadcast. these guys literally have instructions on how it's a boycott or protest the elections in russia bonus easy to read and very simple you serious foreignness state funded news media instructing russians on how to ruin the elections can you imagine what they would do to our see if we ran anything of what you just saw even if we had wanted to some i'd say the double standard is fully alive and kicking for foreign meddling in russia's internal affairs that's been around for decades ever since russia actually established itself as

a state for due to which shouldn't be what. has been so he couldn't remember. what it was a problem of history. i see a slime bucket and you could. just move on and you should know that you still going to talk to you when you could you start early for. most of the politicians and russia's presidential election or what you would call political veterans with their share of ups and downs over time. the wild ninety's are in full swing money which previously didn't mean all that much now means everything gets gangster mass impoverishment war and the first waves the fuse into russia's most decadent decade where everything is up for grabs.

me and putin leave st petersburg for the big leagues he moves to moscow and starts his career in the presidential administration who quickly rises through the ranks and in a couple of years he's already heading up the russian security services. here . but putin won't spend long in the post in a year's time people go on to become the russian prime minister. order him. political rival. is just in her teens she's busy hanging out with russian pop stars taking a first steps in entertainment t.v. . our last since.

she won that game show. at the end of the millennium senior gets into one of the country's top universities to study international relations another candidate grigoryevna linsky gets up close and personal with the darker side of the ninety's . his piano playing son is kidnapped three of his sons fingers a severed and posted to the admin ski in an envelope a warning to step away from politics expect it got out if you it was good for you miles. on fees for the work on your mortgage is in moscow. since the both of his sons have lived in london. his rival. comes approach grabbing the media spotlight with regular fights. grounding for vodka and taking up roles in movies. meanwhile the future

king. is just getting into regional politics. oh wait just to give you a better idea of the time of the politics check out these out from the one nine hundred ninety six presidential election two of those candidates are running again this year. might. just get. well fast forwarding now to present day for a closer look at one of those hopefuls today it's the turn of grigori yavlinsky who is the leader of a social liberal yabloko party a veteran of russian politics he's sixty five years old his campaign centers on strengthening and protecting private property rights also among his promises is an increase in the minimum wage his twenty eighteen campaign slogan is road to the future here's where he stands on the big issues in his own words.

we need the kind of stay the faces its people and doesn't turn its back the estate we give them land builds roads that opens bank accounts we need the kind of state that has as its primary goal for the protection of life through each and every citizen there's reason that's what we need our states are deal like. russia's economy remains in the same state it's in now then our country will never have a strong army aboard or be capable of defending its extensive borders with the most numb predictable regions in the world. the love of the. country's main foreign policy goal should be to make use of people rich and safe our foreign policy should be aimed at improving our quality of life

i'm losing economic growth the country says in research should be the ones benefiting from our foreign policy was recently in this regard the last decade foreign policy elites led by putin and lavrov of them switch has been an absolute disaster. yaar business lorna zealot i would definitely work to make sure our citizens can travel across the world without needing visas now do everything to the russian people feel safe in all of the world's countries iraq and most importantly i will make sure the russian citizens are not sacrificing their lives in the interests of others while on saturday evening tomorrow there are special election coverage kicks off on red square and continues all through polling day as the results and reactions of it right after the break migrants clash with police on the streets of madrid following the death of a street vendor. combination

of shoes you pinch very artful policy. where he used to step out of great relationship with food and because an illiterate could mistake sorry for you you lose what kind of relationship between russia and china to become. quite a longing can be quite tricky and would be very difficult to undermine. you need the good and the bad you need capitalism to work both winners and losers you can't bail out every single bank that gets into trouble you can't bail out every single twenty kapell it's a nice free money you gotta let the system weed out the losers otherwise you end up with you know a state controlled state maintained price fixing regime by the state that resembles all failed such experiments in the past why not just let the free market be the free market.

welcome back to the program migrants clashed with riot police in the spanish couple on thursday night following the death of a mom from senekal. was. thirty five year old most reportedly chased by police conducting an inspection of street vendors and suffered a fatal cardiac arrest witnesses say the man was chased by officers and motorbike but his death saw run a hundred migrants take to the streets burning waste bins and throwing bottles stones emergency services say four rioters and sixteen police officers were treated for minor injuries the mayor of madrid is promising an investigation into the

immigrant's death. grabbing a coffee and a snack on the go in the us is a straightforward procedure in the main but there are increasing cases where cafes are kicking customers out if their views don't chime with the owners but even police officers aren't immune to seeing your accounting reports a donut and a coffee your cliche stereotype when it comes to american cops but at one oakland cafe they're not likely to get either the us or were to a coffee shop has refused to serve unformed police claiming that their presence threatens emotional and physical safety we know in our experience working on complaints against police brutality that we are not alone in saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical emotional safety the local police department responded saying that this would serve as a teaching moment to practice actual tolerance i think their position is very clear that they don't want the police in there and i can respect that if they do call the

police for any need we're going to give them the same level of service as anyone else regardless of their position you might not expect police to be targeted but it follows a pattern at least for groups that haven't actually experienced discrimination before for example a gay own seattle coffee shop kicked out christian activists who were handing out anti-abortion leaflets and they weren't asked nicely. to leave so are you or are you denying their service here i don't have to tolerate this but then we all. friends don't come here ok. a gay couple faced similar treatment from a christian own bakery who refused to sell them a wedding cake saying it would violate freedom of expression and it turns out political affiliations can also make you a victim of discrimination republicans and trump supporters aren't welcome at certain places like this one new york coffee shop. somewhere where your customers

are bottom yet oh. this is mine. and since it's usually minorities being discriminated against police conservatives republicans might be surprised happening to them as well people think that it's ok and if they do it sometimes they don't think as a person is on they think it's ok like they separate rooms for people of color so to speak like in colleges they have the. people of color only don't room they think they're doing a good thing by providing them a safe space well they're doing is doing what was in an impasse but the reality is doing a bad thing and i blame that on a lack of education or the missed education about that kind of ideology and where it comes from so yeah i think some people think they're being their oppressors but some are praising not really knowing what they're doing i think you know doing the right thing some would argue that it serves them right but others believe the oppressed shouldn't become very oppressor samir khan our t. washington d.c. . spoke to former officer dominic is owed by some people's changing of

a truce towards police in america. there have been though have been that unfortunately cases of abuse of power of brutality by the police on citizens does not worry you that actually some of the. you know grounded in reality yes it absolutely worries me for the sake of the fact that when you use the word brutality it's subjective again it's based off opinion we've seen now businesses and individuals take an emotional stance against police without any factual information the coffee shop itself said that they you know basically their concern is that some of their customers will be in an emotional states of feeling insecure that they fifth physical or emotional harm can you understand no i cannot understand that we see people doing nothing but acting on what they think versus what the facts are and you create a panic for no reason whatsoever for a business go from one else to to say that they're not safe around the police

that's that's a very big issue the number one issue we have is we do not have the public or the police coming together the public they they don't educate themselves if the public took the time to understand the police policy police procedure and the law i can guarantee you ninety nine percent of all complaints of police brutality would be dismissed before they were even made well if you would like to delve into that story more or indeed any global news headlines this hour to go on to our t. dot com it's got you covered in the meantime more great programs right ahead and i'll see you shortly.

the firing of rick's tillerson at the state department surprised a few tillerson was often described as bland and on numerous occasions either step with his boss donald trump the nomination of mike come pail to replace him is any play. bill rex still assumes ouster is head of the state department lead to the end of the iran nuclear deal interesting debate we'll talk about that and more with the former ambassador to the u.n. bill richardson on this edition of politics.

taking on larry king is a terrific piece in politico which suggests the ouster of rex tillerson is the head of the state department and likely replacement by my pump a zero could lead to the end of the iran nuclear deal secretary tillotson reportedly thought the cost to withdrawing from a commitment that was made alongside our allies to be unacceptable but will no more hawkish an ardent critic of tehran's hardline islamic regime might pump a zero push donald trump to kill the controversial nuclear deal. on that note let's start with bill richardson former democratic governor of new mexico former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. he is in santa fe new mexico lots to talk about bill is get right to it do you

think rex tillerson leaving and pump am coming in to kill the iran nuclear deal i'm concerned about that larry the answer is yes because i've seen director pump statements on the iran deal and i think it's in the best interests in the united states to stay in the deal and work on iran on other issues they're bad on terrorism on israel on many other issues but my big worry about the iran deal if we get out of it and the decision has to be bathed made twelve it's good to adversely affect a potential deal with north korea because the north koreans are going to say if an american president can get out of a deal and we sign a deal with the u.s. what makes it sure that a president will keep his end of the bargain and the united states gets out so i'm worried about that i think we should stay in the iran deal but yes i think that

pompei o is much more hawkish on the iran issue than tillerson was who thought we should stay in the iran deal and advise the president and i don't think the president like that now i thought halo and does the world of diplomacy but he's long called the a randy zero disastrous how does he now become a diplomat. well that's the worry i have i think he's very qualified first in his class that west point he was a member of congress you know i was a member of congress i think that's a plus my worry is there's a difference between cia intelligence stuff and being a diplomat i think he's got to. diplomacy is about people larry it's about relationships it's not metrics it's not over flights of. of intelligence activities and so i worry that if he reflects the president too much

he was very blunt who tweets on foreign policy when he shouldn't who makes personal insults of leaders i worry that that's going to carry over with pompei oh i don't think so i think he's smart enough to adjust and my hope is that at the state department that he recognizes he has a bunch of diplomats that are good that are unhappy with rex tillerson zte management changes and then he reaches out to our diplomats our experts on asian latin american africa on the middle east on europe and makes them feel comfortable and that the state department takes the lead in the negotiations with north korea we have no strategy we have no apparent game plan for the very tough negotiations are going to come with north korea there's no question in your mind that we should remain in the u.s. in the iran deal. we should remain because first

iran is complying secondly there are inspectors out there making sure the compliance happens it's for fifteen years we want to probably extend it i think the president would like to see with the europeans an agreement on missile activity by iran let's separate that keep the iran deal pressure iran on the missiles stop shooting these missiles do something about supporting terrorist groups like hezbollah. be more conscious of israel say they're not going to destroy israel their involvement in syria and yemen is very negative negotiate that separately but stay in the agreement ok on wednesday's singer rand paul of kentucky the republican announced that he will oppose the nomination of my thumb peo pointing out that his previous support of so-called enhanced interrogation

techniques like waterboarding against enemy combatants also his support for the iraq war will this visa give again well i believe that pump l. will be confirmed because. a senate will always give any president flexibility on their top nominee secretary of state defense treasury i think pump ill will be confirmed there will be some like rand paul and some other democrats that are very concerned about that interrogation technique i think senator mccain also i'm concerned about it. torture is not right it's not fundamental to american democracy it's wrong but indiana larry i think because of the negotiations with north korea the fact that we need a team in place to start those preparations that he will eventually be confirmed but it's going to take some time it's going to take sometimes for pompeo to get

briefed get up to speed. with the state department with our foreign policy he's a smart man and he knows intelligence cia stuff which is international obviously but i think in the end he will be confirmed ok since opposed to opposing the nomination of gina has bill to replace pumping this head of the cia paul said to really appoint the head cheerleader for water boarding to be the head of the cia how do you turn somebody who did that to be in charge of the cia to read of or gooey during waterboarding is appalling is see in trouble. i think that will be very contentious i think it's going to take much longer for her to. get confirmed than pump a zero because you're going to us have most democrats opposing her nomination because of the torture issue because of some of that activity that happened

extensively and there will be some republicans i think senator mccain holds the key he's very concerned about her appointment but willian fact vote against her rand paul is one republican there may be others i believe the big fight will be on her nomination and i think palm pillow will get confirmed ok british prime minister to resume may on wednesday expelled twenty three russian diplomats after the country thing to bring explain how russian made another nerve agent poisoned a former double agent and his daughter in the u.k. this is. this attack she says represents an un use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom expect benighted states to join her in that condemnation . my hope is that we join are fully that the president

himself say that we support the recent mase action it's pretty incontrovertibly all evidence that russia nerve agents participated in this and so my hope is because the relationship with britain is so important and we've had some setbacks with them on a number of tweets and videos that the president commented on and the fights the president has had with some of the leaders in the u.k. that we stand behind our main ally and say we support teresa mayes action and britain's action and not dilly dally you know the president has this weird relationship with russia with putin where he doesn't want to take them on and this is i think an opportunity to do that and do the right thing you've been in north korea you've met with them what are your concerns event me about meeting with john

. well my concerns first is that we won't have a national security team preparations for the meeting secondly my concern is that we're expecting too much in the first meeting that yes denuclearization of north korean weapons is on the table but they're not going to do that certainly not at the first meeting i think it's important at the first meeting between the two leaders that establish trust a process of negotiation but there are a lot of issues besides denuclearization larry that i believe. merit a lot of attention we got three american prisoners there we need to get them out we've got the remains of our soldiers from the korean war we need also to curb some of their chemical weapons to syria their nuclear and missile material that they export her financial gain and for terrorism so there are

a lot of issues my worry is that kim jong il and the north koreans are very disciplined i've been go shared with them they're very relentless they don't think like we do it's not a quid pro quo they they think everything they do is correct and it comes from the day a day from the cult of personality so i think we've got to be very careful and prepared and have a plan and have the secretary of state lead with the department of defense i don't know who's going to be negotiating with the negotiator for north korea retired tillerson is out. you know there's talk about replacements on the national security team rumors so i think we need to get in order a team to negotiate. this din according to negotiate as i've talked to you have to have three meetings you can't have the top two leaders be the first meeting is that true yeah.